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by 2sk21 2y ago
When it comes to certificates, mess-ups happen frequently in big companies. When I worked at IBM, I initially had the responsibility for obtaining and renewing the code signing certificate for a Java applet that we used in our product. I ha
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by 2sk21 2y ago
Article like this are why I keep coming back to HN: I was using an LDR (Light Dependent Resistor) for a similar task but this LED idea is fascinating. It would have never occurred to me!
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by 2sk21 3y ago
Great work! Quite an interesting collection of hardware you have built!
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by 2sk21 3y ago
I had this back in the 1980s and I learnt a lot about electronics from it. Was one of my favorite kits!
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by 2sk21 3y ago
I will never buy a car without CarPlay - it's that simple. I will likely buy an EV at some point but I will never buy a Tesla, Rivian or GM EV since they lack this essential feature. I like that all of my phone's relevant data is
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by 2sk21 3y ago
That was an excellent write up! I am really surprised that the built-in navigation system does not enable you to search for charging + activity. That seems like it ought to be essential!
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by 2sk21 3y ago
Agree. If a competitive model can be trained in a few months, its not clear what is really unique here
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by 2sk21 3y ago
Nvidia does admittedly have a lock on the market at the CUDA level but not necessarily at the Pytorch level.
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by 2sk21 3y ago
My point is that while Cisco was an early winner, Amazon and Google started growing a few years later and were much larger winners in the end. I think there is a possibility that history may repeat with Nvidia -but I have no idea what new c
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by 2sk21 3y ago
Nvidia of today reminds me a lot of Cisco of thirty years ago. Back then when the Internet was starting to take off, Cisco was one of the few companies actually making any money from the Internet. The frenzy to buy Cisco was intense. Thirty
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by 2sk21 3y ago
Can someone give mea reference that describe how exactly multimodal tokens are generated?
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127 days: The anatomy of a Boeing quality failure(theaircurrent.com)
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by 2sk21 3y ago
Agree - I will not buy a car without CarPlay no matter what other benefits it may offer.
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by 2sk21 3y ago
I worked in tech for thirty years and was able to retire comfortably. I was well paid but never had a spectacular salary - what worked was steady saving and investing.
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by 2sk21 3y ago
Indeed, one of my last big projects I worked on before I retired was using an LSTM model for named entity recognition. It was many times faster than anything you can do with an LLM.
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by 2sk21 3y ago
I spent the summer of 1989 working on an Meiko Computing Surface which was a parallel computer built from T800 Transputers. I learnt Occam and implemented a few parallel algorithms on it. As I recall, the code running on the Transputers did
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by 2sk21 3y ago
After working in AI for a big chunk of my career, I have switched gears in retirement and am having a great time learning to program small controllers like Arduinos. It's like going back in time - minimal OS, simple tools and direct ac
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by 2sk21 3y ago
How does this kind of constraint modeling compare with logic based approaches like Answer Set Programming ( https://potassco.org )? Years ago, I got excited by the possibilities of ASP but it does not seem to have progressed much
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by 2sk21 3y ago
Completely agree - much reduced opportunities for differentiation with the new LLMs.
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by 2sk21 3y ago
The RP2040s can multitask. This is because the Arduino compatibility layer is actually built on top of MbedOS which support preemptive multitasking. You have access to the full API set of MbedOS in addition to the Arduino APIs when the code
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by 2sk21 3y ago
It has Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and an IMU built in which is very useful for a robotics project I'm currently working on. Plus it has a huge amount of RAM and flash compared to an ATMEGA Arduino
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by 2sk21 3y ago
I'm using the Arduino RP2040 in a project. This is also in the same form factor as the Nano and is truly remarkable in terms of value for money. Really impressed with Arduino
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by 2sk21 3y ago
I have one of the early PhDs in neural networks (graduated in 1992). However my work was analytical - I was able to prove a couple of theorems about the backpropagation. I just needed a simple implementation to prove that my ideas worked so
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by 2sk21 3y ago
Thanks - that was just amazing!
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by 2sk21 3y ago
One thought that has occurred to me when using tagging systems is that they ought to have the ability to refactor tags. No matter what the tagging scheme is initially, it will surely mutate over time. It should be possible to rename tags, j
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by 2sk21 4y ago
My understanding is that image embeddings are a rather abstract representation of the image. What about if the image itself contains text, such as street signs etc?
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by 2sk21 4y ago
Thats true - I have flown Delhi-Newark in United Polaris business class a few times after the outbreak of the Ukraine war. What used to be a 14 hour flight is now over 15 hours due to the avoidance of Russian airspace. Even in business clas
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by 2sk21 4y ago
The board did their job perfectly!
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by 2sk21 4y ago
This article could have been written about IBM in the 1970s and 1980s! When I joined IBM in 1991, the old timers used to talk nostalgically about the old days when they could do anything they wanted and the internal politics were vicious.
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by 2sk21 4y ago
I have one of the early PhDs in neural network based machine learning - completed in 1992. My biggest problem back then was that only a few people in the entire world even know what a neural network was - so I was a little head of the curve

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