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That's helpful context, thanks. Unfortunately I cannot edit my original comment, but good to know.

Never forget https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 > 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it lo…

It's a problem with a long tail, and it very much depends on what objective you're optimizing for. In search at least, you aim for "good" and "better", but will never achieve "perf…

Different incentives. A publically traded corporation with thousands of workers trying to grow in perpetuity, has different goals than a community project. While the former has mor…

if you have a task that is easy to split, make a python script that runs on a subset of the task, split into N subsets, and write one output per process? Once they all complete, jo…

The software support just isn't there. The drivers need work, the whole ecosystem is built on CUDA not OpenCL, etc. Not to say someone that tries super hard can't do it, e.g. https…

What's even better is that net zero isn't doing anything for _already emitted carbon_, or the already accumulated heat energy. We can get to net zero and average temperature is sti…

These vectors are lower-dimensional than traditional vectors though, aren't they? Vector embeddings are in the hundreds to low thousands range of dimensions (roughly between 128-10…

User/Item/Query embeddings are the most common. That way you can generate per-user recommendations, or search results for a given query (with personalization using side information…

IMO there are many Americans who would work in IT/Tech if you paid them to do it, but the risk calculation doesn't currently make sense. If you're an adult making $25-35/hour in yo…

Perhaps more precisely: the defacto Apache-as-runtime + PHP model simplifies a ton of things. Namely your request state is created and destroyed all within the context of a single …

PHP has some excellent ideas that other languages can't replicate, while at the same time having terrible ideas that other languages don't have to think about. Overall a huge fan o…

Yes, things are worked out pretty well, in the end it didn't take long to find _something_ as a dev, but I think early next year should be a good time to apply to "good" companies.…

Get a few RPis and get https://k3s.io/ running on them. Get familiar with kubectl. Deploy a few apps to your cluster, tail some logs, restart containers, scale them, etc. Install P…

if you apply to roles within finance you'll have a better shot of landing something. Also, do a quick project using k3s and / or docker to get the basics, so it sounds like you kno…

You'll need to send much more than 12, try 2-3 a day for a month. Of those, maybe 5% will reply, but it's not bad that bad once you get into the swing of it.

Yeah I've noticed we've done an about-face on degrees in industry. It used to be super legit to drop out. As things get more specialized MS and PhD are seen more favorably now.

Referrals are also not a golden ticket right now. Got a few tossed in the bin, we've got a lot of FAANG engineers on the market right now, companies are scooping them up at bargain…

I was in this boat a few months ago, doing a lot of exercises on leetcode legitimately helps, because you can quickly type an ~80-90% solution immediately from memory, and you have…

RE point 1: in the actual job these days, we're coding through so many layers of distributed madness that you end up doing YAML/JSON engineering and gluing systems together more th…

That was on GPU, and there are various CPU implementations (e.g. based on Tencent/ncnn) on github that have similar runtime (1-3s / iteration).

Yeah for comparison, `tinygrad` takes a little over a second per iteration on my machine. https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad/blob/master/examples/st...

The above project somewhat supports GPUs if you pass the correct GGML compile flags to it. `GGML_CUBLAS` for example is supported when compiling. You get a decent speedup relative …

Rust's binary search used to be branchless but due to some issues down in LLVM land, the codegen doesn't issue a `cmov` where it should. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/53…

Other fast binary searches https://github.com/sslotin/amh-code/tree/main/binsearch