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tourist_on_road··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Can a employee sponsored greencard holder move jobs within 3 months after getting greencard approved granted the new role is pretty similar to one before? will there be any issues in terms of naturalization/reapproval.?
tourist_on_road··on Large-scale vehicle classification
Nice post. Instead of using inpainting for model explainability, why not use attention maps to understand where the model is focusing to get a particular prediction?
tourist_on_road··on DALL·E now available in beta
Super impressive to see how OpenAI managed to bring the project from research to production (something usable for creatives). This is non trivial since the usecase involves filtering NSFW content, reducing bias in generated images. Kudos to the entire team.
tourist_on_road··on Life is not short
Looks like the site went down due. you can access the article here -- https://archive.ph/QQ5iV
tourist_on_road··on Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision
Good point. The fact there is no inductive bias inherent to transformers makes it difficult to train a decent model on small datasets from scratch. However, there are recent research directions that try to address this problem [1].

Also baking in some sort of domain specific inductive bias into model architecture itself can address this problem as well [2].

[1]: Escaping the Big Data Paradigm with Compact Transformers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05704

[2]: CvT: Introducing Convolutions to Vision Transformers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15808

tourist_on_road··on Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision
Transformers gained popularity due to the scalable nature of the architecture and how well it can be parallelized on existing GPU/XLA hardware. Modeling is always conditioned on the hardware available at hand. Transfomers lack inductive bias which make it generic building blocks unlike CNN/RNN like models and by injecting inductive bias like positional encoding, it can be well translated to various domains.
tourist_on_road··on Snowflake to Acquire Streamlit
Congratulations to the Streamlit team!

Personally as a machine learning practitioner, Streamlit was a god send tool to quickly setup demos without having to fiddle with front end code. I hope they continue to support the open source ecosystem even after the acquisition.

tourist_on_road··on Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant
Something to note -- Indiana U doesn't have engineering stream unlike Purdue. Only thing close to engineering is computer science and Intelligent systems engineering.
tourist_on_road··on Show HN: Embeddinghub: A vector database built for Machine Learning embeddings
Great work! Looks like you are using HNSWLIB. From what I understand HNSW graph based approach can be memory intensive compared PQ code based approach. FAISS has support for both HNSW and PQ codes. Any plans on extending your work to support PQ code based index in future?
tourist_on_road··on Golden Handcuffs
I sense greed on part of coinbase. If coinbase doesn't want to have 4 year vest schedule which makes up a significant portion of salary, Why don't they follow what netflix is doing and just give out salary as full base salary instead of any RSUs.
tourist_on_road··on Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
..without a fan
tourist_on_road··on A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode
In this regard. I like the google approach for not asking questions that are publicly available on internet.

These are basic computer science fundamentals and critical thinking capabilities that essential for performing the job atleast for software development roles.

tourist_on_road··on A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode
Isn't it what computer science is all about. You won't necessarily see the exact problem. But having the ability to reduce the problem at hand to an efficient algorithm that you might have "regurgitated".
tourist_on_road··on A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode
But it might come handy when implementing - route optimization problems - Building database query optimization engine

You can argue that not everyone is implementing these from scratch every day. But it could be argued that given an opportunity, an engineer should have the skills and ability to build these systems.

tourist_on_road··on India, Jio, and the Four Internets
Well, the entire business started with his father Dhiru bhai ambani. It just happens to operate in a different way compared to the organizations we know in the west.
tourist_on_road··on Critical SAP Bug Allows Full Enterprise System Takeover
The irony
tourist_on_road··on Recently minted database technologies that I find intriguing
How does tiledb compares to something similar like milvus
tourist_on_road··on Show HN: Neuropod – Uber ATG's open source deep learning inference engine
From the looks of it. It is from uber ATG not from AI labs. I believe those are two different orgs. Someone from uber can clarify
tourist_on_road··on HBO Max taking on Netflix with human curation instead of relying on algorithms
I read somewhere they realized that just giving a thumbs up or down on a title is much reliable than having star recommendation system