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by newfocogi 3mo ago
Or this: “None of these things are impossible with Redis, it’s just that memcached’s architecture in general more leans towards these directions, which makes it much, much more straightforward from an operations point of view.”
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by newfocogi 3mo ago
I don’t think LLMs would write this: “Anyways, Redis homepage aside, you deploy it, and off you go - your trusty cache. You hand the connection string to the people who asked for it, and off you go.”
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by newfocogi 1y ago
"Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer is closing the doors on her consumer software startup Sunshine, and is selling the company’s assets to her new AI startup, Dazzle" and "all of Sunshine’s employees will move to the new company&
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by newfocogi 1y ago
Non-AI Summary: Both models have improved intelligence on Artificial Analysis index with lower end-to-end response time. Also 24% to 50% improved output token efficiency (resulting in lower cost). Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite improvements include
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by newfocogi 1y ago
Maybe we're not sure if they're being rational or rationalizing.
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by newfocogi 1y ago
For others who, like me, didn't know what "clankers" are: it appears it's a popular derogatory term for robots or AI, arising from the Star Wars universe where clone troopers used the term as a derogatory term for droids
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How Leeches Made Their Comeback(nymag.com)
4 points by newfocogi 1y ago|0 comments
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by newfocogi 1y ago
I track my water usage and electricity usage every month. I'm confused why the cost ratio is off by an order of magnitude from the author. The base monthly charge of my water bill ignoring any usage is more then 10% of my largest elect
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by newfocogi 1y ago
I found a lot of value in this article. Out of frustration with people who are alarmist over how much water a datacenter "consumes" compared to households, I've probably erred too often towards: 'People sometimes invoke
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by newfocogi 1y ago
I made it half way down the page before I realized this wasn’t “ArduinOS”. I can’t be the only one.
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by newfocogi 1y ago
My (non-AI) Summary: - "TAR-200 is a miniature, pretzel-shaped drug-device duo containing a chemotherapy drug, gemcitabine, which is inserted into the bladder through a catheter. Once inside the bladder, the TAR-200 slowly and consiste
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by newfocogi 1y ago
I love checking out the Starlink launches wikipedia page every so often [1], which is regularly updated. Here's stats as of today: "As of 31 July 2025: Satellites launched: 9,314 Satellites failed or deorbited: 1,237 Satellites in
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by newfocogi 1y ago
Once again, I am quite surprised by the sudden uptick of AI content on HN coming out of LANL. Does anyone know if its just getting posted to HN and staying on the first page suddenly, or is this a change in strategy for the lab? Even so, I
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by newfocogi 1y ago
Naming things is hard. Noting the two alternative approaches that you referenced are called "vecmap" and "alignment" which "aren't the first/only algorithm for ... and you have no right to claim such a gen
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by newfocogi 1y ago
Another recent AI article out of LANL: https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/1269-earl-lawre... And discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43765207 This does feel like a
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by newfocogi 1y ago
Another happy CharityVest user here. I recommend it to everyone I talk to when DAFs are remotely relevant to the conversation.
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by newfocogi 1y ago
They offer serverless Postgres. Here's a link if anyone else needs it https://neon.tech/
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by newfocogi 1y ago
This is right on. I work for a company with somewhat of a data moat and AI aspirations. We spend a lot of time blocking everyone's bots except for Google. We have people whose entire job is it to make it faster for Google to access our
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by newfocogi 1y ago
Nah, those are just the newest version of the LobePods
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Some Thoughts on SQL vs. NoSQL(ss108.substack.com)
2 points by newfocogi 1y ago|0 comments
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by newfocogi 1y ago
I recognize this is a somewhat rhetorical question and your point is well taken. But something that maps well is car makes and models: - Is Ford Better than Chevy? (Comparison across providers) It depends on what you value, but I guarantee
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by newfocogi 1y ago
I'm close with someone who is on the Digital side of McKinsey, and they said they attended some meeting where a partner was asked what he was excited about for the future, and he said something like "the opportunities from AI agen
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by newfocogi 1y ago
Gen X spent their youth rejecting their parents’ world—only to watch it vanish and get replaced by something even emptier.
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by newfocogi 1y ago
"Redheads get less pain relief" - are there any references you have so I can explore this more?
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by newfocogi 1y ago
ChatGPT can search the web (I just checked in my account). It appears to be available for all users (not just paid): https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9237897-chatgpt-search
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by newfocogi 1y ago
Wait, where is the energy beyond the electricity coming from? Is it drawing heat from the environment, hence the references to heat pumps?
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by newfocogi 2y ago
Does anyone have a good source of data or reporting on the usage statistics of Stack Overflow since the release of ChatGPT?
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by newfocogi 2y ago
Job postings for working on Gemma are under DeepMind in London: https://boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/6590957
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by newfocogi 2y ago
They say: "releasing the API mistral-ocr-latest at 1000 pages / $" I had to reread that a few times. I assume this means 1000pg/$1 but I'm still not sure about it.
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by newfocogi 2y ago
I think this is the correct take. There are other axes to scale on AND I expect we'll see smaller and smaller models approach this level of pre-trained performance. But I believe massive pre-training gains have hit clearly diminished r

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