ndm000

The North American equivalent is Latin America. I’m in consulting, and every new project has some set of near shore resources billed much lower than their North American counterparts. In most cases the only discernible difference is proficiency in English.

Is it normal to render using a CPU? Shouldn’t this test be done against GPUs instead?

The biggest problems I've had with Oracle databases are getting CDC data out of it. There's conflicting technologies with their own tradeoffs - LogMiner vs. Flashback, neither of which cover all use cases well, licensing is ambiguous, and docs are conflated with information you don't need.

Is there a market for SiC chips in cloud data centers? I’m unfamiliar with the space, but 50% efficiency gains (if costs can be kept comparable) could be a game changer.

FWIW, the economist just published an article explaining DNA replication that makes this topic much more approachable and understandable for those without background in molecular biology. Dense and worth the read. https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2021/07/31/biology-b...

IMHO this reduces the need for a full fledged database serving read only information at scale. The restriction before this is that a SQLite file had to be on a single server. Now, having SQLite on S3, you could write a set of scalable web services on top of the file on S3 and scale those services as much as needed.

I think the sentiment here (and in many comments) is interesting - I've been a consultant for over a decade and felt the same thing in the early parts of my career. Those are really expensive Powerpoints!

In the last few years I've created some of those Powerpoints, and have realized the value in them (not saying that all are valuable). I've been asked questions like:

- We're a year in to a data warehouse migration and have nothing to show for it. What happened, where do we go from here, and how much will it cost? - We'd like to outsource a call center, but don't know where to start both on the tech and process sides. Can you help? - We have a business idea, but know little about technology. Can you put together a plan, so that we know how much we'll need to invest? Oh, and can you design the architecture and tell us which cloud to use?

There's tons of rigorous analysis, interviews, and research that goes into answering these questions well enough that they can be trusted. Since it's primarily an exercise in critical thinking, mileage probably varies depending on who is doing the work. There are plenty of bad Powerpoints I've seen out there that don't move the needle or add anything new.

My thoughts exactly. I wonder if businesses are looking for or needing funding, and the stock market is the one place that looks fine.

Great idea. MobileNetv2 is the model used currently due to it's small footprint (I used transfer learning on a dataset of NSFW and SFW images). A more robust model ran on all positives could improve performance overal.

Shameless plug - I've been working on something similiar, but with a different aim.

https://github.com/nmurray1984/porn-blocker-chrome-extension

I found that the hardest problem to solve was the prevanlence of false positives. Even if you have a low false positive rate, it's still very likely to have an image blocked regularly just due to volume.

For that reason, the focus of my plugin is - for users that are OK with it - contributing URLs that are not NSFW but have been blocked. The extension includes a right-click menu option to do so.

Have you tried giving it a problem and having it come up with questions that you you answer? Given it’s clearly making assumptions and conclusions, it would be so interesting to play 20 questions with it. Something like... I’m thinking of an animal. Will GPT-3 start general and get to an answer?

I think the real innovation here is that this was done on just a few minutes of training data, opening up the possibility for all kinds of effects / amps to be modeled through this same method somewhat easily. I'm not sure how current DSPs are designed, but this is likely orders of magnitude more simple than designing the audio transformations (digital or analog) manually.

Third parties like Snowflake get around this by having you pick where their service is hosted so that bandwidth and latency aren’t a concern.

Further, Snowflake is a good example of an unbundled service that has more capabilities than AWS Redshift (for instance, zero copy clones). They use AWS for infrastructure - the entire warehouse is stored on S3 - and value add on top of it.

> hauling around a huge vehicle

I’ve seen several comments in this thread that conclude that it’s wasteful to have the truck bed when you are not using it. Going one level deeper, to the owner it doesn’t feel wasteful on a day to day basis because you forget it’s back there when you’re not using it. But it’s so handy when you do need it.

Former truck owner myself, I downsized to a car after moving to a more urban setting. It’s often on the weekends that I loathe not having to pickup for various furniture moves, gardening, etc. since I now have to borrow and friend’s or rent one.

This is similiar to a framework my company utilizes for promotions. The key difference is that everyone at the same level makes the pay. This is great for transparency - everyone knows how someone should be performing and how they are being compensated (all the way up throughout the company).

For those interested, the company is Pariveda Solutions.

I’m new to the OCR space. Given the the successes in self-driving (given no systems are production ready, Waymo and Tesla have MVPs), what makes reading text so hard that cloud providers struggle to have human-level accuracies?

Thanks - I was confusing the stories of Copernicus and Galileo. Galileo’s works, based on Copernicus’s ideas, were declared heretical. While not excommunicated he was persecuted by the church.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair

An interesting read is On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies by Copernicus, even if you just read the introduction. It’s an appeal to the Pope regarding the scientific nature of his conclusions. Regardless, they still excommunicated him years later for going against what was thought the authority of scripture.

I used to work at a mail order pharmacy. Even though a machine counted the pills a pharmacist had to certify every bottle. This amounted to bottles coming down a conveyor and the pharmacist picking each one up, scanning it, and looking at a picture of the pills on a screen to make sure they are the same. I wouldn’t doubt if Amazon would need to do the same were they to use individual pill counts.