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by pstoll 5d ago
The women who made up the workforce of telephone switch operators would like to have a word. Meaning - every new technology has both been perceived as a threa and often forced change in society. Agree maybe “it feels different” this time, b
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by pstoll 2mo ago
wtf it's paywalled after the first little bit. was not expecting that from a "blog". I'm looking for a place to direct people to see the math behind it, seemed like it had potential.
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by pstoll 2mo ago
Did they finally make a viable version of spanner for themselves?
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by pstoll 2mo ago
Except that Mac ultra M3 they talk about is now only being sold in the 96 GB configuration. It’s no longer being sold in larger Ram configurations by Apple Apple because of the global RAM shortage. And you can not add memory after purchase
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by pstoll 2mo ago
Agreed on - it took a long time to get to the “so what is new here” vs the broader topic of distributed consensus. Stylistically would prefer more upfront “here is what is novel here”
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by pstoll 2mo ago
TBH I’m doubtful of most people building their own crypto libs and distributed consensus implementations. But maybe cloudflare can pull it off. Good to see them pushing the state of distributed consensus. Take aways: * it’s not in prod yet
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by pstoll 3mo ago
“In the building” the building happened to be their secure data centers, not their offices.
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by pstoll 5mo ago
Feels like all the write ups that point out the short comings of eg Python for scientific computing. Sure, except that once you have a community at critical mass around a reasonably good tool, that trumps most other things. Momentum builds.
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by pstoll 6mo ago
PLG. Any article I have to search for an acronym and don’t find it - nope.
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by pstoll 6mo ago
And a group has published an independent working implementation today, nice to see: https://github.com/tonbistudio/turboquant-pytorch
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by pstoll 6mo ago
Good post but link at the end is broken. “”” For the full technical explanation with equations, proofs, and PyTorch pseudocode, see the companion post: TurboQuant: Near-Optimal Vector Quantization Without Looking at Your Data.“
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by pstoll 7mo ago
And the lower precision float variants.
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by pstoll 7mo ago
TLDR the recorded media isn’t end-to-end encrypted and they aren’t selling it but instead using it to train their own systems. What is new here?
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by pstoll 8mo ago
Ditto - completely appeals to me. I’m good starting with mail.
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by pstoll 8mo ago
I’m the opposite - I much prefer a structured query language (ahem) for this type of thing. If I’m looking at someone’s (ie my own 6 months later) script I much prefer to see the explicit structure being queried vs “why are we feeling for f
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by pstoll 9mo ago
Yes only on that page, not the rest of his blog. Guessing he ansible’d it to redirect ;)
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by pstoll 9mo ago
Neat idea à la regex golf. But doesn’t seem to do enough shell escaping or correctly. Also seems underspecified, ie “find 5 lines starting with ‘the” doesn’t require a pipe to head -5.
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by pstoll 10mo ago
I get what your saying but I think it’s not the best way to describe it - “GPL is property”? Hardly - it’s a societal common good that can be used by anyone interested in helping that common good. Are parks “proprietary”? I can’t run my car
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by pstoll 10mo ago
Lol I was hoping for that too
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by pstoll 11mo ago
It’s the “no longer evil” marketing without actually proving that “no longer evil.com” is in fact … from from evil. I was assuming that I could point the nest data stream & control UI to my own hosted thing on eg my local NAS or docker
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by pstoll 11mo ago
Proposal - every new thing needs a “here are the systems we consider and rejected” entry. I can’t find one on the docs here. Founders care to comment on if you evaluated if Tremor ( https://github.com/tremor-rs/tremor-ru
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by pstoll 11mo ago
My first inclination too tbh. And then I saw Npm references and thought “in JavaScript?!” But at least it’s typescript.
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by pstoll 11mo ago
In TypeScript, interesting. Not the obvious choice IMO but trying to keep an open mind. Was that because of team expertise or particular aspects of TS you thought suited the domain?
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by pstoll 11mo ago
“Service Adverbs - like ‘route’ and ‘fanout’” Grammarians are going to be big angry here. Ain’t an adverb in sight.
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by pstoll 1y ago
Upvoting the comment that the gitrepo would be way more self stand-alone if it had an intro of the DSL.
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by pstoll 1y ago
I’d argue we aren’t solving those inverse kinematics / kinetics via “number crunching” - but rather that our neuromuscular systems are analog. Which I don’t usually call that “number crunching” in the sense current computers … compute.
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by pstoll 1y ago
> I can practically see it playing out now: there is some huge incident of some kind, in some system or service with an MCP component somewhere, with some elaborate post-mortem revealing that some MCP server somewhere screwed up Already
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by pstoll 1y ago
> Falling back to CPU only Patient: “Doctor, it hurts when I do this.” Doctor: “don’t do that”
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by pstoll 1y ago
The other thing is that Microsoft does not own the copyright for any of the code they used. Facing their work on code they don’t own the copyright to is incredibly messy from an IP point of view. It’s why con contributor licenses agreements
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by pstoll 2y ago
Please tell me you are at least aware that tremor exists and that you rebuilt it on purpose? https://www.tremor.rs/

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