mpercy

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Comment · 1 year ago
Quite literally a fender bender.
Comment · 1 year ago
It doesn’t give any examples of open- vs closed-skills sports in the abstract…
Comment · 2 years ago
I believe it. Denying delicious El Farolito burritos to New Jerseyans would be tantamount to a war crime.
Comment · 3 years ago
He has the advantage of knowing what is there and they can create an arrangement to license or sell the IP to another entity… if it’s just gathering dust, why not?
Comment · 3 years ago
How are people actually using vector databases?

The closest explanation to a use case architecture I've seen recently was https://mattboegner.com/knowledge-retrieval-architecture-for... - it basically describes doing knowledge retrieval (keyword parsing) from LLM queries, feeding that to a vector db to do similarity search to get a top K similar documents to the parsed keywords, then feeding that list that back into the LLM as potential useful documents it can reference in its response. It's neat but it seems a bit hacky. Is that really the killer app for these things?

Comment · 5 years ago
Who is developing this product? Under what circumstances is it 30% faster than Parquet?
Comment · 5 years ago
Cuy is guinea pig, not rat, but I hear you on the rodent flavor. Worth it once for the experience but I wouldn’t eat it a second time!
Comment · 5 years ago
This is really neat. One piece of feedback is it begins and ends TeX expressions by saying “dollar” which is distracting. Probably best to strip the TeX syntax while retaining the expressions. Simple ones like O(1) should be understandable aurally, even if complex expressions may not be.
Comment · 5 years ago
There is no doubt.
Comment · 5 years ago
Most people have good health care plans through their employer that pays for most of this stuff. I paid a few hundred dollars to the hospital when my child was born and we were there for several days. There are just a lot of people who for one reason or another do not have those benefits. It’s a very multimodal experience here unfortunately.
Comment · 5 years ago
FF as in Firefox?
Comment · 5 years ago
Not true. Carter gave a blanket pardon to all Vietnam draft dodgers, many of whom fled the country before being convicted.
Comment · 6 years ago
Lovely article. Allosaurus is amazing and terrifying. Very cool factoids about the bunny hands, first time hearing they were incorrectly depicted.
Comment · 6 years ago
Since I mentioned performance, one other area that makes flexibility nontrivial is how you decide to serialize different types of messages on the wire and on disk. If you don't need extensibility, it's easy to keep things pretty efficient just by using e.g. gRPC and protobuf out of the box. If you want complete flexibility, the simplest thing to do is to give your plugin interfaces blobs to write into and you end up double-serializing everything.

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