jtoberon

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IAM @ AWS. Comments and opinions my own.
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Comment · 5 months ago
The output is Allow or Deny. To be Allowed, you need an policy that includes an Allow statement. If you don't have one, then the result is implicit Deny by default. Also, any explicit Deny wins over all Allows. Disclosure: I work on AWS IAM.
Comment · 1 year ago
That's not the way to look at the numbers. First, you'd want to talk about whether the results are statistically significant. Second, when dealing with a fatal disease, people are pretty happy if their odds of survival go up by a few %.
Comment · 1 year ago
Presumably because they're otherwise very healthy.
Comment · 1 year ago
You should stop presenting your opinions such as “Cancer only affects people who generally already have other problems” and “they will probably get something else anyway” as facts.
Comment · 1 year ago
Imagine a reader who is not one of your lucky “most” majority. Imagine a reader whose cancer was not caused by the bad lifestyle decisions that you listed. Put yourself in the position of somebody who undergoes extensive surgery/radiation/chemotherapy and then lives with the side effects of these treatments. Consider what it’s like to live with the fear of recurrence even after such treatment. Then maybe you’ll understand why people might be excited about the potential of this sort of screening.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Disclosure: I work at AWS.

Here are some examples from my team’s 2019 work: We contributed numerous changes to containerd. We open sourced firecracker-containerd, and we also created a Go SDK that others are using to work with Firecracker. We contributed to Debian and the Debian kernel team. We contributed to Envoy. We collaborated with a number of communities, including Kata Containers, Red Hat’s Clair, and the Open Container Initiative. All of these examples are sustained investments, not one offs.

Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
To clarify, an AWS customer has a shared responsibility to describe the security of their systems including how they use AWS tools, and in this respect Amazon is no different than other AWS customers.
Comment · 9 years ago
Question for the author: how do you actually deploy your model? Do you have a dependency on Spark in your production system?
Comment · 11 years ago
I'm not 100% sure what you mean by utility real-time programs, but yes, this probably is they meant. Nest knows where you live (I don't mean that in a creepy way), and they can help you enroll in what are called "demand response" or "load control" programs in your area. When you enroll, you get an incentive like a bill credit or a free thermostat, and you give the utility permission to turn your AC off for a little while at some point during the summer.

Many of these utility programs actively recruit customers, so chances are (a) you'll get a chance to sign up even if you own a different type of connected (e.g. WiFi) thermostat, and (b) the sign up process won't be hard.

Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
In the NYC area, there's http://www.refactory.co/. I used to work with these guys, and they know their stuff.

They argue in favor of both designing and manufacturing locally. A quote from their blog: "If you kind of just prototype something and bring it to China expecting that then thousands of these things can be made easily without understanding the processes and materiality of manufacturing, that is gonna be a big problem for you. What works is when the design process is iterated alongside the manufacturing process."

Comment · 12 years ago
In NYC, there's http://www.refactory.co/. I used to work with these guys, and they're great.

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