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iamsalman

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About iamsalman

Technologist & product tinkerer.

Recent public activity

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    I'm considering doing a side-project to auto transcribe minutes from voice recognition for the meeting and index all that data so its searchable and also plugable to existing enter…

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    Comment #11800324

    The link is down?

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    Comment #11287073

    ImageServe -- https://imgserve.io Smart image CDN. Process images on-the-fly, store and serve with CDN of your choice. No need to setup any imaging infrastructure (storage, process…

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    Comment #10574108

    TL;DR Over-fitting investment models is pseudo math.

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    Comment #10552729

    The SoC (card sized) has everything you'd need, not just the connectors to the several I/O and networking interfaces you may need. You will hook in connectors are you like with the…

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    Orbeus is shutting down developer APIs

    ReKognition will not longer be offering developer APIs for image and face detection/recognition. Here's the text of the email I got: "We've worked hard to provide the best face and…

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    Ask HN: What Is Amazon Echo Using for ASR and NLP?

    Nuance seems to be the leader in ASR, Apple Siri (?) uses it for ASR. Has Amazon built their own ASR? NLP would naturally be something developed inhouse, even if not from scratch. …

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    Comment #9284364

    This has been going on since early Friday for me.

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    Comment #9246066

    There's one serious problem with using 3rd party Imaging SDKs or utilities to build your service on: You're stuck with their flaws and you can't do much about it. Disclaimer: I'm c…

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    Comment #9246061

    We wrote the complete image processing oursleves, accelerated on GPUs @ https://IMGX.io (checkout Image URL API).

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    Comment #9023124

    Currently, only AWS offers GPU instances. There are other, smaller providers like Nimbix or Peer1 but they offer bare-metal instances. With AWS, they currently have Grid K520 GPUs …

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    Comment #8667028

    Yes we have but crypto algorithms would still be implemented within software and not part of the GPU firmware.

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    Ask HN: Would you want a 10 Gbps AES encryption on EC2 g2 instances?

    10 Gigabits/second of AES256 throughput plus the CPU remains free to do it's stuff since the encryption's done on g2.2xlarge's NVIDIA GPU (in contrast, AES-NI on g2 instance gives …

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    Comment #8645600

    The whole premise behind introducing Phi to compete with discrete GPUs from NVIDIA/AMD was to have a plug-in accelerator which supports x86 which meant no code porting needed, henc…

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    Comment #8624447

    Three components: 1. Object recognition (there's dog and frisbee in the photo) 2. Object localization (Dog and frisbee's ROI in the photo) 3. Relation estimation (Based on X factor…