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by fizx 8y ago
You misunderstand my point... larger ratio of base pairs to behavior means that the behavior is likely more robust to noise, and the original evolution of the behavior would have been smoother (i.e. proceeded in less of a step-wise manner,
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by fizx 8y ago
Common sense from the machine learning side too! (that said, the ex-physicist in me would like to remind everyone that science and reality are not required to match your common sense) If true, this means that evolution could look more like
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by fizx 8y ago
I feel like they were both equally popular in ~2007, but Github-flavored markdown killed Textile.
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by fizx 8y ago
> This work is a somewhat obvious progression from a lot of other prior work in the literature... but that doesn't make the results any less impressive. Everything takes figuratively forever to train, and the field is moving incredi
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by fizx 8y ago
DMCA is capped at what, $30k per violation? There are obvious ways to avoid it, and the law has settled down. GDPR is capped at $20+ million, no one knows what a typical fine looks like, the law is much harder to read, and everyone is afra
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by fizx 8y ago
Hyperloglog was only just invented, and hadn't really made its way into the popular developer consciousness. Anyhow, the solution is easier than that (implement lock striping, i.e. https://stackoverflow.com/questions&#x
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by fizx 8y ago
Bieber-related conversation might reasonably have been 3%. Updating his friend count was a constant source of lock contention on a particular mysql. There were never explicitly dedicated databases/servers, unless you count the hotspot
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by fizx 8y ago
You're running a small social network, and you have ~200 containers running your Rails app, which gets scaled up and down by k8s all the time, not to mention twice-daily deploys. Seems like you might want that 100GB of user relationshi
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by fizx 8y ago
Chris Manning gave a really interesting technical yet pretty approachable talk on machine reasoning at ICLR this year. If you're interested in this topic, i recommend watching! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpNLp9SnT
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by fizx 8y ago
The more I read white papers, the more I appreciate academia's requirement of a summary of previous related work.
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by fizx 8y ago
It's worthwhile to distinguish between decision-makers and information-gatherers. FAANG interviewers have notoriously little decision-making power, though if you're given a time slot with your potential hiring manager, this appro
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by fizx 8y ago
As a person who has run multi-tenant storage for ten years, I'd like to say that users can be pathological use cases for fun.
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by fizx 8y ago
From my month in Israel working at a startup, it seems like long lunches and smoke breaks are also a norm. Maybe they compensate?
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by fizx 8y ago
Because Lucene wasn't good at near-realtime in 2009 or so, Twitter's original (acquired via summize) search was written in mysql. It might have even been a row for every token, not quite sure. IIRC, when we moved to a highly-cust
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by fizx 8y ago
I've built a toy SQL database before that actually did a good job with query planning and used existing highly optimized storage engines (lucene or rocksdb). It was slow AF, because the actual query execution has a ton of method dispat
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by fizx 8y ago
You want to know whether to double-down on quantum computing or not. Quantum computing is like fusion--it's obviously possible, but crazy expensive to do and its hard to tell whether its years out or decades out. Just like with fusion
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by fizx 8y ago
Seems like there are a lot of people here who aren't aware of wal2json and RDS support for wal2json.
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by fizx 8y ago
RDS supports wal2json.
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by fizx 8y ago
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw
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by fizx 9y ago
Don't worry! Around e^(10^120) years from now, if the unitarity of the global wavefunction holds (it might not vis-a-vis inflation and the eventual unification of GR and QM), we'll hit the Poincare recurrence of the universe and
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by fizx 9y ago
So from the Lucene perspective, the idea of a filesystem is pretty baked into the format. However, there's also the idea of a Codec which takes the logical data structures and translates to/from the filesystem. If you made a Cod
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by fizx 9y ago
It'd take a low number of hours to wire up FoundationDB as a Lucene filesystem (Directory) implementation. Shared filesystem with a local RAM cache has been practical for a while in Lucene, and was briefly supported then deprecated in
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by fizx 9y ago
Interesting... I mean knockout already does this (sort of), by setting the learning rate of 10% artificially low. I'm not sure if inverting the common thing is useful, but it might be fun to try.
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by fizx 9y ago
It's probably a little bit like a Cessna pilot trying to land a 747. I'm sure the plane can almost land itself, and ground control can talk you through it, but wouldn't you rather have someone who has done it before?
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by fizx 9y ago
They had RailsConf in Vegas in 2008. I spent half of my time in the poker room, breaking even, but made a key networking connection in a limo that jumpstarted my startup's success.
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by fizx 9y ago
If you look at the fast.ai lesson 11 YouTube video, the very beginning has an amazing example of this with fish!
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by fizx 9y ago
When you talk about mapping (patterns of the) the input pixels to discrete classes, I don't think thats entirely what people do. We have the ability to make "distributed representations" of concepts e.g. word2vec, GloVe, etc
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by fizx 9y ago
Like most obvious things, scientist have tried what is known in the field as "image segmentation". If you google it, you'll see a bunch of demos and papers. I haven't seen anything in the literature about incredibly eff
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by fizx 9y ago
Meaning exists in relationships, which its clear that the current generation of AI learns. An example is word2vec, which can learn that king - man + woman = queen, and simultaneously king - man + boy = prince, etc. The current generation o
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by fizx 9y ago
I think you forgot the word mutable somewhere. A true Business Application(tm) has no mutable state that is not stored in the database, so all objects are immutable and therefore functions (except those dirty dirty data objects). som

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