dachryn

alpaca lora is quite capable actually and is suddenly gaining a hell of a lot of traction in the corporate world

dont underestimate how many of those parameters are actually necessary to support multiple languages.

If you focus on english only, this can easily reduce the paramters 5fold

you are underestimating the impact of programs like this.

The CEO will quickly spot broken processes and inefficiencies. Ass kissing can't make up for business problems. Beyond that, by working in a different store, gets a feel on how generic the approach can be, and where they need local optimizations.

The only think you are taking out of the consideration is toxic lower management and asshole colleagues, but that's not something I'd expect the CEO to fix directly himself. If anything he is just bored of the ass kissers and good news shows, and wants to regain a feel of reality

I was not expecting this Reddit level of comments on HN. Really hoping you are sarcastic.

the execs definitely miss out on a lot of money because bonus programs are typically multi year.

There are always -short term (how did we do this year, the classic everyone gets) -long term (bonus defined today, paid out over a few years if you meet the strategic goals, typically director and exec level, we are easily talking 100k+/year here in bonus money)

bonusses. So, yeah, still a financial letdown for them. But they still got paid quite a lot of money of course. The average swiss person had no stakes or no culpability at all (except maybe choosing them, clients could have walkd away)

on paper, in practice they don't kill products, they just die because of mismanagement.

Google is the other hand, they kill products outright even when there is still life in it.

With microsoft you can pay for extended support, but its pretty basic. They don't fix bugs, its only 'security issues'

the openAI playbook

They are brilliant at marketing (look at DALL-E). But then stable diffusion comes along etc and they need to prove their worth against competition. I am afraid Microsoft is not handling this well

a 400 month customer is really a tiny fish, don't expect special treatment without support packages. Do you even have an enterprise contract with them? The bronze contract can be had from 0 spend, and gives the option to pay through invoicing and have support. Or are you just going through credit card which is intended for hobby use?

I am not defending them, but this is totally on you. What was the missing information? Lack of identity verification or credit card verification? Again that's on you. You should have also received a warning in the cloud console and if you hvae the cloud app on your phone, there as well.

yes thats their business model: have universities and institutions pay for access.

it's simple: Many companies are on Azure for some reason. (mainly because of preexisting microsoft contracts, and because its so tightly coupled with office that if you want office at the enterprise level, you always need a little of Azure)

Now, those companies need data infrastructure. Azure ML studio is horrible. Azure data factory is somewhat okay'ish, but far from ideal. Azure Synapse is a steaming pile of junk that doesn't seem to improve. Azure data lake is kinda functional as a data lake, but lacks any decent ways to analyze that data.

Spinning up jupyter notebooks is not something most IT teams understand, they want a managed service.

As far as I know, Databricks is then the only solution offered by Microsoft. That's why they get such a high adoption rate. Not because of merit, but because they are the only somewhat acceptable solution on Azure. Good enough to just work. Not good enough to gain a competitive data advantage.

I hate what the world has come to, but sadly IT procurement has too much influence and CTO's dont understand the modern world enough. They just care about the big Microsoft contract, because it makes them look good (look at all these savings!)

If Microsoft would showcase Teradata or Dataiku or a bit of Snowflake, all of those run through the azure marketplace anyway,... we would be better off. But consultants and premium partners naturally only care about Databricks

can you actually link to the ones you recommend then?

Because I am quite interested then in figuring out the economics side of obtaining one

you are too pessimistic. Senior profiles definitely dived into the statistics aspect of it all. Experiment design is often a big part of modern business cases, because naturally it is part of the cost to obtain data.

It is still taught at university if you do a master degree or PhD at a decent place.

But I agree that many juniors have no clue. Especially those who are self taught and join in from a different field

lol that's such an abuse of statistics that absolutely makes no sense

The problem in Portugal is the relation between income and housing cost. If the average rent of a 1 bedroom is 1000/month, and the average net income is 1300/month, you have a problem.

And oh boy are they building. Entire new zones that didn't even exist 20 years ago are now full of high rise buildings, public transport, shopping malls, ... But the prices to live there are phenomenal, even to western european standards.

they mostly use numpy (matrix maths library).

So if you use a library for matrix multiplication, inverse, transpose, ... with a nice syntax, you're good to go.

there are education discount programs for students etc..