hcentelles
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@hcentelles, co-founder revolico.com, fonoma.com
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Comment · 3 years ago
Could you please elaborate on how you utilize both of them together, and for which specific use case? I'm attempting to gain a better understanding of the hybrid approach.
Comment · 3 years ago
To keep the "memory", do you pass the embeddings along with the new text prompt in an API call? How do you combine embeddings and text prompts? I don't know much about this, sorry if the question sounds silly.
Comment · 5 years ago
Oh, it seems like I’ll have to wait for that, at least for batch queries support.
I’ll try to keep myself updated on your changelog.
Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks for the quick (good news) answer. I’ve more questions
We use Apollo client, I’m worried about 2 specific features of it:
Batch queries [1], we’re currently using it.
Persisted queries [2], we’re planning to using it.
Are those compatible with GraphCDN?
1. https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/api/link/apollo-lin...
2. https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/api/link/persisted-...
Comment · 5 years ago
I’ve being waiting for a product like this for some time now, I think there is a huge (not yet served) market for this. I’ve tried to implement something using Cloudflare workers, but failed, also tried to use Apollo Cloud trough a Apollo Federation server in front of my (non Apollo Server) API, failed too.
Some questions:
How it compares with Apollo Cloud on feature set terms?
My graphql server load is like 20 request/s average. At first the pricing looks a little bit intimidating for me, but running the numbers it looks like $500/m, is that right? Hopefully it will offset some of my origin servers costs.
What count as a request? Just request coming from the “outside” or also calls to purge for example?
I’ll be trying GraphCDN soon, maybe even today.
Good luck
Comment · 11 years ago
The app is hosted in a typical cloud computing environment. The traffic from Cuba is 4M page views monthly. El Paquete gets updated every week so the people are seeing ads active the week before. We sell premium listing, our clients ask us for the right timing so its ads gets into El Paquete in the firsts positions.
Comment · 11 years ago
It seems like google is in Cuba right now, talking about this:
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/google-testing-the-wat...
Comment · 11 years ago
Not really, unfortunately:
http://cubanotes.com/is-the-cuban-government-censoring-el-pa...
Comment · 11 years ago
It's been a while now since "El Paquete" became the main distribution channel of online content in Cuba, a lot has been written about this before.More on this:
A less known aspect of this topic is the net neutrality issues that this kind of distribution imply. At the end of the day, all the content come from this mighty anonymous source that download and distribute the content for a profit, presumably a huge profit. This source is god, he or she has the last word of what get in and what is left out.
So, since the beginning of "El Paquete" my website revolico.com went in. Revolico content (classifieds ads) is like a basic need in a market with almost 100% goverment control over the retail space (price fixing, availability, etc.), but about a month ago our content was left out, with a note that said that it would no longer be available because it has been used to for the purposes of “personal and political defamation against the country and its citizens.”, I was like WTF, is this the goverment infiltrating "El Paquete"? is a nasty move of our competitors? Who knows, the problem is that one guy has the power to decide what is ditribute it and what is not. This is not good by any mean.
Two weeks after revolico came back to "El Paquete", everything points that the customers were asking for it, so the producers were forced to include it again.
"El Paquete" is one of the best things that is happen in Cuba digital space right now, but a not centralized version is mandatory to make it less vulnerable to goverment control or other kind of arbitrariness.
http://cubanotes.com/is-the-cuban-government-censoring-el-pa...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/23/cuba-offline-in...
Comment · 11 years ago
Accurate snapshot of the internet state in Cuba, well written from a american point of view.
As the cofounder of one of the most popular cuban websites, revolico.com, I'm suffering this since 2007. We launch revolico on December '07, on march '08 the government blocked our IPs, then when we circumvent this censorship, they made a DNS spoofing nationwide.
Nevertheless revolico is still the #1 classifieds ads site of the island, way ahead of the government offering, our users are doing a lot of crazy and creative stuff to get acces to the site.
So Cuba, besides having an internet penetration of less than 5%, strongly censor the link, which is even sadder. I predict that access will increase in the near/medium term, but unfortunately proportionally with the censorship.
Comment · 12 years ago
I can't get the email from your profile, but you can ping me on twitter @hcentelles, it will be nice to be in touch
Comment · 12 years ago
I'm from Cuba, living in Spain right now.
The Cuban government is reluctant to open internet access to the people, despite of they already have the needed bandwith through a submarine cable from Venezuela. Is really fascinating how the Cubans have developed a higly optimized offline distribution channel to share dowloaded content like websites, software, video games, tv shows, movies, with almost the same comsuption patterns of the connected world.
This is a loable move from Obama admnistration and can have a pontentially impact on the near future of cuban internet. The White House fact sheet (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/17/fact-s...) said:
"Telecommunications providers will be allowed to establish the necessary mechanisms, including infrastructure, in Cuba to provide commercial telecommunications and internet services, which will improve telecommunications between the United States and Cuba."
If Cuban government allow this kind of companies to do business on or with Cuba, that could be huge. But if happens, this could be very slow, sadly.
Disclosure: I'm the cofounder of some Cuba related startups, a classifieds ads site censored by the Cuba government https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUmPkb44n_w, they block us by ip and dns, despite of the censorship, revolico is one of the most visited sites in the country, taking into account that cuba has a 5% internet penetration. Also a atypical remittances platform https://www.fonoma.com and crowfunding site for cuban artists shutted down by the USA goverment because of the kind of restriction that they are softening today http://www.yagruma.org