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Re:The Two Versions of Parquet on Monday August 25, 2025 @10:07AM (#45014010)
TLDR: There are two versions of the Parquet file format, but adoption of Version 2 is slow due to limited compatibility in major engines and tools. While Version 2 offers improvements (smaller file sizes, faster write/read times), these gains are modest, and ecosystem support remains fragmented. If full control over the data pipeline is possible, using Version 2 can be worthwhile; otherwise, compatibility concerns with third-party integrations may outweigh the benefits. Parquet remains dominant, and its utility far surpasses these challenges
Re:Will Supercapacitors Come to AI's Rescue? on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @04:14PM (#43909168)
Or you simply use the pytorch.powerplant_no_blow_up operator [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXsT6lBf0X4

Re:Uv's killer feature is pulling in local dependencies on Sunday January 12, 2025 @05:13PM (#42677502)
But I still need pip to install uv, right? Or download it using a one-liner alternatively.
Re:The crisis in physics is real: science is failing on Friday November 08, 2024 @02:15PM (#42089640)
Yes, but the criticism is that using mathematics is a really bad guide, as this approach keeps failing
I’d like the option to automatically choose the LEAST privacy conserving option, because

1. I don’t care

2. It should work better since it aligns with the goal of the site

Re:OpenAI Announces SearchGPT on Thursday July 25, 2024 @02:41PM (#41071943)
The fact that OpenAI is releasing a fancy UI instead of an improved model says something. I'm afraid GPT-5 won't be there any time soon.
Re:Kino: Pro Video Camera on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @04:49PM (#40516863)
Literally every color grading example shows log footage as the "before". Of course this lacks contrast and vibrancy because it's not meant to be watched "as is". Please show me regular footage as a baseline so it's a fair comparison.
Re:Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 on Thursday February 15, 2024 @11:28AM (#39384699)
I just watched the demo with the Apollo 11 transcript. (sidenote: maybe Gemini is named after the space program?).

Wouldn't the transcript or at least a timeline of Apollo 11 be part of the training corpus? So even without the 400 pages in the context window just given the drawing I would assume a prompt like "In the context of Apoll 11, what moment does the drawing refer to?" would yield the same result.

Re:UUIDv7 is coming in PostgreSQL 17 on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:20AM (#39261459)
You probably should not use UUIDs to start with in your database at least not as an ID. UUIDv7 aims solve some of the issues of UUIDv4 that are even less suitable in for databases. 99% of times using BigInt for an ID is better.
Re:Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database on Sunday January 14, 2024 @03:30PM (#38994152)
Aren't there already tons of apps answering that specific question? I think the strength of this approach is answering the non-obvious questions.
Re:K-Means Clustering on Friday January 12, 2024 @10:15PM (#38977004)
I did something similar (but not for documents) but I’m struggling with selecting the optimal number of clusters.
yes, you are right I meant to say "and a Nobel laureate to explain it"
I have a PhD in material science and worked with superconductors, here are two things that is often miss understood:

1) it takes a undergrad to make and measure a superconductor by a Nobel laureate to explain it.

2) in theory if you understand the mechanism of something you can improve it. In material science however almost always all you need is a trial and error approach to end up with a good result.

Conclusion: the effect is probably true, the explanation not

Re:Using XPath in 2023 on Monday July 17, 2023 @01:43AM (#36754561)
There is also a JSON analog which if found quite handy sometimes to extract some values deeply nested in an API response. Its also natively supported by some databases that have JSON datatypes like mysql.
Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @04:56PM (#35620011)
AFAIK it’s not actually about cookies but a website tracking you by any technical means. Could be your IP or user agent as well
Re:Wanted, people to make $22,000 handbags on Sunday April 09, 2023 @06:18PM (#35507013)
I’d argue they are not more generating the value than a printing press is generating the value of money. IMHO luxury brands are generating their products value by means of marketing.
Re:Falling for Kubernetes on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @07:58AM (#32410459)
I'm not sure why this would be more reliable. But it would probably fit, but at the cost of additional complexity.
Re:Falling for Kubernetes on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @03:18AM (#32408708)
That's what I thought as well, but now I do have some long-running jobs that exceed GCF's 60min limit. So I'm stuck with docker on Compute Engine, where GCP treats you like a 2nd class citizen as the OP found out.
> If you are in a tsunami advisory area;

>* A tsunami with strong waves and currents is possible.

Re:Lesser-known Postgres features on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @05:06AM (#29173016)
I found this blog a gold-mine of information. Is there any book recommendation that goes in the same direction?
Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @02:08AM (#28927314)
It’s the “arrangement” of elements in the simplest terms, like changes in crystal structure.
Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @04:26PM (#28923323)
The stoichiometry stays exactly the same, just shred the battery and feed the result back to the beginning of the e.g cobalt mining operation operation. Better however if you somehow manage to roughly separate it into lithium, cobalt and so on and use the result instead of the respective ore.
Re:Led by Tesla, EVs drive chip industry's shift beyond silicon on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:26PM (#28437671)
Thank you for answering everything I ever wondered about SiC. Are there any other semiconductors that would be even better than SiC in all four points?
Re:Tesla Packs 50B Transistors onto D1 Dojo Chip on Saturday August 28, 2021 @11:51AM (#28339011)
The whole point of the die on silicone seems to be that this maximizes the interface bandwidth and minimize latency between the dies. If this true the next step would be to bring the multi die modules as close as possible in three dimensions to ultimately build a borg-cube like structure in zero-g with a power source at its core.
If renewable energy is as cheap as he claims, why do I pay more than 20ct/kWh for it in Germany with a ~50% renewables mix?

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