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hdhshdhshdjd··on Meta AI develops compact language model for mobile devices
No way that happens. Apple makes too much money from Google paying them and I’m sure if the DoJ case fails they’ll find a new way to milk Sundar.
hdhshdhshdjd··on Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience
Yes, you don’t need a concert hall, a grand piano, or a team of recording engineers to push a key. You are correct.
hdhshdhshdjd··on Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience
I keep my 3rd party libraries to a bare minimum as I actually know how to code.

The time it takes to write a utility function is less than the long term pain of dependency hell and all this tooling.

I suggest you go read through your CS 101 textbook.

hdhshdhshdjd··on Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience
$ nano thing.py

$ python3 thing.py

Don’t see the hassle there.

hdhshdhshdjd··on RE2 maintainer Paul Wankadia died
The number of things Google execs think are hidden that engineers can find with a couple db queries is…quite a lot.
hdhshdhshdjd··on Meta AI develops compact language model for mobile devices
It’s going to be really interesting to see Meta and Apple battle out who can make an on-device model work better in their respective headsets and wearables.
hdhshdhshdjd··on Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming from 737 MAX crashes
DoD will continue to do business with Boeing because there aren’t enough options because we consolidated everything into a handful of mega corps and gutted competition in defense like we have across the entire economy.

This “punishment” is a joke, these people are mass killers they should be in jail.

hdhshdhshdjd··on AI Is Ruining the Internet
Interesting section about Spotify, would love to see a journalist investigate it.
hdhshdhshdjd··on Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after release
Exactly, time is money. Amazon wasted customer time, therefore money.

Very bad look.

hdhshdhshdjd··on Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency benefits
I do something similar, building a lightweight search index over very large relational datasets.

So the tables are much simpler to manage, much more portable, so I can serve search off scalable hardware without disturbing the underlying source of truth.

The downside is queries are more complex and slower.

hdhshdhshdjd··on Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency benefits
I use JSONB columns a lot, it has its place. It can fit certain applications, but it does introduce a lot of extra query complexity and you lose out on some ways to speed up query performance that you could get from a relational approach.

Which is to say JSONB is useful, but I wouldn’t throw the relational baby out with the bath water.

hdhshdhshdjd··on The magic of small engineering teams
I mean this in the broad sense: like asking somebody in the sales department to lead a mission-critical database migration. That is in no way their job.
hdhshdhshdjd··on The magic of small engineering teams
I think the inflection point between “startup” and “bureaucracy” (which is not a bad word, just a term for organizing people) is role specialization.

Early stage everybody wears 10 hats, work is distributed and prioritized on a day to day basis.

Once you have dedicated people or teams for task domains then the whole thing shifts to having a need for bureaucracy.

You can slice the number of pizzas anyway you want, but imho once people have a “this is/isn’t my job” mentality (which again, is not a bad thing), you really need to focus on role boundaries and coordination. But the “startup” part is in the rear view.

hdhshdhshdjd··on Study reveals why AI models that analyze medical images can be biased
It could be an instrumentation issue, different hospitals use different machines.
hdhshdhshdjd··on Rodney Brooks on limitations of generative AI
I see giant models like Intel chips over the last decade: big, powerful, expensive, energy hogs.

Small models are like arm: you get much of the performance you actually need for common consumer tasks, very cheap to run, and energy efficient.

We need both but I personally spend most of my ML time on small models training and I’m very happy with the results.

hdhshdhshdjd··on Boeing rejects claims NASA crew 'stranded' by spacecraft
Actually that doesn’t make sense to me - why would the telemetry vanish? I get wanting more data, but I don’t understand how it would be lost.
hdhshdhshdjd··on Claude 3.5 Sonnet
What worries me is you need that time in the dirt to get a feel for coding as a craft. And at least for me that aspect of knowing the craft helps get my thinking in tune with problem solving in a very productive way.

Coding can be similar to playing an instrument, if you have mastery, it can help you be more expressive with the ideas you already have and lead you to new ones.

Whereas if we take away the craft of coding I think you end up with the type of code academic labs produce: something that purely starts on a “drawing board”, is given to the grad student/intern/LLM to make work, and while it will prove the concept it won’t scale into long term, as the intern doesn’t know when to spend an extra 30 minutes in a function so that it may be more flexible down the road.

hdhshdhshdjd··on Claude 3.5 Sonnet
I was literally about to type in my credit card number after seeing the new code editor window UX, but for the life of me I had no idea what I was paying for.

I’ve been paying for GPT since 3.5 debuted and I know what I’m getting - full, unlimited use of the best model. Period.

Anthropic needs to figure out what the hell they are selling.

hdhshdhshdjd··on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
Wow, had not seen that development. Would love to know how the Dutch lost that fight. Thanks for the updated info.
hdhshdhshdjd··on Astronauts stranded, multiple issues w Starliner – return flight window closing
Reagan carried 49 of 50 states in 1984. The vast majority of the problems we see today are rooted in Reaganism.

On the other side of the pond the same generation of voters gutted the UK under Thatcher, then sacrificed their children and grandchildren at the altar of Brexit.

The generation who destroyed the social safety their parents gave them is on the hook for this, even if the majority of them also get to enjoy the fruits of their decisions.

hdhshdhshdjd··on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
The DMA very much does not apply to everybody and was revised and tailored to exclude EU companies, by making sure the definition of “platform” includes the Big Tech firms + TikTok while excluding Spotify and Booking.

The job of the EU is protect and benefit the EU, not American companies. The DMA is not a “general” regulation like the GDPR that applies to all, this is a tailored approach to help EU companies.

hdhshdhshdjd··on Astronauts stranded, multiple issues w Starliner – return flight window closing
It’s the same for pretty much everything across the board: the “got mine” generation thinks they can take all the wealth and resources with them to the grave, leave us with the PFAS, climate change, gutted social safety net, destroyed companies, and the truth is they’ll be dead before the bill comes due.
hdhshdhshdjd··on Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary
While it would never be published, I imagine if they broke it down by author surname you’d see most of this is non English speakers using a juiced up grammar check.

I see no evidence actual findings are changing.

Lots of people have good science to contribute and suck at writing English. Making findings easier to digest isn’t bad per se.

hdhshdhshdjd··on Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary
I can’t trust any paper with y-axis labels that are all over the place paired next to each other. Figure 1 is a hot mess.
hdhshdhshdjd··on Why we no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents
Admittedly for anything more than 1-2 joins you are better off hand crafting the SQL. But that is the exception not the rule.

String disagree: if that’s true you likely don’t even need a proper RDBMS in the first place.

An ORM is not a replacement for knowing how SQL works, and it never will be.

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