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by verma7 7mo ago
This is amazing! Thanks for optimizing the code using Claude!
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by verma7 7mo ago
I wrote a C++ translation of it: https://github.com/verma7/microgpt/blob/main/microgpt.cc 2x the number of lines of code (~400L), 10x the speed The hard part was figuring out how to represent the Value c
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by verma7 6y ago
My guess is Craig Silverstein, as he mentioned that Larry and Sergey might have worked with him at Stanford.
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by verma7 6y ago
I am planning to learn how to write better. I am starting that by maintaining a stream of consciousness personal daily log. Also get more practice by commenting on Hacker News :)
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by verma7 6y ago
The analogy of the question "What is life?" with "What is a computer?" bring up interesting parallels. The author defines a computer as any device that has transistors, RAM, etc that is, the computing substrate. But ther
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by verma7 6y ago
How would you get the distribution from the sum of numbers individually?
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by verma7 6y ago
|Q-Z| is countably infinite, but |Q| = |Z|. There are countably infinite rational numbers that are not counting numbers, yet there are exactly as many rational numbers as counting numbers.
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by verma7 7y ago
Change List: internal Google lingo for what is more commonly known as patch, diff, or pull request in the Open source wold.
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by verma7 7y ago
You might find the last section "Sleep spindles and intelligence" in https://www.tuck.com/sleep-spindles/ interesting.
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by verma7 7y ago
It's easy to transfer to transition to the manager ladder by becoming a TLM (Tech Lead Manager) once you are L5 or higher.
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by verma7 7y ago
Headspace app has worked well for me too. I have been using it for more than 3 months, meditating for 20 mins every day and I feel calmer throughout the day.
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by verma7 7y ago
There are broadly speaking two kinds of meditations: focussed meditation and awareness meditation. I heard a useful analogy of the mind being like an elephant that wants to wander around on its own. In focussed meditation, we try to focus y
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by verma7 7y ago
I hope to see the day when this website gives the wrong answer.
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by verma7 7y ago
What about Ola in India?
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by verma7 8y ago
Aren't axioms just training data that you feed to the model?
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by verma7 8y ago
FWIW, I am 35 and I feel like my memory has declined from when I was 10 - 20. I used to be able to remember a lot of content for exams, song lyrics, and general knowledge. Nowadays, I sometimes have this occur to me: I am thinking about som
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by verma7 9y ago
This post has a slightly more coherent and detailed account: https://medium.com/@scifipromise/imposter-syndrome-or-not-my...
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by verma7 10y ago
My data model says 9 women and 1 man.
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by verma7 10y ago
I gave a talk at MesosCon about how we (are starting to) run Cassandra across multiple datacenters at Uber ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2jFLx8NNro , https://schd.ws/hosted_files/mesosconna2016/
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4 Unique Ways Uber, Twitter, PayPal, and Hubspot Use Apache Mesos(linux.com)
2 points by verma7 10y ago|0 comments
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by verma7 13y ago
> It would be expensive -- requiring a freeze of all running processes while the snapshot is taking place to maintain any level of precision. Have you thought about distributed algorithms like the Chandy-Lamport Snapshot algorithm ( htt
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by verma7 14y ago
I ordered one for $300 a couple of weeks ago :(