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kkaranth

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kkaranth··on Ask HN: Why is there no modern successor to the 3D Pinball games of yesteryear?
There's a really fun game from 2018 called Yoku's Island Express where the core mechanic is pinball-like. It's a 2d side scroller, looks gorgeous
kkaranth··on AI Graphics at JetBrains
That was fun, I love the splash screens in JetBrains' products. A lot more work goes into them than I realized.
kkaranth··on Ask HN: ML Papers to Implement
I've been working on implementing this too! It's been fun trying to debug problems by figuring out how to reduce it to the "bare minimum" to repro. Ex: does it work if I disable positional encoding? Does it work if I have only one sample per ray on a single image dataset? Etc
kkaranth··on Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes
The former "Principal Investigator" of the (research) project. Often the professor who is responsible for obtaining the grant and driving progress
kkaranth··on Simula One vs. Quest 2 vs. Valve Index
What's EE?
kkaranth··on Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain
That's mentioned in the article

> Enabled by a joint design of the camera’s hardware and computational processing, the system could enable minimally invasive endoscopy with medical robots to diagnose and treat diseases, and improve imaging for other robots with size and weight constraints. Arrays of thousands of such cameras could be used for full-scene sensing, turning surfaces into cameras.

There are existing swallowable capsule endoscopy devices like the PillCam[1], the entirety of which is 11mm x 26mm[2]

[1] https://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/products/capsule-en...

[2] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/johns_hopkins_bayview/_docs/...

kkaranth··on Firefox 88.0
I typically use Ctrl+Shift+S for this
kkaranth··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2021)
Location: Salt Lake City, US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, US

Technologies: C++, Python, Keras, Rust(neophyte), Graphics(Opengl/Webgl), Linux, Git, Unity, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Django, Flask

Resume: https://karthikkaranth.me/share/resume.pdf

Email: karanth.karthik@gmail.com

Website: https://karthikkaranth.me

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Looking for opportunities in scientific computing, geometry processing, graphics, computer vision, and/or machine learning. I have over 3 years of experience working on problems in scientific computing, deep learning, backend engineering, physics simulations, and graphics at startups and research labs.

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kkaranth··on Consciousness Is Just a Feeling
> playing recursively with our thinking

I think this is key. The idea that we can not only feel thirst, or think about thirst, but also think about thinking about thirst!

kkaranth··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2021)
Location: Salt Lake City, US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, US

Technologies: C++, Python, Keras, Rust(neophyte), Graphics(Opengl/Webgl), Linux, Git, Unity, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Django, Flask

Resume: https://karthikkaranth.me/share/resume.pdf

Email: karanth.karthik@gmail.com

Website: https://karthikkaranth.me

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Looking for opportunities in scientific computing, geometry processing, graphics, computer vision, and/or machine learning. I over 3 years of experience working on problems in scientific computing, deep learning, backend engineering, physics simulations, and graphics at startups and research labs.

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kkaranth··on Show HN: Vellum – An interactive list of nonfiction books reviewed by academics
This is great! Bookmarked.

One complaint I have is the low-res cover images. I'm on a 4K screen and the cover images look really blurry. I can't make out the subtitles of books.

Also, the double-click to close is a unintuitive. I'd much prefer to use the back button

kkaranth··on Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow
I don't have anything to add to the discussion, I just want to thank greggman for going out of his way to help me understand a simple webgl issue a few years ago.
kkaranth··on Show HN: Khan-dl – Khan Academy Course Downloader
Nice! These sort of tools are immensely useful for learners with a spotty internet connection.
kkaranth··on How will 'chipageddon' affect you?
> CPUs are immortal, it's the motherboards that die

Can you elaborate?

kkaranth··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2021)
Location: Salt Lake City, US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, US

Technologies: C++, Python, Keras, Rust(neophyte), Graphics(Opengl/Webgl), Linux, Git, Unity, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Django, Flask

Resume: https://karthikkaranth.me/share/resume.pdf

Email: karanth.karthik@gmail.com

Website: https://karthikkaranth.me

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Looking for opportunities in scientific computing, geometric processing, graphics, computer vision, and/or machine learning. I have worked on problems in scientific computing, deep learning, backend engineering, physics simulations, and graphics over the past years. ===========

kkaranth··on AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching
> The AMD machine discharges in a day even when hibernating

That isn't a CPU-related issue right? The CPU would be completely powered down when hibernating

kkaranth··on Nuon, a gaming chip that nearly changed the world, but didn’t (2015)
I had one of these! It came along with a fun little game called Merlin Racing, a sort of proto-Mario Kart
kkaranth··on New measurements of the sky's blackness
Noob physics question: I assume this talks about stars close enough that we can receive their light. Can we say anything about the number of stars & galaxies that are further away than that?
kkaranth··on Ask HN: What was your favorite website from the 1990s?
cartoonnetwork.com

There were a lot of fun Flash(Shockwave, as it was called back then) games!

kkaranth··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
Neat! I think it'd be useful to have a little blurb under the name of the medal to describe what its for. Like:

Turing Award

for contributing major technical innovations to the field of computing

(I for one didn't know what an Abel prize was)

kkaranth··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
Cute and fun! Thanks for sharing
kkaranth··on Ask HN: How have you fared working remotely this past year?
1) Fully remote

2) ~10 minute bus ride

3) Not too well. I work at a lab as a grad student and miss school and all its facilities

4) Pros: eating out less and improved my cooking skills much Cons: too easy to stagnate in terms of learning/making progress

5) Nothing in particular, just glad that I still have the opportunity to work despite the situation

6) For me, no. Its nice to have the option to work from home every once in a while, but in general I prefer going to a physical workplace. (it helps that my commute was very quick)

kkaranth··on iOS 14 USB tethering broken on Linux: looking for docs and contact at Apple
When tethering to a desktop without WiFi. And assuming wifi-usb dongles are not an option. (They can be a little finicky on certain Linux versions)
kkaranth··on Haiku: Call for Wallpapers
> Send your work to humdingerb (at) gmail and bitigchi (at) me.

What domain is the second email address talking about?

kkaranth··on Bead Sort
Yup, my bad. Fixed now. Random colors is the default in the matter.js renderer(and I'll admit it looks very pretty)
kkaranth··on Bead Sort
I love the runtime analysis of Spaghetti sort:

> Preparing the n rods of spaghetti takes linear time. Lowering the rods on the table takes constant time, O(1). This is possible because the hand, the spaghetti rods and the table work as a fully parallel computing device. There are then n rods to remove so, assuming each contact-and-removal operation takes constant time, the worst-case time complexity of the algorithm is O(n).

kkaranth··on Bead Sort
I'm taking a graduate algorithms class right now, and stumbled upon the bead sort wiki page.

These methods are quite interesting! The bound of O(n log n) only applies when using the traditional greater/less than comparison model

kkaranth··on Vitamin D, part 1: back to basics
Great read! Are there more (preferably personal)blogs like this that make topics in medicine more accessible?
kkaranth··on I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India
Yikes. It sucks that you had to go through this. I find it appalling that so many bureaucratic jobs exist only to sustain their own existence: providing little value to those who pay their salary via taxes.

Do you think this process would've been (significantly?) simpler if it wasn't agricultural land involved?

kkaranth··on The Limits of WhatsApp
I don't think "event planning" is a limitation of WhatsApp: its a chat app. Sure it could do a lot of other things(like WeChat does), but calling it a limitation is a stretch IMO.
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