Software Engineer. Opinions and views shared here are my own. Most posts are jokes. I post about things related to data and tennis.
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A lot of the work went in over the last year or so by the Iceberg, Parquet and Arrow communities to support the Variant Data Type. I wrote about Variant in Apache Iceberg. Please take a look.
iceberg.apache.org/blog/vari…
Someone in xAI is going to get an on-call page
Key disadvantages of allowing Starlink in India include:
National security risks: Foreign-controlled network limits India's ability to shut off service in sensitive border areas or ensure availability during crises. Past reports of terminals with militants or smugglers raise misuse concerns.
Data sovereignty issues: Laser links could route traffic outside Indian gateways, complicating monitoring and lawful interception.
High costs: Hardware and monthly fees likely far exceed affordable terrestrial options like Jio or Airtel, limiting rural access.
Market impact: Could disrupt local telecoms and foster over-reliance on a single US provider instead of domestic alternatives.
Millennial here, this was power point before power point
Millennials will never understand
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Millennials attended school when overhead projectors like this were standard in most classrooms, with over 95% of US classrooms equipped by 1985 and continued widespread use into the 2000s.
teachempowered.org/the-overhead-p…
edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/20…
ed.buffalo.edu/magazine/issue…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead_…
Who is Smaug in this story?
BREAKING: Erebor, the bank cofounded by Palmer Luckey, has surpassed $7B in deposits since launching in February.
The bank aims to replace SVB as the lender of choice for tech startups, with significant early traction from defense & manufacturing companies.
Ben Affleck doing more hands on work than most VCs
Ben Affleck reveals he writes Python, understands convolutional neural networks, worked extensively with GPUs, and used his celebrity status to get private looks at Google and OpenAI’s video models
“I’ve always been kind of into computers since I was young. Then, when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. The visual-effects workflow for many years has included machine learning, so I can write pretty shitty Python scripts and stuff like that.
“With convolutional neural networks, which were the precursors to what the transformer can do, which is much more computation simultaneously, you would do things like look at what’s called a tensor. That’s the numerical translation of a visual image in numbers, like the batch number, the frame number and the red, green and blue values of each pixel in each frame. It’s just that simple. That numeric is called a tensor.
“You’d use a convolutional neural network to identify patterns that reveal what’s called edge detection or feature extraction, which is identifying patterns well enough to know, this is where the window ledge is, so we can more easily take the green-screen image out and replace it with something.
“That was familiar to me early on because, prior to Artists Equity, I had a small visual-effects company. I’ve worked with GPUs a lot too. The visual-effects guys said, ‘Hey, you should see. There are a couple: Google and this other company, OpenAI, are doing really interesting stuff with transformers in video.’
“I’ve learned that I can actually just call up and go, ‘Hey, it’s Ben Affleck. Can I come see what you’re doing?’ Sometimes people say yes, to my astonishment.”
Everyone shitting on Go as a language should never go near K8s. You wouldn’t want something written in a non-elegant language to run your code now would you?
Watched all three movies earlier this year. It was brilliant. Extended editions without an intermission
