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The model weights (the thing being updated by the training process) stay loaded in gpu memory during training (the slow part). This could be useful to serialize the model weights t…

it was an IoT product (internet-connected LED sign)

how are compilers not performance-critical applications?

I did a proof of concept in luigi pretty early on and really liked it. Our main concerns were that we would have needed to bolt on a lot of extra functionality to make it easy to r…

It's a good question. I believe airflow was probably the right choice at the time we started. We were a small team, and deploying airflow was a major shortcut that more or less han…

We've also been running airflow for the past 2-3 years at a similar scale (~5000 dags, 100k+ task executions daily) for our data platform. We weren't aware of a great alternative w…

parquet is great but it's not particularly easy to read or write. the libraries that do exist to work with it are few and far between, and those that do either have a hundred depen…

core to tesla's strategy is to do massive data collection from consumer-owned cars using beta software (and hardware, that the consumer pays for). that model is not compatible with…

> Here's a fair warning: this article is reductio ad absurdum, literally the first sentence...

SEVerity level of the incident

this is less true these days w/ slim docker images that don't include any editors by default

# on_update="nothing": does nothing when an update is tried frozen_shared_state = freeze(shared_state, on_update="nothing") frozen_shared_state.count = 4 # Does nothing, as this up…

I wrote our internal lightweight version of neuropod at another SDC startup where we did use TensorRT. Our ML researchers worked in pytorch and more often than not, the pytorch -> …

I track account balances once a month into a spreadsheet to keep a high-level overview. It's a manual process that takes ~15 minutes and has a large payoff to have a birds-eye view…

Had to wait forever to get a time slot. They do 10-15 minute demos in a temporary room they put up on the expo floor.

I tried their demo at CVPR a few months ago. It was super immersive and crisp. You interact with an AI "guide" who shows you how to look around, pick things up, stick them on the w…

Transaction cost and speed are enormous problems for bitcoin, not sure why that would only be mildly appealing to solve. Not vouching for Libra, but my understanding of bitcoin was…

I'm not sure what kind of deployment you are envisioning where this makes sense. If you are running a java application, you likely want a bare bones OS + jvm of appropriate version…

This is why we use a redundant geometric approach (with LiDAR) as a fallback to NNs in our perception stack. NNs can have false negatives which is unacceptable, but dealing with fa…

Tesla has take a firm stance against using LiDAR and is doubling down on CV. I'm not sure if they have radars for parking assistance, but they are using cameras as primary sensor f…

Rewriting existing software in a new language is one of the best ways to learn a language. > especially since people who don't need to learn are doing it Don't need to learn?? Ther…

GPU programming - rewrote some LiDAR processing using cuda to speed up our object detection pipeline. Also learned the python C api so we could integrate some ML models written in …

They noted that the first successful test was at 50% and effectively a power glide. Further in the video you can see they do achieve a sustained flight that reaches the end of the …

If you put data that's considered personal into a public blockchain, or any decentralized system, who becomes the owner of that data? Was it the company/service that originally pub…