abhijitr

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by abhijitr 5mo ago
For me personally working in big tech, there was a sharp increase of work-related malaise in 2020 that never went down. IMO it was largely driven by 1) covid-era hiring blitz followed by layoffs, 2) so-called zoom fatigue. Teams became more
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by abhijitr 7mo ago
The book "On Tyranny: 20 lessons from the 20th century" by the historian Timothy Snyder is an excellent read for these times. The very first lesson is "Do not obey in advance". It's about how authoritarian power oft
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by abhijitr 1y ago
From the job posting it sounds like the company value prop is AI agents as debt collector? They want to “solve deep problems like collecting more money”. What a shitty dystopia we’re creating.
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by abhijitr 3y ago
BERT is encoder only..
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by abhijitr 5y ago
Also: what happens when a nontrivial portion of public code out there is ML-generated? How will it deal with feedback effects?
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by abhijitr 6y ago
It must be nice for you that you've never felt persecuted or treated unjustly by human systems and therefore can't extrapolate to how that might play out when autonomous killer robots are thrown into the mix.
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by abhijitr 6y ago
> Out of curiosity, has anyone made an MMO better than UO yet? Piggybacking on this, has anyone made an open world single player RPG better than Ultima 7 yet?
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by abhijitr 7y ago
> Brazilians have done a terrible job of protecting their rainforest While the Amazon is in Brazilian territory, it is one of the largest carbon sinks in the world and therefore has a global positive externality. Therefore this is not a
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SaaS on the Consumer Side(a16z.com)
2 points by abhijitr 11y ago|0 comments
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by abhijitr 12y ago
The team has published quite a few papers (albeit they are mostly behind paywalls). Here's a good overview: http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/23...
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by abhijitr 12y ago
There's a rhythm to the original that's lost in translation. GGM's mastery of the language is impossible not to notice.
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Fürer's algorithm(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by abhijitr 13y ago|0 comments
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by abhijitr 13y ago
In chess there are hundreds of annotated databases out there where I can study how the masters play, read analyses of different playing styles, and try to follow along and improve my own intuition. Is there an equivalent for programming? Gi
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Top Secret America (2010)(projects.washingtonpost.com)
3 points by abhijitr 13y ago|0 comments
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Eric Brewer on Why Banks are BASE, Not ACID – Availability Is Revenue(highscalability.com)
134 points by abhijitr 13y ago|48 comments
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by abhijitr 13y ago
You should check out http://www.angora.io/feed
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by abhijitr 14y ago
Meanwhile... Gmail etc are working quite fine. So the claim that if you build on GAE you "take advantage of the same infrastructure used for Google services!!" starts to ring a bit hollow.
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Another quality of a great engineer: holding state in your head(blog.girishrao.me)
3 points by abhijitr 14y ago|0 comments
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Facebook's IPO "Disaster"(massivegreatness.com)
2 points by abhijitr 14y ago|0 comments
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Ray Ozzie hiring for new startup, Cocomo(boston.com)
2 points by abhijitr 15y ago|0 comments
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Popular bill for reforming legal immigration blocked by one Senator(ailaleadershipblog.org)
3 points by abhijitr 15y ago|0 comments
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by abhijitr 15y ago
Quora
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by abhijitr 15y ago
Looking at the MSIL emitted by the compiler is not a reliable way to tell that a tail call will be used at runtime. It's ultimately at the discretion of the JIT whether to compile the 'tail.callvirt' into an actual tail call in x86.
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Lisp prehistory - Summer 1956 through Summer 1958(www-formal.stanford.edu)
6 points by abhijitr 15y ago|0 comments
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by abhijitr 15y ago
aka "sampling profiler" as opposed to "instrumentation profiler"
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The Digg Newsroom - Sifting the News from the Noise(about.digg.com)
1 points by abhijitr 15y ago|0 comments
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by abhijitr 15y ago
Can anyone comment on the claim "QuickCheck is shockingly more effective at finding bugs than unit tests"? I'd be interested in hearing other opinions.
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by abhijitr 15y ago
I really hope this isn't the way most people use R. Wouldn't it be better to call out to a python script that pulls in the emails and spits out a CSV, and then load that into R?
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Groupon Alters Accounting, Reports Loss(bloomberg.com)
5 points by abhijitr 15y ago|0 comments
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Short Term Vision(gettingmoreawesome.com)
2 points by abhijitr 15y ago|0 comments

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