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Re:Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders on Saturday July 18, 2026 @08:23AM (#48957497)
Yes, because Instacart is ordering for delivery :)
Re:Build Your Own Database on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:08AM (#45666957)
Great post and beautiful website. I got a bit confused by the flush operation that happens when the memtable is full. A quick note that a new on-disk segment is created would help. In the recap at the end, segmentation is also not mentioned.
Re:A Technical Update on Submarine Cables [pdf] on Monday September 08, 2025 @03:46AM (#45165618)
Cool slides. Note that MAREA is owned by Microsoft and Meta (not Google as slides state) [1]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAREA

Re:LLM Daydreaming on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @06:50AM (#44580766)
Regardless of accusations of anthropomorphizing, continual thinking seems to be a precursor to any sense of agency, simply because agency requires something to be running.

Eventually LLM output degrades when most of the context is its own output. So should there also be an input stream of experience? The proverbial "staring out the window", fed into the model to keep it grounded and give hooks to go off?

Re:Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized on Monday July 14, 2025 @04:28AM (#44557670)
He might be referring to his sleeping heart rate. Mine's around 40bpm too, and although I'm in shape, I am definitely not an athlete. There is a correlation with height (taller -> slower bpm). If you are young and fit, I don't think you have much to worry about a slow resting heart rate, in the absence of other symptoms.
or icloud sync / google drive for desktop / onedrive, if you dont want to think about it

macbook iphone - icloud windows android - google drive for desktop + Autosync app (3rd party)

Re:Bagel: The Open-Source Unified Multimodal Model on Monday May 26, 2025 @03:58AM (#44095077)
These days, papers come with an advertisement video
Re:Are LLMs Random? on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @09:14AM (#43844796)
could you use structured output to make a more efficient estimator for the logits based?
Re:Live Map of the London Underground on Friday April 11, 2025 @10:01AM (#43653892)
Developer donation link (map tile gets expensive!): https://ko-fi.com/benbyfax
I think the simple explanation is just that "democratize" in this context just means you can ask your questions in natural language instead of having to learn SQL, access to large datasets to the broader demos.