We didn't know that for GP3 disks, you can increase not only IOPS but also Read/Write Throughput [1] which by default is 125 MB/s. So by default we were not seeing the performance we expected.

Once we increased the throughput of the EBS, it was amazing. So if you are not seeing the performance you read about online when using DuckDB, it may be something like that.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ManagementGuide/emr-p...

I've actually seen more and more LinkedIn posts from recruiters that [are proud of ] have been laid off themselves. You know things are bad when recruiters are the ones looking for jobs.

It doesn't have to be free, we have the means to transact in a p2p fashion electronically as well.

So we must build and adopt frameworks that allow individuals to share resources to run SOTA models in a distributed manner. That way they will also be non-censorable by governments.

Also The only way to prevent that one entity weaponizes it, is by giving EVERYONE access to it.

Down here in my city in Mexico that's basically how everyone played it, so most of us played only the first level.

At some point, I was tinkering with the "x tree gold" program and saw the "hex view" thing. I remember opening Prince's .sav file, which was a very small file that only appeared after you saved. After tinkering with the numbers I managed to appear in the next level .

It was my 5 minutes of fame at my computer class when I arrived and showed that I had passed the bottles room.

And I became fascinated by cracking at that point.

All that in around 100 lines of code, including the training/fine-tuning of the tiny YOLO nn.

I've never had the patience to build those. I think I have PTSD from my childhood, when my dat bought us a "cheap" brand of lego-like toys (called TENTE I think) for which the bottom pieces fell as you plugged the top pieces.

But "suppliers" know that demand has bo choice but swallow the prices and services.

Kind of like "cable companies" oligopolies but worse (see southpark espisode).

Health care should not be for profit.

https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Solaria

They were a race of humans that hated contact with other people. Each of of them lived in estates separated by acres of space.

We keep pushing our culture/society towards that sort of thing. We keep writing into to this "social" media (including what I am just writing) which is not social at all (but more akin to shouting opinions the middle of a mall).

Way back in the past (around 30 years ago) I remember reading an article on "how to read a book" or a similar subject. They argued that, you should not skip the acknowledgments, preface and other "personal" related sections of a book, because it was there where you got a glimpse of the person that was writing the book. The idea being that, you should had in mind that the person writing was explaining something through you.

Carl Sagan even has a video where he argues Books/Writing is some sort of communication through time.

Now, this has been the case historically: A person writes some text (even in botched language like my writing, as English is not my first language) with thinking that someone else in the future will read the ideas and reason about them.

But what about text written by an LLM? Does it have inherent intention? When reading LLM text, it feels like looking at those "this is not a person" photos. Yeah, they are words, yeah they form sentences and paragraphs but... they lack "soul".

Tangential but this is funny. Back in the early 90s, I did a lot of BASIC programming in the family computer, this was before we had Internet. I could spend hours.and hours in front of the computer doing stuff.

Fast forward to around 2010 I remember a distinct feeling one time the internet went off at home. Sitting in front of the computer and feeling that it was "useless" because it wasn't connected to the net.

We are getting to that point in coding apparently: 5-10 years ago, everyone programmed just by typing commands, looking at S.O. and thinking. Now, if we open our "IDE" and it doesn't have access to The Brain, we are left just standing there looking in awe at the machine.

Sign of the times...

I have enough money that I could just throw my socks with holes to throw trash and buy new ones inconsequentialy, but mending them by hand gives me something, it is kind of therapeutic and a sense of accomplishment.

Im sure there are machines that could do it in a second, or a patch I could stick on it as well.

Point being that we can still find satisfaction in doing things by hand that technology can do fast/easily. We just stop doing it by hand for profit.

For example, one of the classical requests from S.O. questions and GitHub issues is a "minimal reproducible example " of the question/problem.

So a sufficiently advanced AI will be able to write that, run it, see the issue , go to the library/related-system code or documentation (for closed source) and derive a solution

I gave that to some members of my family and instruct them to give them to my wife in case I die.

Thanks a lot Sir.

Actually, it kind of make sense why only the most desperate try to get into the US , people who have something to lose are naturally repelled by the bureaucracy.

But I recently added POET, CBRS and similar. I think whatever happens, "shovel sellers" will be the main winners in this bubble.

The only browser that allows me to tile 3,4,5... pages in the same view. Or to group pages into "stacks" or many other small but useful perks.