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by srvmshr 3y ago
Without sounding controversial and having peers in Infosys/TCS since college days, I can attest that leaking design & implementation decisions between projects is very common in consultancies. I have personally privy to one such st
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by srvmshr 3y ago
I came to know when Jeff Dean tweeted about it in September [1]. Truly a great loss. [1]. https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1705042899677884630
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by srvmshr 3y ago
I genuinely don't want to sound pedantic or critical - but anyone who dabbled in maths - from olympiads in school or undergrad or did math for research - would have several such notes for e.g. of graph theoretic models or combinatorics
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by srvmshr 3y ago
I still use two fully specced out 15" MacBook Pro Mid-2015. Battery lasts me close to 3 hours still on a regular work day. My previous 2010 MacBook pro similarly lasted 6 years (until about 2016 when I got two of these machines). Apple
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by srvmshr 3y ago
PolyCam is apparently not free but considered one of the best. I used 3D Scanner from Laan labs (& it's a free app. No ads thankfully). I used it to build a few dataset for NeRFs based on MIPNeRF. The data quality seemed pretty fin
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Ever observed how legal documents, product documentation, books etc., are typeset - with exact placement of comment boxes, US code reference/legal disclaimers/ barcode, precise footnotes or margin notes. Many of those are meant to
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by srvmshr 3y ago
They have become a reliable way in office & legal processes around the world in terms of fixed layouts & content immutability (in a sort of layman view. Knowing Acrobat Pro exists & PDF editing too - but I'd argue that in m
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by srvmshr 3y ago
> Very hard for little Timmy to ask a quick question via email these days. There was a time in HS when I had several to-fro with DMR about Unix philosophy without fully realizing what a giant he was in our CS galaxy. I truly miss him.
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by srvmshr 3y ago
I think the view is a bit myopic. Certainly, government projects have inertia & cost overrun. But over the last six decades, here are some of the initiatives on my mind, which couldn't have been done without government investment i
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Although Soviet-era books were notoriously terse & difficult to digest, they had some very aesthetic typesetting. I have owned a few (Problems in Physics by Irodov, & another by Krotov) and they all share similar design aesthetics.
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by srvmshr 3y ago
For the author, he misses an important point that except sometimes (and rare case) for a few core libs and functionality, majority zero-days and zero-clicks are based on new features and their integration into current OS iteration. Software
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Mostly a ton of JavaScript. As for the concepts explained visually, ICYMI there is a small footnote at the end of the article: > To generate the 50D word embeddings we used the GloVe 6B 50D pre-trained model and converted to Word2Vec fo
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by srvmshr 3y ago
I am slightly concerned people would still find more insidious ways to discriminate, under the guise of other reason(s). And conversely, people looking for protection would on occasion, weaponise this law. (I have some first hand experience
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Visited Dubai couple of years ago. Nice place to visit for a few days if you remain oblivious to how its society functions; but taking up residence will feel like living in a shopping mall always. Also, the general idea of labour abuse conv
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Sorry about late reply. I wish there was some way to get notifications of comments. Here's a survey paper which connects TDA & Graphics in several ways: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09703
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by srvmshr 3y ago
I tried my level best and got 2/20. I repeated with random guesses and got 5/20. I have used AWS on-and-off since 2018. AWS icons are next to Egyptian hieroglyphs in difficulty. Google iconography isn't so bad (but bad enoug
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by srvmshr 3y ago
From an earlier post, copying my answer which seems relevant to your query > Being a Japanese resident (PR) now, I did look up this option for a summer home in the woods (Akita, Aichi-ken etc). This is what I learnt: * Akiya houses come
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by srvmshr 3y ago
For those interested, there is a really nice course with lecture notes taught by Vidit Nanda (Oxford). https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/nanda/cat/ Unlike what people commented elsewhere, TDA has growing application i
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Just a benign observation: The list starts with brutal and graphic, going progressively benign to harmless ones. Shock effect expected.
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by srvmshr 3y ago
I have a ML PhD - maybe slightly qualified to answer this question. Yes, absolutely doable. Immerse yourself into learning things well. Learn the basics. Don't do course hopping & book hopping - pick a rock solid book or lecture se
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by srvmshr 3y ago
> Americans are the world’s leading refund seekers; consumers in Japan seldom return anything . Lived in America. Permanent resident of Japan. Imagine my culture shock. (Full disclosure/explanation: I was more shocked by the return
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by srvmshr 3y ago
I deliberated for a long time to choose between Remarkable 2 and the conventional iPad - and in the end just stuck to the iPad (after trying a borrowed Re-2 for a few days) * The reading quality & feel to the hands is far superior in Re
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by srvmshr 3y ago
That is what struck me too after reading the article. With the digital (and maybe Bigdata/ML) age, copyright protections need some revisions & broadened scope of "fair use". But digitizing and making media items available
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Elaborating a tiny bit on #2: It is a dangerous situation when non-technical leadership comes up with very specific technical opinions - based on hearsay & evangelists on their Twitter/Instagram. "I saw X on his Reel telling c
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by srvmshr 3y ago
> Bautista Corona said city workers have collected 6,000 tons of trash from storm drains over the last three years through a program that specifically targets big items like couches and refrigerators. Good griefs. That is a new one for
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Same sentiment heard elsewhere. Pulling stick up in a stall midflight is a rookie mistake. Pulling up & increasing thrust is a takeoff peculiarity. Even if AF447's altimeter was faulty, they both missed something else in their pani
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Bonin in his panic hit his priority button to take back control but didn't say he was taking back control. He should have announced he has the controls - and it is obvious knowledge to pilots that flight behavior us from the averaged s
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by srvmshr 3y ago
I won't like to criticize someone with a different trade skill (much less when they're already dead), but to paraphrase two of my CFI friends, their summary view was "Bonin acted stupidly". He didn't communicate he
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by srvmshr 3y ago
> Researchers have found that humans quickly stop remarking on hot temperatures; after between two to eight years, what was once a record high starts to feel like the new normal Al Gore sensitized his layman audience of this effect in
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by srvmshr 3y ago
For me Eudora was the first client I installed. They had a unicorn logo & even came as a Lite edition. Fun times those were, in early 2000s (along with ICQ, ACDSee32, & Quake3) https://computerhistory.org/blog/t

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