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shibaprasadb

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About shibaprasadb

Ordinary man trying to connect the dots.

https://shibaprasadb.github.io/

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    Absolutely. When you narrow the solution space by adding more constraints, your probability of success increases. At least, that’s what I’ve noticed. For vague, divergent tasks, th…

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    Comment #49056227

    I get what you are saying, but your joy shouldn't always be utility-driven IMO.

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    Comment #49007407

    Really appreciate the authenticity of the site design in the age of AI but damn! It is hurting my eyes!

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    Comment #49007343

    The ugly designs are sadly everywhere nowadays. Saw a poster at my gym - gave me the ick!

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    Comment #49007322

    I was recently looking at the search engine referrers for my personal website. Was a bit surprised to see Kagi at the top of the list. Don't know how!

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    Comment #48730573

    I see no issues in articles where AI was in the loop or made the article better than it otherwise would have been. Why not? But if 100% is generated by AI - and you just prompted i…

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    Comment #48730428

    Writing about the operating cost of AI tools while the whole article is a complete AI slop. :)

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    Comment #48684051

    I was a bit surprised by the way the payment is being made here. Do people pay it separately like this? In general, if it isn't a prepaid restaurant, then just one of us makes the …

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    Comment #48513096

    Yeah. Did they want this all along? This will just create more hype, and may push towards significant usage once and when it is available.

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    Comment #48381624

    Are people using Julia in the industries yet? This looks promising.

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    Comment #48158793

    I had written about the same: https://www.shibaprasadb.com/2026/04/29/tokenmaxxing-tap-in.... This is the new tap-in tap-out!

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    Comment #48106250

    Python is the 2nd/3rd best language for almost everything. So I guess it helps.

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    Comment #48092943

    Personally, I write to think out loud. And I am not looking to monetize my writing anytime soon. So, I am quite happy with Substack at this moment. I don't have to pay for any host…

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    Comment #48090912

    I love his blog too! Probably overthinking it.

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    Comment #48051652

    I am not very tech-savvy, mostly into Analytics - DS. I love my Mac. The whole UX is far superior compared to Windows or a Chromebook.

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    Comment #47921927

    >Your AirPods just connected to the wrong device. Again. >iMessage is taking twenty minutes to sync a message between your laptop and your phone sitting six inches apart. Have thes…

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    Show HN: Upload data, run regression, get recommendations – powered by LLMs

    This web application leverages multimodal LLMs (currently configured to use Gemini) to give business recommendations. I want to do it for more sophisticated ML algorithms too, but …

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    Comment #45491495

    > Build something useful. Solve a real problem. This is the essence of how we should think about building products (or, at the very least, doing some projects). I see so many of my…

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    Comment #45484995

    In a similar boat right now. The org is good. So is the culture. The manager is also good. But the work....! Neither learning something nor finding any alignment. Really confused.