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Respectfully, it's not up to other people to disprove your toy theory. The question you're asking here can very easily be answered with a quick Google search. The short answer is t…

A hallmark of well-designed and well-written software is that it is easy to replace, where bug-ridden spaghetti-bowl monoliths stick around forever because nobody wants to touch th…

I just wanted to give a huge shout-out to the excellent zune-jpeg library: https://github.com/etemesi254/zune-image/tree/dev/crates/zun... Most Python libraries like PIL rely on so…

As always, it depends a lot on what you're doing, and a lot of people are using Python for AI. One of the drawbacks of multi-processing versus multi-threading is that you cannot sh…

"This is actually good for Bitcoin"

That has been my experience, yes. You need one full-time manager, one full-time on-call/pager duty (usually a rotation), and then 4-6 people doing feature development, bug fixes, a…

The cost doesn't suddenly drop to zero once development is done. Typically a system of this complexity and scale requires constant maintenance. You'll need someone to be on-call (p…

> you could get yourself 25 top-notch engineers without AI PhD Not in the US though. According to levels.fyi, an SDE2 makes ~275k/year at Uber. Hire 25 of those and you're already …

> I'm guessing they know a lot about their costs, and you know very little. I'm curious what makes you believe the OP doesn't know about cost? They might be director-level at a lar…

I'd be curious as well to see a more complete cost-benefit analysis, and I'd be especially interested in labor cost. We don't know how much time and head count Uber committed to th…

> In 2012 we had Internet deployment of fully decentralised machine learning (SGD) Peer-to-peer training of the next big LLM when? :)

Kayak lets you do it, although there's no guarantee the airline won't swap out the plane from under you after you've completed booking.

You may not have ever experienced this yourself, but it's a known cultural phenonemon. Here's a New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/technology/personaltech/a…

As a European living in the US, it's been baffling to me. Everywhere else in the world people use WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc. This iMessage green/blue bubble nonsense just isn…

AWS has its own line of AI accelerators called Inferentia that offers reduced cost versus Nvidia, but it's often a pain to make stuff work because everything is written for CUDA. I…

> Decoding DCT to RGB is essentially an 8x8 stride 8 convolution -- it seems wasteful to perform this operation on CPU for data loading Then why not do it on the GPU? Feels like ex…

> OceanGate had previously taken the Titan to this depth to visit the Titanic. So, it was "proven" This reminds me of an old joke about an optimist who falls from a 40 story buildi…

Damn those are some good names

Maybe also take a look at the Mister project if you haven't already. Same idea of using FPGA to reproduce old hardware but broad support for many home computers, game consoles, and…

If you're in NYC and want to grab lunch let me know

+1 I work at a bigcorp and have had great mentors, and now that I'm an old fart, I try my best to mentor others. It's a huge plus to have access to a large community of talented en…

> the JVM needs to be well tuned You don't need to tune it to beat the pants out of a PHP-based solution. Honest question, have you ever owned a large-scale, low-latency service in…

India and China go in a different bucket, and it often takes 6+ years for the exact same process. Sucks hard :|

I'm assuming that based on your username, you are an EU citizen? If so, apply for a job with any large US based company in one of their European offices. For example, Google in Zur…

I'm Dutch and moved to the US in early 2016 to work for a bigtech company. Compensation here is about 3x what I would make back home. After working here for just six years I could …