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by avilay 25d ago
Why? Just...why? I get that sometimes we like to build useless things because they are elegant, or beautiful, or "cool" in some sense of the word. But CMake is not cool in any sense of the word! I can barely use it to write build
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by avilay 1mo ago
Good point. Same with me. Despite it being very tiresome, all the back and forth that I do with it really deepens my understanding of the topic. I have been on Opus so far, let me try Fable and see if it gets better. I haven’t tried voice e
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by avilay 1mo ago
I have had very similar experience! I wanted to learn Probablistic ML, checked out a couple of MOOCs, but didn't find any that were at my level - some were too advanced, some too beginner level. Claude was unable to one-shot a course,
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by avilay 1mo ago
"carefully architected solution" is not what they are saying. A "buggy big ball of mud" will not generally "do the right thing", if it did, it would not be a "buggy big ball of mud". Straightforward r
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by avilay 1mo ago
The percentages are different for different types of SWEs, not all SWEs spend 80% of their time on XFN comms. I agree with your larger point that a non-trivial amount of a SWE's time is spent on XFN comms and team alignment. My argumen
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by avilay 1mo ago
There does seem to be a need for a semi-deterministic workflow where nodes in the workflow are agentic, i.e., powered by LLMs, but the workflow itself remains deterministic. Lets say my daily workflow is to download a PDF from some website,
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by avilay 2mo ago
I have been grappling with a similar sentiment for a while now. I hate to think of myself as a Luddite, but I love the act of writing code. A blank VS Code in front of me is a beautiful sight full of wonder and possibilities :-) Here is how
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by avilay 2mo ago
Neither the Github nor the HF repos have anything on the XiaomiRobotics-1 model or datasets :-( They have a bunch of assets (datasets, code, model, etc.) for XiaomiRobotics-0 however, but I don't know much about that family of models.
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by avilay 3mo ago
Sad to learn that future generations of programmers won’t benefit from learning from him directly. I took his SICP course a couple of years ago after numerous failed attempts at reading the book and even watching the MIT videos. David’s cou
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by avilay 3mo ago
Agree! Negotiating focus blocks both at home *and* work can be super helpful. Of course, this is not always possible. Without knowing anything about your situation, it might be useful to rule out burnout as a possible reason for loss of flo
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by avilay 3mo ago
For sure, any task or activity that is hard enough and just outside our reach, can get us into flow state. The trick is in ensuring that it is the right kind of hard, it is not too hard, and we time box the activity/task. If you think
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by avilay 3mo ago
Debugging can be super fun as we eliminate possibilities and it feels like we are converging to a solution. There have been instances where Claude (Opus family) was not able to effectively debug and I had to step in and do it. But debugging
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by avilay 3mo ago
Ok here are the flow related links. This was about 1.5 years ago when I was trying to figure out burnout and it turned out flow (or lack thereof) was closely related. * https://youtu.be/VbUFMYs0kXQ?si=xiNw4ZFlla8k-p7w Th
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by avilay 3mo ago
Not being able to enter flow state is a very interesting observation. I've felt it too to the extent that I went down a whole new rabbit hole of what it means to be in flow state. Let me know if anybody here wants to know more, happy t
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by avilay 3mo ago
Reminds of this couplet by Kabir ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabir ): जब हम पैदा हुये तो जग हँसे हम रोये, ऐसी करनी कर चलो, हम हँसे, जग रोये। Translation: When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced; Live s
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by avilay 3mo ago
Reminds me of the "Named Tensor" experiment in PyTorch from a while ago. https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/2.12/named_tensor.html
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by avilay 3mo ago
I'll put in a plug for David Beazly's SICP course. While we didn't build a full Lisp interpreter, we built something similar over a week-long hands-on course. I believe his github for the course is private and only available
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by avilay 3mo ago
Thanks for your response! I totally get your point about the delay in getting the robot, I ordered mine from PartaBot and they did take a couple of weeks to get here. But when they did, they worked great out-of-the-box :-) Will email you to
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by avilay 3mo ago
> The author does explain his reasons for not using LeRobot in the post - although "I also use LeRobot for training and running baseline policies, and the vendor SDKs for the hardware.") Ah! That is exactly what I use it for as
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by avilay 3mo ago
Hey this is cool! I am doing something similar myself with the SO101 arm robot from Robot Studio using a patchwork of my own code and LeRobot. Would love to collaborate with you if you are open to it. You can find me on Discord as `.avilay`
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by avilay 3mo ago
Two things semi-parallelly: * Robotics Hello World: Objective is to implement ACT model to train my arm robot on simple pick-and-place tasks. Leaning heavily on HuggingFace's LeRobot library, but stopping short of using their model
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by avilay 3mo ago
Can a kind soul write down their interpretation of the story? I didn't quite get it. [Edit]: Thanks for all the explanations!
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by avilay 5mo ago
The point about papercuts adding up so resonates with me! I loved Zed initially and did find it more responsive than VS Code, loved the Zed Agent autocomplete, etc. However, I eventually and reluctantly went back to VS Code. The papercut th
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by avilay 6mo ago
The two don’t have to be mutually exclusive. You can let the agent code and you review it, or vice versa. No different from being a team lead where you don’t write all the code, or even review each and every line of code, but you have a ver
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by avilay 6mo ago
Totally agree with this! Being "kindly honest" is way better than being "brutally honest". Being honest and direct is important of course. I have often found that delivering constructive criticism in the so-called sandwi
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by avilay 6mo ago
This hit a nerve as I am in the middle of developing a webapp for myself using NiceGUI. I find CSS, especially its layout framework, pretty confusing and sometimes downright intimidating to work with. `inline`, `block`, `flex`, `grid` seem
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by avilay 5y ago
Lots of nostalgia in this thread. However, I recently started playing around with IBM's quantum computer cloud service and it has been by far the best experience compared to other players. Who knows, that might be their come back story
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by avilay 5y ago
Surprised not to see ghost in here. They have a paid managed version at https://ghost.org and it is fairly easy to set up with any of the public cloud providers. I have set mine up with Digital Ocean ( https://ghost.or
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by avilay 6y ago
Cool, thanks for the response. Yes, I do find that the PyTorch tutorials on distributed training are a work-in-progress. I was thinking of starting with a basic implementation of the original paper by Jeff Dean, et. al. on synchronized data
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Ask HN: Which of the following ML topics do you wish had good tutorials?
2 points by avilay 6y ago|4 comments

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