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tadeegan

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tadeegan··on ChatGPT for Healthcare
Rip 10 more startups
tadeegan··on Getting Forked by Microsoft
WTF! I'd sue.
tadeegan··on Render raises $80M in Series C financing
Google will buy them to reduce chance of legitimate competition probably…
tadeegan··on Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life
Did the t-rex snort the lava off the volcano? badass!
tadeegan··on Confession: I Barely Use Web3
Agree sadly. I shy away from web3 investment strategies like participating in liquidity pools because I'm scared about reporting the taxes correctly. I'm now considering ways of anonymizing my self-custody so that I can avoid this burden. Im basically forced to act illegally to avoid this toil
tadeegan··on Francois Chollet is leaving Google
I guess they realized muilti-backend keras is futile? I never liked the tf.keras apis and the docs always promosed multi backend but then I guess they were never able to deliver that without breaking keras 3 changes. And even now.... "Keras 3 includes a brand new distribution API, the keras.distribution namespace, currently implemented for the JAX backend (coming soon to the TensorFlow and PyTorch backends)". I don't believe it. They are too different to reconcile under 1 api. And even if you could, I dont really see the benefit. Torch and Flax have similar goals to Keras and are imo better.
tadeegan··on Show HN: Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine
This is literally how Skynet happens lol
tadeegan··on Why isn't Colorado's snowpack ending up in the Colorado River?
> With less rain, the plants in the area rely more on the snowmelt for water, leaving less water to make its way into the nearby streams. Decreased rain also means sunny skies, which encourages plant growth and water evaporation from the soil.

Logical next step: remove the vegetation for more human population!

tadeegan··on I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business
How much tax did you pay? Long term cap gains?
tadeegan··on AWS CEO to Step Down
Great to read these two C levels jerking each other off. Amazon culture makes me want to puke
tadeegan··on PWAs wont replace native iOS apps
How do you get ordinary people to install pwa. That’s my question…
tadeegan··on Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update
The android pm probably wear Patagonia and use iPhones. Honestly
tadeegan··on Employers Took on Healthcare Costs, and the Fight Got Nasty
Republicans are upset about unaffordable healthcare compared to the public Medicaid.. The irony!
tadeegan··on Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over return-to-office policies
You can refuse to work for such an evil employer...
tadeegan··on Why did Google Brain exist?
Ehhh, no. Even inside google TF2 migration was a total disaster and is still ongoing :)
tadeegan··on Why are employers being forced to pay off California’s defaulted loans?
Someone is surely profiting..
tadeegan··on Google ML Compiler Inlining Achieves 3-7% Reduction in Size
Compilers have soooo many heuristics. And a lot of it looks like a chess or Go game: You have a list of 100s of AST optimization passes (possible moves) that preserve the semantics of the program but you have limited compute with which to run iterations of these passes. What order and combination of these should you use?
tadeegan··on Extreme include discipline for C++ code
> It's a known problem so we mitigate with #ifdef guards, #pragma one etc. but in my experience those band-aids don't solve the problem.

Errr, why?

tadeegan··on How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
As always, incredible work signal team!
tadeegan··on PyTorch vs. TensorFlow in 2022
I think PyTorch c++ api is less mature and harder to compile into other projects. Tensorflow started with the c++ api exposed which is why the graph format is so stable and favorable to deployment in heterogeneous environments.
tadeegan··on PyTorch vs. TensorFlow in 2022
Tensorflow is just such a classic clusterfuck google project. V2 had huge breaking changes (reminiscent of angular) and tons of the apis are clunky and don’t work well together. There are like 3 different ways to save a model. It’s almost like a bunch of teams built features with no oversight.

I’m pretty sure tf is considered in maintenance mode within google as Brain and the tf creators themselves have moved to Jax. I do think Google learned a lot from tensorflow and am excited to see Jax pan out.

Pytorch is a pleasure to debug. I think pytorch jit could close the deployment gap.

tadeegan··on Show HN: Object Detection in an Hour
This is only beneficial in static scenes right? Otherwise you can’t get free labels across the whole video.
tadeegan··on Asking rents in San Francisco continue to slip, but…
Ive noticed that the rentals on the market, while cheaper are generally lower quality. It seems to me that many landlords are opting for airbnb, where you can find 1 fully furnished 1 bedrooms for 2k$ a month rather than lock in a rent controlled tenant at the current prices.
tadeegan··on SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president
Yea but airplanes still crash all the time
tadeegan··on A chain cuts through a capsized cargo ship filled with cars
This is straight up right out of that book “3 Body Problem”. https://www.reddit.com/r/threebodyproblem/comments/blxvy1/sp...
tadeegan··on Test-First Machine Learning
Testing model code tends to be very difficult unless you design your training loop with lots of abstractions and dependency injection which makes the code less explicit and difficult to understand. For example, try to look at the Tensorflow Estimator framework. Absolutely awful to use but is well tested.
tadeegan··on Microsoft will shut down the Cortana iOS and Android apps in 2021
The other day I said “Hay Siri, take me to Buena Vista park.” She responded “the entrance buena vista Avenue?” and I responded: “oops I actually meant corona height park” and she instantly started navigation there. I actually held a productive conversation with a computer. Magical.
tadeegan··on Sonos, Squeezed by the Tech Giants, Sues Google
That’s what you get for creating a closed system for connected speakers. You get trounced by bigger fish who can do it just as well and have wider integration.
tadeegan··on Microsoft Teams is the first office app for Linux
I wonder if they cross compile .net or if it’s some kind of webapp like vscode?
tadeegan··on J2cl: Transpile Java to JavaScript for Closure Compiler
J2CL attempts to solve a much different problem than GWT. It does not try to replace js or js developers.

J2CL is designed for cross platform code reuse. For example, the code powering Google Docs front end needs to be written for web, Android and iOS. J2CL does the transpilation of all document manipulation and rendering logic from Java -> JS (and accomplishes this with unprecedented js code size). The UI is still written in JS.

Java -> Android

Java -> Backend Server

Java -> J2objc -> iOS

Java -> J2CL -> JS/web.

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