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sairahul82··on Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator
Can we expect the price of 'Gaudi 3 PCIe' to be reasonable enough to put in a workstation? That would be a game changer for local LLMs
sairahul82··on A large network of fake Google Maps comments/reviews and fake businesses
These fake reviews are easier to identify. No profile photo, they typically have one or two 5 star reviews. If you click on few reviews of a business and if you see this pattern then most likely they are fake. In the past I want to choose a mover and this particular business has 4.9 stars with over 300 reviews. There is no way a mover can have this rating. I clicked on atleast 50 reviewers and all of them have only one review and it is a 5 star one. For some reason Google doesn’t care. I tried to complain about a particular review but there is no option to indicate the kind.
sairahul82··on Amazon job cuts: Read the memos
It’s not clear actually. I know some friends who are affected in Nov and some are affected yesterday.
sairahul82··on Drugmakers to raise prices on at least 350 drugs in U.S. in January
Raising drug prices, insurance prices, rental prices is a growth, isn’t it ?
sairahul82··on PyTorch 2.0
It’s python 3.11 :)
sairahul82··on Nima Arkani-Hamed: The End of Space-Time [video]
He wrote tons of papers. I don't know about the topic but he wrote real papers ! https://archive.ph/20121215091939/http://www.slac.stanford.e...
sairahul82··on Walmart, CVS face trial for homeopathic products next to real meds
Homeopathy medicines are the best examples of the placebo effect. The common argument I often hear is that it worked for me in the past. Homeopathy people say it works slowly. It works slowly because you are giving your body enough time to cure itself. It works for some and some it doesn't work. Lot of people miss this basic logic.

Some other people believe in homeopathy because it's a herbal medicine. These two are completely different. The fundamental logic of how Homeopathy medicine is created is flawed. From Wiki, "Homeopathic preparations are termed remedies and are made using homeopathic dilution. In this process, the selected substance is repeatedly diluted until the final product is chemically indistinguishable from the diluent." If you know basic chemistry you will know that this doesn't make sense.

sairahul82··on Apple Announces iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus
(added ref) True, this is problematic when you travel. May be they support multiple eSIMs. I have not found any one talking about it.

They are supporting dual eSIMs. https://www.apple.com/iphone-14-pro/specs/

sairahul82··on Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
FST is one underappreciated data structure. Its used in places like speech recognition and synthesis, machine translation, optical character recognition, pattern matching, string processing, machine learning, information extraction. If you know about it you exactly know where to use it.
sairahul82··on Apple M1 Ultra
I agree that M1 is great but the entire press release is full of adjectives. I never read any press release like it.
sairahul82··on Why I will never buy another Samsung device
Latest pixel phones are even worse. Every update is a nightmare. With one update, Bluetooth wont work, next update I wont get signal etc. I don't want to be in the Apple ecosystem but I am forced to. At least it works all the time.
sairahul82··on Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Sudoku solver (2018)
Narasimha Rao is brilliant in other aspects as well. He spoke 17 languages. Apart from 8 indian languages, he can speak fluently English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German and Persian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._V._Narasimha_Rao

sairahul82··on Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco
The tech behind it is explained very well here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJWN0K26NxQ It actually gave me confidence on overall self driving car approach
sairahul82··on Ask HN: Good Python projects to read for modern Python?
My favorite way to find good projects to explore is using GitHub.com. I go to explore page and checkout trending projects for the week/today. https://github.com/trending/python?since=daily
sairahul82··on Gopher – A 280B parameter language model
The problem is how would we use it in any real world scenario. We need more research on model understanding and its limitations. I mean we need a way to control the output of the model, we also should know when the model failed vs generating some random nonsense. I am not aware of getting the probabilities back in generative models. Does anyone know how to do that ?
sairahul82··on Image file formats that didn’t make it
DICOM is a container. It can contain any format including jpeg, tiff, png etc.
sairahul82··on IRS announces 401(k) limit increases to $20,500
Approximately 5% increase and is inline with inflation.
sairahul82··on Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
My problem with telegram is, 60% of my friends joined when whatsapp changed terms. After that I got no messages. Essentially most of them are dormant. It would be great to find out the percentage of active users in Telegram vs Whatsapp.
sairahul82··on Video streaming battery life improved from 12h (12 Pro Max) to 25h (13 Pro Max)
It may be a combination of things like dynamic refresh rate + more battery + modem improvements + h/w decoder improvement. Its impressive overall.
sairahul82··on Privacy group is preparing a case to the Irish courts over Facebook data leak
Actually Australia was not part of the breach.
sairahul82··on Privacy group is preparing a case to the Irish courts over Facebook data leak
That’s odd. Can you let me know which country you are from ?
sairahul82··on Privacy group is preparing a case to the Irish courts over Facebook data leak
The data is definitely not publicly scraped. I downloaded the data set. Phone number, location, date of birth etc were always private. It's possible that they have a private API that shares the data to advertisers and that might have been scraped. I created https://fbleak.com to show masked data to users to show the extent of the data leak.
sairahul82··on Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud
If you know your traffic well, private cloud saves a lot of money. Few years back i bet hybrid clouds will take over and for some reason it did not happen. I still believe hybrid cloud is the solution for mid size and up companies. You definitely need cloud provides for handling traffic spikes.
sairahul82··on The State of Machine Learning Frameworks
I think its matter of time. New things gets adopted first in research. I think pytorch will take over tensorflow. I was also a tensorflow user and when i switched to pytorch i never looked back. I was also participating in a kaggle competition and top 20 models are all implemented in pytorch.
sairahul82··on Tensorflow 2.0
I agree with you only basic models works !!
sairahul82··on Tensorflow 2.0
It has but not as good as tensorflow support. This is one thing i miss truly in pytorch. Otherwise pytorch is wonderful.
sairahul82··on Amazon Echo Buds
The phrase they used to describe here is interesting. "Noise Reduction" rather than "Noise cancellation". IMHO they are different. I am sure it must be better than other earphones but it sounds different than Noise cancellation.
sairahul82··on Camera vs. Lidar
The first thing we need to remember is the self driving doesn't work like our brain. If they do then we don't need to train them with billions of images. So the main problem is not just building the 3d models. For example we don't crash into the car because we never seen that car model or that kind of vehicle before. Check https://cdn.technologyreview.com/i/images/bikeedgecasepredic... we never think that there is a bike infront of us.

Humans do lot more than just identifying an image or doing 3d reconstruction. We have context about the roads, we constantly predict the movement of other cars, we do know how to react based on the situation and most importantly we are not fooled by simple image occlusions. Essentially we have a gigantic correlation engine that takes decision based on comprehending different things happening on the road.

The AI algorithms we teach does not work in the same way as we do. They overly depend on the identifying the image. Lidar provides another signal to the system. It provides redundancy and allows the system to take the right decision. Take the above linked image for an example.

We may not need a lidar once the technology matures but at this stage it is a pretty important redundant system.

sairahul82··on Disney Announces $12.99 Bundle for Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+
Also because Disney owns ESPN they can't own Fox Sports for anti competitive reason. They also let go Regional Sports Networks
sairahul82··on Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
I use it to remotely start my computer. My raspberry pi is always on and i use "wake on lan"[1] to start my desktop whenever needed. My desktop is powerful and consumes decent amount of power. Using Rpi to start is lot more power efficient.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN

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