next time, have the LLM alternate between these two steps:
- Do some work - Critique the work
it will converge better
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- Do some work - Critique the work
it will converge better
but i definitely agree about this point
> Cluster fatigue is real
imo, the concept of “extremely ephemeral query workers” is under-explored
stateless, maintenance-free, burstable fleets of query workers is what I would like to see more of in the future.
it’s how we do it, and it gives us full-text search on multi-hundred terabyte data sets in S3, where queries finish in a handful of seconds. our approach: https://docs.scanner.dev/scanner/what-and-why/how-it-works/h...
anyone else doing ephemeral query workers fleets?
Waymo sometimes does weird, unexpected things - but safely. Once it seemed to change its mind about the optimal route a few times over the course of 10 seconds, switching safely between two lanes back and forth a few times before committing. It used its turn signal fine, and the lanes were clear, so it wasn't a problem, but this isn't something humans do.
Sometimes it behaves oddly, but I have developed confidence that it will do those odd things safely.
> But insofar as it is the passing on of second-hand knowledge about being, it is itself a form of imposture that reproduces and impersonates without meaning or sense and therefore enacts imposture in the act of naming itself as well as in the manner that it imitates an act of passing on knowledge of an existing disease or syndrome.
The essay doesn’t actually have a lot to say, but that fact is hidden by convoluted language.
Maybe the author is trying to give the reader impostor syndrome?
The NYT piece on SSC felt like a religious crusade to reveal a blasphemer, taking quotations out of context and making weird, tenuous connections to other known blasphemers.
The straw that broke the camel’s back was reading my ads profile summary in Facebook settings. It claimed I was in “Established Adult Family Life with Children” or something similar. This was revolting. I was disturbed that Facebook seemed to know I was expecting a baby. I realized that Facebook was extracting far more value than it was giving, so I deleted my account.
I think they have like 4-5M users, and a $2B valuation.
mid = min + (max - min) / 2;
Glad that pg_repack exists, which is an extension that can be used to elegantly rebuild your indexes from scratch.
Looking forward to zheap! (Which should obviate the need for index rebuilding)
Does anyone know when the zheap storage system will be released? This system will apparently obviate the need for vacuums all together since old row version information will be kept in an undo log instead of in the heap. This will be a game changer for us.
The acquirer paid us out in cash, which meant we were taxed at the highest marginal federal income tax rate of 37%. California taxed 10%, making the total 47%.
I only kept a little more than half of the upside, but it was still life changing.
I had to pay the taxes immediately. In pg’s example, the wealth tax would require payment over 6 decades, which is easier.
The wealth tax seems fine to me.
[Edit: Asking because I wonder often about the provenance my own spiritual experiences. I’m currently leaning toward “generated by the brain,” but I would love to be wrong about that.]
The OP was working in the finance sector surrounded by people whose values conflicted with his.
He wrote something like this:
If you are in an environment surrounded by people with whom you disagree, pretend that you are a Federation officer in an exchange program serving on a Ferengi vessel. Most of the crew’s values will bother you, but you’re not there to correct Ferengi culture. You’re there to learn whatever there is to learn from them and contribute in a positive way to the running of the ship. Being combative won’t change the Ferengi, but your positive example might update some views.
Also, fascinating that Rust’s borrow checker sort of encourages you over time to adopt an entity component system architecture instead of a naive OO architecture.
This may be one explanation for why religious adherence is diminishing among younger people.
It is difficult to be obedient to every last commandment in Mormonism. I would feel guilty for a multitude of small things, like forgetting to read religious texts one day, forgetting to visit my assigned home teaching family one month, simply thinking of a swear word, drinking soda with caffeine, and many other insignificant foibles. I also felt tormented by the fact that my conscience did not align with what I was told God thought was right, particularly regarding the treatment of LGBT people in Mormonism.
I became an agnostic secular humanist. My mind no longer considers my prior thought patterns healthy, and I practice mindfulness meditation to stop unnecessarily negative self-talk.
Now that I don’t have to be perfect, I can be good.
When you first connect to the Bitcoin network, how do you find out what the true blockchain is? You connect to other nodes and ask them. They may tell you anything. However, it's easy to verify whether a blockchain given in a response is valid. That is, it's easy to tell if a given blockchain is following all of the rules.
But what if you receive a few valid blockchains that are different from one another? Which one is the true blockchain for the world?
You simply choose the longest blockchain that you hear about.
Why the longest? It's the one that has had the most computing power focused on it. Anyone can compute a very small, self-serving, malicious blockchain of a few blocks. But to compute the longest blockchain in the world requires vast computing resources. The longest blockchain is supposed to be uncontrollable by any single party or network of colluders because it is supposed to be too hard to acquire the majority of the computing resources in the world.
Unfortunately, it looks like someone did just this and controlled >51% of all computing resources in the world dedicated to Bitcoin Gold. If you have enough resources, you can generate the longest blockchain in the world, add a self-serving transaction, get some goods or service in return, then recompute a new longest chain in the world where that transaction is no longer there. Everyone by default accepts the longest blockchain because it's supposed to be the most safe, but they are wrong.
It's a lightweight HTML and CSS renderer for native desktop apps. Used heavily in the anti-virus industry. Not open-source, unfortunately.
At one point around 20 or 30 minutes in, he says something like, “We’re going to start easy and slow and then work harder later on.” He exhaustively writes out a large number of different combinations of possible runtimes of an algorithm. It seems quite tedious, but eventually some cool results emerge related to Sterling Numbers :)
At first, I thought it was somewhat annoying that the lecture was methodically going through so many examples. Since then, I’ve realized that methodically going through small sub-problems patiently is often the way you eventually get to a giant leap.
I worry that people may tie their identities to political tribes more and more.
What communities provide a healthy sense of identity and belonging that are not religious or political?
"Hey! Stop being a lazy piece of ...!"
When I tell myself that a task has world-class difficulty, and that accomplishing it would be an amazing feat, the task becomes highly daunting, and I procrastinate more. However, when I tell myself that the task should be done as a matter of course but that I'm being too stupidly lazy to accomplish it, the task becomes less daunting, and I procrastinate less. Expectations of normalcy change.
A similar effect occurs when you join a world class team and suddenly learn that they're doing ten tasks in a day that you once considered remarkable to finish in a week. Expectations of normalcy change, and big tasks seem far less daunting, so you procrastinate less.
I guess what I was referring to is a kind of informal shunning where close friends or family suddenly cut off contact with you when they learn you have left the church. It would be nice if more people followed the loving teachings from leaders. Many continue to maintain loving relationships, but others want nothing more to do with you, even after years of friendship.
I take responsibility for this relationship shifting to some degree. Sometimes I wish I had never told anyone I had left the church so my friends and family would assume I was still part of the tribe. It's not easy to hide it though since various small hints can give it away, like being seen with a coffee or without your temple garment undershirt. It's difficult.