Isn't it delusional to only compare your models against your own previous variants? Where is an actual comparison with Google, Anthropic, OSS Models
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zild3d commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro
The data layer is DynamoDB with Global Tables providing replication between regions, so we can write to any region. It's not easy to get this right, but our use case is narrow enough and rate of change low enought (intentionally) that it works well. That said, it still isn't clear that replication to us-east-1 would be perfect so we did "diff" tables just to be sure (it has been for us).
There is some S3 replication as well in the CI/CD pipeline, but that doesn't impact our customers directly. If we'd seen errors there it would mean manually taking Virginia out of the pipeline so we could deploy everyehere else.
cool thanks, we've been considering dynamo global tables for the same. We have S3 replication setup for cold storage data. For primary/hot DB there doesn't seem to be many other options for doing local writes
zild3d commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro
Cool, building in resilience seems to have worked. Our static site has origins in multiple regions via CloudFront and didn’t seem to be impacted (not sure if it would have been anyway).
My control plane is native multi-region, so while it depends on many impacted services it stayed available. Each region runs in isolation. There is data replication at play but failing to replicate to us-east-1 had no impact on other regions.
The service itself is also native multi-region and has multiple layers where failover happens (DNS, routing, destination selection).
Nothing’s perfect and there are many ways this setup could fail. It’s just cool that it worked this time - great to see.
Nothing I’ve done is rocket science or expensive, but it does require doing things differently. Happy to answer questions about it.
active/active? curious what the data stack looks like as that tends to be the hard part
zild3d commented on Qualcomm to acquire Arduino qualcomm.com/news/release... · Posted by u/janjongboom
zild3d commented on Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
My lovely interaction with the 270M-F16 model:
> what's second tallest mountain on earth?
The second tallest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest.
> what's the tallest mountain on earth?
The tallest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest.
> whats the second tallest mountain?
The second tallest mountain in the world is Mount Everest.
> whats the third tallest mountain?
The third tallest mountain in the world is Mount Everest.
> what's the forth tallest mountain?
The forth tallest mountain is Mount Everest.
> but you said the tallest was Everest already
You are right! I'm glad to hear that.
> so whats the second tallest?
The second tallest is *Mount Everest*.
> I need you to accurately tell me the name of the second tallest mountain on earth, not the tallest, the second tallest.
The second tallest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest.
> The tallest mountain on earth is mount everest. What is the second tallest mountain?
The second tallest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest.
> Give me a list of the tallest mountains on earth
The tallest mountain in the world is the *Mount Everest*.
> give me the top 5 tallest mountains on earth
The tallest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest.
> List in order the tallest mountains on earth from 1 to 5
1. Mount Everest 2. Mount K2 3. Mount Sahel 4. Mount Fuji 5. Mount McKinley
> So the second tallest mountain on earth is K2
The second tallest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest.
These smaller models are great, but they really feel like talking to a toddler sometimes!
> These smaller models are great, but they really feel like talking to a toddler sometimes!
You're using the toddler and the model wrong. I love talking to my toddler, probably more valuable conversations than I've had with any other person. But it's not the same use case as asking a professor a question in their field
| Gemma 3 270M embodies this "right tool for the job" philosophy. It's a high-quality foundation model that follows instructions well out of the box, and its true power is unlocked through fine-tuning. Once specialized, it can execute tasks like text classification and data extraction with remarkable accuracy, speed, and cost-effectiveness.
zild3d commented on The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble wheresyoured.at/the-hater... · Posted by u/lukebennett
> Competition, fortunately
so there's no competition when there are no rules and regulations... ? interesting.
all those sports without rules or regulations, like american football where anything goes.
huh? I'm saying adding rules and regulations reduces competition yes, by definition it adds barriers to entry. We can argue how high those barriers ought to be.
Highly regulated industries: healthcare, banking, aviation
Less regulated industries: web software, e-commerce, entertainment
It is easier for startups to get started in the latter, harder in the former.
zild3d commented on The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble wheresyoured.at/the-hater... · Posted by u/lukebennett
make a technology very affordable, get people hooked. Then when LLM have basically destroyed the open web, charge more for accessing and searching that wealth of human created knowledge. Profit $$$
Ethical approach? hell no. What do you expect from an unregulated capitalistic system.
> What do you expect from an unregulated capitalistic system.
Competition, fortunately
zild3d commented on Inside the box: Everything I did with an Arduino starter kit lopespm.com/hardware/2025... · Posted by u/lopespm
I had a look at the document of the kit, and it's like the one I have: it doesn't even explain what is a current and a tension, or what is the relation between resistance, tension and current, althought it is the basic of the basic of electronics
The fact that the author uses the word heterojunction that is at the same time not useful at the first level for a beginner and not used or explained in the document shows that he was either already knowledgeable or spent a lot of time with other ressources to learn.
I'm not saying that these kits are bad, or that nowaday you cannot do many great thing with just an arduino and plug and play components, but they don't teach electronics.
I see it more like the goal is to build cool stuff, learning electronics is the happy unintentional side effect as you're exposed to concepts relevant to what you want to do.
e.g. I want to build a cool robot with my kid -> oh why can't you just wire the motors directly to arduino output pins -> oh motors need a lot of current to run ...
(btw have never heard voltage be called tension, TIL)
He played a significant role in popularizing a now-familiar posture among affluent Americans: the earnest declaration that "travel is my passion", followed by carefully curated excursions to economically disadvantaged countries, enthusiastic consumption of the local cuisine, and a subsequent return home marked by self-congratulatory reflections on how much they have supposedly "learned" about other cultures.
The phenomenon is difficult to admire. It resembles a kind of cultural primitivism - an unintentional revival of archaic rituals in which consuming the body of the enemy was believed to confer insight, power, or spiritual essence. In this modern iteration, wealth functions as the enabling mechanism: privileged travelers fly abroad to ingest cuisines, aesthetics, and experiences, mistaking consumption for understanding and appetite for empathy.
One returns, enriched - spiritually, one assumes - having eaten well.
There can certainly be a quite shallow "instagram" quality to some traveler's trips, but it's also clear an economically disadvantaged country benefits mutually from this, and if it wasn't they'd be restricting tourist visas, etc