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McKinsey consultants getting fired for operational efficiency and profitability drive

If any one wants to see how well xai grok sysprompt repo is going... They merged to main a pr that added back white genocide and bore related update AFTER being reviewed by five people. Then deleted pr after reverting and squashing the history LOL.

Worth a read, well written and very insightful

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> GPT model stopped speaking Croatian > Nobody could figure out why. Turns out > Croatian users were much more prone downvote messages

HOLY CRAP, a new super tiny 1.6B param voice model just dropped that seems to.. outperform 11labs!? 😵‍💫 From Nari-labs, Dia is an Apache 2.0 voice model, that can generate laughs, sniffs and emotions, copy an existing voice and is effectively real time on larger GPUs:

Every day on YouTube, people upload 4 million videos and watch 5 billion videos. Handling this staggering traffic requires a vast fleet of servers. So when a new request comes in, where does it go? How do you balance load across so many servers for so many jobs? I love this paper because it proposes a clever load balancing system that works at the largest of scales. Let’s imagine a YouTube service is distributed across 1000 servers. Whenever a new query arrives, we send it to one of those servers to process. How do we choose which one? The obvious load balancing strategy is CPU-based, sending requests to whichever server has the lowest utilization. This works pretty well! But the problem with CPU-based load balancing is that CPU utilization is a lagging indicator that’s averaged over a measuring period and might not reflect the exact current state of a server. That means CPU-based load balancing can risk momentarily overloading servers and causing spikes in tail latency. How do we balance load better? The idea is simple and elegant: if your goal is to minimize query latency, why not send each query to the server with the lowest latency? This works through probing. When a new query comes in, the load balancer sends lightweight probes to a number of target servers. Each probe measures two instantaneous signals: estimated latency of the server (based on latency of recent queries) and the number of requests in flight. Usually, queries are routed to the server with the lowest estimated latency. The exception is if the servers have very high numbers of requests in flight, indicating high incoming load–then, requests are routed to the servers with the fewest requests in flight. What’s most impressive about this paper is that Prequal really works. The authors report that when they deployed it in production at YouTube, tail latency dropped by 2x, significantly reducing error and lag spikes for users. It’s not often that we see a systems paper produce results like that in the real world.

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Apple acquired @pixelmator pixelmator.com/blog/2024/11/…

Looks like someone used a slider instead of a progress indicator 🫠

Edge cases amirtie @Waymo

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I'm not crying, you're crying!

Beautiful tribute from @NOAA_HurrHunter who earlier this evening honored longtime radar scientist and researcher Peter Dodge who passed away in March 2023. His ashes were dropped in the eye of Category 5 Milton tonight – PETER DODGE HX SCI (1950-2023) 387TH PENNY

Interesting vector, ever seen this before @_JohnHammond?

Peak Germany. Don’t include the actual weather warning in the notification, but tell me the qualification of the person who wrote the post.

America has a lot of faults as a country but we absolutely went off with garbage disposals in our kitchen sinks. “just use a food catcher?? scrape the food into the trash???” thank u Europe but we actually put loud finger-ripping chainsaws in our drains god bless❤️