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Hi, this is Vipul, I am a co-founder of Together. We plan to release the model weights under Apache 2.0. The amount of creativity that Stable Diffusion unleashed for instance is on…

Rather distriburbing reading, including Kahn's 44 step escalation ladder.

A very similar thing happened to me when I was pitching Gmail on anti-spam and realized they were running a forked version of Vipul’s Razor and claiming it was their own. They neve…

What a squirmy and deflective piece of writing.

Grabby and wrong, and most of the value created is for Google.

Not sure which problem you are referring to and would like to hear more. It’s cool that you can go to a website, spend 5 mins to fill out a form and start getting emission free pow…

These are almost completely wrong. The goal of AC is to get to “what I meant to type” and good AC systems are designed with priors (eg frequency), common spelling mistakes, etc in …

If you think that design/redesign is a waste of time, a good exercise would be to try and understand why fashion constantly evolves, ie why you no longer see people in bellbottoms …

Great story. One thing however they don’t do is quantify “Booming business”. Is this a few small boutique agencies or larger industry?

In 2000, I managed to put together $ for a US trip from India to attend YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) at CMU. I had been on #perl for years, and knew a lot of rhe community, b…

Post-acquisition morality is tiring.

One would assume that the author, who decided to publish a time-insensitive piece anonymously, was smart enough to employ language to intentionally misdirect analytical methods.

A more positive implication is that downstream security has gotten good enough that large breaches like this can’t be systematically exploited for financial gain. Two factor auth s…

Topsy Labs is hiring hackers in San Francisco. We condense nuance from petabytes of fact. Often in milliseconds. We hack in Python, Perl, C++, Hadoop. We wrote a distributed RDF st…