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alphagrep12345··on Ask HN: Should I publish my research code?
Publishing it gives an additional advantage that people are more likely to use and cite your work over a peer's who has a similar paper but no code.
alphagrep12345··on Kagi: A Premium Search Engine
What do you mean by actual article? How is it different from a blog post? And why don't you like blog posts? Just curious :)
alphagrep12345··on Show HN: Notesnook – A cross-platform privacy focused zero-knowledge notes app
Do you save the user's key in server to decrypt? If that's the case, how are the notes truly 'private'?
alphagrep12345··on Show HN: Notesnook – A cross-platform privacy focused zero-knowledge notes app
How does syncing across devices work?
alphagrep12345··on Zero-3 Offload: Scale DL models to trillion parameters without code changes
Simple 10 min overview/tutorial (official) if someone is interested - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovQC7FqXHXk
alphagrep12345··on Coinbase hits number 30 in the top free apps on Apple's mobile store
I'd like to know more about this. I always equated printing money to inflation. Why isn't this the case? Can you point me to some good books for the same? Thanks!
alphagrep12345··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2021)
Location: Atlanta, GA, US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV), Pytorch, Machine Learning, C++

Resume: https://sgondala.github.io/assests/Sashank_Extended_Resume.p...

Email: sgondala@gatech.edu

About me: I'm a Master's student studying Machine learning at Georgia Tech. This summer, I've interned at Apple Siri in language modelling team as a Research Intern. Prior to this, I worked at Oracle (Redwood City, HQ) as a senior developer on C++ query engine and did my Bachelor's from IIT Bombay, India. I've also cofounded a Blockchain CDN startup in the past and worked on it for about an year (Always excited to work at startups!)

Interested in opportunities involving Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and NLP.

You can learn more about me at - http://www.sgondala.com

alphagrep12345··on Ask HN: What vision model would you build if you had infinite data?
Why would we need document simulators for it? Isn't all we need good OCR systems?
alphagrep12345··on The Knowledge of London for cab drivers
Why would someone go through this prep for 4 years when they can just register through uber and start driving?
alphagrep12345··on AlphaFold2 at CASP14: “It feels like one’s child has left home.”
They mentioned that they'd publish a paper soon. Why is it a problem, then?
alphagrep12345··on “To be safe allocate 5 bytes more than you need”
Haha. 'Previous' work place :)
alphagrep12345··on “To be safe allocate 5 bytes more than you need”
This happened at my previous work place. They added 1 free byte every time they saved some data to disk. When I asked my manager about it, he said - ' There was a crash a while ago and this fixed it. No one knows why, but this is what we all do after that'
alphagrep12345··on Billion Dollar Startup Ideas [video]
Exactly!! I always wondered why it took so many years for someone to figure out a revenue model for couchsurfing ('couchsurfing' website started in 2003 and AirBnB in 2008). AirBnB is just that (atleast at start)
alphagrep12345··on Launch HN: Sunsama (YC W19) – Daily Planner for Busy People
I really like this app, but 20$ pm is too much as a student :)
alphagrep12345··on Show HN: Tabslu – an easy way to sell a table plugging in a Google sheet
What are the usecases? And why is it worth 29$ pm? Isn't it too steep?
alphagrep12345··on Lidar used to cost $75,000–here’s how Apple brought it to the iPhone
Is this LIDAR and the LIDAR in self-driving cars same? If they are, why can't elon put it in a car when Apple put it in a phone?
alphagrep12345··on Facebook News
Build a more personalized news experience? Hide publishers you're not interested in?

Don't people from facebook see this'd increase the already existing polarization and information bubbles?

alphagrep12345··on Ask HN: What features do you want in your AI powered note-taking app?
How would you use this information?
alphagrep12345··on Ask HN: Why doesn't Starbucks beat local coffee shops?
How does over-roasting help with consistency?

On a similar note, dunkin serves light roasts. I'd presume they also want consistency?

alphagrep12345··on Ask HN: Why doesn't Starbucks beat local coffee shops?
Most conclusions from the comments seem to be that

1. Sourcing quality beans is costly. 2. Majority of the people don't care.

For 1 - For a single coffee shop, quality of beans is not the most significant part of price. They can increase ~10c per cup and get much better quality of coffee[0]. However, this might be tough as Starbucks need to source same beans across the world.

For 2 - Following 1, if you only need to increase 10c, and get significantly better coffee, why won't you do it? You're already the leader in 3rd spaces, why not be a leader in coffee too, for a much better moat?

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SM2Jrot-ZM

alphagrep12345··on Ask HN: Why doesn't Starbucks beat local coffee shops?
Interesting. I didn't know about this. Wow!
alphagrep12345··on Ask HN: Why doesn't Starbucks beat local coffee shops?
Why not? Why can't high quality food scale?
alphagrep12345··on Ask HN: What life changing thing have you bought for less than $100?
How are these shoes different?
alphagrep12345··on The H Index for Computer Science
Why maintain it? Why not just use google scholar/semantic scholar?
alphagrep12345··on Joe Rogan Experience #1309 – Naval Ravikant (2019) [video]
Why is being humble important? and a valued trait?
alphagrep12345··on Clover: An all-in-one notebook
Why is there an abundance of note taking apps? Why is it that this particular category of software/apps sees a new one every now and then?
alphagrep12345··on Airbus pilot tries Microsoft Flight Simulator [video]
What's the use case of Flight Simulator? If it's meant to be a practice testbed for pilots, how does using (playing) it on laptop/xbox give you the real flight experience?
alphagrep12345··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2020)
Location: Atlanta, GA, US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV), Pytorch, ML, C++

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vck380sTEBJFEkgOx56KEtMr4jK...

Email: sgondala@gatech.edu

About me: I'm a Master's student in Machine learning at Georgia Tech. I'm currently interning at Apple Siri, in langauge modelling team. Prior to this, I worked at Oracle (Redwood City, HQ) as a senior developer on C++ query engine and did my Bachelor's from IIT Bombay, India. Interested in opportunities involving NLP, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision.

You can learn more about me at - http://www.sgondala.com

alphagrep12345··on Show HN: Brick, a free Notion-like tool for zero-hassle site making
The only question I have is, If I make a personal website using this, will it show up on google when people search for my name?
alphagrep12345··on Density raises $51M Series C led by Kleiner Perkins
Who would need exact accuracy? Why won't people be okay with numbers which are a bit off, but much cheaper?
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