sthatipamala

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by sthatipamala 6y ago
Polar ( https://getpolarized.io/ ) has a GPT-3 based flash card generator from text highlights. It's available to premium subscribers.
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by sthatipamala 6y ago
How does this work? Do you compose the cards together to create a wireframe page layout?
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by sthatipamala 6y ago
Are these numbers the energy to train a model? The whole point of these new NLP models is transfer learning, meaning you train the big model once and fine-tune it for each use case with a lot less training data. 5 cars worth of carbon emiss
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by sthatipamala 6y ago
I used to regularly ride Flixbus in the US from San Francisco to Fresno, CA. Definitely not glamorous but also a very cheap and accessible way to get around! Much better than Greyhound.
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by sthatipamala 6y ago
I experience these kinds of “hallucinations” all the time by practicing mantra meditation (similar to Transcendental Meditation). I see those jellyfish swirls and Winamp visualization type effects within minutes of beginning to chant the ma
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by sthatipamala 6y ago
Awesome! How do you compare this to https://github.com/uber/ludwig , which also has a YAML-based cli for ML?
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by sthatipamala 6y ago
City Journal is ostensibly about cities but is actually a conservative think tank. They are out to show that academia is being taken over by Cultural Marxists and that the custodians of great Western canon have fled to private industry.
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by sthatipamala 6y ago
The first programming language I learned was Scheme, as taught in CS61A at UC Berkeley. It opened my eyes to the beauty of programming. I had classmates who blew it off as a useless course because they already knew Java and PHP. It was thei
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by sthatipamala 6y ago
I encounter abandoned syringes and feces in the street multiple times daily. I’ve seen syringes in public transport less frequently, once or twice in 5 years here.
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by sthatipamala 6y ago
The money pooling scheme that you’re describing sounds very similar to a chit fund in India. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chit_fund
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by sthatipamala 7y ago
Most of the classes are project based (vs. exam based). This means that there is a lower bound on how long you spend, no matter how well you understand the material. The projects themselves are fairly intense and, if you take 2 courses, the
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by sthatipamala 7y ago
I’m currently enrolled in this program. Highly recommend it if you’re actually interested in going deep into the material. It’s a lot of work and I’m learning a lot even after several years of industry experience.
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by sthatipamala 7y ago
If I don't even know what data type my input is, what meaningful output can the system give? I wouldn't consider that cheating. Also, you can do feature engineering on a training set that you collect, as long as that is similar to
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by sthatipamala 7y ago
gruseom: This seems like an interesting initiative. Can you tell us why you shared it?
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by sthatipamala 7y ago
There's a YC company that's literally making a standardized test for programmers: https://cspa.io/
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by sthatipamala 7y ago
PGP seems like a leaky abstraction. I am highly technical and my eyes glaze over when I see terms like elliptic curve. What should I use if want to send dead simple, foolproof encrypted email? (Foolproof in that I can trust that updating th
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by sthatipamala 7y ago
I believe Japan follows this system. It was very confusing when I visited because they sort their waste into combustible and non-combustible, instead of trash vs. recycle.
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by sthatipamala 7y ago
Maybe change the title to "Wolfram Language Version 12 Launches"? This is not the 12th iteration of Stephen Wolfram, the human ;)
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by sthatipamala 8y ago
A lot of Scala users like the Akka actor system. The actor model is a first-class library in Elixir (or more specifically Erlang/OTP)
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by sthatipamala 8y ago
This is going to sound pretentious, but programming is closer to composing than performing. Source code does not store any performance metadata, just the static score. In that sense, it’s more important to get a feel for theory and aestheti
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by sthatipamala 8y ago
Your personal network. Check out “Take the Work Out Of Networking” [0] for non-sleazy ways to build this asset. 0: https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Work-Out-Networking-Connection...
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by sthatipamala 9y ago
Sure. Programmers usually group logically-related functions/classes/components into smaller files. The logic for web "applications" these days can be complicated and involve loading hundreds of such files. If loaded indi
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by sthatipamala 9y ago
The Pinterest web backend has some vestiges of Django for form validations and stuff, but IIRC it's mostly custom at this point.
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by sthatipamala 10y ago
You want to get that equipment for a community college serving a Native American tribe? That sounds like a great cause! (The person states they are looking to fund things that might go unfunded otherwise)
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by sthatipamala 10y ago
How composable are these presets? I like to use Typescript and ideally that is only additional one preset rather than a combinatorial explosion of things like "neutrino-react-electron-typescript".
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by sthatipamala 10y ago
I cannot even imagine what kind of lifestyle would result in spending 8K a month in SF. I live in SF spending 4K a month for 2 people
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by sthatipamala 10y ago
There _was_ a time where it seemed HN was becoming a hateful, negative place but since HN became its own autonomous unit of YC, they've put a lot of effort into turning it into a constructive forum.
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by sthatipamala 10y ago
It is in fact grammatically correct without punctuation, just somewhat awkward. Consider this analogous sentence with the same meaning, with optional parentheticals added to help you parse: New York oxen (that) New York oxen bully (themselv
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by sthatipamala 10y ago
Are there really factories whose policies and parameters are encoded in software vs. under the guidance of humans? That in itself is amazing to me considering that the tech company I work at, lots of things are just done by fiat.
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by sthatipamala 10y ago
One downside I see to this: It's not possible to statically determine which resource will respond to which URL. I suppose that is also a benefit (maybe some resource can divert to another resource under heavy load/when its DB is u

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