singhrac

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by singhrac 8y ago
I really enjoyed that aspect too. I was an intern a few years ago, and at the end of my internship I sent out a 'shipped' email, with lots of positive feedback. It's easy to feel ignored as an intern, but Stripe at the time f
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by singhrac 8y ago
To nitpick some more, I think the parent comment meant a bimodal distribution :)
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by singhrac 8y ago
I think the point of the parent comment is that we're discussing software engineers, who certainly have a different negotiating power than the (presumably nonengineering) contractors mentioned in the article.
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by singhrac 8y ago
No, you're forgetting tape-based operation tracking (requires_grad=True).
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by singhrac 8y ago
I think you should spend more time updating your knowledge of TeX :) All jabs aside metafont is separate from TeX in most regards, other than that Computer Modern was made using metafont (but is now widely distributed in a vector format).
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by singhrac 8y ago
In college I sometimes livetex'd a class, i.e. wrote (full, not terse) notes for a course while the professor was drawing on the board. The above is all necessary, but this is easier than it sounds because speakers pause to let words s
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by singhrac 8y ago
Want to add on that TeX support is pretty much the only thing holding me back from this. I feel like KaTeX is not only easy to integrate but also full featured. I'd be incredibly impressed if you could render full LaTeX though - e.g. v
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by singhrac 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what would you prefer? I think MultiDimensionalArray is a bit verbose, and numpy already has a hold on just `array`. I don't think the notation comes from any claims or delusions about what's being represented, i
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Tensor considered harmful(nlp.seas.harvard.edu)
46 points by singhrac 8y ago|20 comments
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by singhrac 8y ago
This is another market entirely. A lot of those 1400 employees are retail, which can't be auto-scaled away as easily. I mean, if they can make meaningful jobs that pay ok without shady business practices or bad work conditions, more po
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by singhrac 8y ago
That's true, but specifically for translation I think all SOTA methods use task-specific embeddings (i.e., learn their own instead of using BERT or Elmo, etc.). See https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.09381.pdf and note th
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by singhrac 8y ago
I'm not 100% pro-legalization, but the main argument there is that the laws on the books are draconian and variably enforced. We probably don't want that for consuming anything relatively harmless, like vaping or weed. I think the
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by singhrac 8y ago
I think you might be overly worried - it sparked a lot of discussion about cross platform app design, React Native, Electron, etc., that was probably interesting. I think you may have picked up on a site-wide (profession-wide?) tendency to
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by singhrac 8y ago
Chromium uses Pdfium, which is based on the Foxit code base, actually, since they bought some pieces of it: https://www.foxitsoftware.com/blog/the-interesting-history-a... . Actually I've never had rendering bugs w
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by singhrac 8y ago
He's right. Unless this was a media stunt for Elon's benefit (and it really doesn't look that way), the decision was made in a few days and the turnaround was 100 days: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status
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by singhrac 8y ago
PyTorch has AMD support in the main repo: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/tree/master/tools/amd_bui...
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by singhrac 8y ago
Not really, at least not yet. It doesn't exactly provide the same API capabilities as CUDA yet (there are some unsupported functions) and no one has realistic comparisons of benchmarks but the consensus is that there's some perfor
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by singhrac 8y ago
Does anyone know what supports E2E encrypted video? (Great doc btw)
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by singhrac 8y ago
The (slightly more) premium version is Starbucks, which has all the above but is more likely to have a clean bathroom. Also more importantly, somehow Starbucks more reliably has WiFi you can connect to without having a working phone number
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by singhrac 8y ago
This is really important - Starbuck's (mostly successful) attempts to become the central third space in city centers is almost definitely leading to class divides. Libraries are one of the few refuges left.
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by singhrac 8y ago
I'm optimistic too, about the creation of new ISPs, but it'll take a long time. Necto Lab is only taking 5 small ISPs right now, and the number of new ISPs created as a result of startyourownisp.com can't be that many (there&
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by singhrac 8y ago
It's not that far away. PyTorch merged a build script semi-recently, though I don't know if it's fully tested or supported. https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/master/tools/amd_bui
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by singhrac 8y ago
Yeah, this is about importing all the 'metadata' that Git doesn't host but Github does: pull requests, issues, wiki pages, releases, etc. These features are immensely helpful for any organization or open source project and on
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by singhrac 8y ago
For 5., see this in early stages: https://github.com/harvardnlp/im2markup
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by singhrac 8y ago
There's a whole bunch like you said, but I've used MacDown for years. I used Mou at some point, but the author seems very angry on Twitter so I dropped it.
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Mental Health on a Budget(slatestarcodex.com)
3 points by singhrac 9y ago|0 comments
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by singhrac 9y ago
Those are all good points - I was focusing on my use case (i.e. small deep learning jobs), but definitely locking into pre-built configurations can be wasteful. I'll likely use GC anyway, but appreciate the extra reasons given.
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by singhrac 9y ago
I'm sure the extra customizability is great and all, but isn't this not price competitive with Amazon's P3 instances? For spot pricing at least, they're at $1.2/hr [1], whereas here it's $1.34/hr [2]. It&#
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by singhrac 9y ago
This benchmark is worth looking at as well: blog.gpueater.com/en/2018/04/23/00011_tech_cifar10_bench_on_tf13/
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by singhrac 9y ago
Is there a blog post detailing the state of Ubuntu desktop apps (i.e. a list of apps that don't have a port)? And does hi-resolution display support work properly? I'm thinking about switching but there are certain nice things a

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