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Comment · 22 days ago
What LLM backend does it use?
Comment · 1 year ago
Wow, who knew making proprietary accelerators could be so profitable.
Comment · 3 years ago
Its called a fruit?
Comment · 4 years ago
So, are people who work for microtargeting platforms (FB etc) war criminals?
Comment · 5 years ago
IIRC you could always overcommit in Mesos using DRF weights and accepting resource offers in your application. I could be wrong.

The larger point is that Mesos introduced a new, exciting way to do truly distributed allocation (where the cluster manager (i.e., Mesos) and various applications coordinated and cooperated in how they use computing resources). In contrast, Kubernetes is centralized, pretty vanilla, and I would love to know what new ideas it has introduced (from an algorithmic and architecture perspective).

Comment · 5 years ago
Mesos made a ton of new contributions to distributed resource management. Resource offers and application integration can allow high cluster utilization and efficiency. Giving applications the opportunity to take part in resource allocation and scheduling was similar to the Exokernel design, and led to many interesting middleware architectures.

Mesos also introduced Dominant Resource Fairness for allocating resources to competing applications, which has become an important concept in CS and specifically computational economics in its own right.

Mesos achieved the rare combination of using CS research towards a widely deployed operational system. Its C++ code is simple enough to understand and hack, and seemed like one of those projects that you can/want to reimplement on your own "in a few days".

It is sad how quickly it has become obsolete.

Comment · 5 years ago
In almost all cases, the support of these giant corporations is towards feature-sets that are inherently self-serving. In many cases, they wield too much power and hijack the direction of the opensource projects. For example, there's plenty of optimizations for server-side CPU performance on Linux, often to the detriment of desktop interactive performance (see Con Kolivas' scheduler and his 10+ year long struggle).
Comment · 5 years ago
You can apply this logic for any wasteful activity. Lets boil the ocean with coal-fired plants, because something something production vs. consumption.
Comment · 5 years ago
Sorry, why is this downvoted? There is a serious argument to be had about the source of income for surveillance and tracking driven websites. If the oft-used line of "users being products" is true, then where's our profit?
Comment · 5 years ago
So, do its main revenue generators (i.e., users) get a share of the profits?
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Very interesting and different way to "visualize" non determinism. The connection to quantum mechanics is intriguing...
Comment · 5 years ago
He is the richest person in the world. Such trivial rules dont apply to him...
Comment · 5 years ago
It is Elon Musk---why would he care about the proles' "environment"
Comment · 5 years ago
I have always wondered what common usecases such systems address. How large are the graphs typically? Are graphs really that big that they dont fit in a single machine?

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