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by kcexn 1y ago
I think the takeaway should be you really don't want Alzheimer's regardless of what people think of you. Think about what is happening from his point of view. The condition has fundamentally changed his perception of reality. You
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It's been a while since I did abstract algebra, but I'm pretty sure that once you have the additive and multiplicative identities, the rest of the reals can be generated. Which is still a constructive process. Regardless, the exis
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Not sure about the LLM community, but it's not uncommon in other computer-science communities to assign common names to models and implementations. Common names will always be influenced by the authors culture, so it seems unfair to ex
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There is a bigger issue with any argument around competition as to whether market participants are really competing head-to-head or if they're finding subtle ways to collude.
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The universe, being a physical entity not bound by the rules of human logic doesn't have to be either. Our logical approximation of the universe might need to be, assuming that we don't add more axioms to our system of logical rea
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You can construct a real number by using an infinite series so it's no less constructive than a rational function on the naturals. Non-constructive arguments are things like proof by contradiction i.e., the absence of the negative impl
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The natural numbers are 'natural' because they are definite quantities that can be used for counting. Taylor expansions about a point of a function requires that the function has a derivative defined at that point. The derivative
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Mathematics is a philosophy that focuses on the study of logic. It's a bit of an exaggeration to conflate mathematics with 'truth' in an absolute, universal sense. Mathematical 'truths' are themselves only true in t
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My first thought here is that an open market for translations would just create lots of really bad, free translations and make discovering good translations impossible. Ultimately, there will be a concern that it devalues the translation pr
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Presumably the company translating and subtitling anime is licensing the show, not producing it. So subtitling and translation costs for a business like Crunchyroll would be most of their production budget (assuming licensing fees are not e
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This is true not just in AI but in tech in general. Data centers could be cheaper and more energy efficient. Phones could last longer, etc. Ultimately, companies don't like participating in markets that are races to the bottom (better
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> it can’t wait on the database. In that case autoscaling cpus on the requester side makes sense but this is rare. You might be billed for a new CPU for each request, but in practice this may not be how it's implemented by your prov
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by kcexn 1y ago
Having worked with it only a little on occasion. I found that the problem lies in its atrocious documentation. I get it, there are lots of knobs and dials I can adjust to tune the cluster. A one-line description for each item is often insuf
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Synadia was clearly open to being supported by community contributions. But since no-one who used NATS wanted to maintain NATS, a decision has to be made about how to support the project in the long-term.
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The thing is, Synadia has made 97% of the contributions. So they essentially own the copyright to the entire project and the CNCF hasn't helped them to build a community of developers and software support. There's a balance to be
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by kcexn 1y ago
I have always had the impression that the CNCF was founded as a kind of demilitarized zone for large companies to collaborate on big projects. Having governance and contributions all recorded in the public domain, and the software licensed
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> Furthermore, the architecture will fundamentally require a sorted index, meaning that any such a queuing / streaming system will process n messages in O (n log n). Would using a sorted index have an impact on the measured servicin
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by kcexn 1y ago
There are technical benefits to using serverless functions. As mentioned, there is autoscaling and the delegation of infrastructure management to a vendor. But you also create clearer language/runtime independent code encapsulation. Th
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There was a time when "engineer" was a respected term reserved for a profession. Engineers were highly paid because they're brought onto projects that are high-complexity and high-value. Companies are hoping not to pay for en
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My professional career has mostly been in IT ops. I've worked for companies that do requirements analysis and design in-house, write up a huge spec, send the spec to an offshore development house, then simply acceptance test the softwa
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The problem with FOSSland is that it is increasingly driven by commercial interests, not by volunteers. I don't know the last time I encountered a used (not random hobby projects) FOSS project that wasn't funded and supported by a
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by kcexn 1y ago
I've just finished a PhD in (specialised) topics around computer performance. And I have a similar feeling about the stagnant state of innovation in computer and software engineering over the last 15 years or so. The vast majority of r
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Would you still feel the same joy if this project was one of thousands of React/Next.js apps you have worked on?
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While this definitely helps consumers. I don't see how it doesn't displace workers. If the work those workers were doing before software was truly valuable. Companies would find other ways to scale, and simply pass the higher cost
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Oh? What's an example of a common way for unit files to be subtlely broken?
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by kcexn 4y ago
Most residential power is dirty to some extent, and AC/DC converters are supposed to be able to cope with a wide range of input distortions. For the problem to have worked its way through all of the safety components in both the laptop
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by kcexn 4y ago
Hasn't radiation from black holes been observed? It's called Hawking radiation I think.
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This is not because the publishers can't afford to spend a bit more. But because they would rather capture every last dollar of profit. There's an argument to be made that getting some of these details right would improve their pr
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'Middle Management' is also not a well defined term. For some, managers like you have described could be thought of as front line managers. Or supervisors. And middle management are the layers, usually many, that separate the fron
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by kcexn 4y ago
Isn't Apple very successful with centralised product/tech departments?

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