Viewing profile — KiranRao0

I agree that memorization is a very useful skill, but I believe it’s over-used in some education systems. There have been classes I’ve taken where ~half of the evaluation is brute …

My naive guess is that business with no tech component hire consultants, and these are part of the sales pitch. Or governments/large organizations performing box checking exercises…

My conclusion from the comic is that the client is happy. Clients like this don’t really want their designers expertise.

Does anyone have sample sites that return this?

OCaml is not lazy. src: https://signalsandthreads.com/future-of-programming/

I really enjoyed Andy Pavlov’s course on Databases[1]. I’m wondering if people know other courses on in depth CS topics including (but not limited to) Distributed Systems, Language…

Can someone provide a tl;dr on him/why he’s important?

I think this is the right line of thinking. My understanding of the grandparent's argument is 2 pieces: 1. Heterogeneity/homogeneity of labour. 2. Tight/lose labour market. I think…

This project seems amazing. What are the potential downsides? Increased latency when routing? Unpredictable query times (cross shard vs in shard)?

Everything I hear something like “to get money and more credibility”, I can’t help myself thinking of the Key and Peele sketch about robbing a bank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

I don’t think less of this type of content exists. Its just harder to find when inundated with all other slop on the internet.

Agreed that homes can be better insulated. However, poorly insulated homes still need heat. Heat pumps seem like a good step despite poor insulation.

Reddit used to be my go-to. However, it has become more difficult (not impossible) to find subreddits with nuance. Many have become either over-moderated or entirely one-sided. Plu…

I really enjoy HN for deep, well written articles about a wide array of tech topics, with occasional non-tech topics. While HN has its flaws, it's continued to be a positive source…

Very interesting article. I'm guessing this will remain a cat/mouse game for a while. However, any moves will increase the cost of training on un-licensed internet data. This will …

You have to assume all publicly available data is used for training. If you don’t want people using your images, consider data poisoning techniques to punish systems that train on …

Per the wikipedia article: “Modern computers use about a billion times as much energy per operation.” I’m guessing the efficiency gains can be considerable before hitting this limi…

Cool, I haven’t seen that one before!