hintymad

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by hintymad 4y ago
I see two issues with licensed systems for large enough workload. One is scale of cost. Enterprise software charges by some normalized server configuration (CPU, memory, and etc. MinIO seems an exception, though). As a result, the cost of t
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by hintymad 4y ago
Minio is dual licensed: AGPS or their enterprise license. Both can be a big no-no for companies. I was wondering what could be the alternative to MinIO, in addition to Ceph.
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by hintymad 4y ago
It's pretty amusing that smart people would think that sigma algebra and the concept of space, let alone equivalent space and random variables in the language of sigma algebra, were "intuitive" in a Prob 101 tutorial .
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by hintymad 4y ago
It looks phind queues a query for its machine learning models. I submit the following query twice. For the first time, phind gave Google-like answers that talked about only Guava. For the second time, though, Phind gave me good answers on u
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by hintymad 4y ago
Then it gets even scarier: who holds the school boards accountable? It seems they do what they do to appease their constituents, which means the constituents, at last majority of them, think that the establishment was doing a great job?
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The lawsuit that could change California math education(sfexaminer.com)
5 points by hintymad 4y ago|4 comments
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by hintymad 4y ago
> Public school math curriculum at Palo Alto and San Francisco for middle and high school shows some similarities: both have implemented a math detracking initiative — ceasing the separation of students by academic ability for reasons of
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by hintymad 4y ago
It seems you're assuming that majority of the people live in the city or would love in a city? Many people, me included, do not want to live in a city, at least not in an American city. What a city boasts to offer are not relevant to m
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by hintymad 4y ago
> Risk mitigation trumps everything else Yet, Google has no problem shutting down services that millions of users use daily (greader), and worse, tens of thousands of customers use (IoT Core). It seems their reward-and-punishment system,
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by hintymad 4y ago
Yeah, my statement went too far. I was just trying to emphasize that many aspects of a product will emerge from iterations, therefore 5-year plan sounds a gross waterfall model. That said, some planning is needed.
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by hintymad 4y ago
I actually don't believe 5-year plan would work. Great products are built, not planned. A plan to keep management patient for 5 years, though, will work better. In AWS, a newly launched service will not seek profitability but user grow
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by hintymad 4y ago
Speaking of product, Ben Thompson mentioned in his podcast that Google planned to use their low-margin GDocs suite to undermine Microsoft Office's dominance. I wonder what happens to that strategy. If any company can pull off an office
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by hintymad 4y ago
Because sports is a hugely profitable business for universities. And it is profitable precisely because American people just are so into sports. So it's a virtuous or vicious cycle, depending on how you look at it. My view is actually
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by hintymad 4y ago
> Google needs a war-time CEO Do you know that "war-time" is a banned phrase in Google, because it is just so f*@$ offensive? In the end, words are weapons used by Nazis. We need 1000 Gebru to do things ethically in Google &#x2
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by hintymad 4y ago
> they're doing a very poor job of maintaining their core, legacy products. My guess is that great PMs and engineers are not into incremental changes or maintaining a mature system. As a result, the sharpest minds for building produ
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by hintymad 4y ago
Did Pichai make his name first in Google by being an excellent PM of Chrome? I wonder why he stopped being a product guy after becoming a CEO. It looks to me that the CEOs of mega successful tech companies are mostly "super PMs".
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by hintymad 4y ago
> they need to change up how they measure success and who they reward This is culture, and culture is one of the most important responsibilities of a CEO.
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by hintymad 4y ago
> The real blame for early high school is extra-curricular sports. Basketball, Football, etc. It seems the real blame is the culture of the US, which values sports above many things. Case in point, people openly despise toiling in academ
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by hintymad 4y ago
Isn't it that most of the elite high-school students in the bay area will not have the luxury of going to be bed before midnight? 10+ APs, multiple ECs, at least one sports team, perfect GPAs... Even smart kids have to sleep less to ac
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by hintymad 4y ago
I wonder if a company should hire as many people even though the Covid drove unexpected traffic. I mean, shouldn't we build systems that scale by adding machines instead of adding people? Even if a company wants to hire for growth, s
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by hintymad 4y ago
Definitely. Bell, DEC, Sun, Intel, IBM... Google feels refreshingly different probably because she was a later generation. It's actually good for the US to have such a lively natural progression. It's like a forest springs forth w
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by hintymad 4y ago
Yeah, unfortunately not every company allows that plugin. And I wish Google Docs would adopt the editing style of Obsidian: when in focus, the formula is editing mode. Out of focus, the formula is rendered.
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by hintymad 4y ago
And with all the admiration to Google, I do hope Google could fix Google Docs. I miss Quip's amazing support of embedded spreadsheets and formulas, beautiful math equations, and rich-text in comments, and ability to link to any line or
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by hintymad 4y ago
> This suggests to me that Google is finally getting disrupted and are scrambling of desperation because of the release of ChatGPT. Even if Google is not getting disrupted, this suggested that Google is finally at the stage where its cul
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by hintymad 4y ago
I still remember numerous reports of more than 10 years ago how Bing could not catch up to Google, or how MS moved slowly, or how Balmer threw a chair towards a distinguished engineer, lashing out about massive loss of talent in MS. I would
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by hintymad 4y ago
> Soon, you’ll see AI-powered features in Search I was wondering who is the audience of this article. Hasn't Google search been powered by numerous machine learning algorithms for years? Another thing I don't understand is that
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by hintymad 4y ago
Scaling is just one type of optimization, right? So, one should really focus on getting a system working first and then use data to surgically scale the real bottlenecks (back-of-envelope calculation to identify scaling bottlenecks early on
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by hintymad 4y ago
Yeah. Putting the hat of a product manager, I have to ask: what value does this programming analogy offer? Japanese is a pretty structured language that is quite easy to understand. You use particles to "glue" phrases to sentences
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> employers are naturally incentivized to keep employees insecure and underpaid Aren't the management also employees? They may have different incentives from those of the large shareholders too. Case in point, so many managers chase
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by hintymad 4y ago
> I’ve seen people promoted to VP based on a set or vague promises they haven’t delivered, mass hiring and vanity metrics So basically Google has become like any big company. If this were true, then it was the a failure of the leadership

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