karterk

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People Are the New Oil(convergentthinking.sh)
1 points by karterk 9mo ago|0 comments
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by karterk 11mo ago
Where is this, if I may ask?
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by karterk 1y ago
> The moat of the frontier folks is just compute. This is not really true. Google has all the compute but in many dimensions they lag behind GPT-5 class (catching up, but it has not been a given). Amazon itself did try to train a model (
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We bought billboards in San Francisco, for our open source product(typesense.org)
4 points by karterk 1y ago|1 comments
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by karterk 2y ago
Satya saved Microsoft by doubling down on Azure and Cloud. Something that Balmer failed to do with Mobile.
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by karterk 2y ago
There are many different classes of problems that are affected by tokenization. Some of them can be tackled by code.
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by karterk 2y ago
Solving the strawberry problem will probably require a model that just works with bytes of text. There have been a few attempts at building this [1] but it just does not work as well as models that consume pre-tokenized strings. [1]: https
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by karterk 3y ago
It's interesting how all focus is now primarily on decoder-only next-token-prediction models. Encoders (BERT, encoder of T5) are still useful for generating embedding for tasks like retrieval or classification. While there is a lot of
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by karterk 3y ago
> Cows are treated very well in all the ranches I've been on. Unfortunately the entire premise of your argument is based on a personal anecdote that's a gross generalization of vast number of cattle farms.
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by karterk 3y ago
For JIT-ing you need to know the sizes upfront. There was an experimental branch for introducing jagged tensors, but as far as I know, it has been abandoned.
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What it takes for a foreigner to create a company in India(twitter.com)
1 points by karterk 3y ago|0 comments
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by karterk 4y ago
Can you give some examples of problematic C idioms in C++?
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The Great Pandemic Bull Trap(typesense.org)
6 points by karterk 4y ago|0 comments
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by karterk 4y ago
Every billion dollar idea is a million dollar idea. Every million dollar idea is a 100K dollar idea. There are always smaller segments within large segments that you can go after.
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Zero-Cost Memory Safety with Vale Regions (Preview)(verdagon.dev)
4 points by karterk 4y ago|0 comments
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by karterk 4y ago
Yes, you can get a waiver if you apply for something called the "Letter of Undertaking" which allows you to not pay anything for exports. This was not available at the start.
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by karterk 4y ago
No, they usually are very brazen about that, but this time they are generally clueless.
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by karterk 4y ago
Back when GST was introduced, they asked all exporters of software services to pay the 18% GST and then claim a refund because exports are exempted. This was before they introduced a process to apply for a "NOC" (which must be ren
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by karterk 4y ago
Here's the 2022 edition: https://twitter.com/mrohanshah/status/1579829414916784128
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by karterk 4y ago
What are some ways in which they are bad/broken?
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by karterk 4y ago
Yes, we plan to do that, but we will start off with first supporting raw vector data type and search on that.
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by karterk 4y ago
To offer a counter view: paper ballots were a huge source of fraud in India's elections until electronic voting machines were introduced. I don't wish to ever go back.
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No Wires, No Electricity: First Nitrogen-Powered Air Con(nocamels.com)
3 points by karterk 4y ago|2 comments
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by karterk 4y ago
Have you looked at TinySeed? But they don't operate at a Series A scale in terms of cash deployed per investment. I suspect that the power law of returns in VC model requires really large outsized returns that cannot be achieved Withou
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by karterk 4y ago
Diversify initially to protect the downside but double down on your winner(s) to scale the upside!
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by karterk 4y ago
There are many large arid, desert-like land available in almost every part of the world which can be put to use for Solar. I don't think cost of land is a huge issue.
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by karterk 4y ago
Sure. At earlier jobs, I often got paged because of some bot running wild in crawling our web pages. Some pages are heavy and we don't expect them to be hit often, but once you crawl these pages indiscriminately (even if accidentally)
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by karterk 4y ago
Do you follow robots.txt or do you allow your customers to bypass restrictions placed by the website? How do you feel about bypassing that? I know it's not illegal but it's certainly not ethical either.
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by karterk 4y ago
> My app is officially dead. Most markets are large enough to accommodate several businesses. There's really no reason to stop working on something just because you find that there is already someone solving that same problem. Who k
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Elon Musk Secures $7.1 Billion in New Financing for Twitter Deal(sec.gov)
2 points by karterk 4y ago|0 comments

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