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by Sai_ 3y ago
Face recognition comes to mind as a counter example of a technology which isn’t (yet) reached the level of ubiquity of email spam even though it has obvious economic benefits. I’ve been pitched in building face recognition based systems cou
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by Sai_ 3y ago
1. It's a gifted link so doesn't count against your free articles for the month 2. While the content is political, the tools used and the challenges faced to support the agenda are technical.
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by Sai_ 3y ago
Thank you for taking a look. Will work on these.
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Show HN: SquadGPT – chat interface to LLMs for teams(squadgpt.ai)
2 points by Sai_ 3y ago|2 comments
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Decriminalising and regulating marijuana reduced costs to consumers - such as the cost of going to jail in return for possessing marijuana.
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That prices were falling prior to deregulation and did not fall even faster after deregulation proves that deregulation wasn’t a factor. If you’re coasting to earth in a parachute and someone gives you a cup of coffee to drink which does no
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by Sai_ 3y ago
Muck Fodi.
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by Sai_ 3y ago
We recently had an Indian LinkedIn nutrition influencer literally reading the listed nutrition information on the back of a Bournvita* (a malt chocolate which you mix into milk) - dude got DMCA-ed and nearly sued. These companies get really
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by Sai_ 3y ago
Wouldn’t they be sending left-over money ie, money after spending locally, back to their home country? I can’t imagine a lot of people out there who send all their money back home without spending some of it locally for self sustenance.
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by Sai_ 3y ago
> exemplified Amplified?
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People unwilling or unable to spend cash leads to fewer businesses being formed. This should be obvious. Therefore, anything which loosens the purse strings should lead to more business activity. More business activity will lead to better r
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by Sai_ 3y ago
That’s almost tautological - if it’s a necessity, you will spend. It’s the stuff that was above the bottom of Maslow’s needs pyramid that UPI has enabled.
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by Sai_ 3y ago
Minor correction - prior to UPI, transaction either happened via cash OR didn’t happen at all. I think the hidden value of UPI is that it makes doing business easier which is of huge value. People sitting on money has never helped any econo
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by Sai_ 3y ago
> this implies that now you do have an understanding of logarithms. how did you acquire this understanding? Not knowing logarithms (a) didn't prevent me from successfully using the log tables books and (b) using the log tables boo
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by Sai_ 3y ago
> But it's like trying to rely on a calculator before you learn how to do addition by hand I use salt to season my food but I have no idea how salt is mined. I have used log tables books in the past to do math work. Back when I fi
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by Sai_ 3y ago
Here's what I found for birthdates - https://www.panix.com/~murphy/bday.html . The variation between dates doesn't seem all that bad. So, for all practical purposes, we can assume that births across dates is u
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by Sai_ 3y ago
Knowing gender cuts down your sample space by half. Assuming you are looking at someone between the ages of 1-80, knowing birthdate further filters in just 1÷(80 * 365) of the sample space. Since they're 42000 ZIP codes in the US, know
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Ask HN: How to harness the wind that buffets my Bangalore apartment?
3 points by Sai_ 3y ago|1 comments
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The comment I was replying to was premised on most of our work being essentially meaningless in the grander scheme of things. That’s false. You can’t eat if you don’t have UBI or a job.
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You're missing the fact that work/job _is_ life changing for someone who needs it to put food on the table. Just because no one is inventing anti-cancer medication every other week doesn't mean that person's internal wor
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by Sai_ 3y ago
100%. I’m in India now after years in the US. Indian doctors I’ve interacted with (for my kid) are just better at empathy and analysis. It may be because they see a wider range of illnesses and this empathy/awareness might not work wel
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by Sai_ 3y ago
Hacker: tedunangst, what’s your email? Wanna invite you to that thing! Hacker: man, I hate typing passwords. Do you use password managers? Any reccos? … I am become hacker, destroyer of tedunangst’s bank account.
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by Sai_ 3y ago
> calibrate his pay It’s circular dependency if ever there was one.
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by Sai_ 3y ago
We’ve survived for a few millennia so I think your sentiment is valid - it’s more likely that “good black swan” events happens more often that “disastrous black swan” events.
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by Sai_ 3y ago
The standing joke is that Americans love strange units of measure but this is one is so outre that it deserves an award.
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The ABCD of why Musk is rebranding Twitter to X(s-a-i.medium.com)
3 points by Sai_ 3y ago|2 comments
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by Sai_ 3y ago
You and me both! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36558581 At this point, this seems intentional on his part.
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With due respect, (a) I would classify this as marketing and self-promoting hyperbole, not worth contradicting, (b) absent any objective measure, the video creator's opinion is as valid as yours and (c) as far as opinions go, Oppenheim
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Three Starting Words Help Me Consistently Beat Quordle(s-a-i.medium.com)
2 points by Sai_ 3y ago|0 comments
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by Sai_ 3y ago
Argentina. India. It doesn’t take a lot for a country to go down the tubes.

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