capkutay

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by capkutay 2y ago
I think this is a bit of a non issue. The UI is just that, a UI. Take it or leave it. If it makes your life easier, great. If not, nothing changes about how you use DuckDB. There is always going to be some overlap between open source contri
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by capkutay 2y ago
Owning things is breaking things (and fixing it).
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by capkutay 2y ago
salesforce is a sales and marketing company first, tech company second. it's in their interest to create a ton of buzz and hype on whatever the current thing is and how they are that thing. Then they go on to sell a basic CRUD app that
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by capkutay 2y ago
that's been supported in striim since 2016 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3129292.3129294
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by capkutay 2y ago
I agree that it's not particularly surprising that if you try to trick an LLM with irrelevant text will make it perform worse. I don't see this as an material limitation of LLMs but rather something that can be addressed at the ap
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Microsoft Fabric: Should Databricks Be Worried?(vantage.sh)
4 points by capkutay 3y ago|0 comments
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by capkutay 3y ago
Why is it a good candidate to disrupt? 1 year in, the “disruptor” would run into the exact same problems if they reach any meaningful scale or adoption. Asking happy team members to review your company is no different than apps asking frequ
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by capkutay 3y ago
Anecdotal but my wife actually likes that she’s fed such relevant ads on instagram and ends up researching and buying many of the products.
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by capkutay 4y ago
reminds me of this blog on streaming data to Parquet files and running queries on data in the native format. https://pedram.substack.com/p/streaming-data-pipelines-with-...
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by capkutay 4y ago
I had a friend who actually took the “unlimited PTO” thing at face value when he was fresh out of college and joined a cool tech company. He was literally traveling every 2-3 weeks and bragging about it. He was let go for performance reason
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by capkutay 4y ago
It could also be corruption caused by log-based database replication
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by capkutay 4y ago
Coinbase basically played by the rules, wanted to work with the SEC, takes public audits and a 1:1 ratio between liabilities and reserves in US dollars (not their own funny money tokens). And yet they were surpassed in # of users by growth
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by capkutay 4y ago
FTX is a centralized (not DeFi) exchange that used their own coin as collateral and obfuscated their liquidity. This wouldn’t be possible in open decentralized exchanges that many in web3/crypto were advocating for. However SBF made it
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by capkutay 4y ago
It’s a free cloud service. If you rely on someone else to host your compute/storage at no cost, prepare for getting little or very delayed support. Ask all the YouTube creators or Instagram users that had their accounts randomly shut
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by capkutay 4y ago
Zoom and Netflix both lost 60-80% of their value in the last year and I don't see anyone declaring them dead. I don't work in crypto but I think there's a bit of a knee jerk reaction to seeing all the vaporware projects being
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by capkutay 4y ago
I wonder if a recession or bear market environment will quickly make this type of advice – that worked well for the 2010s boom – obsolete in a harsher climate. Might be hard to scale your go-to-market by depending on startups who don't
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by capkutay 4y ago
I guess all people with money have bootstrapped companies that launched mankind into space?
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by capkutay 5y ago
Maybe when the open source community successfully executes manned space missions, we can free ourselves from the tyranny of proprietary satellite technology…
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by capkutay 5y ago
+1. My tesla got side-swiped in November. The shop is estimating Mid-February (so probably March) for all parts to ship and labor to be completed.
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by capkutay 5y ago
"The failure modes are huge. Most notably, the Cheernobyl Absolute Exclusion Zone stands at 1000 square miles 35 years after the fact" We can also talk about all the tragedies and catastrophic events related to commercial aviation
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by capkutay 5y ago
" simple enough to understand but realistic enough that the student can see the issue matters." Exactly this. My least favorite method of teaching is when they dive into a tutorial or example which has nothing to do with the actua
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by capkutay 5y ago
Clubhouse is fundamentally a poor user experience. Dropping into a live discussion mid-stream is a pretty inefficient way to consume content...takes about 10-15 minutes to understand the flow of the conversation. Most of the clubhouse influ
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Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine Effectiveness against the B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 Variants(nejm.org)
3 points by capkutay 5y ago|0 comments
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by capkutay 6y ago
There’s no evidence that it’s more deadly at this time. In the words of Derek Lowe... “Many infectious pathogens, in fact, gradually evolve versus a given animal host to be more infectious and less virulent over time. Remember, it’s not the
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Types of Data Integration: ETL vs. ELT and Batch vs. Real-Time(striim.com)
9 points by capkutay 6y ago|0 comments
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by capkutay 6y ago
If you run marketing to drive superficial vanity metrics like ad clicks, email opens, unique website visitors, then yes you're 'addicted to bad data' but more so just lack attention to detail and aren't good at your job.
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by capkutay 6y ago
3 columns. Left-most = maximizing TAM. Center = optimizing revenue. Right = maximizing revenue on strong fits.
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by capkutay 6y ago
I think the main takeaway was the influence on children. I don't think there's precedent for providing kids with constant access to dopamine-driven, socially adjacent experiences. At least with TV and video games, they're fin
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by capkutay 6y ago
Instead of treating interviews like an exam where you measure someone based on number of correct answers, use it to gauge their problem solving ability. Can the candidate articulate their thought process? Is there some evidence of strong fu
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by capkutay 6y ago
The author's suggestion of a 'trial period' of employment might also be one of the impractical, costly, infeasible ideas I've ever seen proposed. So the candidate doesn't want to spend 1 hour on a coding interview b

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