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3wolf··on AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data
The $0.01/GB inter-availability-zone data transfer cost can be a killer for misconfigured workloads. It's a shame AWS doesn't make this more clear on their pricing page. I've seen people run Spark clusters across multiple AZs, incurring a huge costs whenever a shuffle happens.
3wolf··on MoviePass exposed thousands of unencrypted customer card numbers
Do you punish the sys admin or the creators of Mongo for making the default configuration insecure?
3wolf··on Could Removing Social Media Metrics Reduce Polarization?
They need to de-emphasize the blue checkmark. The eye is drawn towards it, and it lends tweets a false sense of authority. I'm not sure what a good solution is, as it is necessary to differentiate authentic accounts from fake ones, even for people who are not super-famous.
3wolf··on NULL license plate not such a bright idea
On the plus side, he could also contest legitimate tickets unless they recorded other information.
3wolf··on SpaCy PyTorch Transformers
I'm surprised transfer learning via fine-tuning large transformer models hasn't taken off more in the public consciousness a la image recognition models. In my experience, the results can be staggering with very small amounts of training data.
3wolf··on Interview on ”Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way”
6, if it's a two-sided test.
3wolf··on A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
B-list is pretty harsh. She has an Oscar nomination (albeit 10 years ago), and the Pitch Perfect movies made $$$.
3wolf··on Russian trolls hit Reddit, too
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whataboutism-o...
3wolf··on Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code
I know it's easier said than done, but a pluggable interface for community created language support would go a long way towards gaining traction.
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