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Would like to see the latency and cost of parsing entire 10M context before throwing out the RAG stack which is relatively cheap and fast.

Thanks for the very helpful and detailed reply!

Thanks for details! Few follow up questions: - I've seen neural nets using int8 for matrix multiplication to reduce memory size [1]. Do you think something similar could be useful …

Definitely not unusual. I think it is pretty common for executive team in addition to founders. My feeling is that VCs and founders need to find a way to partially cash out rank an…

I agree, but as aleksiy123 suggests there is an additional complexity burden and it is a long journey to teach users to make use of a new technology. I think a lot of "advanced" fe…

Do you think part of this is that Netflix has assumed zero effort from user model? My experience has been that Netflix does an ok job of recommendations, but fails at overall disco…

I'd argue that git is a distributed blockchain that has been pretty impactful, it just doesn't use proof of work for validation. If it needs to be a company Ripple uses blockchain …

Author is making an argument against any blockchain or distributed ledger. To quote from article. "Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a cent…

I'm a little surprised that the author is missing the critical innovation of crypto which is digital trust and observability. Sure it is easy to make an argument that one cryptocur…

Thanks for this comment, sums up exactly my experience with python. Do you have a pointer to a larger write up of these issues? I really enjoy python, but agree with you that it is…

Great point. I'm not one to over optimize, but seems like parsing messages for internet sized apps is worth spending a little effort to save energy and environment.

Don't get distracted by the click bait title. Effect size should be captured by statistical significance (larger effects are less likely to happen by chance). Author is really comp…

I see a lot of suspicion in thread below, which I very much understand. I'd like to take a minute though to express my frustration with the banks that refuse to supply any sort of …

+1 to the reality that most productivity tips come off as hopelessly naive to the reality of life with kids, sick parents/spouses, customer demands, etc. Few things that have helpe…

Erik Bernhardsson who was one of original author on Annoy has a pretty developed test suite https://github.com/erikbern/ann-benchmarks .

Thanks for data point. How is it interacting with the self-driving cars? I'm concerned that a lot of thought has gone into experience for the passenger of self driving car, but muc…

Agree that relative to the cost in lives and global GDP leaders have drastically under invested in production and distribution of vaccines. Arguments about what ethical and incenti…

Your next push is only as good as your last recovery. I'm surprised how often people focus on the work and neglect the recovery phase like nutrition, sleep, etc.

Go and talk with the people who wrote it. Often times there are a just a handful of people that wrote a lot of the core functionality, they often aren't the most social. Talk to th…

Please write a collaborative doc instead of an email if you have that much detail. Having an effective discussion over email is actively painful and worse yet no one can refer back…

Agree. Always seems odd that organizations say they want people to be productive and then pepper them with email, messages, and meetings. Some of the better teams I've been on deve…

Some matrix math libraries like Eigen[1] support vectorization via SSE, AVX, NEON, etc. and also use cache friendly algorithms for larger matrices. Highly recommended when you don'…

I like the concept. Yet it feels like an echo chamber when the YC saas review company only reviews other YC based web analytics products after leading off with talk from YC parter …

As convenient as it would be to have a single scapegoat to hang the problems on like the dreaded "tech industry" my experience is that housing shortages in Santa Cruz is a complex …

Thanks. Comments like this that go into the technical details, the history of the details and the people behind the technology are one of the main reasons I frequent hacker news.