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by gopalv 7mo ago
> The writing isn’t the problem. The problem is that when I’m done, I look at what I just wrote and think this is definitely not good enough to publish. Ira Glass has a nice quote which is worth printing out and hanging on your wall Nob
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by gopalv 7mo ago
> More addictive than that is the unpredictability and randomness inherent to these tools. If you throw a problem at Claude, you can never tell what it will come up with. It could one-shot a difficult problem you’ve been stuck on for wee
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by gopalv 7mo ago
> Somehow human cells age and humans get old and die but humans can somehow make an entirely new creature through reproduction where that is reset I think the eggs aren't dividing as you age (you are born with them, so to speak) and
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by gopalv 7mo ago
> We'll need to figure out the techniques and strategies that let us merge AI code sight unseen Every strategy which worked with an off-shore team in India works well for AI. Sometime in mid 2017, I found myself running out of hours
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by gopalv 7mo ago
> * No MagSafe For my kid who uses a Chromebook right now, Magsafe would've been improvement in how often the power cable pulls the it off the desk. But otherwise, this checks all the boxes, including applecare.
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by gopalv 7mo ago
Mid 2015, I spent months optimizing Apache ORC's compression models over TPC-H. It was easier to beat Parquet's defaults - ORC+zlib seemed to top out around the same as the default in this paper (~178Gb for the 1TB dataset, from t
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by gopalv 7mo ago
> correspond to a binary format in accordance with the C ABI on your particular system. We're so deep in this hole that people are fixing this on a CPU with silicon. The Graviton team made a little-endian version of ARM just to allo
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by gopalv 7mo ago
> The story isn’t “MCP was a fake marketing thing pushed on us”. It’s a story of how quickly the meta evolves. The original take was that "We need to make tools which an AI can hold, because they don't have fingers" (like
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by gopalv 7mo ago
> a clear explanation of a compression algorithm The huffman tree, LZ77 and LZMA explanation is truly excellent for how concise the explanation is. The earlier Veritasium video on Markov Chains in itself is linked if you don't know
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by gopalv 7mo ago
> You're encouraged to use AI to solve the problem. Whatever tools you would want to use as an employee, use them during the interview. We'll give you a Claude, Codex, Cursor, or Gemini license if you need one. I want to see yo
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by gopalv 7mo ago
> the future is of course BEV That's probably the reason - we only need dressage horses and pure bloods now that the real draft horse is getting put to pasture. These are no longer workhorses. Six cylinders are the smoothest engine
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by gopalv 8mo ago
> Like, what do you mean by "taste"? Imagine the scene from Ratatouille, where Remy explains "taste" and the brother finds it impossible to understand what it is ("Food is food"). The dad goes from being ann
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by gopalv 8mo ago
> that's imposing these draconian rules on 3D printed guns This is a bill with no votes - the first committee hearing is in March. The purpose of the bill seems to be have some controversy & possibly raise the profile of the pro
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by gopalv 8mo ago
In the intro to the "Crack Up", there's a quote which I used a a mantra The ability to hold two conflicting thoughts and yet continue to function is a test of intelligence - be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be
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by gopalv 8mo ago
If you have ever used something like yacc/bison, debugging it is relatively sane with gdb. You can find all the possible tricks in making it debuggable by reading the y.tab.c Including all the corner cases for odd compilers. Re2c is a
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by gopalv 8mo ago
> This seems very basic Yes, this is not some sort of hard-fought wisdom. It should be common sense, but I still see a lot of experiments which measure the sound of one hand clapping. In some sense, it is a product of laziness to automat
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by gopalv 8mo ago
> Making models larger improves overall accuracy but doesn't reliably reduce incoherence on hard problems. Coherence requires 2 opposing forces to hold coherence in one dimension and at least 3 of them in higher dimensions of quali
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by gopalv 8mo ago
> The paper sounds too shallow. The errors data doesn't seem to have a rationale or correlation against the architecture. Specifically, what makes the SAS architecture to have lowest error rates while the similar architecture with i
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Show HN: If You Want Coherence, Orchestrate a Team of Rivals: Multi-Agent "(arxiv.org)
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by gopalv 10mo ago
> But for just the cost of doubling our space, we can use two Bloom filters! We can optimize the hash function to make it more space efficient. Instead of using remainders to locate filter positions, we can use a mersenne prime number ma
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by gopalv 10mo ago
This is roughly what my startup is doing, automating financials. We didn't pick this because it was super technical, but because the financial team is the closest team to the CEO which is both overstaffed and overworked at the same tim
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by gopalv 10mo ago
> Well, if you don't fsync, you'll go fast, but you'll go even faster piping customer data to /dev/null, too. The trouble is that you need to specifically optimize for fsyncs, because usually it is either no brak
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by gopalv 10mo ago
> produce something as high-quality as GoT Netflix is a different creature because of streaming and time shifting. They don't care about people watching a pilot episode or people binge watching last 3 seasons when a show takes off.
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by gopalv 11mo ago
> For double/bigint joins that leads to observable differences between joins and plain comparisons, which is very bad. This was one of the bigger hidden performance issues when I was working on Hive - the default coercion goes to Do
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by gopalv 11mo ago
> trauma that our parents, or grandparents experienced could lead to behavior modifications and poorer outcomes in us The nurture part of it is already well established, this is the nature part of it. However, this is not a net-positive
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by gopalv 11mo ago
> Can you build a Linux version? :-) Generally speaking, it is the hardware not the OS that makes it easier to build for Macs right now. Apple Neural Engine is a sleeping giant, in the middle of all this.
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by gopalv 11mo ago
> would a fixed line in India typically be above that speed? My family lives outside of a tier 2 city border, in what used to be farmland in the 90s. They have Asianet FTTH at 1Gbps, but most of the video/streaming traffic ends at
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by gopalv 11mo ago
The useful part is that duckdb is so easy to use as a client with an embedded server, because duckdb is a great client (+ a library). Similar to how git can serve a repo from a simple http server with no git installed on that (git update-se
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by gopalv 1y ago
> will try to learn more about normal sockets to see if I could perhaps make them work with the app. There's a whole skit in the vein of "What have the Romans ever done for us?" about ZeroMQ[1] which has probably lost to
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by gopalv 1y ago
> I had a friend who would drink a gallon of whole milk a day to maintain weight because he did so much at the gym. That honestly might be an absorption issue, not an intake issue - you can hit aerobic limits enough for your body to skip

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