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Show HN: Hai – A REPL for hackers using LLMs(github.com)
2 points by kelkabany 1y ago|0 comments
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Earnestness(paulgraham.com)
2 points by kelkabany 6y ago|0 comments
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by kelkabany 7y ago
If you're interested in this model, we're looking for early beta users: https://www.intertimes.org
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by kelkabany 13y ago
I'm a founder of PiCloud. If you reach out to me at ken AT picloud.com I can go over your use case with you and help you figure out your options.
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by kelkabany 14y ago
The older hardware (Intel Xeon X5550) for m2.* instances did not support AVX. The newer hardware supports AVX, but to maintain compatibility with the old hardware, it is disabled (but was still advertised, which is what caused the issue). A
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PiCloud and Princeton Consultants Win the First Amazon EC2 Spotathon(aws.typepad.com)
5 points by kelkabany 14y ago|0 comments
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by kelkabany 15y ago
It's best to understand the differences from the top down. Celery is software. PiCloud is a service. This largely dictates the automation each system is able to provide. Using PiCloud, there is no server to setup with your background proces
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by kelkabany 15y ago
:'( There's nothing that precludes us from exposing a SOAP interface.
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by kelkabany 15y ago
Unfortunately, with our new s1 core type, it's even easier to DDoS services. ;) In all seriousness, we've given thought to this issue, and the solution we've found isn't technological. Users who want to use over a couple of hundred cores si
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by kelkabany 15y ago
Thanks for your input! From the get-go, we've targeted users with serious compute-intensive needs. These users from both academia and industry generally do what we call "scientific computing." A couple examples are oil companies doing immen
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Publish your Python function to PiCloud and invoke via REST(blog.picloud.com)
48 points by kelkabany 15y ago|12 comments
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by kelkabany 16y ago
1. If you piece the code snippets together in the post, it'll work. Nevertheless, I'll be posting a downloadable source file soon. 2. Our cloud.files module does have a 5GB file size limit. However, you are free to store your data elsewhere
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by kelkabany 16y ago
While this might not be clear in the post, we completely agree: "Needless to say, they do have a full video encoding service with a wide range of options and customer support, whereas we’re showing you a building block that could be used to
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by kelkabany 16y ago
Good point. At the end of the day, we're not a video encoding service, so our users should use us in the same they would their own Amazon EC2 instance with ffmpeg. Here's ffmpeg's take: http://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html Here's Zencoder's t
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by kelkabany 16y ago
Good question. We're just starting to venture outside of Python, so we don't have a master list of executables just yet. We do have a list for Python packages http://www.picloud.com/pyapi/packages/weblist/python/ which includes pyffmpeg.
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How to encode all of your videos on the cloud, quickly and cheaply(blog.picloud.com)
34 points by kelkabany 16y ago|13 comments
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by kelkabany 17y ago
Yes, on the configuration page you can upload an archive (or sync a repository point) which contains a python extension build script.
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by kelkabany 17y ago
PiCloud dev here. Nope, but we probably should.
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by kelkabany 18y ago
We're currently working on face recognition. Facebook's existing tags are a great training set :) In the meantime, the application detects faces and gives you a much more efficient (and pretty!) interface for tagging since the faces are kno
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by kelkabany 18y ago
Hi everyone, This is a startup I have been working on with two friends. We're all UC Berkeley 2008 graduates. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Ken
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AutoTagger--making tagging on Facebook easier(new.facebook.com)
9 points by kelkabany 18y ago|4 comments