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by sanderjd 28d ago
My five year old who has never seen a Looney tunes cartoon thought it was hilarious. (It made me think he'd probably love actual Looney tunes cartoons!)
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by sanderjd 29d ago
To me, this seems to be an expectations issue. I thought it was going to suck. It's a live action and cartoon mix about looney tunes, itself a broad and very meh cultural artifact IMO. Compared to my expectations, it was funny and good
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by sanderjd 29d ago
My 5 year old spent the whole time laughing. We have the expression "grow up!" that we tell kids. Sometimes I think we need the opposite expression for adults who are peeved when cartoons don't make them laugh.
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by sanderjd 29d ago
I thought it was good! I had low expectations and they were well exceeded.
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
I agree that all else equal, the more comparisons the merrier. But IMO, there has been way too much focus on benchmarks for the bare models, when it seems to me that what actually matters is what you can do with the technology, and that is
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
In my view, the useful like for like comparison is to the entire system that people actually use. Nobody uses a "naked model", so what is the point of these benchmarks that use them in that way? I think the benchmarks should be tr
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
I don't quite understand your point. Why are you moving those capabilities from one model to another, or improving the built-in capabilities of a model, what is the goal? If having the capabilities in the model itself improves the over
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
Yeah but what is the point of "naked model" evaluations? It seems to me that the only interesting question is capability per time and cost (and conditioned on other important things, like privacy). It doesn't matter to me whi
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
I dunno about this article, but it seemed to me that the now-famous huggingface attack very likely broke some laws...
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
Well... that'll be an interesting day.
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
Yeah that's fair. In practice, the projects I've worked on have always seemed to end up with a mix of all of dbt, SQL strings in python, and dataframe manipulation. I've always felt like we should be able to minimize one of t
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
But surely you went back and forth on things. I do agree that this is useful to brainstorm, iterate, and then execute.
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
Ha, but I always hated when my company tried to get me to do that and ended up spending more time on the phone with the "concierge" than it would take me to do it myself on expedia. And I think most people feel similarly.
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
Yeah. Agreed.
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
No, I was just making a narrower point about one aspect of the comment.
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
But is that ... good?
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
Aaaaah, the cpu cache aspect is what I was missing! This makes tons of sense! I'll check out your talk as well.
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
When you say "in-cache batches", you mean that this cache is on disk? Is that only the case when data is quite large? (Or a more general question: What is the best resource for me to read about how the streaming engine and cache w
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
... does it? I don't think it does, even in this form. And now write it such that all the conditions and transformations are injected into the string (somehow) rather than written in explicitly. Much worse.
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
It's never quite been clear to me what the advantage of dbt over a python program using sqlalchemy / duckdb / polars to transform data is. Can you enlighten me?
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
One person's "ergonomic and expressive" is another person's "wait what in the world is actually going on here".
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
To me, I immediately wonder whether w, x, y, and z here are variables or column names. It would indeed be nice if python could more tersely represent the distinction between a name and a literal string (or worse, as in your R example, a var
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
I would say that it is easier to decompose polars (and all dataframe api) queries and to build them up from pieces than it is to do the same with sql. Any time I find myself writing more than five or so lines of sql, or especially building
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
Is "non-deterministic" the right description for this? I read it as describing an implementation where ordering is not preserved, but deterministically. Is that a misreading?
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
Deprecating without breaking is fine in a minor version under semver.
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
I wanted to see a breakdown by age, or a "prime age" variant of the measure.
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
But that's kinda the point, there's no such thing as "a pure technology-problem". I think that's the fundamental - and obvious - thing that these folks seem to constantly miss.
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
Yep I distinctly remember at the beginning of 2023 that folks were predicting that we were less than two years away from there being no jobs for software developers. Pretty soon we'll reach double that timeline. And of course it really
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
It matters what the reality is. The trade war between the US and Canada is bad. It is entirely the fault of the administration that is currently in charge in the US. That is the reality. I share your disdain for political team sportism. But
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by sanderjd 1mo ago
Thank you very much for this link! Extremely fascinating.

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