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by hdesh 4y ago
Dang (pun intended), is there a trick to find all these similar articles?
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by hdesh 4y ago
Nicely written piece with clear examples. It would be great to know the impact of this work. Perhaps one metric to look at would be the number of tickets submitted to customer care?
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by hdesh 4y ago
"What did you get done this week?" I've heard that before and my answers have rarely been great.
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by hdesh 4y ago
Or the big one (earthquake) must have hit.
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by hdesh 4y ago
Perhaps a naive question, as I don't understand this domain very well. How are these fonts different than, say just changing the color of the text?
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by hdesh 4y ago
Others have also made a similar observation, for India vs US. https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/1408429235165749248
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by hdesh 4y ago
Unfortunately this is true. Someone has written a whole book[1] about this. There[2] is a podcast interview of the author of that book. NY Times' anti-India and anti-Hindu bias is also widely documented[3]. [1] https://www.a
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by hdesh 4y ago
Great analysis, thanks. A question is: Do the younger audience rely on streaming platforms/news channels to get their news? Anecdotally, everyone I know in the young age group relies on social-media or web-based portals for their news.
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Show HN: Bollywood Lyrics Dataset(github.com)
2 points by hdesh 4y ago|0 comments
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by hdesh 5y ago
Good point about music. I have used the pandemic as an opportunity to get back at playing the keyboard. I have put it right next to my desk, so if I have to take a break from work, I can play it.
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by hdesh 5y ago
Based on the source code I think this person is the creator - https://cs.stanford.edu/~kach/
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by hdesh 5y ago
The source for this analysis comes from V-Dem project. Specifically related to India, the V-Dem results are highly questionable. Their results have been rebutted point-by-point in this (paywalled) piece [1]. I will highlight one aspect of t
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by hdesh 5y ago
"What are you looking at? Never seen a hypocrite before?"
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by hdesh 5y ago
What's the criterion for choosing a language for the competition? I took a cursory glance and could not find any Indian language, which is unfortunate given the huge linguistic diversity in India.
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by hdesh 5y ago
Here's the free version of the article from the author's webpage - (hopefully the same as sagepub) https://faculty.ucmerced.edu/jtrounstine/Skittles_UAR_ALL.pd...
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by hdesh 5y ago
The author's webpage lists the article: https://faculty.ucmerced.edu/jtrounstine/Skittles_UAR_ALL.pd...
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by hdesh 5y ago
> Schedule subsequent interview rounds close to each other Pre-covid, if you were not from the bay area, this happened naturally. You just tell the companies that you are traveling in the bay area in a given time frame and would like to
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by hdesh 5y ago
Unfortunately this is similar to how most of the western press covers India.
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by hdesh 6y ago
Obligatory seinfeld bit on this one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhPt8_yNqlA
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by hdesh 10y ago
Thanks for your interest! Our current focus is analytical workloads. We are working in publishing a paper describing the benchmark results. Stay tuned! Quick answer is that we are often 10X faster than PostgreSQL, Spark, and other systems.
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by hdesh 10y ago
Brief summary: This post gives a brief primer on various storage formats in Quickstep and how to use them in practice. About the project: Quickstep is a high performance relational data processing engine. We are an Apache incubating project
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Creating different storage formats in Quickstep(quickstep.incubator.apache.org)
2 points by hdesh 10y ago|1 comments
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by hdesh 10y ago
We are an Apache incubating project, that started in University of Wisconsin - Madison. We just had our first release! Check out http://quickstep.incubator.apache.org/release/ Our dev email list: dev@quickstep.incub
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Quickstep – High performance open source SQL engine(quickstep.incubator.apache.org)
6 points by hdesh 10y ago|3 comments