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Yes, federated queries (external tables) are supported but that is a lot slower than ingesting the data into Snowflake's storage and querying it. Since Snowflake's pricing model is…

I suspect ignoring them is more effective than essentially complaining back.

Trial and error. I recommend looking up non-weighted exercise, stretches, and activities that target the body parts you are interested in, and start trying them.

I'm not surprised. LLMs are not good at those problems. There is a lot of hype, it not good at every problem, but it is quite good at some of them. If you have a classical NLP task…

Similar experience for me. I found that many of my aches and pains as I get older are resolved by exercise and stretching. For example, I hurt my lower back in my 20s. Not extremel…

CockroachDB and Yugabyte are Postgres compatible. GCP Spanner also has a Postgres compatibility layer. CockroachDB and Spanner support foreign keys across shards which is an intere…

Google engineers invented most of the primary innovations in NLP in the last decade, such as transformers and word2vec which started it all, that led to the current stack that Open…

Without hard evidence, that's a great example of a conspiracy theory.

Drug trials are already double-blind and highly regulated, particularly stage 3, so further controlling for the corruption you are suggesting doesn't seem necessary. If there is ev…

It is extremely common among research universities where they try to own all your ideas. I remember a professor had a side business cleaning pools which had nothing to do with his …

I agree LLMs alone aren't good at search but their embeddings replace the need for stemming, manual synonym lists, etc in most cases. LLMs can also be used for query understanding …

> 99% of apps are basic CRUD apps Citation needed.

There are definitely use cases where you want a render loop in web, pioneered by React, instead of traditional approaches for a web application. I think the pendulum swung too far …

That is machine learning or more colloquially: AI. A pretty cool result regardless.

I found that stemming the text before generating vectors helps increase recall and the vectors still capture context, etc. However it does hurt precision because some information i…

Awesome!

Imagine if every big box store parking lot was covered with a solar panel roof? Customers walk to the store in shade and out of rain, cars aren't extremely hot in summer when custo…

No it's designed to generate text: summarize some text, grocery list for a steak dinner, name ideas, short stories, etc. I think a lot of people want LLMs to be encyclopedias, but …

Yeah pretty much. The data is pretty clear that life for most of the global population is getting objectively better overall such as declining poverty rates. Climate change is cert…

Classic NLP tasks (eg classification, summarization, translation, etc) just work with GPT-4 mostly. It is probably still possible to beat GPT-4 with a fine-tuned model, but it isn'…

Because they are simply not that interested in trying the new thing. I will drink craft beer, but if someone invented the most amazing craft beer ever, I wouldn't go out of my way …

Storage costs are an excellent reason as someone else said. Another reason is security, less data sitting around to be leaked, either accidentally or purposely, the better. Another…

Crypto isn't some completely new thing that needs a new set of regulatory rules. The tech behind it is new, but it's really just another currency for the most part. Are there some …

In an ideal world, regulatory agencies would also spend significant resources on education. Unfortunately many of them don't have enough resources for rule making and enforcement, …