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The technology is amazing. The marketing around it is a decade ahead of its capability, and the pushiness to make LLMs do what they still can't is just irritating. The question to …

The article severely underestimates deployment times for large, world wide services. Usually the strategy is to have a smaller "blast radius" for deployments and going in stages th…

I suspect the entire industry uses "auto-raters", where an agent instance is used to scores the agent's output. The idea is similar in intent as using adversarial networks to train…

The existence of a kill switch plus tracking in legislation very likely means the manufacturers wanted to track and sell user data and needed a scapegoat to avoid customer backlash…

I have not read the books, so I guess I'm the target audience. It was very hard to watch. The actors were fine, actually better than fine, but the writing was painful. There are lo…

Calling failing to show up or nominate a legal representative to a judicial hearing in a country that offers a ridiculous number of opportunities to appeal as "feud" shows some bia…

You. don't. say. Really?!? OMG, what an insight! What are they going to say next? That startups also use the good will of the internet to create their IP to then take it private as…

Allegedly Costco has a policy of making their white collar folks work on the floor of their stores and rotate positions before getting to the office, same with McDonalds. I would l…

Yes! I still can work on my open floor plan. Let's open the windows and connect to the awesome traffic jam outside.

I wrote last year's benchmark. The clusters are completely different, and so is the workload. Last year's cluster had 300 VMs, which was a much higher price point, and the workload…

Hi, The cost we published includes the time to setup the whole cluster, warm up the data nodes, and run for 5 minutes at 1M per second. Our run rate is $281 per hour, which is the …

Hi - I figured you know what you're doing based on the details you picked on. I suspect you'd have way more fun reading the raw logs, but that would make for a post that is incredi…

Network average utilization was low by design. Keeping it steady was more important than low, though, and harder too. Latency spikes come from Cassandra flushing data to disk (larg…

Here is the GIST link: https://gist.github.com/ivansmf/6ec2197b69d1b7b26153

This is hilarious - it would have saved me days of work. Here is the GIST with my step by step. https://gist.github.com/ivansmf/6ec2197b69d1b7b26153

I wrote the test - Yep. Tail latency is one of the key things here. And I took 100% of all samples, as opposed to the middle 80% the tool usually reports.

I ran those tests. One of the challenges in benchmarking is to pick the workload, so I chose one our customers do more often. For IO testing I prefer to run FIO tests, and for netw…