iamsalman

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Ask HN: Time to update JPEG compression algorithm?
1 points by iamsalman 12y ago|0 comments
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by iamsalman 12y ago
Server's down?
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Burning Man Is Silicon Valley(techcrunch.com)
1 points by iamsalman 12y ago|0 comments
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by iamsalman 12y ago
They used to. Now Cisco is also building their "enterprise" Cloud to target their financial sector clients (banks et al) because they're seeing business going to Amazon and decline of dedicated data centers to do something wh
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by iamsalman 12y ago
With banks considering the switch to the Cloud, how would this specification address the issue of key management on the Cloud? That's the "key" to Cloud security. Currently, there are solutions available which are obnoxious f
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by iamsalman 12y ago
Facebook's algorithmic changes to the timeline are more frequent and more disruptive than Google's changes to search result rankings. With Google, search results are a show of explicit interest by a user to find something particul
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Facebook Test Lets Users Search Old Posts by Keyword(bloomberg.com)
1 points by iamsalman 12y ago|0 comments
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A 5,760 cores Nvidia GPU will help accelerate deep learning(wccftech.com)
2 points by iamsalman 12y ago|0 comments
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Facebook's std::vector optimization(github.com)
275 points by iamsalman 12y ago|89 comments
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by iamsalman 12y ago
Display is definitely challenging since better, bigger displays do improve productivity. It would really depend on what sort of programming one's trying to do. Perhaps sitting in a serene and quiet outdoor environment would help you fo
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by iamsalman 12y ago
Nice! Although training 100k+ samples may crash or be prohibitively slow. Maybe enabling Decaf for training on the GPU in the backend would be a killer feature!
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Why You Need to Stay In School(chahal.com)
1 points by iamsalman 12y ago|0 comments
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by iamsalman 12y ago
Yet another parallel framework. Without the 3rd party eco-system of APIs for matrix math, any framework is doomed to just add noise, not value. Sure there's some benefit in getting marginal speedup on some algorithms but for real spe
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by iamsalman 12y ago
For scenarios where I want to use GPUs to power a large simulation or AI workload (example: deep learning) where compute performance is prime. Amazon, MS & Google don't offer bare metal running GPUs. This is where MAAS would be rel
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by iamsalman 12y ago
Enterprises are going for a hybrid Cloud model with private in-house Cloud housing critical business data and public Cloud for CRM etc. Even for a decent 30-50 server Cloud, this would prove very relevant, though not that lucrative as a bus
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by iamsalman 12y ago
This is not GPGPU, this is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_gr...
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Apple will livestream WWDC 2014 next week(theverge.com)
1 points by iamsalman 12y ago|0 comments
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by iamsalman 12y ago
He referred to "his nick" @gmail.com. "his nick" = cweagans
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by iamsalman 12y ago
Looking for a business co-founder is comparatively easier than looking for a technical co-founder. There are tons of people out there who have ideas but don't have the technical background or readily available technical resources to do
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Government recommends seven months in prison for LulzSec leader "Sabu"(theverge.com)
2 points by iamsalman 12y ago|0 comments
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by iamsalman 12y ago
There's nothing as absolute privacy on the internet. Even Tor cannot keep you truly anonymous ( http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/34294/tor-is-not-a... ) However, perhaps Snowden's biggest achievem
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Why Google Must Now Also Rule the Physical World(wired.com)
3 points by iamsalman 12y ago|0 comments
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by iamsalman 12y ago
It shows that the original code was Foxit's so would that mean that Foxit released the code or did Google purchase code rights and then decided to open source? Anyways, why would they host it on Google code?
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I took a ride in Google's self driving car(theverge.com)
8 points by iamsalman 12y ago|0 comments
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Facebook to email providers: Use STARTTLS(pcworld.com)
2 points by iamsalman 12y ago|0 comments
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by iamsalman 12y ago
Software eats law?
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(Tutorial) Learn to Build Modern Web Apps with the AngularJS(thinkster.io)
2 points by iamsalman 12y ago|0 comments
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by iamsalman 12y ago
"the electric thinking cap that makes you cleverer … and happier!” Wonder what possible side effects it may have? The brain would complain if it's being stimulated without "consent"...
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by iamsalman 12y ago
This may be useful for loading GBs of data and it's quick exploration but I am wondering if there are any other uses for it besides that?
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by iamsalman 12y ago
I'm not sure what your alternative user acquisition strategy is but not able to supplant Yelp in Google search results is a pretty valid observation. How do you respond to this?

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