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I think the important thing is that the first approach to converting complete sentences to an embedding was done by averaging all the embeddings of the tokens in the sentence. What…

Here’s my understanding. It is intimidating to write a response to you, because you have an exceptionally clear writing style. I hope the more knowledgable HN crowd will correct an…

I have a theory that organizations that grow fast and scale well all have this “cellular model” at their core. Investment bank trading desks in the pre-2008 era, partnership at the…

This is a great blog to give you things to get started. https://easyperf.net/ As with all things, practice is an essential part of improving! Then, there's learning from some real …

I came here to say exactly the same thing. There are also a couple of other options: the MIR project from RedHat [1], libjit [2], lightning [3] and Dynasm [4] 1. https://github.com…

I suspect that for most Bloom filters, the most commonly used hash functions are “good enough”. There’s also some literature to suggest that using just 2 hash functions and recombi…

I think JetBrains have something where you can do something like what you’re looking for. https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/

I think this is the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.6079

How does preflight deal with selectors used to identify elements changing? This is the critical piece to solve before systems like this are useful. As identified in the paper discu…

From an employer’s perspective, I’d be super interested in hearing about the experience of applying for this visa too! Does the UK government make it easy to apply? What are the in…

The paper has a great figure where they illustrate areas of the overhead vs false positive trade-off space where each filter type performs best. Cuckoo filters make an appearance t…

A hyperLogLog is for counting distinct elements. This and Bloom filters are more about checking whether an element has been seen before; a very different use case.

There is a similar great project here [1] with the Hungarian Wikipedia corpus. Great workout for non English and maybe non-ascii operations. The performance of Java there is super …

Clickhouse is not something you use for a CRUD backend. The obsession with Clickhouse is the phenomenal performance for the OLAP use case, a scenario where there were not many open…

I am going to massively over simplify, but here goes. The really big idea from control theory is the idea of negative feedback. This basically boils down to measuring the output of…

The observation about consumer inflation is very true, the massive inflation is actually in asset values (house prices, share prices, etc) I also wonder how I reconcile the rest co…