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New comment by TheMrZZ in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

TheMrZZ — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:47:45 +0000

> A single TPU 8t superpod now scales to 9,600 chips and two petabytes of shared high bandwidth memory, with double the interchip bandwidth of the previous generation. This architecture delivers 121 ExaFlops of compute and allows the most complex models to leverage a single, massive pool of memory.

This seems impressive. I don't know much about the space, so maybe it's not actually that great, but from my POV it looks like a competitive advantage for Google.

New comment by TheMrZZ in "What if database branching was easy?"

TheMrZZ — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:23:42 +0000

Snowflake uses a similar system with their 0-copy cloning. It starts with the original table's partition, and keeps track of the delta created by subsequent operations. Always found that builtin mechanism pretty neat!

New comment by TheMrZZ in "Welcome to FastMCP"

TheMrZZ — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:51:32 +0000

For MCP servers, there's no need to install a potentially untrusted software on your computer. Remote MCP can do very little harm, a CLI though? You're vulnerable to bad actors or supply chain attacks.

For client side MCP it's a different story.

New comment by TheMrZZ in "Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering"

TheMrZZ — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:56:53 +0000

I don't know how much SWE get paid in your area, but I sure hope it's not 1000$/month.

Though I'm aligned that I don't (yet) believe in this "AI writes all my code for me" statements.

New comment by TheMrZZ in "PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports"

TheMrZZ — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:05:17 +0000

Feels like a good feature, with a simple explanation, real world use cases, and a scoped solution (global only, pretty simple keyword). I like it!

New comment by TheMrZZ in "The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare"

TheMrZZ — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:18:06 +0000

My Samsung S24 Ultra shows black lines too, on Chrome and Samsung Internet.

New comment by TheMrZZ in "Generating Simpson's Paradox with Z3"

TheMrZZ — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:29:15 +0000

To add some proofs to my answer, I actually coded a Z3 program to prove it! The 3-variables version takes too long to resolve, but I got results for the 2-variables version (tumor size + gender):

Results can be found in this GSheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tsBhElTgXjVTeas8quar...

Code is here: https://gist.github.com/TheMrZZ/c33927ca2cc917997a67d7f84b82...

I'm currently running the 3-variables version, hopefully I'll get results this afternoon.

We can clearly see the same problems that arise in the 1-variable Simpson's paradox (widely different population sizes).

New comment by TheMrZZ in "Generating Simpson's Paradox with Z3"

TheMrZZ — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:28:45 +0000

> If the previous comment is right

I actually coded a Z3 program to prove it! The 3-variables version takes too long to resolve, but I got results for the 2-variables version (tumor size + gender):

Results can be found in this GSheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tsBhElTgXjVTeas8quar...

Code is here: https://gist.github.com/TheMrZZ/c33927ca2cc917997a67d7f84b82...

I'm currently running the 3-variables version, hopefully I'll get results this afternoon.

We can clearly see the same problems that arise in the 1-variable Simpson's paradox (widely different population sizes).

New comment by TheMrZZ in "Generating Simpson's Paradox with Z3"

TheMrZZ — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 22:47:49 +0000

Biggest trap of Simpson's paradox is the results can change with every level of granularity.

If you take the example of Treatment A vs Treatment B for tumors, you can get infinite layers of seemingly contradicting statemens: - Overall, Treatment A has better average results - But if you add tumor size, Treatment B is always better - But if you add gender to size, Treatment B is always better - But if you add age category to gender and size, Treatment A is always better - etc...

It totally contradicts our instincts, and shows statistics can be profoundly misleading (intentionally or not).

New comment by TheMrZZ in "Using S3 as a Container Registry"

TheMrZZ — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 13:40:38 +0000

Aside from the casino story (high value target that likely faces tons of attacks, therefore an expensive customer for CF), did something happen with them? I'm not aware of bad press around them in general

New comment by TheMrZZ in "Nvidia to Acquire Run:AI"

TheMrZZ — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:50:35 +0000

I suspect having a 10M population "only" + very bad commercial relations with their direct neighbours make Israeli startups think global from scratch. In Europe, most startups tend to think local-first, which hinders their scaling.

New comment by TheMrZZ in "This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI"

TheMrZZ — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 12:23:02 +0000

Hi! Are your models english only, or do you plan on tackling other languages?