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iamgopal

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Engineer.

patelgopal@gmail.com

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iamgopal··on Meta data center electricity consumption hits 14,975GWh
In that case We don't have enough work to do. Automating agriculture and distributing produce for free ( or at low margin ) is the last nail in to the coffin. This all is just dopamine, real work needs bombastic goals.
iamgopal··on AnandTech Farewell
I bought my first AMD Processor after reading review of it on their website in 2002.
iamgopal··on CSS Grid Areas
Oh my God. What we have done ?
iamgopal··on Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
We do contract base software development in India, and have worked with https://haulog.com/ recently. If you’re considering to start with outsourcing to jump start, Let’s exchange few mail ( patelgopal@gmail.com ) and see if we are compatible enough to try and make a demo or something.
iamgopal··on RustPython: A Python Interpreter Written in Rust
Is there GoPython ?
iamgopal··on AMD says its new laptop chips can beat Apple
Hopefully they beat it in both performances and power consumption.
iamgopal··on Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex
I was reading second sentence, and I knew it was zerodha. It’s good to see more open source in your tech stack.
iamgopal··on China Building Twice as Much Wind and Solar as Rest of World Combined
That’s good, they are also consuming as much. Hopefully India soon catch up.
iamgopal··on The physics of airplane flight
Side note, but are there any international aircraft racing held ? For efficiency ?
iamgopal··on Einstein and his peers were resistant to black holes
What is white hole ?
iamgopal··on Conway's Game of Life, in checkboxes for some reason
We programmers mostly living in abstraction on top of abstraction have actually no idea how fast our computer has become.
iamgopal··on After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (2018)
Wow !! We have supplied machinery to this company, how wonderful to find such write up at other end of the spectrum. World is small and gol.
iamgopal··on Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments
They could invent Tele transportation and Time Machine which essentially the same thing.
iamgopal··on Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo
isn't it in itself an announcement ?
iamgopal··on Fungus breaks down ocean plastic
aluminium is the best choice for packaging, for most food products.
iamgopal··on Tiny fern has the largest genome of any organism on Earth
No garbage collector in nature ?
iamgopal··on Jim Simons has died
Their success is limited by what other party ready to lose, most of the time, these all are zero sum games.
iamgopal··on TimesFM: Time Series Foundation Model for time-series forecasting
How can time series model be pre-trained ? I think I’m missing something.
iamgopal··on Superfest – The almost unbreakable East German Glass (2021)
I make pumps that are 5 to 10 times expensive than Chinese pumps and 5 to 10 times durable, I sell 1/10 as much as Chinese pumps. This is restricting research in improving pump, instead all research goes in reducing the cost.
iamgopal··on Superfest – The almost unbreakable East German Glass (2021)
Usually lamination comes in between.
iamgopal··on Watch cars evolve using genetic algorithm
More improvement needs wild environment changes.
iamgopal··on The Vision Pro is a flop
Apple’s core competence is to wait for some good product hit the market and later improve it to make it much better and fetch their market share. Being forefront of the tech is not their skill, their skill is integration , supplier, and supply chain Logistics’s, and a design
iamgopal··on Financial market applications of LLMs
This is true, I have tested this with multiple veterans and none could tell them apart
iamgopal··on Orifice.ai
What ? AI tld automatic warrant to hn first page ?
iamgopal··on Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models
So new AI chip will be coming optimised for large scale non-byte bit only AI world ?
iamgopal··on How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/kg (2023)
I was under assumption that, to reach $1/kg, hydrogen should be byproduct of electrolysis of sea water with additional products such as chlorine, calcium carbonate ( precursor of cement ? ), other precious metals, etc combined to reduce price of the hydrogen.
iamgopal··on Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power
Think hard and write better solution.
iamgopal··on Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power
Or invest in food producing company, better explicit than implicit
iamgopal··on Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power
By law it should be compulsory to install enough renewable power to one’s requirement and grid should only be used as load balancing body.
iamgopal··on Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
We have seen that some human are capable of doing complex ( square root ) maths in their head, can NN be trained to do this accurately ?
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