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by gopalv 4mo ago
The name makes me think it is a molten salt reactor, but it uses liquid sodium. Still aptly named. I was hoping the Thorium molten salt ones with atmospheric pressure vessels would pick up pace thanks to this boom in power demand or Helion
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by gopalv 4mo ago
> What does compression do to query performance? That section is the most relevant whenever compression in a DB is discussed. The purpose of a database is to find, aggregate or update data - storage is where the trade-off gets expressed.
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by gopalv 4mo ago
> So in terms of allocating space, it's more like a delete plus an insert. Unless you're using zHeap, you have a narrow Heap-only-Tuples scenario where the indexes stay the same. TOAST kinda helps there, if the update is off th
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by gopalv 4mo ago
The non-professional side of Organic Chemistry is one place where I think AI would really shine. Feels complex like solving a Rubik's cube to write down synthesis steps but it is all a sequence of memorized tricks. Do Cannizaro if you
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by gopalv 4mo ago
> me Waymo, Uber, and Lyft are methods of last resort. Most of my Waymo rides were from or to a BART station - the real utility of these services is to pull a last mile when I don't have a car. There's no better way of getting
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by gopalv 4mo ago
The weird thing is that this is probably a performance optimization for quick responses when a user asks a question. My agent harness spins up a VM too, but it spins up on demand, cools down in 10 minutes and warms up when I focus back on t
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by gopalv 4mo ago
> It worked for nine and a half hours. > Again, it wasn’t perfect. As an expert, I was able to spot some errors and omissions (some as a result of the design I had asked for) that I had the AI correct That's the bit that stuck ou
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by gopalv 4mo ago
My personal bugbear is the lack of sleep & entirely tied to the phone for that. I remember being in my 20s and not being able to sleep, but the most distracting thing I could reach for was a pile of books in my bedside table. Now, I can
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by gopalv 4mo ago
> an example of a case where you'd use SQLite instead of jq or grep through Markdown? Usually we end up writing a script to incrementally refresh a data-set I'm analyzing (or have someone send me a copy after they pull it). I&#
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by gopalv 4mo ago
> It is great to want to give your kids a headstart in the world I might live till 72, my kids will be my age right now when they hit inheritance instead. That's not a headstart.
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by gopalv 4mo ago
> Well, there is also a big difference that it will not learn over time. My work is in tick-tock loop of learning - learn without modifying weights, demonstrate learnings to human, but then lock it back in (accumulate and spread). This l
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by gopalv 4mo ago
If you manage 500+ people organization, most of the headaches with agents already exists with you - you set directions, ask people to go run fast in those directions, check in frequently and course correct on results without actually unders
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by gopalv 4mo ago
> he ruined at least some Apple products In my small circle of car friends, the new Ferrari is being called the "Magic mouse" of ferraris and posting memes of the car upside down with the cable plugged in at the bottom. I was
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by gopalv 4mo ago
> Yes, if you are currently young, you face higher CRC risk than previous generations did when they were young. That’s the bad news. Unlike the usual Bettridge's law, the answer to the headline is only a qualified "No". It
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by gopalv 4mo ago
> Some sort of 'distributed source control system' maybe The day it broke away and became centralized was when we had a PR + mandatory "Required actions" to merge to main.
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by gopalv 5mo ago
The AI psychosis is not the anti-opinion to the use of AI. I use AI coding tools every day, but AI tools have no concept of the future. The selfish thinking that an engineer has when they think "If this breaks in prod, I won't be
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by gopalv 5mo ago
Sonnet is also throwing overloaded error. My systems are hitting exponential delay retries, so this might not get better because retries overload things again. > {'type': 'error', 'error': {'details&#x2
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by gopalv 5mo ago
> when BigTechCos buy SmallCos and then unceremoniously kill them off fairly shortly after There's many reasons, but in general incompetence, malice and small crumbs problem. I've done my small share of M&A DD work as an en
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by gopalv 5mo ago
> The reality is different. Most modern Text User Interfaces (TUIs) are often more hostile to accessibility than poorly coded graphical interfaces. The Claude Code rendering UI is the first place where I realized the TUI is more like a D
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by gopalv 5mo ago
The better part of this is having a local-first AI, particularly because it has tool-calling builtin & structured output. I haven't pushed out a full version[1] which uses ducklake-wasm + this to make a completely local SQL answeri
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by gopalv 5mo ago
Flickr was the coolest thing Yahoo had when I worked there (Brickhouse was a close second). I really loved all the places where they snuck in "Game Never Ending" in the product, because they didn't set out to make a photo sha
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by gopalv 6mo ago
The linked clang PR is also very readable. https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/181288/files As the PR clearly points out, you can do this in a register but not inside vectors. I don't think fa
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by gopalv 6mo ago
> Multiplication alone requires depth-8 trees with 41+ leaves i.e. minimal operator vocabulary trades off against expression length. That is sort of comparable to how NAND simplify scaling. Division is hell on gates. The single component
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by gopalv 6mo ago
The first part of the parabellum quote matters - we have to let the people who want peace prepare for war. The Smedly Butler book was eye opening to read for me. Diplomacy and trade works wonders when the enemy still wants you to buy things
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by gopalv 6mo ago
>> It replicates data across multiple, independent DRAM channels with uncorrelated refresh schedules This is the sort of thing which was done before in a world where there was NUMA, but that is easy. Just task-set and mbind your way a
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by gopalv 6mo ago
> Surely those are at least an order of magnitude larger than Tolkien's prose and might still benefit from a RAG. At some point, this is a distributed system of agents. Once you go from 1 to 3 agents (1 router and two memory agents
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by gopalv 7mo ago
> I don't understand how taking a series of data and applying a random rotation could mathemetically lead every time to "simpler" geometry. Let's pick a simpler compression problem where changing the frame of referenc
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by gopalv 7mo ago
> c^2 is a big number. Famous tweet about conversations with God. [1] - https://x.com/WraithLaFrentz/status/1981404849305686219
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by gopalv 7mo ago
> Increased speed only gets us where we want to be sooner if we are also heading in the right direction. This is a real problem when the "direction" == "good feedback" from a customer standpoint. Before we had a produ
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by gopalv 7mo ago
Chrome runs Gemini Nano if you flip a few feature flags on [1]. The model is not great, but it was the "least amount of setup" LLM I could run on someone else's machine. Including structured output, but has a tiny context win

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