It depends on your task. In analytics where you need to scan lots of data points within few columns, then columnar storage is very much the best. But for transactional workloads where you have to deal with specific entities, row based would be more advantageous. There are hybrid systems that try to be both at the same time but in my experience they end not doing either very well.
Some day we'll get CREATE TABLE ... ( ... STORAGE ORDER COLUMN MAJOR) to have our transactional cake on the tables that need it and eat our analytics cake on the tables that need that.
But until then, separate tools for separate purposes isn't a bad place to be when those tools are both fantastic.
Often used to be referred to as HTAP, and yeah in most data engineering its moving things from OLTP to OLAP forms, and OLAP pretty much always benefit from columnar compression for aggregations and rollups.
Let’s ignore all the political and socio economic dynamics driving the current trends. Squeeze people’s livelihood by rent seeking; pillage public resources while externalizing as much of the risks and cost of doing business back to public; limit access to capital to few networks. Then pretend it’s in people’s power to choose to earn more if they would only work harder.
No one is arguing that founders shouldn’t earn the rewards for their work and risk. But to act like it’s all fair business and freedom of choice is rather glib to the point of being callous.
After all that has been revealed to us over the past 15 years, it is really disheartening to see people still thinking that setting a few toggles will prevent these companies from abusing them.
Just continues to prove that if you solve a bit of inconvenience for them, people will let you exploit them and their families.
Funny that these are the same people that have been blasting the alarm on dangers of AI singularity. Now they cannot wait to put their tools in weapons.
It is kind of astonishing to me that the entire chain of logic was put together without "The company could invest in better customer service to resolve disputed identity" as a third possibility.
It was certainly my first priority for an e-mail provider when I started to de-Google my life.
I think that is the wrong lesson to take away from the video. As the video emphasizes, DoF is a tool that can be used to achieve an intended effect in story telling.
Main thrust of the video is that these days these tools are predominantly being used for convenience of post-production and cost cutting at the expense of immersion and story telling.
Being part of the team that achieved AGI first would be to write your name in history forever. That could mean more to people than money.
Also 10m would be a drop in the bucket compared to being a shareholder of a company that has achieved AGI; you could also imagine the influence and fame that comes with it.
Kind of a sucker move here since you personally will 100% be forgotten. We are only going to remember one or two people who did any of this. Say Sam Altman and Ilya Sttsveker. Everyone else will be forgotten. The authors or the Transformer paper are unlikely to make it into the history books or even popular imagination. Think about the Manhattan Project. We recently made a movie remembering that one guy who did something on the Manhattan Project, but he will soon fade back into obscurity. Sometimes people say that it was about Einstein's theory of relativity. The only people who know who folks like Ulam were are physicists. The legions of technicians who made it all come together are totally forgotten. Same with the space program or the first computer or pretty much any engineering marvel.
Well depends on what you value. Achieving/contributing to something impactful first is for many people valuable even if it doesn't come with fame. Historically, this mindframe has been popular especially amongst scientists.
Personally I think the ones who will be remembered will be the ones who publish useful methods first, not the ones who succeed commercially.
It'll be Vaswani and the others for the transformer, then maybe Zelikman and those on that paper for thought tokens, then maybe some of the RNN people and word embedding people will be cited as pioneers. Sutskever will definitely be remembered for GPT-1 though, being first to really scale up transformers. But it'll actually be like with flight and a whole mass of people will be remembered, just as we now remember everyone from the Wrights to Bleriot and to Busemann, Prandtl, even Whitcomb.
Is "we" the particular set of scientists who know those last four people? Surely you realize they're nowhere near as famous as the Wright brothers, right? This is giving strong https://xkcd.com/2501/ feelings.
Yes, that is indeed the 'we', but I think more people are knowledgeable than is obvious.
I'm not an aerodynamicist, and I know about those guys, so they can't be infinitely obscure. I imagine every French person knows about Bleriot at least.
I'm an avgeek with a MSc in engineering. I vaguely recall the name Bleriot from physics, although I have no clue what he actually did. I have never even heard the names Busemann, Prandtl, or Whitcomb.
I find this super surprising, because even I who don't do aerodynamics I still know about thes guys.
Bleriot was a french aviation pioneer and not a physicist. He built the first monoplane. Busemann was an aerodynamicist who invented wing sweep and also did important work on supersonic flight. Prandtl is known for research on lift distribution over wings, wingtip vortices, induced drag and he basically invented much of the theory about wings. Whitcomb gave his name to the Whitcomb area rule, although Otto Frenzl had come up with it earlier during WWII.
Airliners don't have the wings going straight out, instead being swept back. You can also sweep them forward to get the same effect, but you will rarely want to do that due to other problems. This means that the cross sectional area of the aircraft varies less along the length and reduces wave drag.
If there's no lift there's no pressure different between the upper side of the wing and the lower side of the wing. But if there's lift there's higher pressure on the bottom and lower on top, so air wants to flow around the wing, from bottom to top, producing a wingtip vortex. This flow creates drag, and this drag is called lift-induced drag or just 'induced drag'.
The area rule is about minimizing wave drag by keeping the cross sectional area of different parts of the aircraft close to the cross sectional area of the corresponding cross-section of a minimal drag body. It leads to wing sweep and certain fuselage shapes.
With a salary of $10m/year, handwave roughly half of that goes to taxes, you'd be making just shy of $100k post-tax per week. Call me a sellout, but goddamn. For that much money, there's a lot of places I could be convinced to put my faith into that I wouldn't otherwise.
