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Transition to the #cloud: treat servers like cattle, not pets. Transition to #serverless cloud architecture: treat servers like roaches
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Canada is "reviewing" its many cloud contracts with Amazon after the tech giant killed a budding union by closing 7 facilities and firing 2,000 people. It should follow through on the threat and cancel those deals.
ttnews.com/articles/amazon-c…
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“The Tyranny of Structurelessness” ought to be required reading for startup execs.
ElevenLabs has removed all titles.
Now, there's no "VP of X", "Head of Y", or "Director of Z". Instead we are just Growth at ElevenLabs, Engineering at ElevenLabs, etc.
Why? We're small, growing incredibly quickly, and hierarchy just gets in the way.
Instead the best idea wins no matter where it comes from. And ownership is driven by the results you have.
If you're obsessed with impact and moving quickly; not titles and status we're hiring for nearly all roles.
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I wrote some guidance on how to use AWS's new RCP feature: wiz.io/blog/how-to-use-aws-r…
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here, I drew the missing chart from all those "AI improves our productivity!" surveys
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Curious whether video generation models (like #SORA) qualify as world models?
We conduct a systematic study to answer this question by investigating whether a video gen model is able to learn physical laws.
Three are three key messages to take home:
1⃣The model generalises perfectly for in-distribution data, but fails to do out-of-distribution generalization. For combinatorial scenarios, scaling law is observed.
2⃣The models fail to abstract general rules and instead tries to mimic the closest training example.
3⃣The model prioritizes different attributes when referencing training data: color > size > velocity > shape.
This work is a joint effort with our outstanding intern @YangYue_THU.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2411.02385
Webpage: phyworld.github.io/
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This is cursed - raising an exception in a decorator to emulate tail recursion in python
chrispenner.ca/posts/python-…
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After many years I finally put pants on Pickles. @ben11kehoe I think we had this discussion back in the day! This is how I made it work. Also Pickles is team suspenders.
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I'm super excited to finally announce AWS AppSync Events - a new feature that lets you easily build real-time experiences with WebSocket APIs! 🚀 No more worrying about WebSocket infrastructure or scaling. Just create your API and publish events.
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AppSync is launching an awesome feature - Event API.
It's basically AppSync's WebSockets capability without the GraphQL layer.
I've gushed over AppSync's subscriptions in the past, and I've seen many folks use it to build real-time applications.
But, often, they use it in spite of the GraphQL protocol, not because of the GraphQL protocol.
Personally, I'm a fan of GraphQL and I like how AppSync subscriptions work. But it is a barrier for some because they're working with REST and just want vanilla WebSockets to add some real-time feature, or to develop their own protocol on top of WebSockets.
If that's you, then this new feature is gonna make life a lot easier for you.
The official announcement should drop shortly (hopefully, with CloudFormation support on day 1!), but you can already play with it in the console.
Have fun!
#aws #appsync #serverless
AWS is bad at naming things, but the term "logically air-gapped" might be a new low docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-back…
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Why Musk will sacrifice democracy and maybe even jail, in one convenient chart @nytimes
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Eight hundred workers near Toronto have won the first Walmart warehouse union in the U.S. or Canada.
They've unionized the Walmart distribution center in Mississauga, Ontario, an hour from the U.S. border.
truthout.org/articles/canadi…
I have a sinking feeling the step after this is "blocking is only about engagement with your posts, blocked users still show up in your feed" so that Elon's tweets can get more views
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An interesting article by @GaryMarcus:
LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem - Important new study from Apple
