mvcalder

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by mvcalder 3mo ago
There's a story sharing the front page right now about scaling laws, so it's not an unreasonable assumption. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689744
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A Mote in AI(mvcalder-01701.medium.com)
1 points by mvcalder 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mvcalder 7mo ago
Wait, my job is not cushy. I think hard all day long, I endure levels of frustration that would cripple most, and I do it because I have no choice, I must build the thing I see or be tormented by its possibility. Cushy? Right.
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by mvcalder 8mo ago
I really enjoyed the article and want to both praise and encourage the author. You get it. It’s about value. Keep you eye on that north star and you won’t go wrong. Whose value? How do I value? Can I reconcile disparite value? Yep, those ar
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by mvcalder 9mo ago
It’s not “freedom of speech I agree with”, no one needs protection to speak agreeably.
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Free Speech in Tucson(yousaytoday.com)
3 points by mvcalder 9mo ago|2 comments
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by mvcalder 1y ago
My Massachusetts home has both radiant floor heating (water pipes in floor) and baseboard water pipe heating (separate part of the house). My son’s New York home has radiators driven by hot water. I can’t recall a home where heating was ven
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by mvcalder 1y ago
Nope, all human all the time.
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by mvcalder 1y ago
“They say sixty-five percent of all statistics Are made up right there on the spot” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUK6zjtUj00
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Yield curve for engineers has inverted(mvcalder-01701.medium.com)
4 points by mvcalder 1y ago|1 comments
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by mvcalder 1y ago
And there’s only one photon, vibrating like mad, singularly unable to contemplate its own magnificence.
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by mvcalder 2y ago
It was an odd sight at that hour of the day. I wanted pictures as something to talk about with friends. I really wish I had been astute enough to take video.
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by mvcalder 2y ago
I read several comments referring to: idiots, morons, delusional, and hysteria.
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by mvcalder 2y ago
At the risk of being labeled a kook or an idiot, I photographed drones flying over my suburb of Boston neighborhood a few weeks ago. This was about 6am, definitely drones not regular aircraft. I assumed it was something flying out of Hansco
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by mvcalder 2y ago
For the experts in the house: would it be possible for this to wrap around, so the highest and lowest level join? A torus of GoLs? Can such a thing, assuming it exists, have a finite number of layers? Just curious, this is amazing.
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by mvcalder 3y ago
Does anyone know what the copyright status of LLM generated content is? That is, if I feed a NYT article into GPT4 and say, summarize this article, and then publish that summary, is there argument or precedent that says that is or is not co
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by mvcalder 3y ago
I wrote up this analysis of cache one-hits after reading the FIFO is all you need paper. https://www.polyscale.ai/blog/one-hit-expectation
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by mvcalder 3y ago
Disclosure, I work at PolyScale. Prepared statements work fine. Views can be tricky. The statistical invalidation will in general disable caching on views since their results will change without any corresponding writes (because we only ass
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by mvcalder 3y ago
Whenever this topic comes up I like to provide a citation to some work I've done: https://towardsdatascience.com/gradient-kernel-regression-e4... Not out of vanity (ok, a little) but because I think the idea has import
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by mvcalder 3y ago
If you, like me, often find yourself covered in pine sap. The product: Shout, for removing laundry stains will make quick work of removing sap from skin. Maybe the answer to your chemistry question is in there.
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by mvcalder 3y ago
One of my favorite things to do in museums is to use Google Translate on artifacts. I find it so exciting to point my phone at a 500 year old vase and read what it says. Here are a couple examples from a trip I tool to the British Museum, i
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by mvcalder 3y ago
I can't speak to the others, but pgvector indices can "break" hybrid queries. For example, if you select using a where clause specifying metadata (where genre = jazz) and order by distance from a vector (embedding of sound cl
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PolyScale and MongoDB(polyscale.ai)
4 points by mvcalder 3y ago|0 comments
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PolyScale and Pgvector(polyscale.ai)
3 points by mvcalder 3y ago|1 comments
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by mvcalder 3y ago
Blog post about using PolyScale with pgvector.
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by mvcalder 3y ago
Bruh
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Approaching Cache Invalidation with PolyScale(polyscale.ai)
7 points by mvcalder 3y ago|0 comments
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by mvcalder 3y ago
Professors Boyd and Vandenberghe really broke ground with this text. Prior to this, optimization algorithms and methods were very much locked up behind a metaphorical paywall: difficult to access literature with very high barriers to entry,
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by mvcalder 3y ago
If you like this sort of thing there’s a great book: Methods and Programs for Mathematical Functions by Stephen Moshier. It covers the computation of all sorts of special functions. The code is available in the cephes library but the book m
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by mvcalder 3y ago
No punch cards, but I did write the Windows version of ITSM (software accompanying the Brockwell and Davis Time Series book). The while thing was written in Fortran, the event loop and calls to the Windows API for UI and graphics. It's

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