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bhaavan··on FCC fines robocaller record $120M
But what if the Robocaller wanted to talk to my Google Duplex assistant? It is a pretty boring life for my Duplex. Getting a few phone calls from fellow beings is the bare minimum she deserves!
bhaavan··on List of screw drives
Will this data make it to a Sheldon dialog in The Big Bang Theory?
bhaavan··on Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to Allo, double down on RCS
https://xkcd.com/927/ Relevant xkcd.
bhaavan··on Android container in Chrome OS
Not sure if this is a sarcastic comment. But afaict, Android apps in Chrome OS need not be artificially blown up to full screen. They can run in a windowed mode, in an optimal size.

However, I don't see any technical challenges in supporting Electron apps as well, other than constraints in RAM, performance and security of the Electron platform.

bhaavan··on Android container in Chrome OS
You're correct in sentiment. But one can't git push to Linux master without having the patch reviewed and merged by a maintainer.
bhaavan··on Jeff Dean takes over as Google’s AI chief
In a leadership role, it will be difficult for him to contribute technically IMO. I wish he remained a programmer, and continued using his abilities to solve greater things.
bhaavan··on Indian Prime Minister accused of spying on citizens using official app
Exactly. Infact, he was even pal-ly with Nawaz Sharif (the then PM of Pakistan and therefore India's sworn enemy #1). I wouldn't read into anything inferred from diplomatic compulsions.
bhaavan··on GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
So still no GTK3? I think when GTK4 is released in a few months, it would be a good time to move to GTK3 as they can still be outdated.

I know I am being a bit bitter for an open source project with less funding, but GIMP was supposed to be a poster boy GTK application in the first place.

bhaavan··on Git log – The good parts
lol, I named my alias `git lol` because it is logs in one line.
bhaavan··on Powerful flare from star Proxima Centauri detected with ALMA
How do we know that the sun is immune from such solar activity and will not have flares of such magnitude?
bhaavan··on JDK 10: General Availability
Given that your company is still on JDK7, and is already saying a "fuck you" to new features, I don't think anything will change for you at all. You can continue ignoring newer features, but that doesn't mean everybody should. If they find value, they should have an option to move fast.
bhaavan··on Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1782/
bhaavan··on WPA3 Wifi Security Protocol Announced
Now if only I could run `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade` on my router's firmware to support this.
bhaavan··on Python 2.7 Countdown
MacOS still ships with Python 2 as the default python.
bhaavan··on Hacking a Google Interview (2009)
Protobuf to Protobuf.
bhaavan··on Firefox Focus: A Fast Private Mobile Browser from Mozilla
What changed? Why is this being posted now?
bhaavan··on Kubernetes Best Practices
“Don’t ask advice.”
bhaavan··on The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem
twitter.com
bhaavan··on Can Neural Networks Crack Sudoku?
I thought Sudoku can be solved in constant time. It would be a O(9! * 9! ) or something, which is just a O(1), isn't it?
bhaavan··on Show HN: L2: An elegant untyped, unsafe, unhygienic programming language
Fifth!
bhaavan··on [dead]
Up in holland, right now.
bhaavan··on A faster BBC News front page
Am I supposed to trust any news from a domain that spells "wildly inaccurate"? Am I in how people react to "fake news" experiment?
bhaavan··on William Shatner's Seat
Holy shat!
bhaavan··on Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog
Principally, yes. However, the approach may be more nuisanced than that. If I were you, I would first pick a character recognition engine (which might have already been well trained) to convert the image to text. Once the text is there, that might serve as a better feature to classify the content. Furthermore, I had recommend converting words in the text to word-embeddings/ vectors using a suitable Glove or Word2Vec dataset similar to your content.

While there are many benefits of end-to-end training, I don't think it might be best suited for this case. This is because we already know that the only useful feature in the document is the text, and not the contours or textures. Theefore wasting neurons in your neural network to learn the wastefulness of this features is just waste of resources. Furthermore, you benefit from even a larger corpus of learned data, which the char recognition engine has been trained on.

bhaavan··on Apple Worldwide Dev Conference 2017 announced
There shall also not be a keynote. Courage.
bhaavan··on Google’s not-so-secret new OS
> until they either die or get stolen or screen cracked or phone soaked in water (but these problems will diminish when IP68 and Gorilla Glass 5 become more mainstream)
bhaavan··on Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your company?
Browsing reddit.
bhaavan··on Why are browsers so slow?
Unimaginative, non-technical rant. Please find the bottlenecks, and provide a technical solution. The code is open source for you to read, and your patch will be constructive and helpful. Your idealist blog-post, not really that helpful.
bhaavan··on Simulating Extreme Spacetimes
Well, you will likely see a lot and lot of stars in the sky and that's probably all. The predictable constellations in different months of the year in the night sky will be redefined. But this is going to be a continuous evolving night sky which will take shape over many many generations of human life span.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnYCpQyRp-4

bhaavan··on Linus Torvalds on C++
With all due respect to Linus, this mail chain is just unreasoned argument. He vaguely mentions poor memory management and nothing else which is faulty in C++. It would have been helpful to reason out his choices then go on tirade of slang.
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