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New comment by nblgbg in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

nblgbg — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:34:18 +0000

My guess is that it's because of some vibe-coding stuff! We are using LLMs to write code, validate code and test the code ! What can go wrong ?

New comment by nblgbg in "AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet"

nblgbg — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 01:10:07 +0000

Isn’t it also destroying the internet with low-quality content and affecting content creation in general? Can LLMs still rely on data from the open internet for training?

New comment by nblgbg in "iPhone Pocket"

nblgbg — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:03:37 +0000

I thought it was a parody! Is this really what Apple can do?

New comment by nblgbg in "Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division"

nblgbg — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:44:42 +0000

I like that way of thinking. Out of curiosity, what kind of things do you work on that you feel make a positive contribution?

New comment by nblgbg in "Apple M5 chip"

nblgbg — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:36:36 +0000

32GB is the maximum memory configuration for the 14-inch laptop, which isn’t sufficient for running local LLMs. I think a Mac Studio or Mac Mini with higher memory would be more useful.

New comment by nblgbg in "What Is the Fourier Transform?"

nblgbg — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 01:40:20 +0000

Thanks a lot for all of this ! https://tools.laszlokorte.de/

New comment by nblgbg in "From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year"

nblgbg — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:29:55 +0000

Just blame Obama/Biden for it and move on ! I am not kidding that's what you will hear.

New comment by nblgbg in "AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks"

nblgbg — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 20:40:42 +0000

I always wonder about this: What happens to their ads business? Also, what's the incentive for websites to provide data to Google if they’re not getting the incoming clicks? The generative approach seems to disincentivize both, right?

New comment by nblgbg in "New federal data show H-1B and H-4 visas now capture 82% of all new US tech jobs"

nblgbg — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:47:53 +0000

No, every one has to pay.

New comment by nblgbg in "Treasury Yields Soar as Ballooning U.S. Deficit Worries Wall Street"

nblgbg — Thu, 22 May 2025 05:06:49 +0000

Ofcourse that is the case, with tariffs the demand for dollar also going down and leads to this !

New comment by nblgbg in "Semantic search engine for ArXiv, biorxiv and medrxiv"

nblgbg — Wed, 21 May 2025 02:15:45 +0000

Just curious, are there any techniques other than using embeddings, computing cosine similarity, and sorting the results based on that? RRF could be used but again its very simple as well.

New comment by nblgbg in "India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir"

nblgbg — Wed, 07 May 2025 04:03:25 +0000

"I understand your skepticism, but realistically, I don't see the case. Pakistan is in a very bad situation. The U.S. has cut off a lot of funding over the past decate. They were on the verge of bankruptcy a couple of years ago, and China bailed them out.

New comment by nblgbg in "India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir"

nblgbg — Wed, 07 May 2025 02:35:25 +0000

I believe it's mostly overstated. Pakistan is not economically strong enough to participate in a war, and India is not interested either. However, the Modi government wants to project strength. They were unable to locate the terrorists even after two or three weeks and needed a distraction. So, they targeted some areas in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). In response, Pakistan claimed to have shot down four Indian aircraft and a drone. However, so far, they haven't provided any pictures or locations to support these claims. Both sides will likely exchange fire along the border, and the situation will eventually calm down. Each side will claim victory in its own way.

New comment by nblgbg in "TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S."

nblgbg — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 02:37:13 +0000

I am a bit skeptical about all the announcements. Are companies really investing, or just making announcements? I wish it were the latter!

New comment by nblgbg in "CDC data are disappearing"

nblgbg — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 02:01:02 +0000

Don't know if whoever voted thought this through! We are undoing years of good governance, like Data.gov and this, now!

New comment by nblgbg in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

nblgbg — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:34:20 +0000

Reducing the number of managers is an interesting decision. I briefly worked at Amazon, and the only way for managers to get promoted is by hiring more people under them. There isn’t any other way to get promoted, which incentivizes managers to grow their teams and sometimes add features that may not make sense. Any opinions from ex-Amazonians?

New comment by nblgbg in "Amazon tells workers to return to office five days a week"

nblgbg — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:34:00 +0000

New comment by nblgbg in "U.S. Added 818,000 Fewer Jobs Than Reported Earlier"

nblgbg — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:20:42 +0000

Revisions happen all the time, sometimes more and sometimes less. https://recruitonomics.com/revisions-to-the-job-numbers-may-... It’s a headline now for different reasons!

New comment by nblgbg in "Artificial intelligence is losing hype"

nblgbg — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:44:28 +0000

https://archive.ph/PFmWw

New comment by nblgbg in "BMX: A Freshly Baked Take on BM25"

nblgbg — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 01:53:27 +0000

Thanks for sharing the article. How exactly are you combining BM25 and fastText? Are you combining the TF-IDF score + embedding distance? What are the weights for each of these?