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> notice the real world without the idea of augmenting it. The core problem of solitude is curiosity and sonder. When I smell fennel on a hike, I want to know what it is - yeah, th…

This was basically Vertica's party trick for quite a long time to have a WOS and ROS formats for the same row and anti-caching between those two. You could've built a similar syste…

> a magnet for many more talented ML scientists to leave google. Also to leave Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and everywhere else. There would be more people who wouldn't join Google, but…

> The Netherlands has made the intentional decision to reduce wealth inequality and to achieve a fairer society Netherlands was the poster child of the "Dutch Disease"[1]. They in …

> What jobs are Juniors doing that AI can now do? I used to use the new hires to hold expertise so that I can spend a weekend at the beach without getting paged. That was the true …

The other CloudFlare post on the front page has an interesting passage in it > It is compute-bound, and INT4 weights have to be expanded back out before the model can multiply with…

> It always felt as though we already figured out how to break up large files and parse them efficiently with very little memory. The A in 26B-A4B is the active weights. The proble…

> Catching a lab cheating specifically on my one dumb benchmark would be really funny. Similar thing happened when TPC came up with SQL benchmarks. If you're not good at TPC, your …

> You can beat the efficiency of 5 trits in 8 bits The single trit packing is a commonly optimized DBNULL structure for booleans. Bits/trit approaches the 1.5 asymptote, because th…

> does it matter whether we arrived there by random keystrokes? Douglas Adams said this beautifully in the Campaign for Real Time & the poet Lallalfa. And I just found out h2g2.com…

Taalas HC1 is the closest thing to this. Last I saw they posted Deepseek R1 numbers in Feb of this year. The challenge is rolling out a new one every 7-8 weeks as the weights chang…

> Does anyone think we need a Mythos level model to plan a road trip, or give someone tips on making a cake recipe? This is starting to look at a lot like Intel vs Arm from the las…

I mostly use HTML, but it is much more flexible than what you would assume if you leverage some standard formats instead of building everything from scratch. Mermaid, Graphviz and …

Outside of the (in mice) factor, the study compares optional exercise with mandatory exercise factors. > To eat, the mice had to lift the lid while wearing a small shoulder collar,…

> I don't think I would use it enough to justify the investment This is not a rational purchase - most of the rule breaking done with the zero is for fun or convenience, rather tha…

The rule partial order problem seems to be very similar to how Rule engines are optimized for ACL rule application. > Once per candidate, we precompute a bitmask, an integer whose …

> Is it really a distributed system or just a bunch of services with a central database? I've asked myself this question every single time I've had to use Zookeeper. Apache Kafka b…

> Kubernetes deployed on a server with hundreds of CPU cores Was that a Power9 or some sort of IBM machine? Not all NUMA is the same, ccNUMA from the Intel is a different beast fro…

The name makes me think it is a molten salt reactor, but it uses liquid sodium. Still aptly named. I was hoping the Thorium molten salt ones with atmospheric pressure vessels would…

> What does compression do to query performance? That section is the most relevant whenever compression in a DB is discussed. The purpose of a database is to find, aggregate or upd…

> So in terms of allocating space, it's more like a delete plus an insert. Unless you're using zHeap, you have a narrow Heap-only-Tuples scenario where the indexes stay the same. T…

The non-professional side of Organic Chemistry is one place where I think AI would really shine. Feels complex like solving a Rubik's cube to write down synthesis steps but it is a…

> me Waymo, Uber, and Lyft are methods of last resort. Most of my Waymo rides were from or to a BART station - the real utility of these services is to pull a last mile when I don'…

The weird thing is that this is probably a performance optimization for quick responses when a user asks a question. My agent harness spins up a VM too, but it spins up on demand, …

> It worked for nine and a half hours. > Again, it wasn’t perfect. As an expert, I was able to spot some errors and omissions (some as a result of the design I had asked for) that …