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> When so much extra money can be made by just providing a simple workflow for your primary use case Perhaps the product managers at the company thought of a different use case as their primary use case or optimized for a user persona di
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It is simple economics and markets in action. It appears you are probably employed somewhere in Asia and you are comparing with similarly titled roles within your company/outside your company in other geographies like US/EU. Salar
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Some examples of program synthesis. - Theorem proving: Being able to prove or disprove a mathematical statement based on axioms and other proven theorems. Eg: In formal software verification, building a program verifier based on the program
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I have seen Superpumped and liked Joseph Gordon-Levitt's performance as TK. Of all the series about computers/IT I would also rate Halt and Catch Fire at the top. Of course, Silicon Valley would take the top spot for a sitcom that
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Mr. Tharoor is a current Member of Parliament of India and previously India's Ambassador to the UN. He is a very eloquent speaker and writer. Here's his famous short speech at the Oxford Union where he made a case for reparations
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Not fiction, but based on true events. Netflix series - Billion Dollar Code. The Google Earth court case fought by the a couple of German hackers https://www.netflix.com/in/title/81074012 AMC TV series - Halt and
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What a glib article! It was about as horrifying as reading about a hypothetical article on Industrial Engineering takeaways from the Third Reich. The East India Company was an exploitative, ruthless and dishonorable organization that put mi
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I hope they shut this app store racket down.
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It should probably mention that this is an old picture retweeted without credit. Tweet from 2019 with the same image https://twitter.com/wonderofscience/status/11431505323341946... Newspaper article from 2020 with
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Some percentage of those who left those 1-star rating may be pissed off enough to cancel their Prime subscription in protest. (It may also be true that some percentage of those who cancel Prime for this reason may rejoin Prime a couple of m
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People new to GitHub may want to look at the Trending / Explore pages to get a feel for the site. Those who are frequent users may skip that in the normal course of their business but drop in once in a while, if they are curious. It is
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As a tangential topic, all those AI companies that profusely talk of using AI ethically must first disclose their data provenance. Otherwise, it is just lip service. Having said that, I could hypothetically use an open source compiler/
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Do you have a business continuity plan (for your team) that is part of the continuity plan for the overall business? If not, use this opportunity to create one. I am guessing based on my past experience that a fast moving startup may not ha
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I am hoping to soon see how we can generate a coherent set of characters in different artistic styles and perhaps build a graphic novel / comic strip using prompts. A slightly higher order application of the DALL-E/SD/MidJour
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History going back to 1600s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Presidency The British East India Company purchased the village of Madraspattinam in 1639 and established Fort St. George. Post Independence, in 1947, i
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This may not solve anything. In the end, a device or software signing a sequence of bytes tells nothing about the provenance of the sequence of bytes. A representation of X is not the same as X. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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~30 years ago: - Insert floppy disk into PC's Drive A: and boot DOS - Insert Borland TurboPascal floppy disk into PC's Drive B: and run the Turbo Pascal IDE - Edit program in IDE, save source code on C: drive folder - Compile, Run
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That is no different than any other large market with established players. Amazon in India is a relatively new entrant compared to established players that have multiple decades of India experience having faced different regulatory regimes
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You can view the recent changes to a wikipedia article page using the Related changes link under the Tools subheading on the left pane of the article page. Here is an example from the page on Mikhail Gorbachev. https://en.wik
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Ideally, for this strategy, the PUT is an insurance, so you can buy the longest available period that is priced optimally. The sold CALL is nearest-date expiry. After the CALL expiry date, you sell another CALL option and repeat this until
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You have underlying $STOCK that you have to cover the sold CALL options. When the counterparty exercises their CALL (because the market price is higher than the strike price), you can meet that obligation with the underlying stock. After yo
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Combine stocks with options. * Buy x quantity of $STOCK. * Buy PUT options on the underlying x quantity of $STOCK (treat this as the insurance; you can choose to either pay a premium over the purchase price or a discount over the purchase p
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This is a personal anecdote from my college days in India (~early 90s). Our college had a mini computer/timesharing system and a separate PC network in our Computer Engineering lab. Those days we could enter the lab only after removing
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I am assuming you are not constrained to be a powergrid-connected power plant that is sending power to the grid. In that sense, a minimal self-contained idea might be to build a charging station. You can build one using solar charging, batt
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I found East India Company and Bengal saltpetre link to be an intriguing one. That is the first time I have heard about it.
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It is helpful to think of all communication with employees using a lifecycle model. As the company grows in headcount and functions, the composition of a core team that has the ball keeps changing depending on the nature of the deals. It
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This is so cool! What a nice way to show the intersection of theory, practice, engineering and exposition.
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There is a huge cottage industry of "voice and accent" coaches in call centers in India, Philippines and other BPO destinations. This is part of what many of those operators would call pre-process training i.e., the standard tra
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WHO virus taxonomy team is currently working on the naming. https://www.who.int/news/item/12-08-2022-monkeypox--experts-... Original Monkeypox virus was identified and named in 1958 when naming conventions were di
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I like composing the TeX markup in VSCode and MikTex for generating the PDFs.

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