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by gopalv 5y ago
> Were those the good old days? I've heard this from several generations that the time when you were still under the protection of parents, but not their attention are the "good old days" of your life - like if your bigges
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by gopalv 5y ago
> we'll see another explosion in practical CPU throughput, combined with a little help from algs and data structures The learned index[1] is basically a variation of this sort of "hint" which relies on getting the right an
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by gopalv 5y ago
> if things get bad, a razorblade A blow-torch works just great too, just the kind you'd use for a creme brulee to carbonize the stuck stuff (usually cheese for me) and scrape it off.
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by gopalv 5y ago
> But it is a software problem. There is a software authoring problem (which is where the ML bits are crucial). If we had to program all robots like we had to with CNC machines, then programming them would be a high skill problem, even i
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by gopalv 5y ago
Not just that. > I’m now leading Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company > After five and a half years developing our technology at X, we’re now ready to become an independent Alphabet company, leaving the moonshot factory’s rapid prototypi
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by gopalv 5y ago
> a software engineer who considers writing any tests beneath them, a job for someone else I'd also balk at that for an interview take-home test. I was an Indian QE guy looking for a dev job once. I was that guy whose job was to wri
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by gopalv 5y ago
> fairly certain they were looking for a linked list, but I could be wrong They were probably looking for an answer which went along the lines of a linked list and then what to fix - the ratio of pointer sizes to data (16-item nodes), so
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by gopalv 5y ago
> The implicit assumption you are making is that the demand increases in lock step with productivity gains. This is basically the theory around modern industrial revolution - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_para
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by gopalv 5y ago
> The total download size is around 428 GB and the total size when unzipped is 2.2 TB. Please make sure you have a large enough hard drive space, bandwidth and time to download. > This was tested on Google Cloud with a machine using t
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by gopalv 5y ago
> You don't really need deep-learning or an AI to do a lot of these graph operations. That is right, but we're probably not hunting for absolutely optimal solutions every time. It usually boils down to heuristics - everytime th
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by gopalv 5y ago
> Why do people use inflation? Because it is very hard to think about the currency values in terms of purchasing power. Inflation is the lowest metric in that count, but reflects a somewhat uniform drop in purchasing power (per dollar) a
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by gopalv 5y ago
> It doesn’t make Bing look cooler, it just makes the TV shows look cheap Product name-drops are just one thing, the corporate placement also cares about how it is used and by whom. Apple says you can't put an iPhone in a villain&#x
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by gopalv 5y ago
> 7 simultaneous integer operations, 4 simultaneous floating poin The floating point is going to be an interesting thing to look at - the CPUs made targeting HPC workloads tend to be flops heavy, but the flops tend to be starved for memo
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by gopalv 5y ago
> Does anyone know how/when this has changed in tech? I think the first-wave of modern startup land is having kids themselves - the change in most companies seem start with the founder - like Zuckerberg taking time off (the last gen
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by gopalv 5y ago
> We seem to be the only profession that cares then. Our profession seems to be one where it is not obvious to others that we're in a flow or in deep working mode, since there is no visible difference between work-isolation mode, br
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by gopalv 5y ago
There was a giant uptick in personalized treatment for cancer[1] that coincided with the end of the Obama era (Biden driving it after his son's death, in 2015). I saw bits of it in my space with large scale analysis of genomic testing
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by gopalv 5y ago
> Why else would they choose to have equity vest quarterly instead of with each pay period? This makes sense for reduced paperwork if the company is buying back 28% of the shares to pay taxes instead of selling it to the market to pay th
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by gopalv 5y ago
> A cross join is a Cartesian product I think that's the most important detail that can't be explained visually like this. Cartesians explode the row-counts - 10 rows x 10 rows is 100, not 10 or less than (which is the assumpti
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by gopalv 5y ago
> big-endian bit order makes the very very very low-level circuits easier These probably invert pretty easily I suspect (the 1-bit bus with a latch would be the only order dependent thing). But as a human, it is definitely so much easie
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by gopalv 5y ago
> If the goal is just to provide resistance against breathing, wouldn't it work just as well to suck air through There's something a lot of people (including myself) do which sounds a lot like Darth Vader, which is to cup your
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by gopalv 5y ago
> the abstraction is specifying the order of operations unnecessarily That needs an "in SQL", the standard imperative language operator ordering has short-cut operations in there (a is null or a.value == true) etc. In the code
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by gopalv 5y ago
> Computer perf was doubling from transistors getting smaller. But transistors can't get smaller than an atom. What did y'all expect would save you and keep things going? We are nowhere near an atom well into 2005 at least, but
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by gopalv 5y ago
I've hit almost the exact same issue with Hive, with a somewhat temporary workaround (like this post) to build a balanced tree out of this by reading it into a list [1] and rebuilding a binary balanced tree out of it. But we ended up i
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by gopalv 5y ago
> AWS outbound bandwidth costs are outrageous. The torrent would have been a way to get the data from peers instead of serving it purely from S3 outbound. If this was the only active seed for a torrent and there was nobody else, that wou
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by gopalv 5y ago
> Just as I would use Vim for side projects as well as professional jobs, I would expect my CAD tool to work just as well for building a toy for fun as it would for a complex project. Not picking on the specific editor there, but that&#x
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by gopalv 5y ago
> uses cases for Reed-Solomon at the application level Hadoop has an RS implementation inside the filesystem (called "erasure coding"), instead of storing 3 copies of the same data, it can actually instead store ~1.5 copies as
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by gopalv 5y ago
> The fact that offering an idea that's better than what's already being done is seen as rebellious at all, as opposed to being the entire job of an engineer, or the definition of what engineers do, is not a good sign for any o
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by gopalv 5y ago
> If you have some cluster of traits that don't hurt you, then imho they're just traits, not a disorder Even more relevant is that some things could be cliff disorders, where it is actually beneficial till it actually falls ove
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by gopalv 5y ago
> people still wear their masks outdoors despite all the excellent news The whole spring pollen thing hasn't hit me in any way this year - the cottonwood seeds are also in the air. I notice that I don't feel as bad about all of
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by gopalv 5y ago
> Every time I've tried a Moka I burn it. The burn comes from sitting in the pot after brewing. If you grab it & transfer it as it boils over, then you won't get any burned taste. Once coffee sits in it for 20 minutes, even

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