mochomocha

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by mochomocha 3y ago
Be the change you want to see in the world. I refuse to interview at places that are Leetcode-heavy. Never prevented me from getting 7 figures offers at FAANG-type companies. Similarly when I interview candidates, I don't ask them Leet
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Multitenancy(benoitrostykus.com)
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by mochomocha 3y ago
I just wanted to express gratitude for the amazing work you're doing. As someone with no hardware background, I learnt a lot from reading your blog, and I marvel at the amount of collective human intelligence packed into all the tiny c
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by mochomocha 3y ago
It's literally what I did at work last week, which is why I found this submission timely. I'd have to check with my employer if it can be made public. I don't see any reason why not, there's not much to it.
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by mochomocha 3y ago
Fun fact: if you don't care about the auto-regressive aspect of NeuralProphet (it's turned off by default), you can implement the core of NeuralProphet/Prophet (piecewise linear trend + Fourier on weekly/daily seasonalit
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by mochomocha 3y ago
> It would be useful to know if PyTorch runs faster or slower than their methods using their sparsified matrix techniques. Probably not an easy feat. Sparse support in pytorch is minimal.
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by mochomocha 3y ago
Both Lambda firecracker VMs and t2 instances are multi-tenant and oversubscribed.
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by mochomocha 3y ago
My Brother printer once said the cartridge was empty and I refused to believe it. After browsing the internet a bit, I found a trick on an obscure forum that worked for me: you put a small piece of tape on the cartridge chip, and miraculous
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by mochomocha 3y ago
To expand a bit on what Aaron said, 2022 was a year where the company experienced drastic culture changes: introduction of levels, new VP&director-level leadership with more traditional / "big corp" management styles, pus
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by mochomocha 3y ago
Between Marc Tessier-Lavigne, operation Varsity Blues and SBF parents, the scandals involving Stanford keep on coming. It's not sending a good signal when it comes to the overall integrity of the institution.
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by mochomocha 3y ago
Slightly off topic, but regarding the larger memory footprint of Kata containers, what is your opinion on KSM effectiveness in general for VMs?
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by mochomocha 3y ago
JPEG-2000 uses wavelets as a decomposition basis as opposed to DCT which in theory makes it possible to treat the whole image as a single block while ensuring high compression. In practice though tiles are used, I would guess to improve on
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by mochomocha 3y ago
I was doing the same thing at Netflix around the same time as a 20% research project. Training GANs end2end directly in JPEG coeffs space (and then rebuild a JPEG from the generated coeffs using libjpeg to get an image). The pitch was that
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by mochomocha 3y ago
Adding keras abstractions on top of pytorch seems like negative value-added to me. It only barely abstracts more the easy/mundane stuff, while creating yet another layer of indirection between ideas and machine code in the current Rube
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by mochomocha 3y ago
In no world would Youtube be even remotely profitable without advertising. Google ran it as a $B+/year loss for years before managing to making it profitable. Tell me now a believable alternative growth story for Youtube where Google d
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by mochomocha 3y ago
> But instead AMD has just followed Nvidia into making slow, uncompetitive GPUs at high prices. I'm curious: do you use GPUs? It's hard to take this claim seriously. Yes NVIDIA GPUs are expensive, but I don't think we live
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by mochomocha 3y ago
They are usually significantly more expensive than United for all SFO<->CDG flights.
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by mochomocha 3y ago
While I agree with the beginning of your post, you lost me here: > The bitter lesson [1] is going to eventually come for all of these. Eventually we'll figure out how to machine-learn the heuristic rather than hard code it. Ineffici
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by mochomocha 3y ago
Good! Everyone will know these new institutions are full of rich people instead of full of smart people, so the job market value of the diplomas they issue will be priced as such (~ 0).
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by mochomocha 3y ago
No they shouldn't: anything that's "pay for play" is morally bankrupt. It reinforces the stigma that there are different rules for the rich in this country. Bribery of congressmen (a.k.a lobbying) or university deans (A
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by mochomocha 3y ago
This is a very good summary of my own thoughts regarding the Supreme Court ruling. The American obsession with race in this specific case translates into focusing on a more superficial problem and polarizing the debate, as opposed to findin
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by mochomocha 3y ago
After all this time if Spotify could have found a way to cut off the middlemen, they would have happily done it. From your own quote, you should be mad at Universal & co, not Spotify.
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by mochomocha 3y ago
This is certainly a very interesting thought to entertain and your ideas make sense. One thing that makes things harder on the CPU side in this hypothetical scenario is that CPUs tend to execute much more diverse instructions/computati
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by mochomocha 3y ago
Perf/$ where $ is what it cost _them_ , not $ they're ready to sell to others as a product. Cloud margins in the high two-digit percents are typical, and I'd imagine even higher for very specialized products in high-demand fr
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by mochomocha 3y ago
Yep. "confused" is also how most of his regular papers read to me anyway. I didn't know what "computational functionalism" was, but after reading about it I don't see how it is remotely the "basic hypothes
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by mochomocha 3y ago
It has always been my favorite museum in Paris: if you're into Kandinsky, they have one of the largest collections. Also, there's IRCAM right next to it where the mix of music nerds with a wide variety of backgrounds produces very
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by mochomocha 3y ago
> They may exist for a while I don't think we should be interested in the "asymptotic theoretical limit" of capitalism which is never reached. Let's discuss "capitalism in practice", not "capitalism in
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by mochomocha 3y ago
> Bullshit jobs don’t exist in the free market, as no capitalist would pay for someone to do something useless And yet if you spend any time in any large corporation, you'll find countless examples of these, including in the tech in
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by mochomocha 3y ago
"Bullshit jobs" [1] are a suboptimal and implicit mean to deliver on UBI without superficially changing the rules of capitalism. For exhibit 2, I'll bring in the US military and its economic impact on the midwest. [1]: https
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by mochomocha 3y ago
Your take might be honest, but it's clearly uninformed. Everyone has been wrong about how ai developed. It's worth giving "The Bitter Lesson" a read [1] if you haven't yet. [1]: https://www.cs.utexas.edu&

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