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Chicago Mercantile Exchange will list futures contracts for GPU costs(cmegroup.com)
25 points by p4ul 1mo ago|5 comments
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by p4ul 2mo ago
My understanding is that this an essential component of their "Chronicles" database system. I'd be curious to hear more recent perspectives.
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by p4ul 3mo ago
Thanks for your comments, @chaboud! I definitely agree that LLMs _can_ be an amazing tool for learning, but as you note, one must be intentional about using them that way. I feel like the messages being pushed down from leadership are NOT o
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by p4ul 3mo ago
> The work that’s left is more interesting and more valuable than the work that’s leaving. I'm not sure I agree with that. Many (or most) of the software engineers I know find the heavy reliance on AI coding agents/assistants p
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by p4ul 4mo ago
Oh, thank you, @clmcleod! We've been following all your work closely in my team! I'm very bullish on the long-term prospects of Rust in computational biology—as well as research computing more generally.
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by p4ul 4mo ago
This is interesting; thanks for sharing! I have been curious about the adoption of Rust in computational biology. I know that the folks at Saint Jude's [1] are also using Rust for their 'omics research. [1] https://gith
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by p4ul 6mo ago
I'm very curious to hear folks' thoughts on this. My intuition is that there are at least two key factors that make tasks difficult for AI tools. (1.) The overall level of complexity. For example, I think (today) you would need to
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Rust Project Perspectives on AI(nikomatsakis.github.io)
2 points by p4ul 6mo ago|0 comments
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Stryker Hit with Suspected Iran-Linked Cyberattack(wsj.com)
5 points by p4ul 6mo ago|0 comments
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A Grand Vision for Rust(blog.yoshuawuyts.com)
3 points by p4ul 7mo ago|0 comments
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by p4ul 9mo ago
This might not be exactly what you mean by a CLI app called "whatisthis", but I have been using cheat.sh and the pattern below for a few years. It works really well! curl cheat.sh/grep # fetches brief grep cheat sheet
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AI Predictions for 2026: A DevOps Engineer's Guide(pulumi.com)
1 points by p4ul 9mo ago|0 comments
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by p4ul 9mo ago
I'm sorry if you've had a bad experience working with cloud technologies, but this comparison strikes me as pretty unfair. Public clouds have enabled thousands of companies to put their products into the world without having to bu
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by p4ul 10mo ago
If you haven't written off Python completely, I would suggest giving it a second chance using uv [1] for managing environments and Python versions. In my opinion, uv is the best thing to happen to Python in 10 years. [1] https:/&
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by p4ul 10mo ago
I agree with this, and I'd go even a bit further and describe them as predatory. They seem to have absolute contempt for their customers, and look for every possible opportunity to bleed them dry. But then again, I'm probably guil
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by p4ul 10mo ago
I had the same reaction. Haven't they been selling DGX boxes for almost 10 years now? And they've been selling the rack-scale NVL72 beast for probably a few years.[1] What is changing? [1] https://www.nvidia.com/en
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by p4ul 11mo ago
It's interesting that you mention disaster; there is at least one annual conference dedicated to "spreadsheet risk management".[1] [1] https://eusprig.org/
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by p4ul 11mo ago
Yep, and don't forget about Mojo, which has the potential to make such a transition less painful.
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by p4ul 11mo ago
I wish this was better understood more broadly. Grants aren't no-strings-attached gifts—far from it; they are contracts. When a researcher at a university gets a grant, that's the federal government hiring that researcher and th
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by p4ul 11mo ago
Yeah, I am very curious to see the responses from other institutions. The University of Texas (Austin) said they were "honored" to have received the compact.[1] That is obviously very concerning. [1] https://www.chronic
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by p4ul 1y ago
I feel like "other than the ecosystem" is doing quite a bit of work here.
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Developers remain willing but reluctant to use AI(stackoverflow.blog)
2 points by p4ul 1y ago|0 comments
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by p4ul 1y ago
This has been exactly my experience! I've found SQLx to be a joy to work with in Rust!
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by p4ul 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s
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by p4ul 1y ago
Your understanding is correct, dbeaver is a stand-alone application.
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by p4ul 1y ago
If the conclusion is "be transparent", I'm strongly supportive. And moreover, I would be even more supportive if we found a way to change the incentives for tenure and promotion such that reproducibility was an important fact
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CISA extends funding to ensure 'no lapse in critical CVE services'(bleepingcomputer.com)
6 points by p4ul 1y ago|1 comments
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Nvidia Adds Native Python Support to CUDA(thenewstack.io)
4 points by p4ul 1y ago|0 comments
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by p4ul 2y ago
I agree, but with one amendment: most tenure-track roles in the US will have 50 to 200 applicants for a single position. Over the last few decades, tenure lines have decreased while PhD admissions have not. Adjuncts do so much of the teachi
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by p4ul 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s

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