summerlight

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by summerlight 2y ago
>My opinion is that SQL should be for computers to write. This would put it firmly in the same category as LLVM IR. Although I partially agree with the high level idea of this statement (let's accept the reality; no mature database
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by summerlight 2y ago
At least they're now willing to publish these kinds of fun and creative things. Which was almost guaranteed to be blocked by one of approval chains for several years.
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by summerlight 2y ago
I'm not interested in subjective arguments but one clear thing is that there is a significant number of people who don't have a good sense of discovering tech features.
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by summerlight 2y ago
In many cases, a single extra action is known to cause pretty steep drop in discovery/engagement rates and it's the whole point of "default option" antitrust debates.
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by summerlight 2y ago
Asbestos was once considered one of the best material for the industry with many desirable properties like high durability, insulation, flexibility, cheap cost etc etc. I don't think human has found a drop-in replacement for asbestos y
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by summerlight 2y ago
YT is using USM, which is supposed to be their SOTA ASR model. Gemini have much better linguistic knowledge, but it's likely prohibitively expensive to be used on all YT videos uploaded everyday. But this "correction" approac
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by summerlight 2y ago
> If you have communications that can be used as evidence you're probably in the wrong. The problem is that most employees are not lawyers so they cannot make a proper legal judgement on their routine works. And even lawyers are fre
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by summerlight 2y ago
Quantum computing is not intractable and can be still simulated with a sufficient amount of time. This work used quantum simulator to generate data points then use it to train a transformer, which doesn't seem that different from other
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by summerlight 2y ago
I think most of their performance critical infrastructures are written in native languages like C++ and even their PHP (actually Hack) parts are significantly modified and optimized.
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by summerlight 2y ago
I guess this is somewhat expected? The current frontier models probably already have exhausted most of the entropy in the training data accumulated over decades and the new training data is very sparse. And the current mainstream architectu
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by summerlight 2y ago
Nothing will be completely autonomous and no reasonable person expects that. You will anyway need some degree of human intervention in order to achieve robustness. The important thing is that you don't need to take care of driving and
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by summerlight 2y ago
I don't think there's a single easy definition of "Staff Engineer" and it's usually just a title. But it might be still good to think about why those folks keep talking about this specific title. From my observation
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by summerlight 2y ago
Or change the goal to the securing consistent control and power.
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by summerlight 2y ago
For Google Ads, personal data collection alone is not as useful for making money like ordinary people imagine. And you don't really want to "sell" the data: why would you help your potential competitor to bootstrap their ads
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by summerlight 2y ago
I don't understand those people who hope that LLM-based search will reduce or eliminate ads in search results. And that's not going to happen. You're conflating two orthogonal problems. In fact, LLM is much more expensive so
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by summerlight 2y ago
I guess now Google's search stack is too complicated and not many engineers understand what to do in order to introduce a novel, big feature integrated into the full stack vertically and horizontally. And those few capable of doing so
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by summerlight 2y ago
In Google, there is a process called "Large Scale Change" which is primarily meant for trivial/safe but extremely tedious code changes that potentially span over the entire monorepo. Such as foundational API changes, trivial
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by summerlight 2y ago
The major benefit would be its significant decrease in memory consumption, rather than the compute itself. The major bottleneck of the current LLM infra is typically memory bandwidth and that's the reason why those chip industries are
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by summerlight 2y ago
I can say that location is not the only factor. Tried various English-using countries through VPN and failed to get a single ad. For instance, UK and AU had some differences on the organic search results (e.g. those from ico.org.uk and oaic
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by summerlight 2y ago
I tried search "how to secure my data". Both my logged-in and incognito desktop sessions return an LLM-powered summary followed by relevant (but doubt if it's high quality) organic search results, but no ads. I failed to get
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by summerlight 2y ago
I don't think she is best known for a beautiful, insightful writing styles. To understand this case better, you probably want to understand the modern history of S. Korea, especially the connection between her book "Human acts&quo
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by summerlight 2y ago
Yuzu and Ryujinx are the real threats to its business as a number of highly anticipated game titles have been leaked and pirated several days (if not weeks) before their releases. This is not acceptable for both the developers and legit pur
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by summerlight 2y ago
Looks like they are more focused on the economical aspect of those large models? Like 90~95% performance of other frontier models at 50%~70% price.
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by summerlight 2y ago
It's pretty simple; he doesn't really have a chance against strong, authoritarianism governments which doesn't accept any sort of challenges so he typically complies to them without any questions. In Brazil, He initially seem
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by summerlight 2y ago
I think it will all up to whether Intel can regain its technological edges. For years, Intel did produced worse chips in terms of power efficiency (vs ARM) and performance (vs AMD) but now it looks like the chip design has caught up given t
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by summerlight 2y ago
This looks like quite a futile PR to downplay other players? MS already had more than 100k H100 before the beginning of this year and the same thing for Meta. Google has its own TPU cluster so it's not even possible to do apple-to-appl
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by summerlight 2y ago
They considered ditching `|>` or using `|` but unfortunately there's a bunch of syntactic ambiguity.
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by summerlight 2y ago
As a test, I refactored a 500 line-ish analytical query that joins more than 20 tables with tens of complex CTE and I can say that this FROM-first syntax is superior than the legacy syntax on almost every single aspect.
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by summerlight 2y ago
> Like, if we’re going to have nonstandard sql, let’s just fix a whole bunch of things, not just one or two? I think they intentionally kept themselves away from massive redesign of the languages, which has a good chance of becoming mult
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by summerlight 2y ago
> Which makes me question every single time I use the Windows default search box: How? How is one of the most fundamental features of the biggest software platform in history, made by one of the biggest companies in history, after decade

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