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alok-g

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About alok-g

* A full-stack technology leader and architect with breadth as well as depth in many computer science and electronics engineering disciplines including software, hardware and complete systems

* Known for my ability to simplify concepts

* A sought-after mentor

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alokgovil/

alokgovil@hotmail.com

https://alokgovil.com

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    Would be hard to explain without some equations. Here's an outline: Nature follows differential equations. Differential equations are generally complex to solve but have properties…

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    Comment #49130323

    Quantum Mechanics (ongoing), Sturm-Lioville theory, Special Relativity (ongoing), Tensors (going towards General Relativity) What finally clicked: Hermitian matrix, self-adjoint op…

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    Comment #49127147

    That sounds better. Still leads to some questions that I am missing the answers to: A Lithium ion has the same charge in magnitude as an elecron. Electron is much lighter. Why and …

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    Comment #49117514

    Cool! That seems to fit as the voltage build-up (assuming no current taken from the battery) is not reversed by the negative ions flowing backwards. I still have the question thoug…

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    Comment #49117347

    Can someone please explain why electrons also cannot go directly through the electrolyte just like Lithium ions? Footnote 1 skips explaining this. I tried asking ChatGPT, but it is…

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    Comment #49093820

    Roughtly, "AI will help people." Here's I think how. AI learns skills that people have, and replaces them. vs. AI helps people learn better and develop new skills faster.

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    Comment #49088461

    Oh, so if he later published a proof for a special case (and presumably had more paper available than the book's margin :-) ), that's convinces me that he never had a correct proof…

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    Comment #49087824

    >> If your business model both produces the SOTA for something and isn't profitable, is the price too high, though? The market dynamics would find good balance automatically Meanwh…

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    Comment #49029694

    If the method used for purposeful slow-down results in more cognitive load to type, it should make it worse. With enough practice with the method, the slow-down could remain wherea…

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    Comment #48994482

    VisiCalc Link: https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/app/other/visicalc/1981/

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    Comment #48986857

    Documents getting lost/misplaced/stolen/destroyed is common in some places (owing to corruption or what). "Local in scope" but rampant. Digitization has been a panacea as there is …

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    Comment #48986815

    Any guidelines on how to back up such that the attacker cannot reach (when the hacker otherwise had some valid credentials)?

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    Comment #48983404

    Thanks! I now understand.

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    Comment #48973079

    Can you explain some more? Thanks.

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    Comment #48973067

    Every combinational logic function can be implemented as a look up table, which can be implemented as a hardware ROM. It is common to consider speed-power-area tradeoffs to find go…

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    Comment #48943205

    >> don’t see how trying to “detect” LLM generated texts is ever going to work ... if the assumption is LLMs are being optimized to evade such detection. PS: I didn't read the actua…

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    Comment #48911010

    Have you looked at Kilo code too. It is also model-independent but not terminal based. https://kilo.ai PS: I agree that tree is a better approach than scroll chat, and other ideas …

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    Comment #48902131

    I agree that it is not an Either-Or scenario ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma ). You are right about that. I would doubt however that this would be an 'Equals' or 'Imp…

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    Comment #48894464

    Thanks a lot for sharing. This is insightful for me ... I now know better on how to think and what to look for as I dwell deeper.

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    Comment #48888407

    Pointing to someone else's comments that advised against it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37201037

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    Comment #48888210

    Thanks a lot. Have been watching these videos all day long! Looked through the first book too.

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    Comment #48873409

    (Newbie here). And then going further, shouldn't there also be acceleration and its distribution? It says classical models could not explain why accelerating electrons were not rad…

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    Comment #48873368

    Thanks for the insights. I am interested in learning all this stuff. Am currently going through just Schrodinger's Equation. Do you have book recommendation(s) that include insight…

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    Comment #48856163

    This article has some additional details: https://www.wionews.com/science/physicist-creates-mini-unive...