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I see a number of Open Source web server that sits on top of some LLM models. Eg. TabbyML. What allows them to be able to freely switch between LLM models? Are all LLM speaks the same interface? If so, is that interface…

They seemed unstoppable in the 90s and the Internet era should have led them to greatness. What happened? Why can’t they pivot to save themselves? Even Apple managed to survive from bankruptcy.

Preferably: * Debian based, already pre-installed on the box. * Slightly more performance than Raspberry Pi. * Has basic I/O for monitor, keyboard, ethernet, and built in wifi. I want to run it as home server and home…

The name New Relic seemed like a distant past. Everyone uses Datadog these days. What contributes to Datadog success?

Ukraine war is still ongoing. Israel-Palestine war broke out again. Some may say that these are old feuds, which is true. But this time, we have a high inflation and it makes everyone around the world angry and tense.…

What is the current state of code generation using LLM?

1. Has multi-group Raft like CockroachDB. 2. Can be columnar and supports SIMD vectorized queries. 3. Has many useful indexes like bitmap, skip list, & full text inverted index. 4. Separate compute & storage. It stores…

https://github.com/FeatureBaseDB/featurebase FeatureBase is a distributed OLAP database utilizing bitmap indices. I am not affiliated to them, I just found this project interesting as someone who is knee deep in…

https://github.com/citusdata/citus I just realized this now, looks like Microsoft did it after they bought Citus? Good job! Citus is a PostgreSQL extension that transforms Postgres into a distributed database. -- before…

The devices themselves surely yield low margins. I could see how smart TV can play ads to make more money so there's that. Is the usage data really that valuable?

If you are already busy with a day job, how do you find real customers? This is even harder for B2C because there are not many people willing to pay for things. Everyone expected advertising to fund the internet product.

When starting a startup, there's typically a slog time where you got some funding but the startup progress is kind of slow. This time period can be short if you got lucky with your parabolic growth. But often times it…

When starting a startup, you are often plagued with doubts, “Am I making the right move?”, etc. How do you know if you are doing the right thing or wasting a lot of time, when you could have just take a FAANG job and…