AmIDev

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by AmIDev 2y ago
Can someone explain what this kind of comment is meant to be and what is the history behind it? It looks grammatically incorrect, and I can't reorder the words to make sense either.
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by AmIDev 2y ago
I feel there might be intelligent species out there without either the resources to develop technology or the ability to do so. Sharks could become smarter than us one day, but without thumbs they aren't going to succeed in overtaking
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by AmIDev 3y ago
LLMs are extremely useful for ML classification. 1. If you have a large amount of unlabeled data, labeling it using LLMs(even a costly XXXB parameter model) can be significantly cheaper than using humans. 2. Text classification works far b
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by AmIDev 3y ago
If scalpers are able to sell a product at higher price, doesn't that mean the company priced the product too low?
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by AmIDev 3y ago
Name is not the only thing that gives away one's caste/religion. For example, my ear being pierced gives away that I am a Hindu. The specific dialect I speak gives away where I belong from, which statistically brings me to 2-3 cas
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by AmIDev 3y ago
You can do something similar in India as well. The benefit is that you get the flat at cheaper rate, at the risk of losing all your investment. There have been many cases of the developer going bankrupt, but nothing at the scale of evergran
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by AmIDev 3y ago
When learning classical computing, I have done the following things that gave me a deeper understanding of how things work. 1. Learned logic gates and built(in simulators) small circuits which can do addition/multiplication. 2. Used a
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by AmIDev 3y ago
This is something I struggle with. I have a weekly meeting which includes TL, Manager, PM and sometimes Staff engineers, Data analysts, Managers of downstream teams etc. I try to keep the details to the lowest denominator, which usually mea
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by AmIDev 3y ago
Even that should be equivalent to distributing throughout the economy. If you burn 100 units of money, you are decreasing it's supply, increasing it's value by a tiny bit.
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by AmIDev 3y ago
I believe CS degrees shouldn't focus too much on industry skills. Sure it is good to have some engineering focused courses that are likely to be useful in long term(C programming, design patterns), but most courses should be theory hea
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by AmIDev 3y ago
That is no different than buying a house with a loan, where the loan is backed by the same house.
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by AmIDev 3y ago
As a secular Indian, I highly doubt that majority, or even plurality of Indians are secular. If anything, I've seen most of my friends go from being secular to conservative moderates/hardliners in last few years. I know quite a fe
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by AmIDev 3y ago
When I was in school(2002-2012), the Maharashtra state board history education was Maharashtra centric, not delhi centric. Most of the history lessons revolved around the maratha empire, their enemies. Few years were dedicated to freedom st
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by AmIDev 3y ago
All tlds can be used as valid domain name. So you can have http://com/ or bob@com email id. Turns out they are prohibited for new gTLDs. https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/new-gtld
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by AmIDev 3y ago
What I have realized after using Bard(Palm2), ChatGPT(3.5) and some other LLMs is that they are good for tasks where an accuracy <100% is acceptable, and the cost of getting wrong answers is not high. For example, labeling a million text
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by AmIDev 4y ago
Modi was banned from traveling to US and UK due to his involvement in the 2002 riots. Once he became the PM, the bans were uplifted. If anything, the documentary should make him more popular in India. The modi supporters support him because
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by AmIDev 4y ago
The above tweets are blocked in India. https://imgur.com/cYElEX2.png https://imgur.com/v99RGuQ.png
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by AmIDev 4y ago
I assume that if they train the model only on GPLv2, then the generated code might be legal to be used under GPLv2 license. Similar could be done with some other open source licenses as well.
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by AmIDev 4y ago
Should it be considered world war if it's only NATO vs Russia? WW2 involved millions from commonwealth(India contributed the largest volunteer military), I don't see India, China and Africa getting involved into NATO-Russia war di
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by AmIDev 4y ago
My family members, some friends, relatives and neighbours have been radicalized due to fake news and hate messages on whatsapp. My mother, who used to take me to temples, churches and mosques alike as a child, now hates minorities. My siste
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by AmIDev 5y ago
I am making 18LPA INR(23.5K USD), and just got an offer for 2x the amount(48K USD approx). I have an offer being negotiated with another one, and am expecting 1-2 more offers. I still have interviews lined up, and probably need to be more s
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by AmIDev 5y ago
I live in tropics, so pardon my ignorance, but is heating really necessary in cold places? I assume that instead of warming the entire home, one could huddle near a fireplace, and layer up with more wool.
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by AmIDev 5y ago
India and Pakistan went to a war(although localized one) after they were nuclear powers. I think as long as you give the other side a way to back out, nuclear war is not likely.
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by AmIDev 5y ago
India has plans to set up a rupee based transaction system with Russia. https://financialpost.com/news/economy/india-explores-settin... In the long term, India has been working on indigenous development of militar
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by AmIDev 5y ago
India decided to require all publicly funded research to make research papers and data open access[0] [0] https://dst.gov.in/sites/default/files/STIP_Doc_1.4_Dec2020....
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by AmIDev 5y ago
My employer pays for papers we need on a per-paper basis, and recently got subscription for one of the publishers as that was cheaper. They simply want to avoid lawsuits. I'm sure that outside of workplace, every employee uses sci-hub.
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by AmIDev 5y ago
There are two types of durians. One which is supposed to be eaten as a fruit when ripe, other which is supposed to be cooked into a dish when raw. When used for the wrong purpose, they taste horrible. Otherwise, the ripe fruit of right vari
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by AmIDev 5y ago
Alexandra mentioned that she didn't want this project to be illegal forever. Why India specifically? Probably because the same court has previously decided that photocopying books for personal use is fair-use, as long as no profit is b
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by AmIDev 5y ago
The paper link: http://libgen.gs/scimag/ads.php?doi=10.1016%2Fj.applanim.202...
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by AmIDev 5y ago
I don't understand if this post is exclusively about people who think that others are responsible for them not having sex, or about all those who don't get sex. I come in the latter category, and I don't think anyone needs to

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