Hacker News: marquisdepolis

New comment by marquisdepolis in "Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring"

marquisdepolis — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:02:05 +0000

Me too, though it feels just a grift.

New comment by marquisdepolis in "Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring"

marquisdepolis — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:24:29 +0000

This article is entirely AI generated, making this either a rather brilliant piece of meta commentary or just pure grift. Alas, my hopes are low.

New comment by marquisdepolis in "Iceberg I/O performance comparison at scale (Bodo vs. PyIceberg, Spark, Daft)"

marquisdepolis — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:51:01 +0000

A performant pythonic way to read and write data into Iceberg.

Iceberg I/O performance comparison at scale (Bodo vs. PyIceberg, Spark, Daft)

marquisdepolis — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:51:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bodo.ai/blog/iceberg-i-o-performance-comparison-at-scale-bodo-vs-pyiceberg-spark-daft

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44747509

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

BodoBench95: A Modern Benchmark for the Timeless Power of the Intel Pentium Pro

marquisdepolis — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:19:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bodo.ai/bodobench95

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548587

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

How to parallelize your LLM inference calls with Bodo

marquisdepolis — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:24:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bodo.ai/blog/how-to-parallelize-your-llm-inference-calls-with-bodo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485999

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by marquisdepolis in "Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere"

marquisdepolis — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:08:55 +0000

This is very interesting, clearly there's a major pain point here to be addressed, especially the delta between local pandas work and distributed [pyspark] work!

Would love to test this out and do benchmarks against us/ Dask/ Spark/ Ray etc which have been our primary testing ground. Full disclosure, work at Bodo which has similar-ish aspirations (https://github.com/bodo-ai/Bodo), but FOSS all the way.

Using Bodo to Read and Write AWS S3 Tables in Python

marquisdepolis — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:55:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bodo.ai/blog/using-bodo-to-read-and-write-aws-s3-tables-in-python

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43027808

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by marquisdepolis in "Seeing Like a Network"

marquisdepolis — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 03:58:49 +0000

As the author, I think this is my favourite comment I've ever received. I won't even try to argue with you about my bias!

New comment by marquisdepolis in "Seeing Like a Network"

marquisdepolis — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 03:57:10 +0000

They were!

New comment by marquisdepolis in "What can LLMs never do?"

marquisdepolis — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 02:02:26 +0000

Author here. This is super interesting, and while I am mostly a lurker here welcome back?

New comment by marquisdepolis in "What can LLMs never do?"

marquisdepolis — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 01:58:14 +0000

This is very interesting thanks Shawn. I did email William Merrill to see his thoughts but didn't get a response yet.

New comment by marquisdepolis in "What can LLMs never do?"

marquisdepolis — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 01:53:43 +0000

They are librarians, just that it happens to be the library of Babel.

New comment by marquisdepolis in "What can LLMs never do?"

marquisdepolis — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 01:50:47 +0000

(Author here). I tried creating something similar in order to solve wordle etc, and the interesting part is that it is insufficient still. That's part of the mystery.

New comment by marquisdepolis in "Four Magic Words"

marquisdepolis — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 05:32:19 +0000

An excellent short story about an ASI getting super-aligned through four magic words, and its aftermath

Four Magic Words

marquisdepolis — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 05:32:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fortressofdoors.com/four-magic-words/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38908662

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by marquisdepolis in "Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and feuding"

marquisdepolis — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 04:50:25 +0000

It's quite literally not. After she wrote that it would be silly if you didn't even have discussions considering this.

Actively working would require active efforts to make this happen.

New comment by marquisdepolis in "Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and feuding"

marquisdepolis — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 04:04:58 +0000

In this instance, "Sam is trying to take over the Board on a flimsy basis" is an reasonable reason to remove him. Started leading discussions about whether she should be removed, is also very very far from actively working to remove her.

This is amateur hour and considering what happened she probably should have been removed.

New comment by marquisdepolis in "Some things to learn from the British East India Company's growth and demise"

marquisdepolis — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 14:14:31 +0000

Fwiw I wrote right upfront that it's of course terrible. But the assumption was that now that we've acknowledged that we can also look at other aspects. I get the revulsion though, sorry!

New comment by marquisdepolis in "Some things to learn from the British East India Company's growth and demise"

marquisdepolis — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 14:13:06 +0000

Yup, midjourney