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How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

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Re: How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

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>pedantry I wasted 2 minutes of my life looking for the exponential reduction. So did many others. Now I'm wasting more of my life shit posting about it, but at least that's a conscious choice.

No, you spent 2 minutes improving your reading comprehension.

You're insulting people on the internet AND you're wrong, which puts you one Hitler comparison away from the trifecta.

Re: How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

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The GEMM is O(n^3) actually. Transformers are quadratic in the size of their context window.

I read that as a typo given the next sentence. I’m on the fence about cubic time. I was mostly thinking of exponential and factorial problems. I think some very clever people can make cubic work despite my warnings. But most of us shouldn’t. General advice is to be ignored by masters when appropriate. That’s also the story arc of about half of kung fu movies. Did chess solvers really progress much before there was a…

I mean, the general advice is that if you actually understand what you're doing, then you don't need general advice.
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