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suriya-ganesh

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About suriya-ganesh

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    I've been working in the privacy space for ~4 years now and have worked across, homomorphic encryption, Federated Learning and finetuning. I've also run multiple user studies on pr…

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    Comment #48113190

    I see this too often. But, realistically users do not care about the harvesting as it is unseen and behind the scenes. Most people just want get stuff done in a competent, fast and…

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    Comment #48101314

    incredibly impressive demos. I wonder how the training data for these models look like? is it separate batches of special "skills" that are added post training? how can they guaran…

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    Comment #48026545

    it's been a things since 2002. but it's a news aggregator not directly competing with newyork times

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    Comment #48024685

    there has been a product called Google News since 2002. It was only aggregating information from news channels

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    Comment #48024246

    Will the big labs leave anything for external competition? This probably killed a thousand startups in this space. in the early internet you wouldn't see google creating their own …

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    Comment #47971895

    i suppose a quick test would be getting the model to write down Micken's essay end to end. if the original essay was stuffed within the prompt window. the result will be word accur…

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    Comment #47971671

    This is unlikely. The way model distribution works is that the model retains a lossy representation of James Micken's writing. Very likely, it cannot repeat Micken's writing verbat…

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    Comment #47953919

    this is definitely not true. with AI agents, you're obtaining a mildly lossy perspective of the code itself. whereas if you wrote it by hand, you'd have a more concrete understandi…

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    Comment #47617927

    since tbpn is known for their quite oblique satire. i wonder if this is some long April 1st thing.

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    Comment #47509720

    also it should be noted that LinkedIn had a 5 year plan of migrating everything to azure but abandoned it after a year.

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    Comment #47458331

    I've gone through this process and is this not a failure from the institute that are giving away these certifications for a fee without any due diligence? intermediaries like delve…

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    parking is another $200. not to mention the tolls. my point is, ~$1500 is grocery for a month for us. why would i spend that much on just a car?

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    Comment #47303198

    I recently moved out of new york to new jersey. don't have a car. my options now are either buy a car, pay insurance, maintenance etc. north $1,500/mo for the convenience of going …

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    Comment #46877649

    I wrote that PR and can guarantee you that it was not vibe coded. the reason why I thought this PR was interesting is that, it only needed ~ 4 lines of real change, everything else…

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    Comment #46877565

    ah! sorry. I meant to say, "the interesting part for me was that we removed code to improve performance."

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    Comment #46863320

    I don't know what to say. I did my graduate in Privacy Engineering and it was just layers and layers of threat modeling and risk mitigation. When the mother of all risk comes. Peop…