ivansmf

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by ivansmf 3mo ago
The technology is amazing. The marketing around it is a decade ahead of its capability, and the pushiness to make LLMs do what they still can't is just irritating. The question to me is "who is seeing the goal posts?" And the
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by ivansmf 4mo ago
The article severely underestimates deployment times for large, world wide services. Usually the strategy is to have a smaller "blast radius" for deployments and going in stages that are also usually time bound ("let it bake&
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by ivansmf 5mo ago
I suspect the entire industry uses "auto-raters", where an agent instance is used to scores the agent's output. The idea is similar in intent as using adversarial networks to train image generation, minus the human labelers.
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by ivansmf 8mo ago
The existence of a kill switch plus tracking in legislation very likely means the manufacturers wanted to track and sell user data and needed a scapegoat to avoid customer backlash. I would profoundly surprised if we don't find a lobby
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by ivansmf 2y ago
I have not read the books, so I guess I'm the target audience. It was very hard to watch. The actors were fine, actually better than fine, but the writing was painful. There are lots of standard adventure and fantasy arcs that are just
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by ivansmf 2y ago
Calling failing to show up or nominate a legal representative to a judicial hearing in a country that offers a ridiculous number of opportunities to appeal as "feud" shows some bias in reporting.
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by ivansmf 3y ago
You. don't. say. Really?!? OMG, what an insight! What are they going to say next? That startups also use the good will of the internet to create their IP to then take it private as a way to get free labor? I'm shocked! And because
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by ivansmf 3y ago
Allegedly Costco has a policy of making their white collar folks work on the floor of their stores and rotate positions before getting to the office, same with McDonalds. I would love to hear from someone with first hand experience to confi
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by ivansmf 8y ago
Yes! I still can work on my open floor plan. Let's open the windows and connect to the awesome traffic jam outside.
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by ivansmf 11y ago
I wrote last year's benchmark. The clusters are completely different, and so is the workload. Last year's cluster had 300 VMs, which was a much higher price point, and the workload was write only. This benchmark uses YCSB workloa
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by ivansmf 13y ago
Hi, The cost we published includes the time to setup the whole cluster, warm up the data nodes, and run for 5 minutes at 1M per second. Our run rate is $281 per hour, which is the same as AWS a couple of years back. What changed is that we
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by ivansmf 13y ago
Hi - I figured you know what you're doing based on the details you picked on. I suspect you'd have way more fun reading the raw logs, but that would make for a post that is incredibly hard to parse. I will try to figure out a venu
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by ivansmf 13y ago
Network average utilization was low by design. Keeping it steady was more important than low, though, and harder too. Latency spikes come from Cassandra flushing data to disk (large sequential IO), Java garbage collection and heap resize, a
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by ivansmf 13y ago
Here is the GIST link: https://gist.github.com/ivansmf/6ec2197b69d1b7b26153
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by ivansmf 13y ago
This is hilarious - it would have saved me days of work. Here is the GIST with my step by step. https://gist.github.com/ivansmf/6ec2197b69d1b7b26153
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by ivansmf 13y ago
I wrote the test - Yep. Tail latency is one of the key things here. And I took 100% of all samples, as opposed to the middle 80% the tool usually reports.
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by ivansmf 13y ago
I ran those tests. One of the challenges in benchmarking is to pick the workload, so I chose one our customers do more often. For IO testing I prefer to run FIO tests, and for networking iperf, but unless you do this for a living it is hard