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drob commented on Chai-1: Decoding the molecular interactions of life   chaidiscovery.com/blog/in... · Posted by u/glowingvoices
pama · a year ago
The title in HN is inaccurate. Having a 1% higher score on one metric is not beating a previously published model. This is a replicate, which is fine enough.
drob · a year ago
Fwiw, the authors never actually claimed this. From their technical report [0]:

> Chai-1 achieves a ligand RMSD success rate of 77%, which is comparable to the 76% achieved by AlphaFold3

[0] https://chaiassets.com/chai-1/paper/technical_report_v1.pdf

drob commented on Peter Jackson on how Tolkien stopped a Beatles LOTR film (2021)   bbc.com/news/entertainmen... · Posted by u/Caiero
kayodelycaon · a year ago
As a writer, I really would not like someone taking something I wrote, trashing it and then have that person’s version be the one everyone knows.
drob · a year ago
On a personal level I can absolutely empathize, but respectfully, I don't see why that should be the state's concern. The goal of IP law should be to promote the creation of good art, not to make sure artists' wishes are respected.

So, for example, theft should be illegal, because a world of unrestricted IP theft might be one in which we would get a lot less art. But allowing Tolkien to block adaptations of his bestseller 14 years after publication was probably not good for art.

drob commented on Peter Jackson on how Tolkien stopped a Beatles LOTR film (2021)   bbc.com/news/entertainmen... · Posted by u/Caiero
mensetmanusman · a year ago
If it would have been done poorly, no one might have funded Jackson, it’s hard to judge in hindsight.
drob · a year ago
Do bad adaptations prevent good adaptations? Lynch's Dune flopped but Villeneuve had a $165m budget.

We can't know the contrapositive but I don't see why giving the author a veto makes good outcomes more likely, especially decades after a book is published.

drob commented on Peter Jackson on how Tolkien stopped a Beatles LOTR film (2021)   bbc.com/news/entertainmen... · Posted by u/Caiero
rcstank · a year ago
It's his own creation. He had every right to stop it. I don't see how this is wrong at all.
drob · a year ago
He owns the IP, but we all lose out from this system.

Art has asymmetric upside – bad art doesn't really harm anyone (usually just gets forgotten) but good art enriches millions of people's lives.

It might have been amazing. It might have been bad-but-interesting. We'll never know!

drob commented on We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem   heap.io/blog/how-we-saved... · Posted by u/kmdupree
pengaru · 4 years ago
> The post was literally about how ZFS compression saves them millions of dollars.

... relative to their previous ZFS configuration.

They didn't evaluate alternatives to ZFS, did they? They're still incurring copy-on-write FS overhead, and the compression is just helping reduce the pain there, no?

drob · 4 years ago
Zstandard gets us 5.5x compression. The previous ZFS config got us 4.4x compression.

XFS, which we ran on for years before rolling out ZFS, does not compress.

drob commented on Accidentally exponential behavior in Spark   heap.io/blog/accidentally... · Posted by u/drob
hobs · 4 years ago
Good read - fwiw if this is your blog some of your links are broken and think they are local - https://heap.io/blog/%E2%80%9Dhttps://github.com/apache/spar...
drob · 4 years ago
Fixed, thank you for flagging!

u/drob

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