Darkphibre

I'm with you there. I'm on expensive plans with everyone because I run out of tokens and rotate/use the models that are best in their niche...

CLI Model Pct Remaining Reset Date claude all models 15% 3d claude Fable 50% 3d grok all models 0% 4d agy Gemini 36% 5d agy Claude and GPT models 0% 5d codex codex 0% 6d

And I also just used two of my three get-another-week-free tokens for codex.

If you've got an agentic swarm, or are working on multiple big projects at once, or have agents parsing data... you burn through tokens fast. The last four days in API would have cost me well over $3k.

By leveraging characters, you can actually do a form of dithring! See this great interactive blog post: https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering

His short story "Understand" is just... amazing.

It wasn't until I discovered I was on the spectrum that I realized why it clicked so much. >.< I'm masking all the time, running conversational simulations to anticipate the societally-expected response to any given situation (and am high on the IQ spectrum).

https://web.archive.org/web/20140527121332/http://www.infini...

Thanks! It was definitely a highlight working on such bleeding-edge technologies with crazy smart people. Pouring over custom PowerPC CPU Errata was divine.

Oh, and we only had (if I recall) 1ms per frame on one core to do all our payload packaging and dequeue messages from the circular buffer. Thats' where the 20k/s hard limit came in... we could have handled SO much more. Our entire message usually landed around 100-150 bytes if I recall, using bitpacked structures.

One thing I didn't anticipate: Memory stomping would result in everyone pointing fingers at our department, because we would inevitably be the ones that would crash (usually with our hardening asserts). We had to start flagging our memory blocks as unwritable when our thread was idle during debug mode, so that offenders would crash when they touched our memory.

Great video! Love the concepts discussed, and the tigerstyle mentioned by adityaathealye. This is such a hard problem.

For Halo 4, I architected a system for our telemetry that that had to support subsecond roundtrip user lifetime aggregation. With up to 400ms one-way latencies, that left us with 200ms client + server time to manage lifetime counts. 60ms on the client for batching and network stack delays, and 80ms in the cloud for aggregation after routing delays.

On the client side we leveraged a lot of those TigerStyle ideas (static-allocation, simplified function surface area, explicit limits, strongly asserted). And for the cloud we effectively wrote Diagonal Scaling (Stage 7).

For gamedevs to use this, it had to be as lightweight as possible and introduce no risk of priority inversion or hitching. I wrote a many-reader/many-writer lockless circular queue with performance measured in the microseconds, it was a beast.

I was so proud of our tiny team for pulling off the vision. When we launched, there was a bug in the game: someone left in telemetry in a tight render loop during a cutsceen, so our 20k/s client-side throttles kicked in.

We hit an average of 700k/s on launch day, with peak ingestion throughput of 831k/s (2 weeks to hit a trillion). And we didn't break a sweat.

Partner teams that were trying to provide our reporting capabilities started slowing down, though, haha, and brought it to our attention ("We, uh, can't scale anymore, there's no more servers on the eastcoast data center we can allocate")... so we hit the killswitch on that category of event.

That was another piece I was proud of writing: each instrumentation point did a quick binary mask check for 64 categories and 64 subcategories to see if it should emit... one reason why the instrumentation times were so blazing fast, we had minimal branching based of a hotly-cached variable that would hang around L1 because it was touched so frequently.

Querying that day for insights, though... aggregation queries touching the launch day (that weren't on the per-user hotpath layer that was our primary use-case) would 30x query duration. XD

OH! And I forgot to mention. The tech was impressive enough, that it was quickly adopted as the backbone by every title that Microsoft published, from Gears of War to Solitaire, Forza to Minecraft.

And for comparison: The official, initial Xbox One telemetry stack used pipe-delimited strings, and supported 1-5 transactions/console/second (vs our 20k).

I was hesitant about this article being interesting, or a good use of my limited time, but it turns out it was well written and held an interesting insight!

I find it fascinating that, even aware of the importance of the phrase, I tend to gloss over it as one conceptual unit and hardly even register its existence, like the

I always loved this question when I played the 'Why' game with my kids: They ask why, and I'd ELI5. Then they'd ask why, and the process continued until I could excitedly say "We don't know for sure!! We think it might be XYZ, but we're still exploring that frontier."

Oh! I'm on the east side. I've been attending Brazillian Zouk classes, but I've been interested in swing. Where do you go?

And I completely agree about event organization! It really introduces you to a wider swath of people than your initial search may have turned up.

Way to go!

I hear ya! One of my hobbies is to be a somewhat known stage & exotic dancer / dance instructor in VR using 5-11pt tracking (depending on my mood and production quality). The number of "features" that get in the way, and lack of representation for VR dancers and performers has been frustrating, especially as the world moves more and more towards 3-point robot avatars.

Actually had a chance to provide my perspective to a FAANG Research Group, but I was laid off (and they were disbanded).

Thanks for the warning, genuinely appreciated!! I actually opted not to read this comment, I enjoy the immersion.

I just don't see how the genie is put back in the bottle. Optimizations and new techniques are coming in at a breakneck pace, allowing for models that can run on consumer hardware.

Seems to me like the pathogen is just adapting to have a new transport mechanism? Rather than it decomposing or making use of microplastics.

Rather than attaching to seaweed, it can also stick to microplastics and (hopefully) be ingested by marine wildlife. At least as I read the articles.

I suppose the argument would be that the key search space is reduced. Statistically speaking, you know the weights of certain binary pairs if the image is not evenly distributed. But I'm guessing that it'd only drop the average search space by... two or three powers of two for most keys?

Heh... as someone with prosopagnosia, this wouldn't help too much. But I agree it'd help most people!!

The metric of "hauling 40 Tesla Model S vehicles up every sixty minutes." is a strange one. A '93 Honda Accord would be divisible to the minute (60/hr). Or even 52lbs/second... Though I suppose those don't sound as flashy.

Alternatively, I'd be curious how many tesla batteries in raw materials that equated to per hour.

I found the book Rama Revealed by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee to be an unbelievable and depressing outlook on the short sidedness of man's assault on limited resources.

And then I was driving through Phoenix Arizona, looking out at the concrete landscape and concrete riverways, and realized just how right he was.

My first thought is that there may be something environmental... interfering with your voice. Something like someone watching a show in the evening, or turning on a fan when it's time for bed.

Not the OP, but for my prior relationship my ex wanted to be divested of that knowledge. I tried early on to keep them abreast of what was going on, but they were "not a numbers person," and whenever I tried to explain our complicated financial structures and how assets were liquidated and passed through various accounts to accomplish large projects their eyes glazed over. So, they trusted me to keep us solvent, and I made just about any request of theirs happen (which sometimes required a lot of juggling).

All relationships are different. :)

Fun story: That was my first employee town hall, in 2000. I was concerned for the fellow (and so very glad when he left, Satya has been so so so much better for the company and morale). It was definitely an... interesting introduction to the company.

See also this Domo video that turned it into a song. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ZDH45OAt8

> C'thulhu is always the very last place you look.

Inverse survivorship bias: That's because you are no longer able to look elsewhere...

Is there a way to "short" Teather? Seems like that'd be the money play.

Reminds me a lot about the fascinating read of Knight Capital, and the $440M-in-28-min bug that lost them 75% of their equity.

Reminds me a lot about Knight Capital bug that cost them $440M in 28 min.

> Rogue orders seemed originated from the new RLP router code, but no one could pinpoint the bug.... they reverted to last-stable.... and even more trades executed than before.

https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/06/project-failure-case-...

I remember a PDF that went into even greater detail, was a very good read.

Ah yes, just like the space shuttle. ;)

"They took a high-performance business jet, added extra drag, and ran the engines in reverse to simulate a flying manhole cover."

https://youtu.be/pfNQW4jToHE?t=340

Thank you so much for what you do.

This animated QR code has every frame scannable. It seems to be selecting different correction levels and bitmasks to aid in randomizing the noise. Also note that the timing blocks are relatively huge... so I suspect they are relying on 'pixel' modules being averaged and then thresholded (and when that doesn't work, they'll just allow some modules to be corrupted and rely on the error correction to read other pixels.

Creative stuff, built on a robust standard.

https://twitter.com/zackfreedman/status/1517555638456389632?...

Specifically, the FancyZones utility. I was just showing this to a guest I was hosting and blowing their minds. You can setup multiple patterns per monitor depending on a given workflow, snap windows with shortcuts or shift-dragging with the mouse, and even tab between windows in the same 'pane'.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzone...

Absolutely! I see a lot of people complain about twitter, but if you actively curate who you want to see and turn off recommendation posts it can be a very pleasant experience. There's loads of positive communities posting heartwarming and uplifting content. It's just that rage and anger are optimized by the algorithms, you have to actively curate your bubble to counteract.

Goggles have a lot of promise. I'm excited about the concepts Brave is bringing forth.

Tried this with "Long Tail." I'm excited for this tech... THIS is innovation.

https://search.brave.com/goggles?q=long+tail&source=web&gogg...

What's the brand/dosage you use? There's so many different brands out there.

My money is indeed on the environment. You'd want to know what that donor was eating, and try to replicate it.