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thallukrish

138 karma · joined August 13, 2013

Independent researcher and product creator
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thallukrish··on LeMap – Learning Enterprise Map
I believe the time is ripe to capture how an enterprise works into a living map that can answer questions about its data and processes for analytics, BI and everyday decision making.

LeMap is an attempt to build the tools that make this possible.

thallukrish··on Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
When complexity increases, you end up handholding them in pieces.
thallukrish··on SymbolicAI: A neuro-symbolic perspective on LLMs
Yes. That seems to be the case. While it may not be saving any time compared to generating general python code vs. specific symbolic code, the real value could be that it has an engine to enforce the contract on LLM responses with the library or even do the calls to the LLM as a common piece of code making it less error prone and bringing consistency in the interactions with the LLM.
thallukrish··on SymbolicAI: A neuro-symbolic perspective on LLMs
Since code is generated by LLM these days, how does specific syntactic constructs like a Symbol which essentially carries the context and can be manipulated with python operators help when compared to a normal python code generated by LLM with all the checks and balances instructed by a human? For example, I can write in this syntax to convert all fruits to vegetables or I can simply prompt an LLM to construct a program that takes a list of fruits and calls a LLM in the background to return the vegetables equivalent. I am trying to understand the difference.
thallukrish··on Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life
The problem with organizing is not the lack of tools or techniques. It is simply not possible to devise a system which works automatically with little effort. Everything requires varying levels of discipline which is hard to keep up with time and a different situation.
thallukrish··on Recursive Recipes
this is like minecraft.
thallukrish··on How to find time to learn after work (2017)
Don't find time for something. Find something that takes your time.
thallukrish··on OpenAI ChatGPT: Optimizing language models for dialogue
Will it give the same answer for a question or change the answers every time you ask it ? Just curious.
thallukrish··on The Problem with Intelligence
Humans seem to do a million different things. And all of them were kids growing into adults and do by learning to do things. Isn't that good enough if a machine did just that - ready to learn if taught, to be classified as being generally intelligent ?
thallukrish··on More content by people, for people in Search
What if unique content is not the one I want?
thallukrish··on The Creator's Dilemma
I've been a dev building things and I can resonate with what you say very much. A builder is like someone who has a hammer in his hand with everything around looking like a nail. Esp. if you are a builder who is constantly excited with your own ideas, it's hard to ask who would want that ?
thallukrish··on Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
There is no perfect answer for a query. There can only be contextually meaningful answers. They can be from highly relevant to far off. It is very hard to prove a search engine as bad in general. It may not work for you. But it may still work for a lot more. Google has indexed the entire Web. This is as large a span as one can take.
thallukrish··on Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)
Wrote this during the lockdown.

https://thallukrish.medium.com/noise-and-well-being-a9f0b30d...

thallukrish··on Back to India
Actually the place does not matter if you have dreams bigger than the place. Pursue them wherever it makes sense. If your dream is to build a startup go build it. If it should be done in India or Timbuktoo, go do it there. Just because you stay in the US or Europe, doesn't mean you can have better dreams. You may be among those who are able to dream better. It may give you better clues as to how to dream compared to India. But hey, in a flat world, you can dream sitting anywhere and go for it wherever you are. It may be a bit harder to do things in India. But without a doubt, the number of problems you can solve in India is far greater than developed countries. In that sense, if you are done with all the Education and stuff and you are reasonably good on finances, India is a lot cheaper to sit and dream and make things happen.
thallukrish··on Ask HN: What makes people add links to HN?
Unless you are outright promoting commercial stuff, I feel for writers who are relatively unknown and would like to get feedback on what they write, HN is a good place to post links.

This is not different from posting interesting links you find. It is not self-promotion as you are not selling anything here. Instead you are trying to see if the content resonates with others and kickstarts a discussion.

In fact, I see it as no different from the comments we are writing here.

thallukrish··on Happiness and the Art of Being (2012)
The more you think about enlightenment, the more you are away from it.
thallukrish··on Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?
oh you are spot on with your feelings. And you can do nothing about it. You will figure out however something that will work for you and move on with life. I could've told this and that. But I just want to be honest.
thallukrish··on I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control
Why can't they give laptops and internet connection free to kids and get them going online until this settles down?

What is so difficult about this ?

thallukrish··on I just don’t want to be busy anymore
People don't know what to do with their time. For those who know, they don't know why they do, what they do.
thallukrish··on Competitive programming is useless
Anything competitive is useless
thallukrish··on I hate almost all software (2011)
You can't express this feeling better than this. Oh! what a relief that someone could state the problem.
thallukrish··on Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016)
There are 1000s of SHOW HN. But a fraction of them get attention. So does that mean the idea was worthless and the person went ahead spending time building it? No, the person who builds always finds it fascinating. It may not become a hit. But you can't say the idea is worthless. It is a lottery. Only few make it. The magic is about doing the best you can on the idea you like and leave it to the audience to decide just like a Movie.
thallukrish··on CRDTs are the future
I can give a philosophical answer rather than a technical one. Our lives are filled with learning various things. And we all realize there is no end to it. But truly what makes you feel better about what you do is not this endless learning. It is when you can drop what you learnt and think freely about a problem that you can solve. Until you reach there, you are in a boat tossed by the waves trying to grab whatever you can to keep yourself afloat. Please disregard this answer if it is not of any help.
thallukrish··on 'You' Don't Exist
that's an illusion we carry about us and about others.
thallukrish··on Software Architecture
Explain your point.
thallukrish··on Tired of note-taking apps
I write a lot of notes in a notebook with pen. But I never see them. Very rarely I may revisit something. And I have often found that even if I read them they don't seem to matter to me now. So is all the hype of taking notes justified I wonder?
thallukrish··on Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test
the fact that it answers questions like Q: Who was president of the United States in 1955? accurately itself will tell that it is an AI. I guess the whole idea that an AI shouldn't be different from a human to say that it is generally intelligent implies, the AI has to fake its answers to behave like a human. And this means it is not something a desirable trait for an AI as we have enough real humans who can easily sound more human than an AI.
thallukrish··on Myths about Patents and Trademarks in startups
The article does not seem to address, should one patent a method or algorithm that defines your product as a startup before launching the product?
thallukrish··on Do the Real Thing
Whatever you described (looking up key signature etc. in youtube) is the real thing. You are trying to do sight-singing and you are working on it. And if you keep at it and get to sing the whole piece,then you have truly achieved your goal. But if you languish on watching more and more youtube videos, say watch how someone else plays a piano piece or go into something inconsequential to the original problem in hand, then in your mind you started with something and you have not done enough to help that. I am not exactly telling that sidetracking is the problem here, but you moving farther away and away from the original set aside goal is what I am saying.
thallukrish··on Ask HN: What to do when patents exist broadly covering the idea you build
A bunch of servers on the cloud.
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