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MisterPea commented on FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale   engineering.fb.com/2026/0... · Posted by u/sudhakaran88
tcbrah · 6 days ago
tens of billions of executions per day is insane. i run ffmpeg a few thousand times daily for automated video assembly and even at that scale the process startup overhead is noticeable. the single-decode multi-output trick alone saved me like 40% wall time when i switched to it. cant imagine what those savings look like multiplied by 10 billion
MisterPea · 6 days ago
The amount of RAM needed for this is crazy to think about. And then there's Youtube...

Silver lining of current RAM prices is that it changes the cost-benefit analysis of improving underlying software which (hopefully) gets implemented in open source.

MisterPea commented on Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels   ijmpr.in/article/the-role... · Posted by u/cachecrab
benregenspan · 4 months ago
It's expensive in the US because one company has exclusive sales here (patent protection?), but you could try calcefidiol, weekly dose and is supposed to get levels up rapidly. Apparently it's the common form to take in Spain, and it's further down the metabolic pathway vs cholecalciferol. (I take but still have to get levels checked)
MisterPea · 4 months ago
thank you, will have to check this out
MisterPea commented on Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels   ijmpr.in/article/the-role... · Posted by u/cachecrab
leetrout · 4 months ago
I was put on prescription vitamin D2 50000 IU and it caused a bunch of side effects for me including heart palpitations for over a week and then a paradoxical reaction to magnesium causing them to be even more intense.

Proceed with caution and listen to your body. Doctors were accusing every other thing than accepting whatever it did to my calcium / other electrolytes bothered my heart.

MisterPea · 4 months ago
Interesting, my levels have always been chronically low and I feel no effects from daily 5000IU
MisterPea commented on Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels   ijmpr.in/article/the-role... · Posted by u/cachecrab
mwigdahl · 4 months ago
This is solely my own anecdote, but I used to get bad seasonal depression every winter. I tried a number of interventions short of medication; none moved the needle very much. I started supplementing with vitamin D probably 8 years ago and haven't had any issues with seasonal depression since.

I'm pretty personally convinced that it was the supplements that helped here.

MisterPea · 4 months ago
I tried a 1000 IU vitamin D pills to no avail. Bumped it up to 5000 IU and still saw very marginal bumps in my blood tests

I think I might try daily 10000IU after showing my doctor how little it's moving the needle for me

MisterPea commented on Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol   openai.com/index/buy-it-i... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
pton_xd · 6 months ago
> Merchants pay a small fee on completed purchases, but the service is free for users

Where's the money coming from to pay the fee? From my wallet, of course! At scale, this raises the price of purchases.

Another thought -- the text-only interface of ChatGPT is way too limiting. We need images (and video) generated on demand showcasing product suggestions. Showing an image of the user wearing some new shades is going to be pretty compelling...

MisterPea · 6 months ago
Not really, this is just effectively a new supply side platform for advertisers. Retail companies will just allocate a percentage of their marketing budget to OAI instead of Google/Meta
MisterPea commented on Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO   deepmind.google/discover/... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
dmitrygr · 8 months ago
> Was OpenAI simply not coordinating with the IMO Board then?

You are still surprised by sama@'s asinineness? You must be new here.

MisterPea · 8 months ago
I am still surprised many people trust him. The board's (justified) decision to fire him was so awfully executed that it lead to him having even more slack
MisterPea commented on Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05   deepmind.google/models/ge... · Posted by u/jcuenod
Squarex · 9 months ago
I much prefer Gemini over chapgpt, but they recently introduced a limit of 100 messages a day on a pro plan :( aistudio is probably still fine
MisterPea · 9 months ago
I've heard it's only on mobile? I was using gemini for work on desktop for at least 6 hours yesterday (definitely over 100 back and forths) for work and did not get hit with any rate limits

Either way, Google's transparency with this is very poor - I saw the limits from a VP's tweet

MisterPea commented on Google AI Ultra   blog.google/products/goog... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
SirensOfTitan · 10 months ago
This is even the case with Gemini:

The Gemini 2.5 Pro 05/06 release by Google’s own reported benchmarks was worse in 10/12 cases than the 3/25 version. Google re routed all traffic for the 3/25 checkpoint to the 05/06 version in the API.

I’m also unsure who needs all of these expanded quotas because the old Gemini subscription had higher quotas than I could ever anticipate using.

MisterPea · 10 months ago
I'm afraid they're going to lower the limits once Ultra is available. I use Gemini Pro everyday for at least 2 hours but never hit the limit
MisterPea commented on Google’s two-year frenzy to catch up with OpenAI   wired.com/story/google-op... · Posted by u/totaldude87
serjester · a year ago
Has anyone met Googlers that are confident in the company's AI strategy? Anecdotally, everyone I've talked to seems to have serious concerns but that might just be a small sample size.
MisterPea · a year ago
They're in a tough spot where the CEO does just enough to stay, but they need someone better.

They lagged in AI, but the new Gemini 2.5 Pro is incredible. They built an incredible tool in NotebookLM but failed to market it

MisterPea commented on Open source AI is the path forward   about.fb.com/news/2024/07... · Posted by u/atgctg
myaccountonhn · 2 years ago
> I actually think this is one of the rare times where the small guys interests are aligned with Meta

Small guys are the ones being screwed over by AI companies and having their text/art/code stolen without any attribution or adherence to license. I don’t think Meta is on their side at all

MisterPea · 2 years ago
That's a separate problem which affects small to large players alike (e.g. ScarJo).

Small companies interests are aligned with Meta as they are now on an equal footing with large incumbent players. They can now compete with a similarly sized team at a big tech company instead of that team + dozens of AI scientists

u/MisterPea

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