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wbeckler commented on Intel CEO Letter to Employees   morethanmoore.substack.co... · Posted by u/fancy_pantser
mlsu · a month ago
Another flipflop. Canceling the Germany fab, bringing SMT back.

> Looking further ahead, we’re developing Intel 14A as a foundry node from the ground up in close partnership with large external customers. This is essential to designing a process that meets specific customer requirements and enables us to address a broader segment of the market. Going forward, our investment in Intel 14A will be based on confirmed customer commitments. There are no more blank checks. Every investment must make economic sense. We will build what our customers need, when they need it, and earn their trust through consistent execution.

are these large external customers in the room with us right now?

wbeckler · a month ago
I hope that pun is intentional.
wbeckler commented on We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer   utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/epakai
indymike · 7 months ago
When I was in the US Navy, I learned most of the time, the weak points in security were usually people. Attackers know this and exploit it. And it usually wasn't movie plot style "do this or your wife gets it" exploits. Those seemed to get blown up easily. It was mundane things. Distracting a watch stander with something that was actually stupid. Making someone late for duty. Putting something really gross in the garbage hoping the inspector would skip that bag. So many little lapses in human judgement. Most completely innocent. This was with vigilant, uniformed people subject to military discipline, and those thing happened.

So you have to focus on process and systems. Some easy stuff:

* Never ask customers/employees for a password. If someone does it's a scam.

* Refund money only to the payment method used to pay for the product/service.

* 2FA is your friend no matter how much the VP of Sales whines about it.

* have a way to expire tokens and force reset of passwords.

wbeckler · 7 months ago
What's the threat scenario where forcing a password reset increases security? I'm genuinely curious, because I feel it's often the case that password expirations might introduce more threats than they mitigate.
wbeckler commented on D3 in Depth   d3indepth.com/... · Posted by u/lobo_tuerto
wbeckler · a year ago
I've heard great things about Vega [1], which sits on top of D3. It's a dependency of OpenSearch Dashboards, allowing users to create custom dashboards on log and observability data [2]. The vega library might alleviate some of the concerns others are expressing about the learnability of D3.

[1] https://vega.github.io/vega/docs/ [2] https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/dashboards/visualize/vega...

wbeckler commented on Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks   github.com/KindXiaoming/p... · Posted by u/sumo43
OisinMoran · a year ago
Because they have just been invented!
wbeckler · a year ago
60 years ago
wbeckler commented on Multi-tenant queues in Postgres   docs.hatchet.run/blog/mul... · Posted by u/abelanger
wbeckler · a year ago
I love your animations! How did you do those?
wbeckler commented on Medellín's Green Corridors   reasonstobecheerful.world... · Posted by u/fodmap
wbeckler · a year ago
I hate when writers describe plants as an ongoing carbon sink. They are a one-time carbon sink. So using "cars" as a comparison to carbon volumes is confusing, because cars will keep emitting after a plant is full grown and starts shedding leaves and wood that turn back into methane or carbon dioxide.

The key benefit of the plants is cooling the city without electricity, which is an ongoing effect.

wbeckler commented on Medellín's Green Corridors   reasonstobecheerful.world... · Posted by u/fodmap
the_optimist · a year ago
Looks beautiful. I assume our hockey stick temperature charts capture this urban heat island effect of between two and five degrees, right? Anybody know?
wbeckler · a year ago
The typical temperature chart is an average across the planet or a region. Definitely not population-weighted.
wbeckler commented on Forecasting with Trees (2021)   amazon.science/publicatio... · Posted by u/tosh
usgroup · a year ago
I think the skill-level required to start grinding boosted trees is relatively low compared to NNs. There's lots you can do without special hardware. Its more democratic. It trains very quickly compared to NNs. It works for big and small data. The implementations are very fancy at this stage. You can customise loss, splits, the base algorithm. Inference is fast. And so on. Boosted trees have a lot going for them in the black box model space.
wbeckler · a year ago
Are you saying that the prevalence of trees among good-performing solutions is not related to superior performance of trees over other architectures, but rather that more people are trying them out and they will show up in the winning solutions more often because of the implementation rate?

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