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next time, have the LLM alternate between these two steps: - Do some work - Critique the work it will converge better

would like to see work like this, but for datasets in the hundreds of TB or single-digit PB but i definitely agree about this point > Cluster fatigue is real imo, the concept of “e…

I live in SF, and I take it daily. It's cheaper than paying for the parking garage near the office. And it's cheaper than Uber: the base rate is similar to Uber's, but there is no …

I’m interested in playing with vector databases to detect interesting anomalies in a large volume of logs, like 1TB / day. Is it reasonable to attempt to generate embeddings for ev…

Is it just me, or is the language in the essay strangely hard to parse? > But insofar as it is the passing on of second-hand knowledge about being, it is itself a form of imposture…

I think this is why people believe 10x developers exist. They are just developers who actually work a full work day consistently.

The NYT vs. SSC episode reminds me of a conflict in Mormonism, the religion I was raised in. A Mormon named John Dehlin criticized the church, and Mormon apologists published a hit…

Count me as another data point. I deleted my Facebook and Twitter accounts, and it has not affected my social or professional life in any noticeable way. I was worried I would lose…

Figma is written in C++, compiled to WebAssembly. Probably the most advanced web-based design tool in the world. I think they have like 4-5M users, and a $2B valuation. https://mad…

This is my go-to implementation, but I make one little tweak. It’s very unlikely that you will overflow a long, but you can you guarantee that you’ll avoid overflow like this: mid …

We went through a brutal battle with Postgres bloat recently. Indexes were composed of 80% bloat, 20% useful data after years of heavy write activity. Vacuuming indexes was getting…

This is fantastic! Love the parallel vacuum feature, which should help my team’s sanity with a write-heavy workload. Does anyone know when the zheap storage system will be released…

The 50% tax that pg dislikes for startup founders is basically what I experienced during our startup’s liquidity event. I imagine that a fairly large number liquidity events are th…

Agreed. Seems like a bit too much self-aggrandizement. This sort of lofty rhetoric is fine if you have developed a COVID vaccine, but perhaps not if you’ve made a useful tool for s…

Happy middle: subscribe to one or two high quality sources of news (eg. NYT, WSJ). Less clickbait overload than something like Google News or Facebook, and you get acquainted with …

I’m very curious about spiritual confirmations of truth. What was your spiritual witness of the Book of Mormon like? How do you know that the spiritual experience came from an exte…

If you’re interested in crypto currencies, I know that Coinzoom, based in Holladay, is looking for mobile developers.

Might seem stupid, but I found the following thought experiment interesting. Discovered it on Reddit. The OP was working in the finance sector surrounded by people whose values con…

I’m so grateful to have worked with older colleagues who did not care about using the framework du jour. Influenced by their experience, we made some unorthodox tech choices as a w…

The generational index idea was exactly what I needed for a search index project I’ve been working on. Makes it much easier to safely insert and delete from a memory arena. Also, f…

According to Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now, younger people have emancipative views at a higher rate than older generations. They tend to support their LGBT friends and family, …

I suspect it’s better with most Christian religions, but when I left Mormonism, I felt a huge burden lifted. It is difficult to be obedient to every last commandment in Mormonism. …

Someone please correct me, but here's my best explanation. When you first connect to the Bitcoin network, how do you find out what the true blockchain is? You connect to other node…

A similar problem was in Google Code Jam 2009 :) https://code.google.com/codejam/contest/188266/dashboard