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duckdb is so nice coupled with claude code. It extensive file support and some very interesting decisions on local caching data (like from S3 or snowflake) makes it easy to slice and dice almost any kind of tabular data.
Do they mention the hardware used for training? Last I heard there was a push to use Chinese silicon. No idea how ready it is for use
how are you running qwen3 with llama-vscode? I am still using qwen-2.5-7b.
There is an open issue about adding support for Qwn3 which I have been monitoring, would love to use Qwen3 if possible. Issue - https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.vscode/issues/55
I use local for code completions only. Which means models supporting FIM tokens.
My current setup is the llama-vscode plugin + llama-server running Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct. It leads to very fast completions, and don't have to worry about internet outages which take me out of the zone.
I do wish qwen-3 released a 7B model supporting FIM tokens. 7B seems to be the sweet spot for fast and usable completions
what is the Lua equivalent for JVM ecosystem? An embeddable language which you allows for running user scripts in a sandbox?
It depends on what you mean by Software Architecture. I normally see 3 interpretations of it.
For some people, S/W arch is writing readable, maintainable code. Things like Design patterns, FP, TDD, microservices etc. There is a lot of literature on this out there.
For others, it means having the ability to design the next Kafka/Spark/React. You can get basic theory for this by reading books on Domain Modelling, Distributed computing and Algorithms. So books like The Algorithm design manual, Designing Data intensive Applications, The Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell, Functional and reactive domain modelling etc. The http://aosabook.org has good case studies to read as well. However, to actually build these systems require facing the problem in the 1st place and being unable to use existing systems to solve it. Or doing phd in them. It happens rarely.
Finally, the last one is my day job. Which is to convert ramblings and fantasies of leadership into a production systems, minimizing the number of curse words people use when working on it. I haven't really found any good guides to do this though. Things which help me are:
- Always thinking what could go wrong. And if it does, who should be notified if the system can't recover. A lot of times when I don't have the answer, I ask around. Things like slack channels, mailing lists, or even having coffee with people in industry who have tackled stuff like this.
- Communication skills. This doesn't mean small talk, but being able to have conversations and meetings which help define requirements and ensure everyone is on the same page. Also making sure there are hard numbers. ie. instead of "fast","responsive" etc, get latency, throughput, uptime numbers.
- Understanding business/technical capabilities and limitations. Things like business impact(LTR etc), capabilities of current infrastructure, skill levels of various people/contractors involved etc
I have the same question as well.
Can anyone help me understand what kind of employment are available in the market which requires deep knowledge of compilers?
I love this subject, but I don't know to which domains it is applied on outside of compiling languages like Javascript/JAVA/D/C/Rust and so on on into Machine code.
How is it organised? Is there a call for presentations a day before?
It is a Cool Idea. Thanks for suggesting it.