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There's a story sharing the front page right now about scaling laws, so it's not an unreasonable assumption. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689744

Wait, my job is not cushy. I think hard all day long, I endure levels of frustration that would cripple most, and I do it because I have no choice, I must build the thing I see or …

I really enjoyed the article and want to both praise and encourage the author. You get it. It’s about value. Keep you eye on that north star and you won’t go wrong. Whose value? Ho…

It’s not “freedom of speech I agree with”, no one needs protection to speak agreeably.

My Massachusetts home has both radiant floor heating (water pipes in floor) and baseboard water pipe heating (separate part of the house). My son’s New York home has radiators driv…

Nope, all human all the time.

“They say sixty-five percent of all statistics Are made up right there on the spot” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUK6zjtUj00

And there’s only one photon, vibrating like mad, singularly unable to contemplate its own magnificence.

It was an odd sight at that hour of the day. I wanted pictures as something to talk about with friends. I really wish I had been astute enough to take video.

I read several comments referring to: idiots, morons, delusional, and hysteria.

At the risk of being labeled a kook or an idiot, I photographed drones flying over my suburb of Boston neighborhood a few weeks ago. This was about 6am, definitely drones not regul…

For the experts in the house: would it be possible for this to wrap around, so the highest and lowest level join? A torus of GoLs? Can such a thing, assuming it exists, have a fini…

Does anyone know what the copyright status of LLM generated content is? That is, if I feed a NYT article into GPT4 and say, summarize this article, and then publish that summary, i…

I wrote up this analysis of cache one-hits after reading the FIFO is all you need paper. https://www.polyscale.ai/blog/one-hit-expectation

Disclosure, I work at PolyScale. Prepared statements work fine. Views can be tricky. The statistical invalidation will in general disable caching on views since their results will …

Whenever this topic comes up I like to provide a citation to some work I've done: https://towardsdatascience.com/gradient-kernel-regression-e4... Not out of vanity (ok, a little) b…

If you, like me, often find yourself covered in pine sap. The product: Shout, for removing laundry stains will make quick work of removing sap from skin. Maybe the answer to your c…

One of my favorite things to do in museums is to use Google Translate on artifacts. I find it so exciting to point my phone at a 500 year old vase and read what it says. Here are a…

I can't speak to the others, but pgvector indices can "break" hybrid queries. For example, if you select using a where clause specifying metadata (where genre = jazz) and order by …

Blog post about using PolyScale with pgvector.