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by netvarun 8y ago
Container image distribution seems to be one of the primary problems this tackles: "DevOps ... brings a lot of challenges: the efficiency of image distribution, especially when you have a lot of applications and require image distribut
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by netvarun 8y ago
Oh what sweet irony. http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-3...
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by netvarun 8y ago
Being able to solve dynamic programming problems may or may not get you a job but it certainly will get you a medal at high school programming/informatics Olympiads.
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by netvarun 8y ago
On a related note, RZA is big fan of chess. Doesn't surprise me to see the Wu-Tang clan have a chess themed song. In a 2007 interview [2] he says that, based on Josh Waitzkin's appraisal, his (unofficial) ELO rating would be arou
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Blurr – DSL for machine learning feature selection(github.com)
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by netvarun 9y ago
Facebook's FAISS might be of interest to you: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1373769912645926/faiss-a-lib...
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Top Architecture Prize Goes to Low-Cost Housing Pioneer from India(nytimes.com)
2 points by netvarun 9y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Thanksgiving Holiday Sales Dashboard(holidaysales.live)
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by netvarun 9y ago
We built a dashboard in partnership with Slickdeals on this! https://holidaysales.live/
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by netvarun 9y ago
A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks by Edgar F. Codd [Turing Award Winner] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.98.... This is the seminal paper that laid the foundation for RDBMS
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by netvarun 9y ago
Direct link to the Dynamo Whitepaper PDF: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp...
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by netvarun 9y ago
IMHO the ImageNet 2012 competition and the winning solution AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.) was the pivotal moment in which (deep) neural nets went from a field only a few wizened academics cared about to becoming today's buzz word. It did
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by netvarun 9y ago
I'd also recommend Andrey Kurenkov's well written multi-part series on the history of neural nets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10910887 [The author of the paper mentioned on parent comment is Jürgen Schmi
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by netvarun 9y ago
All 6 parts have already been written/published - https://jeiwan.cc/
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by netvarun 9y ago
Here is the direct link: http://bharathpatil.com/?p=492
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by netvarun 9y ago
One trick I learned at university while analyzing a circuit is to identify the various 'design patterns' in it - just like software engineering, circuit design also features a lot of recurring common patterns. Here is a fantastic
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by netvarun 9y ago
There was an interesting comment by hn user aub3bhat a while back about the political pitfalls of facial recognition tech: "But face recognition is a sensitive/politically-charged topic, I know several grad students (including me)
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by netvarun 9y ago
Just a word of caution on google Authenticator - the iOS version didn't seem to be maintained and it didn't have any sort of export or backup feature. I lost all my codes due to a factory reset of my phone. I've ever since (d
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by netvarun 9y ago
I found this to be useful in understanding some of the low level details of the bitcoin implementation circa 2015 - http://davidederosa.com/basic-blockchain-programming/
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by netvarun 9y ago
Sf has one of them - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Bay_Cable On a related note, there was a fascinating article on sf's dc grids by Spectrum https://www.google.com/amp/spectrum.ieee.or
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How 21 Mining Works(21.co)
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by netvarun 9y ago
Here is a similarly great post if you'd like to get your feet wet on running the bitcoin network locally (via regtest mode): https://witestlab.poly.edu/blog/get-rich-on-fake-bitcoins/
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by netvarun 9y ago
On a related note there was a paper presentation on the economics analysis of the blockchain from the Toulouse School of Economics a few months back. [1] Presentation http://econ.sciences-po.fr/sites/default/files&
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by netvarun 9y ago
By OCM you mean a one-click miner?
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by netvarun 9y ago
http://ycremix.com/js/define_data.js
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by netvarun 9y ago
Since this has 'native' integration it could be a great testbed for learning/applying reinforcement learning algorithms in a fun setting without having to deal with the 'heavier' (but more comprehensive) vnc based t
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by netvarun 9y ago
After Shor's algorithm a good follow up would be to learn about Grover's Algorithm[1] Here is a fantastic explanation of it: http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post2644_grovers-quantum-s... [More technically i
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by netvarun 9y ago
"Let me circle back."
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True Story of a Real Life Superhero: Shavarsh Karapetyan(peopleofar.com)
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by netvarun 9y ago
Next steps: A computational graph based deep learning system with a Tensorflow like API on Javascript/Node lala-land. https://github.com/tqchen/tinyflow would be a great showcase (and useful) project to port for G

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