indoordin0saur

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by indoordin0saur 2y ago
I contend that you could show any child old enough to communicate in basic English a photograph (so not live continuous video) of some obscure animal they've never seen before (say an Okapi) and they'd be able to easily identify a
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by indoordin0saur 2y ago
My point is not that humans have a faster training speed but that humans must be doing something fundamentally different from LLMs. You could build Altman's $7 trillion dollar GPU cluster and use the majority of the world's energy
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by indoordin0saur 2y ago
Yes. Seems like some users here experience true despair when you suggest that the LLM approach might have a hard limit that means LLMs will be useful but never revolutionary.
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by indoordin0saur 2y ago
AI needs to see thousands or millions of images of a cat before they reliably can identify one. The fact that a child needs to only see one example of a cat to know what a cat is from then on seems to point to humans having something very d
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by indoordin0saur 2y ago
Thank you! Sounds like iceberg is the best then. I'm very allergic to lock-in. Currently we're very Spark heavy and our query engine is AWS Redshift Serverless. The recent AWS Glue Catalog support for Iceberg seems to make this pr
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by indoordin0saur 2y ago
My guess is Data Bricks saw the popularity of Iceberg and realized that they were starting to look a little irrelevant still trying to promote their competing Delta Lake format. Have an Iceberg lakehouse? Well then Databricks just didn&#x27
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by indoordin0saur 2y ago
Any guess on what the strategy will be here? Will they have more or less incentive to help the iceberg community?
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by indoordin0saur 2y ago
Doesn't it sound like they'll try and move the two formats closer together so that there isn't such a format war? IDK how it would benefit Databricks to ruin either format if they're now such huge stakeholders in them bo
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by indoordin0saur 2y ago
So this makes it sound like a positive thing for Iceberg as a format. Others seem to be suggesting that DataBricks will be working to undermine the format in favor of their older Delta Lake format but that seems overly cynical.
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by indoordin0saur 3y ago
Your job is what you do, not what your title is. He definitely makes engineering decisions, whether you like those engineering decisions or not.
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by indoordin0saur 3y ago
Maybe Stanford is better. My reference would be attendees of Princeton and Columbia.
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by indoordin0saur 3y ago
I know many people who have attended ivy league schools and $100k+ debt is not unusual among them.
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by indoordin0saur 3y ago
Dawn Redwoods prefer hot humid summers and cold winters, like you'd see in NE Asia or the East Coast of the US.
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by indoordin0saur 3y ago
You are correct. The former are excellent quality timber, the latter are quite poor.
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by indoordin0saur 3y ago
Coast redwoods have useful timber but Sequoias do not.
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by indoordin0saur 3y ago
I remember walking around Switzerland a few summers ago and was surprised to see that most of the tallest trees in the towns and parks were non-native American trees.
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by indoordin0saur 3y ago
Side note, but the Sugi tree of Japan is perhaps the most similar tree to the Sequoia in terms of appearance.
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by indoordin0saur 3y ago
There have to be more than 80k in the US. Maybe they're just counting mature large trees? The groves are full of saplings and "teenagers".
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by indoordin0saur 3y ago
Yeah, they're great trees on the east coast because they provide shade in the summer but drop their leaves in the winter when shaded dark streets are less desirable.
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by indoordin0saur 3y ago
Related question I've always had: does anyone know why trees on the west coast of the US and Canada grow so tall? You'll find the tallest species of fir (douglas fir or if you're being pedantic the grand fir), pine (sugar p