It's such a pity to see how much respect Apple has lost due to its lack of real technological ambition. Just a few years ago, Apple was admired for pushing boundaries—now it feels like history is repeating itself.
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codeaether commented on Ursa: A leaderless, object storage–based alternative to Kafka streamnative.io/products/... · Posted by u/netpaladinx
License? It doesn't seem to be open sourced.
The article makes two points—one about software performance, the other about development performance. On the topic of software performance, I think the best explanation I got came from the great Prof. Charles Leiserson’s MIT course on performance engineering: performance is a currency. It’s something we spend to gain other qualities—safety, rich features, user-friendliness, and so on. At the end of the day, a computer can executes about 100 simple primitve instructions. The reason we have a software industry is because of speed.
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-172-performance-engineering-of...
codeaether commented on AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work quantamagazine.org/ai-com... · Posted by u/pseudolus
These days, it feels like “AI” basically just means neural network-based models—especially large autoregressive ones. Even convolutional neural networks probably don’t count as “real AI” anymore in most people’s eyes. Funny how things change. Not long ago, search algorithms like A* were considered the cutting edge of AI.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.14778/3598581.3598584