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robertkoss··on Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics
As someone who is completely unrelated to the academic world, is Stephen Wolfram actually working on meaningful things? I remember reading an article where he was announcing his Physics Project which got a lot of backlash from the scientific community (at least I think that was the case).

Nonetheless, every time I browse through Wolfram Alpha I am thoroughly impressed of what it can do with only Natural Language as an input.

robertkoss··on Proton(mail) Is Down
https://isitdns.com/
robertkoss··on Proton(mail) Is Down
This was earlier today, the current status is:

Investigating - We are currently experiencing intermittent network issues affecting some of our users. We are working to fully restore services as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience. Jan 09, 2025 - 16:10 CET

robertkoss··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
claimsforce | Frontend Engineer | Hamburg (Germany) | Full-time

At claimsforce, we are passionate about building insurance software that solves problems. We develop software that transforms the way insurances use technology for claims management and make use of their data. We are working on the cutting edge of loss-adjusting problems, making a difference through great user experience and data driven decision making and operations.

We are profitable and are looking for someone to support developing our SPA React Web App / React Native App.

Core responsibilities:

- Collaborate closely in a cross-functional teams to understand customer pain points and develop impactful solutions

- Lead your own projects within a small, highly skilled, and motivated development team

- Drive the entire product lifecycle – from idea generation and design to prototyping, execution, and deployment

- Identify opportunities to reduce complexity and implement pragmatic solutions that enhance team velocity

What We Value:

- A curious mind with a passion for solving complex problems

- High standards for engineering quality and best practices

- Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment where the best ideas win

- Strong communication skills to work effectively with both technical and non-technical team members

- Proactive attitude and pragmatic approach to software development

Feel free to reach out: robert.kossendey (at) claimsforce.com

robertkoss··on Large language models in national security applications
Some related news: https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2024/Anthropic-a...
robertkoss··on Ask HN: Are the Node.js downloads broken?
We are using Node18 images in our CI/CD pipelines, and all of the sudden they are breaking with timeout during the image download.
robertkoss··on DynamoDB Considered Harmful
Great article. I love DynamoDB but it is such a footgun. If you know how to work around the limitations + adhere to the Single Table design it's awesome.

But if you aren't familiar with it, you are destined to fail. I've seen so many poorly designed tables, with 10+ GSIs..

robertkoss··on Reflections on Palantir
Airbus themselves are claiming that.
robertkoss··on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
Does anyone know how I could check whether my Claude Sonnet version that I am using in the UI has been updated already?
robertkoss··on Reflections on Palantir
It is completely self service by now. I have my own stack for testing purposes. Of course if you want to deploy this to an enterprise things will differ, but that is the same for Snowflake, Databricks etc.
robertkoss··on Reflections on Palantir
It is crazy how much misinformation is being spread here.

1. Palantir does more than government work. They have 3 core products:

- Gotham fka PG, used by government agencies for Intel and Mission Planning. Used to extract information from unstructured data, geographical analysis and much more. Just look up Meta Constellation

- Foundry, their commercial big data product, kind of comparable to Databricks or MS Fabric, but much more capable. You can build no code applications on top of your semantic layer (ontology) and even write back to the source systems (ERP).

- Apollo, their deployment product. Haven't used it and I don't know if they are really selling it or just advertising. They are using it internally very heavily though.

2. Palantirs commercial products are not a secret. There are tons of videos out there, the docs are public, you can even sign up for Foundry and use it immediately.

3. Palantirs commercial side of business is bigger than its governmental today.

4. Foundry is NOT "basically Grafana". As I said before, just watch some videos

robertkoss··on Artificial Intelligence Raises Ukrainian Drone Kill Rates to 80%
Kind of related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41845846
robertkoss··on Microsoft Teams with Startup Anduril on Army Combat Goggle System
It will be interesting to see how Lattice will compete against Palantir Gotham.
robertkoss··on Ask HN: What is the most expensive off-the-shelf software you have seen?
Not true, you can sign up for Foundry today and pay per compute second / storage second. It is pay per use.

Of course big companies sign huge deals for discounts, but that is the same for Snowflake, Databricks, etc.

robertkoss··on Palantir for Developers
To be fair, Palantir started building this commercial ontology stuff in the early 2010s and the product now seems to really gain traction in certain business areas, like energy and manufacturing.

I think the ontology becomes especially valuable when using LLMs, because you can traverse the entities of your business without knowing anything about the infrastructure behind it. You essentially have an object API into your business for the LLM to use.

robertkoss··on Palantir for Developers
I hate the fact that they started calling this AIP. It is just their existing product, which is great, Foundry.
robertkoss··on Palantir for Developers
I have to disagree honestly. I have access to Foundry and it is way more than analytics. It is rather comparable to Databricks then to BI tools IMO and great for non-technical users.

The "downside" of the product is that you have to invest time into coming up with an ontology of your company, which can be very time-consuming and difficult.

robertkoss··on Palantir for Developers
AIP is just marketing bullshit IMO. It is an module in Foundry which just allows you to do LLM stuff. Combining it with the ontology is very powerful though.
robertkoss··on Llama 3.1 in C
As someone who has literally no idea of ModelOps / GenAI Deployment, what am I seeing there? Code that just loads in the weights and provides an inference API? Or what does this code actually do?
robertkoss··on Getting Your DBA Teams Scripts into Git
Call me ignorant but I am surprised that there are people in the engineering realm that still don't use a VCS for everything.
robertkoss··on DBRX: 135B MoE LLM trained and open sourced by Databricks
Hugging Face Link: https://huggingface.co/collections/databricks/dbrx-6601c0852...
robertkoss··on Sparrow: Distributed, Low Latency Scheduling (2013) [pdf]
Another Matei Paper :)
robertkoss··on World model on million-length video and language with RingAttention
It feels like Matei is everywhere, impressive!
robertkoss··on Active turbulence cancellation makes bumpy flights smoother
Sounds like a perfect setup to replicate the MCAS disaster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Au...
robertkoss··on New models and developer products
Is Azure adoption really that slow? Ugh.
robertkoss··on New models and developer products
Does anyone know when this will be coming to Azure OpenAI?
robertkoss··on OpenAI DevDay, Opening Keynote Livestream [video]
Did they mention anything about Azure OpenAI? The OpenAI pricing page already changed, Azure did not.
robertkoss··on Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out
GPT-4 has a default limit of 200 RPM and you can request an increase.
robertkoss··on How Query Engines Work
Andy Grove is a great guy, and the book is excellent. This might be interesting as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEL6DluUxgw&ab_channel=Delta...
robertkoss··on How to get transactions between almost any data stores
Interesting to see Matei's name on the paper. Maybe Epoxy ends up at Databricks to enable updates across, e.g., Delta Lake & a traditional DWH simultaneously, for, let's say, migrations. Who knows :)
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