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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…

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 wit…

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 ch…

If scalpers are able to sell a product at higher price, doesn't that mean the company priced the product too low?

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 bel…

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 de…

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 ci…

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 k…

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.

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, …

That is no different than buying a house with a loan, where the loan is backed by the same house.

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 moderat…

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 e…

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/deta…

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 For example, labeling a million text samples with 9…

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 mo…

The above tweets are blocked in India. https://imgur.com/cYElEX2.png https://imgur.com/v99RGuQ.png

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 licens…

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 a…

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 …

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 st…

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 …

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.

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 …

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....