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by rajman187 4y ago
The author of Bazel came over to FB and wrote Buck from memory. In Google it’s called Blaze. Buck2 is a rewrite in rust and gets rid of the JVM dependence, so it builds projects faster but it’s slow to build buck2 itself (Rust compilation)
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by rajman187 4y ago
“Native” is a misleading or misused term in the context of graph databases because a graph cannot be mapped in a maximally consistent way with the underlying hardware (the von Neumann architecture represents data in a sequential manner and
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by rajman187 4y ago
Completely agree. In fact, even massive graph data can make use of a relational database + caching [1] [1] https://engineering.fb.com/2013/06/25/core-data/tao-the-powe...
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Baspacho – Batched Sparse Cholesky(github.com)
1 points by rajman187 4y ago|0 comments
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by rajman187 4y ago
It wasn’t $100bn spent on VR. There is a ton of research happening inside of RealityLabs, which accounts for the vast majority of the investment, but yes the only product so far is the VR headset. Here’s a roadmap (supposedly based on leake
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by rajman187 4y ago
Gloo is a communication protocol for distributed computation (think along the lines of MPI)
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by rajman187 4y ago
The first thing to consider is that a graph cannot be mapped in a maximally consistent way with the underlying hardware (the von Neumann architecture represents data in a sequential manner and it is much faster to access it this way rather
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by rajman187 4y ago
I’ve noticed that Indian news media is far more interested in covering Pakistan than the other way around. Indeed, I’d wonder what Pakistan would look like without India constantly pestering them, e.g. reducing flow of critical river paths
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by rajman187 4y ago
Anecdotal but I was on a flight recently and the fellow seated behind me brought his Quest2 for the flight. He said it was much better for watching movies than the poor quality of the in-flight screens. Makes sense since you can also downlo
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by rajman187 4y ago
Is that including WhatsApp Business accounts (revenue positive) and the so-far limited roll out of WhatsApp payments in Brazil and India (revenue positive)?
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by rajman187 4y ago
I was editing my resume in latex for a long time, then for no particular reason decided to change the workflow such that I could just write it in markdown and use emacs org-mode to autogenerate an intermediate latex, associate the citations
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Wave of Job-Switching Has Employers on a Training Treadmill(nytimes.com)
5 points by rajman187 4y ago|1 comments
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by rajman187 4y ago
> The rise in turnover since the pandemic started has a cost in productivity: “It’s taking longer to get stuff out the door.”
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by rajman187 4y ago
> Some believe crypto-currency is the future; others believe it's a scam. What's the truth about this so-called disruptive technology? A software engineer with 40+ years of experience weighs in with logic, reason and evidence.
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by rajman187 4y ago
You have countless cells that are destroyed on a daily basis, something like a million per second. I don’t understand your point obsessing over cells being killed for expressing the spike proteins, it’s less than a drop in the ocean.
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by rajman187 4y ago
I’d like to see some credible sources for your claims, because it seems we’ve done no such thing. Even if trace amounts are found, they are no longer functional [0]. And it’s important to consider the percent of dosage when looking at biodi
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by rajman187 4y ago
> Have you not noticed how most of the data is not even reported on now and near all previous studies stopped at three months? No, I haven’t noticed this. Do you mean reported in the media? I was never looking there for safety trial resu
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by rajman187 4y ago
The post I replied to stated > dubious mRNA treatments with unknown compounding risks for unknown numbers of people If that was the case, after 100s of millions of doses given out shouldn’t these have surfaced in sufficient numbers? Sorr
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by rajman187 4y ago
This makes no sense, the AstraZeneca vaccine isn’t an mRNA formulation but rather a vector vaccine (genetic material from the COVID-19 virus is placed in a modified version of a different virus—the vector—which gets into your cells and deli
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by rajman187 4y ago
On top of this implausibility, the criteria in the parent post was ‘there’s no “supernatural” element whatsoever,’ which given the heroic ghost of Kowalski‘s role in saving the protagonist (as a “hallucination”), should also rule it out. Ne
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by rajman187 4y ago
I’ve interacted with a few businesses in the UK already, and way more in Asia/Middle East. Forgot to add there’s also WhatsApp Pay which, while limited to only India and Brazil, is still a sizable population. It’s monetized through the
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by rajman187 4y ago
The most offensive element in the article was general dismissal of espresso as actual coffee rather than the brown sludge that fills most large vats at conference centers and apparently Amazon offices. Sure, it makes for a good analogy, but
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Opt-IML: a language model with 175B parameters [pdf](raw.githubusercontent.com)
3 points by rajman187 4y ago|1 comments
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by rajman187 4y ago
> fine-tuned on 2,000 language tasks > For OPT-IML, we boosted performance of our earlier OPT-175B work using instruction tuning. This allowed us to adapt it for more diverse applications including answering questions, summarizing tex
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by rajman187 4y ago
Well it’s not entirely accurate to say few people use it for that anymore. It has 2.9 billion monthly active users on the platform, so even a fraction there for “what are my friends doing” is more than the population of most countries. I th
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by rajman187 4y ago
Perhaps the price of globalization, where it’s considerably more profitable to import cheaply produced goods with the consumer happy about lower prices. I assume with inflation taken into account and price of raw materials that juicer from
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by rajman187 4y ago
He wasn’t talking with senior managers and directors but almost certainly VP level and CxO
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by rajman187 4y ago
there are some boroughs in London which don't have bins and residents just leave piles of trash out on collection day. No rats but rather foxes https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/15/urb
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by rajman187 4y ago
Will be interesting to see how former finance minister now PM reconciles the banks' hesitancy with his own grandiose plans of making the UK a crypto capital https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/01/what-rishi-suna
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by rajman187 4y ago
Sure, but not if you don't live in Kingston itself but go to school there.

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