EricBurnett

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by EricBurnett 2mo ago
Video contains images (frames), but not every image would reasonably be found in the frames of a video, or interpreted spatially. In the space of world model synthesis, consider blueprints, relationship diagrams, pages of instructions, shee
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by EricBurnett 3y ago
Ooh, I'd love that. Or native steam functionality for the same. I never install games onto my SSD for that reason, so I'm at the mercy of whatever windows naturally does in that space. (Possibly nothing, as I don't remember m
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by EricBurnett 3y ago
Indeed. https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/new-era-video-infrastruc... , https://research.google/pubs/pub50300/ . (Search the paper title and you should be able to find the pdf itself elsewh
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by EricBurnett 3y ago
Googler here, opinions my own, etc. From my perspective, Bard went from "literally didn't exist" to "released" over the course of about a month. GP seems correct in that it very much felt like something picked up of
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by EricBurnett 4y ago
> My mum owns a small café in Leicester. Her electricity bill has just jumped from £10k ($12k) a year to £55k ($64k) a year. > Callum's mum may try to avoid shuttering her doors by raising her prices by more than 5x but that will
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by EricBurnett 4y ago
Thought experiment: between you and the AI, which would do a better job depicting a giraffe skeleton? A giraffe in it's natural habitat? Their favorite tree to eat? Species on the genetic tree closest to giraffes? If we assume this AI
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by EricBurnett 4y ago
You're right that the speed of light remains a constant limitation on propagation delay, but the defining limitation on the speed of computation is rather the clock speed - how long it takes for each round of computation. Electrons are
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by EricBurnett 4y ago
I've long been enamored with the idea of learning from analog computers to build the next generation of digital ones. In some perspective all our computers are analog, of a sort - today's computer chips are effectively leveraging
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by EricBurnett 4y ago
If efficiently calculating this mapping is of interest, see also http://www.thelowlyprogrammer.com/2010/04/indexing-and-enume... . (Python isn't my usual language these days, but this is a great example where
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by EricBurnett 4y ago
'Conflict', not 'combat'. Doesn't have to be physical, e.g. ideological conflict.
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by EricBurnett 5y ago
Tapes are awkward though, since they can't directly satisfy the same random-access use-cases. E.g. even GCS's 'Archive' storage class, for the coldest of the cold, offers sub-second retrieval, so there's at least on
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by EricBurnett 5y ago
Hyperscalars use a blend of storage flavours covering the whole spectrum, and for most data-heavy purposes can mix hot and cold bytes on the same device to get the right IO/byte mix. At which point you can simplify down to _"are t
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by EricBurnett 5y ago
> The recent change, implemented without a formal announcement, is meant to present a variety of skin tones in image queries related to beauty, such as “beautiful skin” and “professional hairstyles,” as well as simpler people-related sea
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by EricBurnett 5y ago
A good starting point for reading is https://cloud.google.com/security/binary-authorization-for-b... . It also links out to other whitepapers covering different dimensions of the problem.
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by EricBurnett 5y ago
> When it's done right, it seems to work well. I think this is the most interesting truism of leadership. Which leads risk averse companies to minimize the harm a bad leader can have, and utilitarian companies to maximize the expect
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by EricBurnett 5y ago
That's actually a strategy recommended to ADHD folk: do 20m of engaging "fun" to prepare yourself for 5m of forced boring activity. Think of it as recharging a reservoir of $tolerance before draining it to power some boring a
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by EricBurnett 5y ago
I'm (at Google) one of those "technical leaders" - peer to a manager of ~50 with an informal title of "Uber TL", and no reports of my own. Though for us at least, responsibility still accrues to the manager - I&#x27
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by EricBurnett 5y ago
Relatedly, I'd love to see an experiment in segregating "people managers" from "organizational managers". Imagine having one manager who is responsible for coaching your career growth, helping ensure you have the ri
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by EricBurnett 5y ago
> 1) Is it bad? Yes and no. It's hard for any given manager to support a large team - managing too many often results in either burning out, or being very hands-off with the team... limited career coaching, limited knowledge of the
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by EricBurnett 5y ago
It depends how you define "simple" : '(ap|ib|ind)ex' is fewer symbols and a smaller character graph. There is no offside in golf...yet. But the rules are surprisingly long, and will only get longer as loopholes are found
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by EricBurnett 5y ago
Very nice! I really like the ease-of-use of this, as well as the scale-to-zero costs. That's a tricky thing to achieve. Seems like it could become a standard path to ease the migration from local to remote builds. If the author is inte
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by EricBurnett 5y ago
In addition to the aging paradigms of local storage and the perfect/gone dichotomy of in-memory storage of active items, which I definitely agree should go away, we should also prepare for the breakdown of the "local compute"
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by EricBurnett 5y ago
One somewhat perverse detail: MacOS is much more limited in terms of userspace sandboxing options than other OS, because Apple hasn't implemented them. Which makes me wonder what the main entry vectors of all this malware are, and how
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by EricBurnett 5y ago
Googler here. These people are smart and usually experienced, but don't put them on a pedestal. A lot goes into it - whole teams building the infrastructure with reliability as a core feature, and many hours spent running down all poss
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by EricBurnett 5y ago
It very much depends on your clients and the nature of the traffic they send. For a high-volume client, assuming a default of 100 concurrent streams per connection max, this actually works out to <connection establishment>, <50 par
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by EricBurnett 5y ago
An old squirrel nest fell into my lawn a couple days ago, and I got a look at it while removing it. It had five entire plastic bags incorporated into it's structure. Reuse has to be the key. My tote bags are likely coming up on 500 use
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The Rise of Datacenter Computing(thelowlyprogrammer.com)
2 points by EricBurnett 5y ago|1 comments
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by EricBurnett 6y ago
Is 1k runnable goroutines materially worse than 1k runnable threads? (Honest question, I don't know myself).
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by EricBurnett 6y ago
I'd start by making it uniformly enforced, and with no "cliff" where you can go from being unticketed to owing thousands through a calibration change. In this case, change the ticketing model to have a graduated scale so e.g.
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by EricBurnett 6y ago
I'll note that zlib and gzip are approximately the same, with the same algorithm under the hood (`deflate`) but different framing. But if it's working well for your use-case, that's all that really matters - especially over h

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