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by hintymad 2y ago
There's also uneven concentration of the open-source effort. In the past 15 years, companies, or at least the companies I worked for, loved open sourcing their systems for better reputation, for larger community support, and for not ge
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https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/115286/documents/... Jay was banned for merely retweeting a peer-reviewed paper that questions the efficacy of lockdown (maybe the last straw, I don't
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> It's funny how a big part of Andrew Ng's classes is waiting for him to write text with mouse as if he were using the world's worst whiteboard; he could have prepared properly-drawn figures in advance. My personal experie
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I forgot the name. It may be called system engineering or something like that. The focus of the course was on parallelization. The instructors spent great deal time on work stealing queues and parallel divide and conquer.
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I find "I believe in science" as delivered on social platforms and the mainstream media hysterical in the past few years. I mean, how do we even know if "science" is right without questioning? I can understand that peopl
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I still remember that so many people cheered when legitimate doctors and scientists were banned from Twitter or Facebook, just for questioning either the lockdown or the effectiveness or risks of the vaccines. The doctors may not be correct
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by hintymad 2y ago
I used to take a lot of courses on cousera and EdX. I still take some here and there, but not as many as before. Some of the courses are amazing and unbelievably rewarding, like Daphne Koller's Probabilistic Graphical Models, Robert Se
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by hintymad 2y ago
Would this help designing an object store, though? Case in point, S3 has unlimited bucket size, and they achieved that adding new servers will always increase the performance and reliability of the S3 cluster (they call it taking the advant
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Curious if there is a sharding scheme that can scale indefinitely for both the total size of data and total number of data objects? S3 apparently can do it, but I’ve never seen any publication talking about it. I’m aware of popular techniqu
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by hintymad 2y ago
I'd be extremely happy to be wrong, as I invest my life and my family's in the US. As for the concern, it's not about this one particular incident, but about the pattern that other countries have experienced: the government a
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by hintymad 2y ago
> instead, they very quickly recognize a word as a sequence of letters This appears to be the very basic, which is far from being enough to become a "skilled reader".
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by hintymad 2y ago
Maybe the only way to be good at reading for basic proficiency is to just reading more? Not sure why there are so many theories and practices. I have two anecdotes. Not that they count, but in case other people had similar experiences: One
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by hintymad 2y ago
Thanks! A follow-up question would be why MD's management won, even though it wreaked havoc. Or it was really just the hindsight...
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Wouldn't in this case the culprit is that Georgia didn't have rule of law? Yes, Telegram didn't help and ignored your plea, but prosecuting the owner for the presumed malice? I'm not sure how that will go well in the lon
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by hintymad 2y ago
I wonder if there are books or articles that analyze how and why Boeing declined so fast and so spectacularly. Boeing used to be able to build 747 under budget and ahead of schedule, just like Lockheed could dazzle the world by creating U2
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by hintymad 2y ago
Piping syntax is particularly useful when querying time series too, especially when we need to write complex queries in a one-liner to share with others.
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A key factor in such failure is misaligned incentives. A team in a company is more likely interested in solving problems for the longevity of the company, so they think long term and they iterate. They also learn about the domain over the y
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by hintymad 2y ago
I forgot which book mentioned that big government contractors like Boeing had to set up their factories and give business to vendors in many, if not all, the states no matter how inefficient or expensive that is because senators wouldn&#x2
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by hintymad 2y ago
Ah, did you mean that supporting GPGPU for CUDA workload is quite different from support GPU for graphics (or for all the GPU functions)?
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> same driver support Windows gets. Naive question: Most of ML workload in a datacenter runs on Linux, for which I assume there's good driver support. Why do we say that Nvidia does not have enough driver support on linux?
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by hintymad 2y ago
> the city zoning laws means there's no corner cafe, bakery, or small-scale store like there really ought to be So basically we actively reject the lifestyle of European towns, or the life style of early 20th century of the US. I wo
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by hintymad 2y ago
Maybe a trajectory question: will the US have a lot of people like Japan's Hikikomori?
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You're right. I rushed and assumed. Thanks
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I remember seeing somewhere a popular list of top 10 algorithms used in systems, and it's kinda depressing to realize that the most recent algorithm on the list, Skip List, was invented roughly 30 years ago, and every single one of the
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Very true
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> I think whats happening is that non-technical leaders can't assess why projects aren't being delivered Which says a lot about the leadership. :-)
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The milestones can iteratively evolve, so can the timeline. Breaking a project into milestones is a highly simplified example. The idea is that each step of the way we should be able to hold engineers to the same bar with or without return-
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by hintymad 2y ago
What I don't understand is why tech companies don't believe that they can enforce a high-performance culture without return-to-office. With or without remote work, the way we evaluate one's performance has not changed, right?
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> So, what, I’m going to limit my career options? I don't quite get this sentiment. In my experience, the career opportunities come from solving worthy problems, as opposed to using a particular language. Plus, I don't believe
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by hintymad 2y ago
A weird article indeed, and it shows the weak mentality of the author. Apple picked East Asia because East Asia were more productive and reliable. The real question to ask is why the chip manufacturing in the US has been declining in the la

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