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by bobosha 7y ago
Reduce plastic bag usage. Everyday shoppers across the world, carry groceries and other items in billions of mostly one-time-use bags that are very destructive to the environment. Perhaps come up with a simple shop-to-home cart that reduces
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by bobosha 7y ago
Knowledge without understanding is, well just information.
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It's very difficult to find anything similar to programming compensation-wise or job availability. Probably the closest one is to become a nurse, counselor, therapist that type of thing. But that would take years of training and $$$ as
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by bobosha 7y ago
Absolutely correct. The Kashmiris deserve peace and quiet, the closest both sides came to an agreement was ca. 2003 between Vajpayee and Musharraf. Unfortunately the stakes are too high for India to give up this strategic place.
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by bobosha 7y ago
In other words - a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Actually, not just one counter-example, there are several: Steve Jobs, Winston Churchill, Lee Iacocca - and many many others in Business, Politics or Military, weren't exactly paragons of modesty. On the contrary, they were often bomba
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by bobosha 7y ago
For every one of these examples, one could provide counterexamples: Gen Patton was anything but humble, and known for his flamboyance and show-boating. But he was the general the US military relied on during the battle of the bulge crisis d
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by bobosha 7y ago
That's known as the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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yay. well done India.
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by bobosha 7y ago
He was a great man, I loved his courses at MIT. Definitely the best teacher I have had. RIP Prof. Winston.
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anyones you can recommend?
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by bobosha 7y ago
very puzzling indeed that it's Nature worthy. The authors used Gensin word2vec to extract embeddings from a custom corpora. Well I did that twice last week for my application.
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by bobosha 7y ago
This is someone who has an axe to grind against Indians and found "evidence" to support his views. Such posts can be written about any ethnic group: Irish in police and fireman, jews in banking, italians in construction, landscapi
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by bobosha 7y ago
related: we just opensourced pgANN[1] that allows ANN searches and include an example for image search. It uses the vectors from an imagenet and find it works well for our needs. [1] https://github.com/netrasys/pgANN&#x
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by bobosha 7y ago
The motivation for this work came about since most ANN tools (Annoy, FAISS etc.) are relied on in-memory storage of vectors and would not support CRUDs. pgANN leverages the GIST index and cube extension (postgres) to provide ANN searches wi
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Show HN: PgANN Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searches with PostgreSQL Back End(github.com)
6 points by bobosha 7y ago|1 comments
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by bobosha 7y ago
I beg to differ, India's population density is comparable to many Western European countries. They a problem of population distribution. Like many developing nations, populations cluster in large cities leading to pressures on resource
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by bobosha 7y ago
Unrelated question - can one build thick client apps in .net core for linux or mac? (cf. Electron)
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by bobosha 7y ago
Does anyone have thoughts of using Prophet vs XGBoost time-series analysis?
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Ask HN: Any AI/ML approaches to “date tag” text documents?
2 points by bobosha 7y ago|1 comments
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Varanasi is purportedly among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in human history (with Damascus, Jerusalem etc).
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by bobosha 7y ago
PG's essay from nearly 15 years ago is still very relevant and IMO sums up best why America is so dominant in tech (and ohh btw also in entertainment and a bunch of other areas) http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html
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by bobosha 7y ago
To quote PG: "startups don't fail, founders give up"
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I feel it's false equivalence to consider the "engineering" required to build bridges and buildings vs. coding websites and mobile apps. Mind you, those fields of traditional engineering have hundreds, perhaps thousands of ye
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by bobosha 7y ago
1. how's this different from pysparnn or faiss? 2. does this support both sparse and dense vectors ann?
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by bobosha 7y ago
tl;dr Cut off my nose to spite my face
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by bobosha 7y ago
The love story and twists and turns have been part of Indian folklore for millennia before Shakespeare. This author is ill informed and presumptuous to assume this was a British colonial legacy. Read up on Kalidasa's plays (ca. 5th ce
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Ask HN: How do you handle ML models with large no. of classes?
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by bobosha 8y ago
Making healthcare more accessible (using technology). Includes remote care, AI-based diagnostic tools, home healthcare, compliance monitoring etc. It's no doubt a very challenging space, given the regulations and liability issues, but
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by bobosha 8y ago
There is a venture fund that does this: https://onewayvc.com/

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