Very excited to see this. I used to work at Yahoo. This is a serious team with serious tech.
Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company
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Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company
#82>Yahoo will own a stake in the new company and will be one of Vespa’s biggest customers for a long time to come.
what's usually going on in scenarios like this is either: the subsidiary is in growth mode and needs access to public capital markets to raise large amounts for building infrastructure (and sharing the expenses with others) to compete, or what has been built is going into profitability mode and the profits are better protected/hoarded in a private company where disclosure requirements are not onerous. If this move represents the former, expect the latter in a few years, is why yahoo would maintain a large stake.
(I'm just pointing this out because there are frequently underlying reasons that have nothing to do with the type of stuff that's in the press release, "successful venture, income/exit event" etc.)
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#83Anyone able to share the definitive history of the polar bears that visited the office? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Polar_Be...
It had all started a bit earlier with a colleague (I assume that's you up there, jkb79 :) pulling the leg of a guy visiting us from the Bangalore office, about the polar bears roaming the streets of Trondheim. We just thought we'd prank him a bit about having more dangerous animals than they did in India. Nothing too serious. So a few months later I woke up early one morning and saw it had been snowing all night. I m…
> the Dangerous Wildlife War between India and the home of the proper vikings.
Was there an other side to this war? The most dangerous animal you're likely to come across (realistically, without getting photoshop involved) in an average Indian street would be a monkey. I've also come across many varieties of snakes, from time to time, but they're generally chill and just want to be left alone. The monkeys are ruthless bastards though, not to be trifled with.
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#85I forgot Yahoo exists.
The biggest thing I recall about Yahoo is Jerry Yang vetoing sales to Microsoft for $35B on principle because he didn't like Microsoft.
Is that what actually happened or is that a false memory?
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They actually rebranded from "Yahoo! Japan" to "Line Yahoo" https://www.lycorp.co.jp/ja/
It's not just a rebranding, they've merged with Line.
It's a bit more nuanced than that. The merger was awhile ago, ZHoldings was the parent company of Yahoo! JP and Line.
ZHoldings is now Line Yahoo.
The footer of yahoo.co.jp has changed from Yahoo! Japan / ZHoldings to Line Yahoo.
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Thank you for the shout-out Frank!
Off topic... looking forward to more engineers moving to Mastodon. I have Twitter/X blocked at DNS level and still fairly frequently encounter interesting accounts that I can't check out.
Is there a particular mastodon server or set of servers that the engineering community is favoring? I know it technically doesn’t matter in a federated network, but curious anyway.
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any resource for one to learn on vector search? any textbook or whitepaper recommendations? I am learning lsh right now and find it fascinating
We have a "Vector Database 101" series that covers vector search and vector indexes as well: https://zilliz.com/learn/what-is-vector-database I've been meaning to dive into SCaNN and DiskANN as well, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
> I've been meaning to dive into SCaNN and DiskANN as well, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
quick TLDR on both vs HNSW?
Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company
#90I forgot Yahoo exists. The biggest thing I recall about Yahoo is Jerry Yang vetoing sales to Microsoft for $35B on principle because he didn't like Microsoft. Is that what actually happened or is that a false memory?
Yahoo was massive at one point and $35B didn't seem like a lot compared to its peak valuation as well as its competitors. I can see why Jerry Yang didn't want to settle when he had seen his company at a much higher valuation in the past.
I really don't know how Yahoo managed to fumble things so badly but they were always one of the better companies as far as technology goes - this announcement today is a testament to that. Just that their business and product side was lacking