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by chopete3 3y ago
If you are lucky your spouse is that right person. 24x7x365 of being on the case. It worked for me. The challenge is, I told avoid telling her things that I want to avoid. :)
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by chopete3 3y ago
>> Sadly, us developers are not at the center of everything anymore at Twilio. Once it becomes a viable business, growth and departments that support it become equally important. Devs are one of the important departments. Smart devs g
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by chopete3 3y ago
There is an appropriate name like Investment Fraud. Just wondering why don't use it and lump everything into under wire fraud which makes it seem a petty crime.
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by chopete3 3y ago
>> Charges for which Holmes was convicted in January. These included three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Naive question: Why do they call this wire fraud? Where is the wire in this fraud?
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by chopete3 3y ago
This is similar to wordpress websites or android apps. Iphone store had a high toll bar, $99/year . There will be a lot these quick to build interesting utilities to show off. There is room to feed the demand in wordpress sites and ad-
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by chopete3 4y ago
The ability to discriminate is built into our DNA. It is hard to resist the urge for many who brought up with the knowledge of cast discrimination. Unfortunately, the caste is ascribed with no fault of the individual and can't be cha
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by chopete3 4y ago
BERT models are also LLMs. I referred to LLM more as an API based access, hosted by Microsoft, Google or AWS for large scale isolated/production consumption, like RDS (MySQL, Postgres). There will always be custom models, with controll
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by chopete3 4y ago
At least, people working on ML models that handle these tasks must be feeling terrible. They know their models will be abandoned sooner or later and composed on top an LLM. 1. Classification 2. Named Entity Recognition (NER) 3. Dialog Engin
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by chopete3 4y ago
This is amazing. As one of the commenters said it makes Alexa look completely outdated. One curious question: I looked around your docs and git repo but couldnt find anything related. When integrating with Twilio for telephony does it use
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by chopete3 4y ago
It is move over google.com moment. The era of ai.com and its ilk (bing/skype) has begun -even momentarily. If you are not using ai.com for your everyday information, you are missing out something. The one that asks their questions in a
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by chopete3 4y ago
This was one of the best resources at the time. I restarted my career as a programmer around that time and looking for realistic samples for known challenges. Most of the early episodes were precisely those - how to do x?. I ended up purcha
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by chopete3 4y ago
>> With more than 400 new features and improvements That is a lot but MS Teams lacks one key feature that only Zoom/WebEx type tools have - the ability to pause the screen-sharing. It is strange that even Google meet doesn't
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by chopete3 4y ago
Correct. We have tried it. They all operate the domain name level. I am looking for something that operates at the URL level. The goal is not block youtube completely but the just the shorts.
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by chopete3 4y ago
This seems a good option. They also have ready-to-buy router products. https://www.pfsense.org/products/ Netgate 1100 is a good starting point device. This also refers to the Squid and SquidGuard for URL/URI filte
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Ask HN: Router that can block URL patterns
4 points by chopete3 4y ago|7 comments
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by chopete3 4y ago
Natural Language Understanding.
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by chopete3 4y ago
The interesting thing was - there were 0 comments on HN when this blog was posted on Jan 27th. It was such a fundamental breakthrough NLU. NLU has been a such a holy grail of language models.
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by chopete3 4y ago
This blog explains some of the key innovations they added on top of GPT-3, especially the natural language understanding (following instructions). https://openai.com/blog/instruction-following/ In the first few pa
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by chopete3 4y ago
People who understand and complain about these issues usually don't work for these products as these are not critical systems for a company to function. They serve 2 main purposes. - Have some process in place to get things done. Speed
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by chopete3 4y ago
There is a simple way to show your frustration. 1. Buy Google stock 2. Google has to show more ads to keep market hype on stock price. 3. They will fill 2 pages instead of current one page with ads. And then 3 and 4... 4. You buy more stock
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by chopete3 4y ago
Isn't the email proof of ownership. Why do they need an NFT? The owner can change the email to another one when no longer wants to manage. NFT seeems an overkill and author drank too much crypto-aid.
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by chopete3 4y ago
>> these calls are FULL of insights for product direction. >> There’s a good chance almost none of these insights will reach product and engineering I am head of engineering at a small Enterprise Saas company. During COVID, I r
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by chopete3 4y ago
Heres where you should work based on the favorable/simple answers expected on those 10 questions. 8-10 : Start up 5-7 : Small Company 3-4 : Medium ($5B+) 1-2 : Large ($25B+) 0 : Very Large Otherwise you are interviewing at a wrong comp
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by chopete3 4y ago
/s The best thing about OKRs People: It helps companies dump as many people/contractors as it can afford into a pod. Result: It supports this[0] kind of development process That said, there will always be one or two genuine workah
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by chopete3 5y ago
" >> the key challenge is that most project management practices only ask once. The solution is to ask repeatedly: What are the estimates? What are the priorities? It is the process of planning, repeated throughout the life of th
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by chopete3 6y ago
VA for Java would have survived much longer had it not make a fundamental mistake. The complete project data, UI, configuration, classes, files, etc.,) was stored in a single file. That file appeared more like a database file. That helped