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"One weird trick" is still pretty much the first way to go for most recommendation systems that are large embeddings focused. see torchrec, nvidia's hugectr

really you should treat your entire cloud deployment (sans state where impossible) as cattle

did nobody read the article lol > The organisers say the sequence is often picked. But some have alleged a scam and an investigation is under way. > It is extremely rare for multip…

yep demand side subsidies do not have good outcomes supply side are a bit better wrt cost disease see how milk has remained the same price for decades

spiritual successor AGNB needs some time to grow into longer format they're literally 3 dudes in an RV without a working toilet if they had BBC money they would live up to Theroux …

you only need two operators, the kubeoperator, the dataflow operator and then every task is just a standalone, vertically scalable service on k8s or a giant horizontally scalable c…

the thing is humans have most efficiently encoded (in detail) reality in text. humans already highlight what is worth encoding about reality. for example, you can finetune gpt-2 to…

AGNB is the spiritual successor to Louis Theroux it's what Vice tried to capture but failed. parachute journalism works, only if you inject very little of yourself into it and have…

anybody know if 5g is worth waiting for?

lol it is so rare for a company that goes belly up to hurt someone's career

it's a specialized swab shortage

It really looks more and more like JAX is the internal winner after the tf 2.0 fiasco

not op...

google deployment manager. it has incredibly subpar support for other GCP services. all support interactions resort to them suggesting migration to Terraform. we do use it in produ…

this is in a class of problems i've been thinking about recently - usury - patents - copyrights - land - software as a service the first 3 all have some slowly changing socially ac…

not only does the industry not have a labor union, there's a culture of passion which is almost like having a negative union. any time passion is involved, you are being paid less …

Responding in general to the meme of "but what is your time worth?" people often underestimate their ability to change their own utility functions. If you're watching 4 hours of TV…

frustratingly slow for word docs. antiword is better for those of you who wish to convert word docs en masse

a bit ignorant in this area, but how is this functionally different than Google Cloud IAP?

we use this in production (flags for kube execs of python scripts) it is bounds better than argparse and click. would highly recommend. important to note here, that a lot of this i…

The T-Mobile G1 you posted is probably the best phone of its time. I have not met a user of that phone who does not want to go back to the smooth keyboard feel.

This seems like such an odd response to me. The Martian is as far as you can get from hard sci-fi? It seems like Andy writes exactly for movies. Heavy on scene and technicality det…

Why is this a priori bad? Take a look at how the short tenures of California congress has turned California way more populist than most people are comfortable with. There are many …

It's increasingly looking like the biggest shift in our lifetimes is not sudden mass automation of the labor industry but the shift from a service industry to a content creation in…