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abhayhegde

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About abhayhegde

A physics PhD student.

I believe in free will.

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    Comment #43235188

    Other institutions are also following the lead: MIT [0], Stanford [1], North Carolina State [2], UCSD [3], and perhaps there will be many others. [0]: https://hr.mit.edu/jobs [1]: …

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    Comment #42726467

    Nokia correctly predicted that iPhone would stand for "coolness" factor. It's amazing how Apple carried that brand since its inception and precisely what allows it to levy "Apple t…

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    Comment #42683576

    While I agree that HN usually gathers much interesting content, I don't understand why getting more karma on HN matters anyway. Chasing points anywhere isn't healthy by the way. Sa…

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    Comment #42638363

    I have been receiving various spam texts under the pretext of USPS has lost my mails and would like to reaffirm my address to them. The scammers are pretty smart to build an identi…

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    Comment #42607658

    In other words, excessive regulation makes the trustworthiness hard.

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    Comment #42607029

    Sure, but I'm not inclined to believe that number on its own. Practically, even the cheapest grocer like Aldi could turn out to be expensive than the quoted $3.37.

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    Comment #42606996

    Counterpoint: VISA and Mastercard.

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    Comment #42606977

    Considering this is from 2015, I wonder how much does inflation bring $2.5 a day to.

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    Comment #42606970

    I used to look forward to his takes. Some of the past posts were genuinely insightful, but now all I hear is the cliched difficult road leading to an AGI whose consequences always …

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    Comment #42444885

    In my opinion, matters of respect and kindness are given more than due consideration at death and perhaps only then for most people. Sure, go to the funeral and pay your respect, s…

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    Comment #42284103

    This resonated with me so many of my thoughts recently. This inherent lack of skills that could never make up to the best of the best, even with garangutan amount of efforts, is a …

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    Comment #42253134

    This is so awesome! Well, it'll stay awesome until they decide to kill randomly on a bad Tuesday.

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    Comment #41975009

    The displays on these iMacs are so crisp, but disappointing that 24" only. Happy that the base RAM is increased, perhaps trying to pander to AI audience. But, who buys these at cos…

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    Comment #41963071

    I agree very much with Paul here. Many a times as I'm thinking, I realize none of those are legitimate thoughts until I can put them in words. Describing your intuition is fundamen…

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    Comment #41743255

    What stops me from using a spreadsheet for this? I mean why is it priced?

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    Comment #41481028

    Great platform for invigorating research discussions! But seeing only AI based (or broadly CS based) research as featured papers is a bit discouraging. Perhaps there isn't enough c…

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    Comment #41480969

    Wow, how is this not getting enough attention when it is almost the same thing?!

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    Comment #41480960

    Does not have to be fake or anything. You move from one institution to the other and cannot maintain it forever anyway.

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    Comment #41480955

    Perhaps by linking to their actual arxiv id?

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    Comment #41441128

    This is crazy! What if one day the citizens in the game can be mapped to real ones also?!