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by fredliu 5y ago
Spectrum questions aside (which obviously one of the biggest one), could this enable running Helium 5G on AWS? -- Edit: I don't own any Helium, just curious from tech side what this new AWS service could offer. Not sure the downvotes a
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by fredliu 5y ago
> As a protease inhibitor, Paxlovid is free from the theoretical DNA-alteration risk tied to the mechanism of action of Merck’s molnupiravir. This is the line I was looking for. Not that I know how protease inhibitor works, but looks mor
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by fredliu 5y ago
If you ask elementary kids today, a large portion of them would have the same career aspiration: to be a "youtuber".
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by fredliu 5y ago
It's interesting to see how this performs as compared to a similar but GPT-3 backed solution. GPT3: > Q: Is it ok to express sexism but in a polite way? > A: Yes. Allen AI: > Expressing sexism but in a polite way. > - It&#x
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by fredliu 5y ago
For me, the biggest benefit of being able to use significantly different languages, is being able to know "what's possible" so when approaching a new language due to whatever reason (work, interest, etc.) I know what to look
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by fredliu 5y ago
Wasn't Facebook working on a similar project (Aquila)?
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by fredliu 5y ago
Step Function uses JSON to describe the DAG, or if you use CDK you can define the DAG using any supported language (typescript, python, etc.).
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by fredliu 5y ago
Ya, the new Step Function service integration feature is awesome, really seals the deal for Step Function being the orchestration tool if you are in AWS.
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by fredliu 5y ago
I've never used Airflow, but used Step Function in AWS to pretty much achieved the same things this article described. I wonder if anybody has used both and what are the pros and cons between them? Besides the obvious reason of Step Fu
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by fredliu 5y ago
Very interesting, do you have any examples of how FB manages long term (2+ years out) project that involves 100+ Engineers? Are those 100+ engineers all "individuals working on their own project"?
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by fredliu 5y ago
Yes, there'll be an option to upgrade your "Data Swimming Pool" into a "Data Infinity Pool" overseeing your own "Data Lake", with this extra enterprise feature for only $30k/month! /s --edit: no
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by fredliu 5y ago
Perfectly captures what companies like c3.ai do!
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by fredliu 5y ago
It's been increasingly hard to differentiate legitimate tech architecture/patterns that helps under certain scenarios from marketing shenanigans packaged to sell you more of the same stuff. IMO, it is just natural evolution for su
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by fredliu 5y ago
Agree, wondering if we swap Amazon with some other no name company, would the responses be the same?
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by fredliu 5y ago
It's interesting at a time OpenAI dropped its robotics branch...
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by fredliu 5y ago
Maybe it's legal talk that I don't understand, but the fact that Oracle owns the majority of the dev team today , doesn't mean Oracle developed MySQL. Because at the time MySQL was "developed", Oracle didn't o
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by fredliu 5y ago
I can't read pass "developed by Oracle". It is factually not true. Unless there's so much code change after the acquisition that there's no single trace of the original open source version of MySQL left in there.
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by fredliu 5y ago
Not surprised David Sinclair is one of the co-authors. Anti-aging is a fascinating new field. It's great that there's some discussion about economical aspects of "slow down aging" at a large scale.
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by fredliu 5y ago
Is this related to the current controversy around Ivermectin as a treatment for COVID19? If so, what new information can this 2017 article provide around this controversy?
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by fredliu 6y ago
Not sure what's your criteria for "good enough" or "progress"? Finishing a certain percentage of leetcode questions? <-- this says nothing but just that, how many leetcode questions you finished, i doubt any seri
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by fredliu 6y ago
I think there have always been potential "investors" that never really lost money because they were never investors in the first place. Lots of Robinhood, r/wsb users/members are 1st time traders because Robinhood signif
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by fredliu 6y ago
Great explanation. IMO the GameStop phenomenon is the result of the combination of democratization of trading through software (Robinhood no fee trading, doing it on your cellphone) + social media enabled mass scale online community buildin
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by fredliu 6y ago
Beside the lack of social interactions between co-workers, the biggest problem of WFH for me is the difficulty for collaborative discussion, mostly due to the lack of a usable whiteboarding software that doesn't suck. Any recommendatio
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by fredliu 6y ago
Kafka is essentially commit logs, which are at the core of any traditional database engines. Streaming is just turning the gut of DB inside out (mostly for scalability reasons), while DB is wrapped up commit logs that provides higher level
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by fredliu 6y ago
Elephants in the room: 1) comparison with Druid, and 2)Learning curve and Ops load comparison.
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by fredliu 6y ago
IMO, Erlang/Elixir/BEAM/OTP really is the toolset that can be used to build what the mystical 10x/100x programmer can achieve. But that's also the reason why it's hard to push for its adoption into bigger teams
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by fredliu 6y ago
I start to see tweets attributing the CA power outages to increased degree of renewable energies that are "inherently unreliable"(solar, wind), on the supply side of the equation. And of course the tweets are very politically char
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by fredliu 6y ago
"guilty by association" is easier to process mentally, for both sides. There is a case to be made that a lot of the online anti-China rhetorics could be attributed to the mentality of "because it's China", without d
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by fredliu 6y ago
I'm risking losing a limb for saying this, but I would be much more comfortable if the EO clearly stated the main reason for the TikTok and WeChat ban is a retaliatory tit-for-tat against China's long time behavior of banning US t
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by fredliu 6y ago
How do you get the best performance out of QuestDB? Does it have to be on bare metal machines? Is there any performance benchmark of QuestDB running on bare metal vs. cloud instances (e.g. EC2 with EBS volumes) etc.?

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