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by pradn 21d ago
The post is clearly in Claude English. Sorry not going to read a post in such an obnoxious style.
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S&P Dow Jones Indices Consultation on Treatment of MegaCap Companies(press.spglobal.com)
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by pradn 4mo ago
Well, yea. Everyone agrees with these points. Who wants to ruin things for the sake of it? The reason why things get worse is because of systemic problems: misaligned incentives, information asymmetry, diffuse responsibility, etc. It's
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by pradn 4mo ago
They have a "before" picture but not an "after"!
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by pradn 5mo ago
Suddenly turning off services when the billing cap is reached is a big reliability risk for customers. All workloads using that billing account would be impacted immediately. If they weren't turned off at the billing cap, but were give
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by pradn 5mo ago
How much do existing services trust new email service providers? It would seem to be an uphill battle for Cloudflare to start a new service. It's easy to automate from the start, meaning it's easier to send spam. I suppose reputat
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by pradn 5mo ago
Brilliant piece of content marketing: 1) Pulls you in with a catchy title, that at first glance seems like a dunk on Cal.com (whatever that is). 2) Takes the "we understand your pain" approach to empathize w/ Cal.com, so you
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by pradn 6mo ago
A blog post like this is half the story. I’d like to see the results. Did your brother get more business? What were the failure modes? Did customers care if it was a bot or not?
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by pradn 6mo ago
They have direct feedback that many people return them bc they’re too heavy, and yet… It’s just Apple being stubborn. I guess it’s not a big enough problem for them, and they don’t care about losing the market. One must laugh.
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by pradn 6mo ago
Is AI-driven clean room implementation a wild west at the moment? I suppose there haven't yet been any cases to test this out in real life?
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by pradn 6mo ago
I'm glad you remember it as well! I didn't think to see if there was a recording or something of this talk, until now. It looks like the text of the talk was published here: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/Dijk
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by pradn 6mo ago
That's right - it was bubble sort first. Absolutely - frail, yet sharp. I'm happy to hear several of us didn't forget this encounter with him.
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by pradn 6mo ago
Good to hear from you after a while, Gaurav (I think?!).
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by pradn 6mo ago
He came to give a lecture at UT Austin, where I did my undergrad. I had a chance to ask him a question: "what's the story behind inventing QuickSort?". He said something simple, like "first I thought of MergeSort, and th
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by pradn 7mo ago
The problem can be complex, which sometimes means the solution needs to be complex. Often, you can solve a complex problem in simple ways. There’s many ways to do that: a) finding a new theoretical frame that simplifies the space or solutio
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by pradn 7mo ago
One of the odd things people do with tech is taking someone else's random projections at face value? What does it mean to say "we were promised flying cars", or "every city would have micro-factories, that 3D printing wo
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by pradn 7mo ago
It's extremely painful that there's are free, OSS dictation tools that can run on-device, that are so much better than Apple's dictation, and yet it's quite difficult to use them on the iPhone. I'm referring to Whis
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by pradn 8mo ago
> When I was taken to the Tate Modern as a child I’d point at Mark Rothko pieces and say to my mother “I could do that”, and she would say “yes, but you didn’t.” Actually, no you couldn't. The subtlety of the choice of colors, their
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by pradn 8mo ago
> The value got extracted, but compensation isn't flowing back. That bothers me, and it deserves a broader policy conversation. It bothers me, too. But, look at the history of the internet. There's no reason to expect we'l
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by pradn 9mo ago
All this measurement is useful only if you change your behavior in response. How often is this the case?
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by pradn 1y ago
A common pattern I see is data-plane nodes receiving versioned metadata updates from the control-plane. As long as the version is higher than the node's previous one, it's correct to use. So, the metadata is a sort of monotonic co
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by pradn 1y ago
We can work toward closing security gaps with new technology, yes. It is necessary for large-scale adoption of LLM tech.
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by pradn 1y ago
I didn't see this, thank you! They have a follow-up as well: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/ferret-ui-2
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by pradn 1y ago
I have used it actually! It's been years so the fact that it's an accessibility tree just like in a browser didn't come to mind immediately. Both Mac and Windows have such representations for native apps. The actual functiona
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by pradn 1y ago
It's not a smart move to avoid integrating the most important capability advance in computing in the past decade - LLMs. They do support small cases, like summarizing text. But there's scope to do more.
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by pradn 1y ago
They're stuck on the privacy angle, because what it means is you can't call remote services. You'll always have access to more resources at a data-center than a phone. So, while the frontier of what's possible with purel
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by pradn 1y ago
Apple needs on-device AI to do chores for me with the apps I have installed. Apple has everything it needs: * Apps are already logged in, so no extra friction to grant access. * Apps mostly use Apple-developed UI frameworks, so Apple could
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by pradn 1y ago
They have a super fast and slick file storage app. Some of the features that are natural additions to that feature set work quite well, like document scanning. But so much of what Dropbox does seems like they can't stay put and be happ
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by pradn 1y ago
Thanks for writing a balanced article - much easier to take your arguments seriously! And a sign of expertise.
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by pradn 1y ago
How can anyone actually defend these silly, self-defeating tariff maneuvers?

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