MrSkyNet

I like the idea of having a migration progress.

I like to extend the idea and would ask for a more ingraned concept of versions and version migration.

Basically what flyway does but on DB level.

You could ask your DB from any backend if its in a migration status or not, it would be first class citizen were its absolutly clear that a DB migration should NOT disrupt production, it could also make it much more longrunning.

Like let me schedule a migration over 1 or 2 days through the DB and thanks to statistics and knowledge it knows to do the big chunks at night for example.

It just takes time to act/react.

A week or so is not a lot of time.

Yes and thats not the case for crypto. For crypto you need to choose a cryptocoin, need to understand what a wallet is, best case install a secure wallet from the internet etc.

You don't need to know how visa works as long as you know how to register for a cc and know how to put that card into a device when paying.

The complexity of crypto is probably the biggest.

The second biggest is the missing need: Most people don't have any advantage of using crypto. They go to work, get a salary, buy/sell things and thats it.

If you don't need to buy something illegal or really believe that there is still a soviety left to take some crypto in worst case scenario, fiat is great.

I think i got your point.

And i still argue that this 'soul' thing doesn't exist and it doesn't matter.

Music becomes popular not because it has a magic soul to it but because it triggers enough people at the right time.

And covers are often also super popular and i myself was not always aware that a cover was a cover. Which also indicates to me that some music wasn't magic because of its soul but because the search space for interesting/intriging music is HUGE and it takes time for us to walk through it.

Edit: Nonetheless, I do count myself to the group of people who value things more than others IF it has more personallity. Like if i know this thing is handmade and very well build vs. the same thing machine build.

But this is appreciation and luxury. In case of me not having the money to do so, i would not say that the mass produced thing is bad just because.

My point was that the interpretation or 'feeling' you get, doesn't has to align with what Miles Davis thought to induce.

Therefore it doesn't really matter what Miles Davis was planing to do because if Miles Davis doesn't tell you exactly what he felt and thought you would feel about it, but you still enjoy the music, you don't need a Miles Davis as long as you enjoy the music

I don't think your reason is valid at all.

I have bsaically 0 background knowledge of music and still enjoy it.

Do you know the story of the writer and his son? He wrote a book and this book was used at his sons school. The son wrote an analysis of the book and he got a bad grade because the teacher disagreed with the authors sons interpretation of his fathers book.

If an artist doesn't exactly tell us what they want us to feel, its nothing we can feel through magic.

I liked the cinemactic syncwave, but you know its a demo page. Its not included in a game, movie or something else.

The solution: start doing this with others. Seti for AI Research or just invent a solution, you are researchers!

Whats your job as a AI researcher for a small company?

When you mentioned prompting, i imagined you using vertex ai or smiliar 'slightly' lower level AI tools, but thats more ML Ops for me than AI research or AI integrator.

Nope.

The white dot thingy which was here a week or two weeks ago?! is also nothing someone needs.

I don't know how smartphones might transform, but surely not into those shown gadgets.

Browsers are the most aligned virtual machine with support for scripting/programming and visualization.

And 'browsing the internet' sounds much different than 'doing nearly everything'

How so?

Through pixel perfect alignment? Resolution?

Unfortunate, for professional labor you pay double.

But modern houses just plan those in anyway and the battery storage i'm aware of, they are only 10kWh which costs not that much anyway.

Are you talking about the green party in germany or other green party in the USA (i'm not aware of?) or are you talking about 'green people'?

Because if you mean the green party, it wasn't them it was the CDU/CSU shutting down nuclear power plants.

And with germany, Tschernobyl was a generational experience and at least for my mother frightning. I also did a presentation about it and watched Tagesschau from that time: People didn't know how to handle hidden rays and it was very unclear what it meant.

And still today, for certain regions of woods, you need to test your meat for radio activity because we still have issues with this.

Nonetheless, while i'm not particularly against it, the last big projects have failed, the amount of global unifed investment and knowledge needed is apparently not able to form.

With fusion, lets see. If PV and batteries are getting even cheaper and easier to use, you will potentially prefer to put PV onto everything instead of paying for fusion energy but we are way to far awai to tell

I believe that IT is the biggest multiplicator we have.

The main reason why i get paid well is, that everything i do, i normally not do for one person or a single company.

Me neither.

For me its about IaC, automatisation.

Building my app, deploying a container image and building a helm chart is not a lot of work if you have experience and the initial additional work is only happening once.

After that, you have your whole app definition in code, seting up a second or third env takes 5 minutes.

I really should write a blog article about my stack and the advantges of it (git, kubernetes, argocd, helm, ...)

And why did you thought this?

With an operator, you get HA setup with switch over etc. basically for free.

I would prefer relativly cheap managed db over hosting it myself but its absolutly fine.

LocalPV supports ZFS Snapshots.

MongoDB is shitsoftware anyway.

I use k8s in a very small setup (3 worker nodes, 3 ctrl planes) in my startup. But i'm working professionally with k8s for 6 years.

My setup is relative big but also relative simple and most of it is also IaC. I don't need to backup my setup and i don't need to document how i setup everything.

I have blue/green deployment, multiply enviorrnments (dev, test, prod) configured 100% equal, a good monitoring stack + tracing, s3 replication, postgresql ha and offside backup.

i can shut down a node and nothing happens.

But you know, if k8s doesn't fit your time and experience and benefit estimation, don't use it.

The upfront cost of k8s is bigger though.

Yes and a lot of better technology has this issue.

The EV consumes more energy at the beginning, solar panels and wind turbines too. Unfortunate its hard for people to get 'economy of scale' and its super frustrating that we have the investment<>expensive<>benefit hen<>egg issue.

Heat-pumps, EVs, solar and batteries could become even cheaper even faster if we would invest faster and more. In 10 years those have eclipsed every current alternative.

What i think is a good example is Alpha Fold: The graph on this page https://www.moltenventures.com/insights/a-breakthrough-in-pr... shows the jump alphafold provided.

Now tx to alphafold2 a huge library exists for all researchers. And i have seen many other breakthroughs.

Segment anything from facebook is a LOT better in image segmentation than what we had before. This makes it much faster for everyone having segmentation tasks to segment faster.

Wispher is really good in speech to text. It basically beats a lot of old school software on the market.

I don't need it either.

But thats not the point of it anyway?

Its about writing code faster and potentially better. Cloud GPUs can also generate unit tests etc.

I primarily use it for languages i don't use often enough, nonetheless its only a question of time until it doesn't make sense anymore to write code yourself.

We spend that much GPU compute not to just generate random boiler plate code but to create the real code.

If it wouldn't be beneficial for writing code, which it is, we wouldn't use it.

But yes if we could create better languages or systems, it would be a waste. But we tried multiply new programming languages, we have no code platforms etc.

It does look like though that LLM is still better than all of those approaches.

I disagree that, whatever energy those DC needs (additionally) is a waste.

I think its critical for our society to put more into R&D of materials and others for more and faster optimization of solar and batteries.

Nvidia for example does a lot now in omniverse, simulating the real world. Its also potentially co2 saving if you simulate your full car, warehouse etc. digital and iterate over it super fast and opitmize it before it ever creates any co2 in real life.

I disagree.

The percentage of datacenters around the globe is very small (like 1%). In contrast this saves us a tremendes amount of co2 due to optimization of logistics, doing your bank business at home, calling someone instead of meeting them etc.

Datacenters are in my opinion the biggest net positives for co2, are easy to make green, have the most money behind them (which means faster and better investments) and are ooperated by our leading tech companies, who will use this to push further the industry of green energy.

Those datacenters and especially AI energy investments are also the biggest research advantage we have. Optimizing solar energy gains and storage capacity. We need them for simulating/generating new materials, production processies, etc.

We need to do a LOT in regards of heating. Heating is critical.

I do understand what it means to reinvest energy and i do believe its absolutly worth it in this case.

The investment required for those data centers will act as stabilization of green energy investment and because known software companies are involved, for a better support on the software side

You need to clarify with legal what happens when he dies.

In germany and other europeon countries, their family would inherit his shares which can become a problem if those family members do not care about the company at all and just want out or nothing to do with it.

We talked to our partners and told them what we want them to do and they would become silent partners without control.

Nonetheless, this is actually independent of him having cancer.

Boilerplate code is code you don't need to write or is cumbersome to write.

Like getter/setter in java for all your attributes.

I would never consider imports boilerplate code.

Those data centers are easily converted to green energy.

Google already is at 90%.

The margin and market motivation to do so is high and those few companies have a lot of money.

Nonetheless, we talk about an industry / society change; A change how we will write and operate and talk to computers.

I woudl say its worth it