Stefanos Harhalakis

Google SRE. All opinions are mine.

[Stefanos Harhalakis @sharhalakis]

"You don't just setup a cloud. You need to keep the damn thing running" #GCPNext

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Behold! The first ever LLM web server and REST API.

[Stefanos Harhalakis @sharhalakis]

NotebookLM (https://t.co/YiURxFZh0e) is now available in Europe. Great tool for scientific and non-scientific research. Ultimately, it's a tailored RAG tool that grounds responses on user-uploaded material (publications, T&Cs, articles, ...) and adds direct references.

Example:

[Chief AI Officer @chiefaioffice]

Foundational model wars over the past 12 months

OpenAI vs Google vs Anthropic vs 01 AI vs Meta vs Cohere vs Alibaba vs Mistral vs Databricks vs Nous Research & 10000+ more

[Stefanos Harhalakis @sharhalakis]

@GothamChess Your face expression on the poster asks the exact same question.

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@NASASun For the impatient (kudos to SDO's website)

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@raymondh I'd settle with a validate() that I can call at runtime to check the types of the current values for all properties.

[Stefanos Harhalakis @sharhalakis]

@GreyAlien @YvesHohler @EvenIbzy https://t.co/uNHwRGks0j is the go to place for game developers interested in Stadia.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Introducing Ithaca, the first deep neural network for textual restoration, as well as geographical and chronological attribution of ancient Greek inscriptions.

Out today in @nature, Ithaca aims to assist historians & better understand ancient history: https://t.co/iGcx323enn 1/

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People no longer trust each other. Why? An interactive guide to the game theory of trust: https://t.co/e32s00ODCJ

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This is exciting

[Stefanos Harhalakis @sharhalakis]

CloudReady 1.0 was a nice OS and a noble effort.
CloudReady 2.0 (a.k.a. Chrome OS Flex) is a fully fledged, free, Chrome OS that can be installed from a USB stick. It's more secure than Windows and is maintenance-free.

[Neverware @neverware]

Introducing Chrome OS Flex, the cloud-first, fast, easy-to-manage, & secure operating system for PCs & Macs. Learn more about its early access: https://t.co/ZLVZ0N3sVJ

[Stefanos Harhalakis @sharhalakis]

The last 3 days were fairly easy using "cutie" and "solar":

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[Stefanos Harhalakis @sharhalakis]

Short: Two of the best words for Wordle are "cutie" and "solar".

Long: Wordle has two dictionaries: one with 2.3K words which are the solutions and another with 10.6K words which are additional words that it knows.

[Stefanos Harhalakis @sharhalakis]

More specifically, when using all the words that wordle knows:
hello kitty: 1243
crazy inbox: 1004
great swing: 594
crazy horse: 517
games court: 425
cutie solar: 192

[Stefanos Harhalakis @sharhalakis]

@danluu Shameless plug #2: That's the beauty of SLOs: They intuitively describe the balance between velocity and reliability, in a single message, avoiding such confusion. You can temporarily decide to lower your SLO, meaning a still reliable service but with higher margin for velocity.

[Stefanos Harhalakis @sharhalakis]

@danluu Because ultimately what matters most is the reliability of the workload that one can build on top of a cloud, not the reliability of the individual components that the cloud offers.

[Stefanos Harhalakis @sharhalakis]

@danluu IMO you need to be careful when comparing the cloud reliability. I'd really like to see a citation on the claim that Azure performs better than GCP. Especially considering that Azure doesn't have a multi-regional relational database like Spanner and it becomes the user's problem.