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One of interesting checks in this study might be to check when (if) any of the participants had taken this vax and what the impact might be on an Alzimer's diagnosis.
Make it possible->Make it fast->Make it Cheap
the eternal cycle of software.
Make no mistake - we are on the verge of the next era of change.
1. In the embedder part trying out different embedding models and/or vector dimensions to explore if the Recall@K & Precision@K for your data set (icons) improves. Models make a surprising amount of difference to the quality of the results. Try the MTEB Leaderboard for ideas on which models to explore.
2. In the Information Retriever part you can try a couple of approaches: a.after you retrieve from PGVector see if you can use a reranker like Cohere to get better results https://cohere.com/blog/rerank
b.You could try a "fusion ranking" similar to the one you do but structured such that 50% of the weight is for a plain old keyword search in the metadata and 50% is for the embedding based search
Finally something more interesting to noodle on - what if the embeddings were based on the icon images and the model knew how to search for a textual descriptions in the latent space?
1) Adani is very close to the current ruling party and the PM - deploying his extensive business network and assets (in various forms) to help get the PM elected (2014) and then re-elected. A bit of googling will reveal the vast scale of politico-corporate nexus between these two - extending all the way back to when they were chums in Gujarat - the Indian state of the PM
2) The only reason the Adani Group has not been hauled up in-front of multiple regulators and law-enforcement agencies on a constant basis is because of #1 above
3)Adani ports seem to be curiously immune to investigations despite literal TONS of drug seizures [1]
4) There were multiple stories of forced resignations being used by the companies across its workforce to trim costs during the pandemic and avoid paying hefty severance per India's strict labor laws
5)A lot of the public sector banks in India are purported to be under pressure to not recall loans or issue fresh loans on demand to him - essentially a federal backstop to all his liabilities - enabling crazy levels of debt
[1] https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/adani-ports-says-its-termina...
Then you can follow along parts 2, 3 &4 to scale up by factors of ~10 or more -
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/startups/scaling-on-aws-part-2-... https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/startups/scaling-on-aws-part-3-...
The advice such as replace rm <FileName> with rm -f <FileName> could lead to Disaster depending on the scenario. So a HUGE YMMV
1) Ditch it completely - return the Fn key row back but add button for Touch Id (a. la the new MacBook Air) OR
2) Invent a better version with Haptic Feedback so that Touch typists get a FEEL for hitting keys instead of moronically having to look down to ensure that they did not F* things up
Some of the other aspects: 1) The weaponization of profiling and targeting capabilities
2) Complete eradication of of the cultural notion of "Privacy" :- most people coming of age today think nothing of sharing the most private info in search of a few baubles (Likes, discounts, whatnot)
3) Pervasive and inescapable monitoring in every facet of our lives
In short - all of the preconditions are there for a venal system that might give rise to a (technologically)ultra-capable fascist.
1) No haptic feedback if I hit a key - did I hit it? just terrible for touch typists
2) Context switching according to an app - now you expect me to remember another whole new way to interact in addition to on-screen and keyboard short cuts - WHY?
3) Should I look at the keyboard or not - if not then why do the glowy keys on the keyboard keep distracting me? If yes then WTF is the screen for?
4)Do all Apple products have this or not? Why is there no external keyboard with TouchBar?
Complete misfire on Apple's part (Reference : Currently use MBP 15 latest version for work)
All those jobs are poorly paid, very labour intensive have almost zero benefits and usually not full time. If AI is giving us these kinds of jobs for the many for the instant gratification of consumers then we are worse off NOT better-off.
Face it - the Advent of better AI (Robots, Driverless cars, etc) will lead to massive job losses and disruption of (currently) well paying jobs - the technology is advancing much faster than the ability of "blue collar" worker to retrain or adapt.
It is indeed a "massive failure of imagination" - of the author to understand the real world limitations.
1) Come buy our trueTarget analytic service - add a keyword search and out comes the name of every one interested in say "Evening college" (Comcast also has the address on file obviously)
2) Political observers - This Zipcode has the most mentions for "Climate change hoax"
3) Porn/Medical/<other potentially embarrassing stuff> : Too many services here -
None of this sells individual browsing history yet which of these would be certainly illegal? This is a complete red herring to distract from the Republicans completely disgraceful sell out to big business.
If not illegal which of these would be ok under "we do not see your browsing history"?
Police are NOT requesting "whole city's Google Searches" - they are requesting the Whole WORLD's Google searches (if you will) for a specific search string (actually a variation of strings).
Realistically complying will get them a bunch of IP addresses. Lets say they get 100 IP addresses; then what? Track down and investigate every one of them? For what? How do you go from IP address to potential suspect in Bank Fraud?
Apparently now rather than having a suspect and then going to Google for that specific suspect's records is no longer the in thing. These lazy coppers want Google's help to even develop a suspect...very very close to a fishing expedition.
The Trump WH could be spun as some well thought out scrappy disruption of Politics as usual, which it is not.
It very much is a chaotic mess led by a massively narcissistic man-child and the cynical and dangerous people he seeks advice from. I am amazed at Sam Altman for providing anodyne quotes which almost seems like he admires the chaos that Trump is causing. The disruption is causing massive REAL damage to the US and its allies - exactly unlike a start-up that improves choices for customers - not destroys the market itself.
It requires fundamental "long-game" mindset to realise that once you lose the high-end Mac guys - you lose your best proponents - then you go into a decline, a long and very profitable decline.
There is no excuse for the current line-up of Macs - super expensive, incremental and confusing half-baked features.
I like how they have avoided committing to the much harder "landing on the Moon and then return" scenario.
How: 1)Hardware - Gobs and Gobs of Hardware and SRE experience
"Spanner is not running over the public Internet — in fact, every Spanner packet flows only over Google-controlled routers and links (excluding any edge links to remote clients). Furthermore, each data center typically has at least three independent fibers connecting it to the private global network, thus ensuring path diversity for every pair of data centers. Similarly, there is redundancy of equipment and paths within a datacenter. Thus normally catastrophic events, such as cut fiber lines, do not lead to partitions or to outages."
2) Ninja 2PC
"Spanner uses two-phase commit (2PC) and strict two-phase locking to ensure isolation and strong consistency. 2PC has been called the “anti-availability” protocol [Hel16] because all members must be up for it to work. Spanner mitigates this by having each member be a Paxos group, thus ensuring each 2PC “member” is highly available even if some of its Paxos participants are down."
More importantly, travelers are not legally required to unlock their devices, although agents can detain them for significant periods of time if they do not....
and here: The document given to Bikkannavar listed a series of consequences for failure to offer information that would allow CBP to copy the contents of the device. “I didn’t really want to explore all those consequences,” he says. “It mentioned detention and seizure.”
It sounds like CBP is trying to circumvent the "PIN Revealing" need by basically illegally detaining Citizens until they do.
This is grounds for "Habeas Corpus" lawsuit - should a citizen really dig their heels in.
Rinse and repeat.
Welcome Absolute Fascism.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/24/journalists-ch... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=92toXdu2KR0
This is the time to follow the "no quarter given" tactics of the NRA - they get their members to show up at any legislation anywhere that even smells of Gun control and raise a massive ruckus - similarly the time to protest is NOW before Trump rolls out the really evil stuff.
Imagine that you are a police officer and find some media people among a crowd (who may or may not have set a car on fire) ... The president's words demonizing the media at every turn are still fresh in your mind. What would you do?
This will get much much worse....
1) The strongest reason for pushing it was as an attack on "Black Money" (undeclared wealth outside the taxation net). More than 90 -95% of the demonetized currency is back in the coffers. This magical "back money" is nowhere to be found.
2) The growth rate fell by at least 1% - whatever the other impact this by itself means a massive loss.
3) A large number of "cash only" small-scale businesses have been badly hit - these people are not internet savvy and do not have a voice but they do exist
4) The so called "leap" to a digital economy is mostly a temporary phenomena - just wait till the new currency is available in sufficient quantities
So on balance - all the pain and suffering of the people will NOT bear the reward most of them think it would.
Edit: Source for #1 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/90-of-scrapped-note... Note that the actual number will be higher as newer estimates are released.
If they had tweeted to him back or DM him (i.e. used the same medium as him) then I understand. Sending unsolicited e-mail that capitalizes on a competitors stumble just makes you look petty IMO. Also, people should want to consume your service because they LIKE what you do more than your competitors not because you are pouncing on another's misery to flog your own thing.
Please do not encourage this kind of behavior by writing blog posts about hustle.