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That repo looks cool, if I really wanted to learn Kubernetes. My usage right now is for running inference on CPU RAMs because I refuse to upgrade my 980-ti, so I'm not sure it would work for me
If Oracle starts charging the dozens (tens of thousands?) of us that signed up for Pay-as-you-go just to be able to provision a VM, I'm deleting my account.
But in all seriousness, Oracle is a terrible company that has scammed governments and corporations. Not really surprised. Bryan Cantrill said it best [0]. Oracle is "morally bankrupt," Larry Ellison prioritizes profits over ethics and innovation. I'm not surprised if the stock price was forced to fall by Ellison because of his July sells [1]
1. He dumped $322 million (2.25 million shares) in mid July in TWO days signalling lack of confidence
2. These shares were spread out with different sizes, to probably minimize the market impact
3. The sells still pushed the stock prices down
4. Then the "cost-cutting" and OCI layoffs happen
Obviously correlation isn't causation, but Oracle clearly doesn't care about their cloud, just MONEY, HA!
Larry Ellison's Stock Sales - July 15-16, 2024
Date Quantity Price % Change Running Total
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Jul 16 87,127 $143.17 -0.01% 1,145,732,353
Jul 16 1,037,873 $142.53 -0.09% 1,145,819,480
Jul 15 579,765 $142.64 -0.05% 1,146,277,588
Jul 15 81,871 $143.45 -0.01% 1,146,195,717
Jul 15 237,491 $144.61 -0.02% 1,145,958,226
Jul 15 191,252 $145.34 -0.02% 1,145,766,974
Jul 15 34,621 $146.30 -0.00% 1,145,732,353
Sure we have developers in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, etc plopping down houses >$300-500k, but can the average person afford them? Yes I agree building codes in places like California make houses expensive, but the current market in the United States does not incentivize building affordable housing.
1. Herd immunity and clean air from that Wikipedia link fall under public goods. Both of those are a subset of healthcare.
2. Basic human needs: many people would argue healthcare, housing, and connectivity should be universally accessible as a moral imperative
3. Broader social benefits. If people have these 3 things, they can be more productive.
4. "bread and circuses" is drawing a false equivalence between basic needs and entertainment/luxury goods. That's just bad argumentation.
- They openly acknowledge they "can't say that poor sleep causes dementia" aka they established a correlation but no direction of causality
- There's self-reporting bias where participants were "asked about" their sleep patterns
- There's selection and survival bias: the participants were around 40 y/o, the ones that remained for 10 years might be different than those who dropped
- The sample was for a cardiovascular disease study
- They didn't control for unmeasured confounders other than "age, sex, education, health and lifestyle factors"
- The 1.6-2.6 years of brain aging were measured using ML algorithms and this is a small enough effect to be within a margin of error...
Why did nobody talk about the floods in Nepal or mass suicides in Sudan? Clearly we should all be talking about jobs and the US economy!
[0] https://news.google.com/search?q=job%20numbers&hl=en-US&gl=U...
Obviously past results do not guarantee future, but what the masses follow is generally a recipe to disaster. I think that's why we're seeing the return/visibility of stacked ranking. Management theorists see one successful company trive or a former successful company fall, and then everyone follows suite because they're "data driven," not driven by first principles
Datomic's approach is more like a temporal log of facts, it's not trying to maintain universal join consistency across all possible paths. The EAV model lets you treat everything as "facts over time" (Datomic's strength yes) instead trying to make every possible join path consistent
What Graham proved specifically was about relational databases: if you try to maintain consistent joins across all possible paths (aka "join consistency"), it becomes an NP-complete problem. The "Universal Relation Problem" requires ALL possible join paths to give consistent results.
Prolog doesn't have verify consistency across an exponential number of join path, so I fail to see how it is a "universal relation" system.
# Join paths multiply exponentially when Sales department exists in multiple buildings
%employee = ('1' => { name => 'Alice', dept => 'Sales', building => 'West', project => 'Alpha' });
# Each B-tree indexes one specific relationship: employee_id → dept_id → building_id
%employee = ('1' => { name => 'Alice', dept_id => '1' });
%department = ('1' => { name => 'Sales', building_id => '1' });
%building = ('1' => { name => 'West' });
sub get_employee_location { my ($emp_id) = @_; return $building{$department{$employee{$emp_id}{dept_id}}{building_id}}{name}; }
The normalized approach means each B-tree has a clear purpose and lookups follow a defined path. The "Universal relation" seems intuitive, but it's definitely computationally expensive.
"The idea that saturated fats cause heart disease, called the diet-heart hypothesis, was introduced in the 1950s, based on weak, associational evidence"[0]
@Felcon If language is a mechanism for expressing ideas and reasoning, it should reflect our cognitive processes that generate those ideas, so " [...] Just because you use a mechanism for expressing your ideas and reasoning, doesn't mean that underlying reality has to confirm in any way to it" is a bit contradictory. Are our cognitive processes not included in reality?
The existance of a universal grammar is a specific hypothesis that requires empirical evidence. It's tiring to hear Chomsky's ideas parroted despite no empirical framework to stand on. What ideas could we be lacking? This argument is similar to String Theory proponents who kept pulling ideas out of the ether to support an unsubstantiated theory.