marksoper's profile picture. Product Manager at Cockroach Labs. Making work better for man and machine. I get there by bike.

Mark Soper

@marksoper

Product Manager at Cockroach Labs. Making work better for man and machine. I get there by bike.

Joined January 2008
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Live Demo: Exploring the New CockroachDB Cloud Video presentation where we discuss our next generation SaaS lineup and the new CockroachDB Standard, a managed, distributed SQL product with dramatically improved price-performance. youtube.com/watch?v=jxhFVQ…


“I think the reaction to the assassination shows there is a political opportunity for anyone who can harness all this free-floating fury toward the health care industry and plutocracy more broadly. Right now it has nowhere productive to go” nytimes.com/2024/12/12/opi…


Dead owl outside our door this morning in Cambridge, MA :( Anyone know the kind of owl it is or have thoughts on possible cause of death based on the photo?

marksoper's tweet image. Dead owl outside our door this morning in Cambridge, MA :( Anyone know the kind of owl it is or have thoughts on possible cause of death based on the photo?

Context ablations - perturbing the context by removing pieces and measuring impact on the response - to find out which sources the model is relying on.

How can we really know if a chatbot is giving a reliable answer? 🧵 MIT CSAIL’s "ContextCite" tool can ID the parts of external context used to generate any particular statement from a language model, improving trust by helping users easily verify the statement:…

MIT_CSAIL's tweet image. How can we really know if a chatbot is giving a reliable answer? 🧵

MIT CSAIL’s "ContextCite" tool can ID the parts of external context used to generate any particular statement from a language model, improving trust by helping users easily verify the statement:…


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An inside look at how CockroachDB powers @Starburstdata's multi-region cloud lakehouse platform, Starburst Galaxy. youtu.be/ioNsGldmGrM


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This summer, I visited Michigan and Ohio to see how basketball courts are made at @Connor_Sports, which makes @nba and @ncaa courts. The process is intricate and fickle, and photos by @J_KelterDavis brought it to life. nytimes.com/2024/12/04/bus…


Thank you @KlipschAudio for the above and beyond customer service on my subwoofer :)


Associated Press 100 Photos of 2024: An epic catalog of humanity apnews.com/associated-pre…


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Solar farm on the mountaintop of Northern China's Shanxi.



I read this years ago and found it fascinating, appreciate the refresher ...

How to achieve success without trying to shoot for it! My notes from the #book "Why Greatness Cannot be Planned" by @kenneth0stanley and @joelbot3000 🧵

paraschopra's tweet image. How to achieve success without trying to shoot for it!

My notes from the #book "Why Greatness Cannot be Planned" by @kenneth0stanley and @joelbot3000 

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This is a seismic shift in the entire business model of software, the biggest change since the transition away from mainframe computing. Software licenses and per seat SaaS are dead. On the cost side for the software vendor, the computation intensity of cloud AI means it…

1/ Can’t wait to see the first “incumbent” (in a large software field…like support, CRM, HR, etc) switch from “per-seat” pricing to **per-outcome** pricing. I’m writing an essay on this now, but consider Zendesk at $115/seat per month…or ~$1.4M/year for 1000 agents:

arampell's tweet image. 1/ Can’t wait to see the first “incumbent” (in a large software field…like support, CRM, HR, etc) switch from “per-seat” pricing to **per-outcome** pricing. 

I’m writing an essay on this now, but consider Zendesk at $115/seat per month…or ~$1.4M/year for 1000 agents:


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Excited by the incredible support for our proposal on science- and evidence-based AI policy: understanding-ai-safety.org, with hundreds from ~150 institutions already volunteered to contribute! Let's build a safe, responsible AI future together, in CA & in our society! If you agree…


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If I told you Postgres could directly connect to AI models, eliminating messy infrastructure and turning 150-line Python scripts into single SQL queries, you'd probably think I'm crazy. But that's exactly what PGAI does. @techscienceandy AI engineer and pgai user explains more:


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Deep Learning job interview questions, fully solved & covering a wide range of key AI topics: bit.ly/4bv6FL9 credit: @papers_daily

MIT_CSAIL's tweet image. Deep Learning job interview questions, fully solved & covering a wide range of key AI topics: bit.ly/4bv6FL9

credit: @papers_daily

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mix phx new --database cockroach Coming in the next phoenix release! I'm beyond impressed by @CockroachDB - great pg compat - distributed (of course) - *no stale reads* by default - replica/time travel reads as wanted - changefeeds - row TTL / locality - easy local setup


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