yazaddaruvala

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by yazaddaruvala 1y ago
What you’ve described is the foundation of Lucene and as such the foundation of Elastic Search. FSTs are “expensive” to re-optimize and so it’s typically done “without writes”. So the database would need some workaround for that low write t
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by yazaddaruvala 1y ago
Yeah given what your saying is true and continues to be, Seems the embeddings would just be useful for a “nice corpus search” mechanism for some regular RAG.
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by yazaddaruvala 1y ago
At least in theory. If the model is the same, the embeddings can be reused by the model rather than recomputing them. I believe this is what they mean. In practice, how fast will the model change (including tokenizer)? how fast will the vec
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by yazaddaruvala 1y ago
Any insights into why game engines prefer triangles rather than guassians for fast rendering? Are triangles cheaper for the rasterizer, antialiasing, or something similar?
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
https://youtu.be/Be5HUxOYTOM?si=eOBjJW7lxvfG3xSs ?
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
Fwiw at Amazon it’s expected that the first 33%-50% of the meeting is reading time. The rest is time for feedback, discussion, and ideally a decision or collecting action items.
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
The reality is that competition at Amazon is intense. Amazon corporate is roughly broken down like this: L4: 45%, L5: 45%, L6: 7%, L7: 2.5%, L8+: 0.5% Only the first promotion has guardrails (L4 to L5). Typically you’re expected to be able
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
The real benefit of doc writing isn’t for decision making it’s for education. It allows everyone at Amazon to evaluate the author’s ability to refine their “chain of thought”. The nice side effect is the author taking 10x more time to save
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
Blood oxygen sensors seem relatively cheap and low power. I wonder if they could use that as the feedback mechanism. Ideally if the sensors are small, low power, and cheap enough CO2 and lactic acid levels would also be good to check on to
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
I empathize with your opinion Dig1t. War is horrible and meat grinders are especially so. But when a victimized population like Ukraine decides it wants to keep fighting. Especially given: > Ukraine should be opposed to depopulating itse
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
+1 I’ve really enjoyed using more declarative languages in recent years. At work I’ve been helping push “use SQL with the best practices we learned from C++ and Java development” and it’s been working well. It’s identical to your point. We
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
Ok, so maybe a controversial opinion: I've been buying local, pasture raised chickens for the last 10 years. I am very fortunate to have had the income to allow me to do so. I also don't eat that many eggs (roughly a dozen a month
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
The difference is passive. Your phone is constantly pooling for both 4g, and 5g signal. Then using that to pool for notifications from apps. This is stuff your Nokia didn’t do at the same scale. At best some sms at a significantly reduced p
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
Not exactly a scientific experiment, but based on this video it seems like fire would have significantly less visible intensity for it to make a meaningful difference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBL3NdIK4DI
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
Only really relevant if the efficiency is valuable but yeah totally. It’s not just about new abstractions on top of the stack but also new abstractions that replace the middle and bottom of the stacks.
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
We only run out of abstraction once there is stagnation and time to really bake. As long as some new thing is being invented in our industry, a new abstraction will be needed because the old one just can’t quite flex enough while being back
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
Hey I think you’re missing important context and in the meantime getting a bit aggressive. Neither is helpful. Regarding the context: > A redundant wrapper is such a trivial mechanical problem to solve or work around, The DMA maintainer
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
Amazon Retail has multiple systems to allow you to basically use SQL across databases (eg Datapath). I’m not sure about AWS.
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
I’d say even more so for professional projects you’re better off with React. Been there and done that with and without. Junior (and Senior) devs fundamentally don’t read the docs. That and requirements churn are the problems. Given that, it
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
Gotta love Step Functions, Lambda, and also Kinesis Firehose!
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
The IC ladder at Google grows from L3 up to L10. An L8 IC has similar responsibilities as a Director (roughly 100ish people) but rather than people, and priority responsibility it is systems, architecture, reliability responsibility.
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
Depends on what you’re trying to achieve. Small organizations define efficiency based on time to make number go up/down. Meanwhile, if something bad happens at 2am and no one wakes up - whatever there we’re likely no customers impacted
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
and improving water resistance.
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
I tend to agree with you. “Unordered” is very strange when clearly it is consistently “ordered” by some function(name, insertion_id) to facilitate low latency lookup. The iteration order seems arbitrary to a human, but that is exclusively b
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
In your opinion, why is the "trust in Proton" not considered "developing for Linux"? Is your argument specifically about the game developer's mental model for Linux's priority, or something core about the Proto
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
Could you help me understand why that is a pity? Seems like Valve’s adapter pattern is a great development tool to get Linux games without dev studios spending excessive dev time/money on it. Is Proton in some way inferior to native?
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
My understanding is there is a bunch of poorly documented C code that is being translated into Rust using strict types. This can simplify a bunch when using Rust but also better documents the internals for C.
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
Once 100% of the firmware is migrated to Rust. What do you think will be this Google teams’ next steps? Very likely if Firmware is successful they would use the current positive talking points from this blog post and lessons learned and kee
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
My understanding is Cloudflare is a competitor of AWS, Azure, and GCP.
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by yazaddaruvala 2y ago
I hope this effort can also translate into more Rust in Linux, rather than potentially Android on a different OS.

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