Thanks for having me on @BeamThereDT to discuss Rust and Elixir! Although I think that I didn't express myself very clearly and the listeners deserve good content! So I wrote a blog post, kind of a living doc, to share examples and the issues we discussed. Check it out at https://t.co/BSxbv5CIJL
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Tomorrow, @allenwyma & I will be interviewing Florian Gilcher and @leandrocesquini for the @BeamThereDT podcast. We will be discussing the right tool for the job, when and when not to use Rust / Elixir and of course, type safety. Any questions we should ask or themes to bring up?
This AI System Design guide teaches RAG better than most courses.
And I'm giving it away for free (Only for First 4500)
Inside:
• RAG fundamentals & chunking strategies
• Hybrid retrieval (BM25 + vector search)
• Production-level RAG architecture
• Evaluation & RAGAS metrics
• Hallucination reduction techniques
• End-to-end LLM system design
How to get it:
• Follow me (must so I can DM)
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• Comment "book"
I'll dm you
🔴 LIVE tomorrow 10am MT! Elixir Mentor Podcast with @leandrocesquini on MDEx — fast, extensible Markdown for the BEAM. We'll cover tree-sitter, syntax highlighting & the new Components feature.
Tune in: https://t.co/t8Wd7edGo8
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1/ Incrementum just dropped their MONSTER gold report. As always it has a treasure trove of global macro charts. It is remarkably friendly to bitcoin, too! A selection:
RELEASE DAY
After almost 10 years of hard work, tireless research, and a dive deep into the kernels of computer science, I finally realized a dream: running a high-level language on GPUs. And I'm giving it to the world!
Bend compiles modern programming features, including:
- Lambdas with full closure support
- Unrestricted recursion and loops
- Fast object allocations of all kinds
- Folds, ADTs, continuations and much more
To HVM2, a new runtime capable of spreading that workload across 1000's of cores, in a thread-safe, low-overhead fashion. As a result, we finally have a true high-level language that runs natively on GPUs!
Here's a quick demo:
🇦🇷Argentina's Peso has declined 99% since 2000.🚨
Is this time different to other currency collapses?👇
Roman Denarius:
📉-90% decline in 150 years📉
🇬🇧British Pound
📉-98% in 98 years📉
🇺🇸USD:
📉-97% in 110 years📉
🧵Are we living through the ‘’suddenly’’ phase of a global currency collapse & what comes next?🌎
History suggests the 2020s are going to be wild because of these 3 same steps that’ve repeated in most prior currency collapses:
⭐️Step 1.
Consuming more than you produce.
The chart below shows how the Roman denarius slowly collapsed over 500 years, but the decline turned exponential once the debt became unmanageable.📈
The empire was simply consuming more than they were producing, & had too many bills to pay…
Kind of sounds like what we’re facing today?
America's suffering from $32T in debt today, with over $160 trillion in unfunded liabilities promised in the future that needs to be paid...
Once you've got too much debt, you're left to proceed with step #2...
⭐️⭐️Step 2.
Debase the currency & pay debts with devalued dollars.
Rome went through a 150-year time of EXTREME debasement trying to fund its uneconomical expansion.
🟢100AD-95% silver content
🔴250 AD- 5% silver content
📉A 90% decline in 150 years📉
America has seen something similar.
They’ve heavily debased their currency to fight ongoing wars around the world, trying to maintain the Petrodollar system.
The USD has lost 97% of its value since the creation of the Fed.🇺🇸
🔴A $100 bill from the year 1913 is now only worth $2.74 in the year 2023.
📉A -97% in 110 years.
The British Pound is the longest-lasting fiat currency of all time, and between the years 1790 & 1910, £300 Pounds held its purchasing power of £300 Pounds...🇬🇧
🔴HOWEVER, if you had -£300 Pounds from the year 1910, it was only worth £5.08 Pounds in the year 2012.
📉A 98% decline in 98 years.📉
⭐️ ⭐️⭐️Step 3.
The inevitable collapse of the currency comes & a loss of power.
As an empire witnesses its currency go through an exponential period of debasement, their empire typically collapses…
While the Pound hasn't collapsed yet, it's close, having lost 99.9% of its value since 1200AD.
The UK was the dominant global hegemon during the 19th century, but have already lost the global reserve currency to the US Dollar.
-The USD appears on a knife's edge, as it's facing the biggest loss in faith since the 1970s inflation and Nixon shock.🇺🇸
The US is still holding onto power as the global reserve currency, but the BRICS are making a serious challenge to their reign.🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦
-The collapse of the Roman Denarius silver coin led to the collapse of the most well-known empire in history.
Following the collapse of Rome, Western civilization endured a 1000-year period of pain in the ''Middle Ages.''
However... we emerged triumphant once more, as technologies like the Printing Press emerged in the 1500s.
Coincidentally, many areas of the EU began using a gold standard, which led to a renaissance and ‘’age of enlightenment in the 1600s.
What fueled the 1600s Renaissance & technological miracles of the 18th & 19th centuries...?
Sound money!
🌎The time has come for a digital, sound money renaissance, to save our world from entering a modern day dark ages.🌎
Do you think we're living through the ''suddenly phase'' of a global currency crisis?👇
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Join @leandrocesquini at @ElixirConf to learn about Beacon.
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Software Engineer == Problem Solver
Don't attack problems with code. Try first to understand them from a business perspective and then a technical perspective. When you do this, make a plan for how to solve it.
Try to solve without coding. The best code is not code.
If you must code, then do it.
Remember, 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁.
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