[02:01:20] Newsletter 51: Welcome David Martin! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Updates/2021-11-04 [03:21:42] Yes, the idea is that the functions are directly executable from a web interface. For launch, we will limit the ability to call to external services. Or to do a large map reduce over say the whole Wikipedia corpus. It would be great to extend and develop support for these use cases, but that will come later. It will also require us to think how the necessary compute for such operations will be provided. [03:23:06] One goal is that "calling over the web and evaluating on Foundation servers" is just one possible way to evaluate it. Another possibility is to have other evaluation engines that run on your own hardware, where you could easier remove the limits to call external services or run over large amounts of data. [06:04:16] Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. Maybe it could even be distributed to a granular degree where people could donate their compute power to wikifunctions when their own machines are idle. Like those screensavers where you help protein folding projects. But I guess a lot of tasks can’t be split up that granular. [14:30:49] There's also a lot of tasks that can be parallelized in such a way. Map reduce tasks, for example, and some of the use cases you described were exactly that. That would be great to have such a distributed compute platform. [14:50:25] @vrandecic , @quidditywiki , any advice about this? (re @amire80: There are three new messages to translate, on different levels of being cryptic) [18:12:22] I would love to help build it when the time comes 😉👨‍💻 (re @vrandecic: There's also a lot of tasks that can be parallelized in such a way. Map reduce tasks, for example, and some of the use cases you described were exactly that. That would be great to have such a distributed compute platform.) [19:06:20] I'll be checking with the engineers who likely wrote that part. (re @amire80: @vrandecic , @quidditywiki , any advice about this?) [19:06:31] Yay! Thanks! (re @benjaminaaron: I would love to help build it when the time comes 😉👨‍💻)