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New comment by ssalbiz in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

ssalbiz — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:02:23 +0000

My understanding is that RLVR, synthetic data generation and a slew of other post-training techniques are what have driven many recent advances in models more so than manual data providers. The economics of that are for sure worse than just scaling pre-training but it is incorrect to think that test time inference scaling and manual data entry are the only ways in which models are advancing.

New comment by ssalbiz in "Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big"

ssalbiz — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:29:03 +0000

Disclaimer: I've worked with and submitted a few odd patches to Hive. I have not worked with Pig directly.

I think you ought to consider what you mean by inferior here carefully. If you mean 'Hive QL can capture many of the common semantics of SQL' then sure.

If you mean just about anything else, you're wrong. The performance and reliability considerations of Hive/Hadoop are vastly different and very easily inferior to a mysql or postgres setup for small to mid-size datasets.

(That doesn't even get into ease-of-usage. Anyone who's ever dealt with Hive's dreaded 'error: return code: -9' can attest to how maddening Hive can be to use).

New comment by ssalbiz in "Defeated"

ssalbiz — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:31:00 +0000

I've been allowed to keep my belongings with me when I opt-out in the past. This has helped alleviate the stress of opting out considerably.