gopalv

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by gopalv 5d ago
The "Emacs doesn't have a file-tree" is when I stopped short and wondered what this person's background is in IDEs. My emacs days are 1999 during my "functional or get out" phase, but my .emacs had close to 400
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by gopalv 8d ago
> doesn't make you a martyr because you get anxious Every person's biggest problem is their biggest problem and it eats up their life in the biggest way possible. Maslow's hierarchy is not a "smaller and smaller"
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by gopalv 8d ago
> Weekly downloads number doesn't. The ChatGPT app downloads a copy of LibreOffice when you ask it to make pptx files. So I've downloaded LibreOffice 3 times this week without really paying attention to it.
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by gopalv 12d ago
> One model drafts a result, an independent read-only critic from a different model family reviews it Multiple model vendors is key here, the cascade pattern doesn't need it, but the critique pattern does. Last Nov, my team wrote a
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by gopalv 14d ago
> I don't see how that's possible if the cache no longer stores the uncompressed data. Zstd has a seekable format for frames, similar to pigz --independent works. [1] - https://github.com/facebook/zstd&#x2F
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by gopalv 21d ago
The good part is that at least there's some explicit C++ std::memory_order and std::sync::atomic::Ordering lets me pick where it really matters. For example, I built a skew handling model which needed low overhead cross-thread counters
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by gopalv 28d ago
Assuming AI is a significant budget item for companies going forward, then this makes complete sense. Someone's spending money and they can take a small % to move it from your account to an inference vendor's account. Except for t
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by gopalv 29d ago
CTEs are how you compose SQL. I don't quite like how the same CTE lives in 60 different places in my codebase, but at least the WITH clause changed things for me. Also really liked Snowflake's result_scan for composing chains, mos
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by gopalv 29d ago
> energy efficient tires have much longer wet braking distance This is a labelling law, not a "You can't buy the bumpy tires" law. This improves the quality of my choice here, because I already look for the little snowflak
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by gopalv 1mo ago
> I want to click together a model that is laser-focused on what I am doing This is roughly what multi-agent systems are built for. This is possible with models too, but "making one on the fly" is much easier with agent coordin
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by gopalv 1mo ago
Your success eV is opportunities x success-rate. Out of the gate, hard work improves success rates, but not the count of opportunities. Connections improve opportunities, it doesn't do shit for success-rate. Luck does for both sides of
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by gopalv 1mo ago
> notice the real world without the idea of augmenting it. The core problem of solitude is curiosity and sonder. When I smell fennel on a hike, I want to know what it is - yeah, this is dog fennel. When I see a strange symbol on a taxi c
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by gopalv 1mo ago
This was basically Vertica's party trick for quite a long time to have a WOS and ROS formats for the same row and anti-caching between those two. You could've built a similar system with dezebium and delta lake for quite some time
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by gopalv 1mo ago
> a magnet for many more talented ML scientists to leave google. Also to leave Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and everywhere else. There would be more people who wouldn't join Google, but would love to do this instead.
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by gopalv 1mo ago
> The Netherlands has made the intentional decision to reduce wealth inequality and to achieve a fairer society Netherlands was the poster child of the "Dutch Disease"[1]. They in some ways could've turned into Qatar (and
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by gopalv 1mo ago
> What jobs are Juniors doing that AI can now do? I used to use the new hires to hold expertise so that I can spend a weekend at the beach without getting paged. That was the true selfish incentive in spending negative productivity where
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by gopalv 1mo ago
The other CloudFlare post on the front page has an interesting passage in it > It is compute-bound, and INT4 weights have to be expanded back out before the model can multiply with them, so that extra step makes prefill slower rather th
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by gopalv 2mo ago
> It always felt as though we already figured out how to break up large files and parse them efficiently with very little memory. The A in 26B-A4B is the active weights. The problem is that this is a per-token load/unload at best, n
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by gopalv 2mo ago
> Catching a lab cheating specifically on my one dumb benchmark would be really funny. Similar thing happened when TPC came up with SQL benchmarks. If you're not good at TPC, your engineering team is no good. If you're good at
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by gopalv 2mo ago
> You can beat the efficiency of 5 trits in 8 bits The single trit packing is a commonly optimized DBNULL structure for booleans. Bits/trit approaches the 1.5 asymptote, because that is the fundamental packing limit. The trick is to
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by gopalv 2mo ago
> does it matter whether we arrived there by random keystrokes? Douglas Adams said this beautifully in the Campaign for Real Time & the poet Lallalfa. And I just found out h2g2.com is no longer online, so no reference.
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by gopalv 2mo ago
Taalas HC1 is the closest thing to this. Last I saw they posted Deepseek R1 numbers in Feb of this year. The challenge is rolling out a new one every 7-8 weeks as the weights change & cheap enough for a hyper scaler to afford to buy one
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by gopalv 2mo ago
> Does anyone think we need a Mythos level model to plan a road trip, or give someone tips on making a cake recipe? This is starting to look at a lot like Intel vs Arm from the last era. The Fable & Mythos are starting to look like a
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by gopalv 2mo ago
I mostly use HTML, but it is much more flexible than what you would assume if you leverage some standard formats instead of building everything from scratch. Mermaid, Graphviz and friends but in HTML pages. Sometimes it is turning other thi
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by gopalv 2mo ago
Outside of the (in mice) factor, the study compares optional exercise with mandatory exercise factors. > To eat, the mice had to lift the lid while wearing a small shoulder collar, causing a squat-like movement that engaged the muscle co
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by gopalv 2mo ago
> I don't think I would use it enough to justify the investment This is not a rational purchase - most of the rule breaking done with the zero is for fun or convenience, rather than being truly illegal. It used to be more fun before
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by gopalv 2mo ago
The rule partial order problem seems to be very similar to how Rule engines are optimized for ACL rule application. > Once per candidate, we precompute a bitmask, an integer whose bits flag which rules that candidate is eligible for. For
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by gopalv 3mo ago
> Is it really a distributed system or just a bunch of services with a central database? I've asked myself this question every single time I've had to use Zookeeper. Apache Kafka being the poster child of the problem, with HBas
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by gopalv 3mo ago
> Kubernetes deployed on a server with hundreds of CPU cores Was that a Power9 or some sort of IBM machine? Not all NUMA is the same, ccNUMA from the Intel is a different beast from the PPC version of the same.
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by gopalv 3mo ago
The name makes me think it is a molten salt reactor, but it uses liquid sodium. Still aptly named. I was hoping the Thorium molten salt ones with atmospheric pressure vessels would pick up pace thanks to this boom in power demand or Helion

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