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I feel like there should be some take away from the fact that we have to come up with new and interesting metrics like “Length of a Task That Can Be Automated” in order to point out that exponential growth is still happening. Fwiw, it does seem like a good metric, but it also feels like you can often find some metric that’s improving exponentially even when the base function is leveling out.

Absolutely insane that the emulator, the kernel, AND the os are just 24mb combined.

In a similar vein, I always found it interesting (although frightening) that rabies cause hydrophobia. The theory is that drinking water can wash away the virus from your saliva, inhibiting its ability to spread through bites.

It makes sense that a virus passed through saliva would evolve like this, but I just find it particularly unsettling when a pathogen can effect higher-level behaviors like drinking water (or jumping into water for mantises).

This is a fascinating idea!

Hey author here--Cochrane reviews are great.

NCCN guidelines and Cochrane Reviews serve complementary roles in medicine - NCCN provides practical, frequently updated cancer treatment algorithms based on both research and expert consensus, while Cochrane Reviews offer rigorous systematic analyses of research evidence across all medical fields with a stronger focus on randomized controlled trials. The NCCN guidelines tend to be more immediately applicable in clinical practice, while Cochrane Reviews provide a deeper analysis of the underlying evidence quality.

My main goal here was to show what you could do with any set of medical guidelines that was properly structured. You can choose any criteria you want.

Hey author here! Appreciate the feedback! Agreed on importance of portability and durability.

I'm not trying to build this out or sell it as a tool to providers. Just wanted to demo what you could do with structured guidelines. I don't think there's any reason this would have to be unique to a practice or emr.

As sister comments mentioned, I think the ideal case here would be if the guideline institutions released the structured representations of the guidelines along with the PDF versions. They could use a tool to draft them that could export in both formats. Oncologists could use the PDFs still, and systems could lean into the structured data.

A progression of projects that comes to mind:

1) CI and IAC that deploy a web app running in a container

2) Add horizontal scaling and load balancer

3) Add long running tasks / scheduled task support

4) Deploys will likely break long running tasks. Implement blue/green or rolling deploys or some other sort of advanced deployment scheme

5) Implement rollbacks

Yeah, my last company paid for a subscription to this. Enjoyed using it. Don’t think there’s a massive market, but definitely lots of devs who want easy DB access and would pay $5/month.

> “By sourcing and filtering only the highest-quality and most representative data for LLM use cases, we reduced the pretraining set to just 13 billion tokens—drastically cutting the environmental impact of further training while preserving performance.”

Would love to know more about how they filtered the training set down here and what heuristics were involved.

I think that the models we use now are enormous for the use cases we’re using them for. Work like this and model distillation in general is fantastic and sorely needed, both to broaden price accessibility and to decrease resource usage.

I’m sure frontier models will only get bigger, but I’d be shocked if we keep using the largest models in production for almost any use case.

Agreed this would be way more useful as an IDE extension.

I had the same experience, as I’m sure many others did. It’s easy to forget now how much rarer it was to find high quality and engaging educational content on the internet back then. Howstuffworks got me interested in so many different things, and exploring the articles was a lovely way to spend the time as a kid.

I’ve had to make and pay for an unfortunate number of Iridium calls. They can be crazy expensive depending on carrier, who all bill them as a call to an international line in the country of “Satellite”. Usually you pay your carrier’s fee for outgoing and it’s cheaper/free to receive the calls.

It seems like cell carriers always charge more per minute for satellite calls than any satellite provider does, so I’m guessing they just set their rates conservatively to always make a profit on their end. And the demand for satellite calls seems like it would be pretty inelastic.

My understanding is that these sorts of plants do exist, but that they’re not common for the reasons you brought up. Some plants do generate power and desalinate at the same time, but they usually use excess heat for desalination and not the same water stream that they use for power generation. Corrosion, dealing with brine, keeping purity, etc, are all super challenging issues.

what’s the new goal?

You should absolutely make that.

The rolling shutter compensation is pretty cool and isn't something I would have thought of. Did you know that would be an issue from the start or notice it only after you built the rest of the system?

what do you mean by this? how are they being deployed? disinformation campaigns or more than that?