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polskibus··on Nanoparticle-remodeled gut microbiota slows neurodegeneration via gut–brain axis
What’s chiral Au? Can we get it OTC?
polskibus··on Matryoshka Diffusion Models
Recent major iOS update improved situation significantly imho.
polskibus··on Gsplat: CUDA accelerated rasterization of gaussians with Python bindings
What is the use case for this library, in layman terms? I pass it a blurry pic and it „enhances it” ?
polskibus··on The housing market is about to take a hit as student loan payments restart
They will choose to screw the upcoming generations. Because they are themselves homeowners and younger ones don’t want to vote at all, at least more often than the older. Also the older generation is larger than the young ones in most western countries.
polskibus··on Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work
I didn't say for free. It can be factored in the initial price of the product.
polskibus··on Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work
Won’t the new right to repair regulations both in eu and us affect this stance?
polskibus··on A LLM+OLAP Solution
Has anyone attempted to use Doris or evaluated it against Clickhouse? I have to admit Inever heard about it before, is it used beyond Tencent-owned companies ?
polskibus··on Most companies do not need Snowflake or Databricks
I don't understand why would you use duckdb as an intermediate step to fill Ms SQL DW. Surely you could just go to Ms SQL directly?
polskibus··on Study: Inflammation drives social media use
How do you monitor it continuously?
polskibus··on Most companies do not need Snowflake or Databricks
I guess the ETL orchestration was the hard part? How did you do it?
polskibus··on The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals
I though phind runs with gpt4?
polskibus··on A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call
How does Datadog compare against Azure Application Insights?
polskibus··on The “Build Your Own Database” book is finished
Woah great! I’d love an Andy Pavlo review of it ;)
polskibus··on We achieved a 6-fold increase in Podman startup speed
Can podman be used instead of docker on Windows for minkube? Would it work faster than docker in such case?
polskibus··on Goodbye to Google Code Jam
That is so bad. They could’ve left 1 or 2 for the benefit of CS as a whole. They are undercutting their own future talent pool this way.
polskibus··on GPT-4 performs significantly worse on coding problems not in its training data
I wonder if he tried the trick that Microsoft recommended in their GPT4 evaluation paper, that is ask gpt to go step by step with explanations. It tends to produce much better results, simply because it is more fitting to the prediction mechanism that GPT uses . It tends to predict better when steps are smaller.
polskibus··on Microsoft's paper on OpenAI's GPT-4 had hidden information
Can anyone post the remaining hidden information from that paper in an easy to read form? Is there really some secret sauce in there ?
polskibus··on Transformer architecture optimized for Apple Silicon
Add 2022 to the title
polskibus··on Adobe Firefly: AI Art Generator
That’s the real moat for any future startup. You will need so much data to make a dent when you start that it will be too expensive to even consider it. Without $$$$ for the data and compute , you will not be able to produce even an MVP, so you won’t convince VCs to invest.
polskibus··on OpenXLA Is Available Now
Strange to not see Microsoft on the list of supporters.
polskibus··on Tell HN: Gitlab Premium pricing increases incoming $19 to $29
try VSCode plugin for reviewing large MRs.
polskibus··on Iatrogenics: Why Intervention Often Leads to Worse Outcomes
People use emotions and heuristics, not rational analysis when making most of their decisions. There is plenty plenty plenty of research on this.
polskibus··on Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More
The big companies have debt, see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2022-Q1... . It was often cheap for them to raise it in the past and quickly.
polskibus··on Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?
What about just asking Carmack on twitter?
polskibus··on Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
How much does it cost to access this dataset at Apple?
polskibus··on High-Earning Men Are Cutting Back on Their Working Hours
It is tried, my friends who do insurance sales have software on their laptops that monitors mouse and keyboard activity. Which leads people to buying usb sticks that send out fake mouse movements :)
polskibus··on Some gut bacteria appear to communicate with the brain
Can you provide some references regarding the bleeding in normal doses? Honestly curious whats safer than ibuprofenum these days.
polskibus··on The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z
People now read that not only do the software engineers earn a lot but they also get to work remotely. This is most likely what influenced the change in 2020-2022 years - everyone else is jealous and would prefer a job that allows for remote work.
polskibus··on Databases in 2022: A Year in Review
Seems that I can’t access it without a gradescope account. I can’t create such account because I’m not a student anymore. What a pity, I would love to do those assignments and see their results.
polskibus··on Databases in 2022: A Year in Review
Can you point me to the homework-grading platform ? Can one use it outside of standard course schedule ? It would be great to do the task in my own pace.
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