sriram_malhar

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by sriram_malhar 11mo ago
This world is upside down. I wake up feeling like I am the man in the middle being attacked from all sides.
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by sriram_malhar 11mo ago
No, they didn't do a "quick analysis". They were in a race with Linus Pauling to figure out the structure. Pauling's son happened to leak the fact that Linus Pauling's lab had a triple helix, so they asked the son c
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by sriram_malhar 11mo ago
Perhaps I should be repentant calling Pol Pot a demonic evil? /s
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
Of course they are.
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
This particular example of thundering herd isn't convincing. First, the database has a cache too, and the first query would end up benefiting the other queries for the same key. The only extra overhead is of the network, which is somet
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
Not sure the eras comparable. One _could_ argue that the earlier discoveries were lower hanging fruit, where it was possible for a single brilliant soul to come up with a new concept. Now it seems to require more and more collaboration. Tha
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
"Thinking before debugging" ... advice from Rob Pike about Ken Thompson's approach. https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1941206
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
Frankly, this all sounds like hero worship and the language is very cringe. " Frankly, I just want to be a contrarian "
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
Incredible! Assuming I understand such a feat even with exposure to pure O2, how does he manage to avoid CO2 build-up? Or, how did he train to retain CO2? Cells use up O2 and release CO2 into the blood to form carbonic acid (keeping it simp
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
Good move. It is badly needed. Wish you the best. India has had the notion of "tooth powders" for ever. Even colgate has been selling it in metal containers for many decades.
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
What they discover is what the CEOs would _like_ to happen for their business. Everyone is seeking an edge, and CEOs would like nothing better than hitching their wagon to the next buzzword. Gartner generates a buzzword, trials it with CEOs
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
It is so strange that this article would hijack the term "rationalist" to mean this extraordinarily specific set of people "drawn together by AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky’s blog post series The Sequences, a set of essays a
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
Scott Aaronson had this view of one rationalist group. "Guess I’m A Rationalist Now" https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8908
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
well put.
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
The latest ponzi.
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
It is esp. important on a working day. I thought I'd need to be responsive to emails and messages, but nothing that could not wait at least until evening. Every so often, I'd have to spend a half hour going through all messages to
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
================== No Frameworks Do not create a framework to encapsulate what you are doing. For example, given annotations in Spring one loses touch with the level of indirection, and by the time you figure out why performance sucks, you
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
Will there be 10x the number of Luddites resisting it? I sure will be one of them.
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
Isn't the original reason for LLMs, language translation, the classic example where LLMs handily beat out bespoke translation tools?
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
"who cares where ze come down" .. important to get the German english right!
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
The phrase "multiple tasks at a time" is ill-defined, according to Lamport, because whose clock are you trusting. For lamport concurrent does not mean what it means to us colloquially or informally (like, "meanwhile").
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
I am _very_ impressed by what the tech is capable of doing; slurping up pdfs, interpreting screenshots, and coming up with a plan. But having gone the same route and relying on the book + Terry Laughlin's videos, I don't yet see h
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
Of all the things you could suggest, a lack of understanding is not one that can be pinned on Karpathy. He does know his technical stuff.
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
I don't know the answer to your question, but it struck me that we can ask exactly the same question about the US today. So why does US have bad relations with most of their neighbours? Why does US support terrorism against count
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
I loved Rossman's explanation of the transistor. Transistor is just a controllable resistor. So simple. No one told me this. I could have saved years!
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
Not sure what you think I mean by "that". The accounting department does a large number of things, only some of which involves precise bookkeeping. There is data extraction from documents, DIY searching (vibe search?), checking da
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
That is not true. I know of many private equity companies that are using LLMs for a base level analysis, and a separate validation layer to catch hallucinations. LLM tech is not replacing accountants, just as it is not replacing radiologist
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
There may be many disruptive technologies, but none come remotely close to AI when it comes to rate of change. Crypto has been around for a while, and hasn't really made a dent to the world We had friends over for dinner a couple days
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
I think Scratch is fantastic. You get concurrency, timers, reactive programming, multi-media, design elements, and no syntactic rules to learn. So many concepts. As a next step, I'd suggest GoboScript, that was on HN a few days back.
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by sriram_malhar 1y ago
https://github.com/p-org/P

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