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wiresurfer

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About wiresurfer

Full stack developer involved in ML research/dev. Machine learning with focus on NLP and fast hash based lookups. Polygot programmer,Tinkerer, dreamer, occasional singer.

Recent public activity

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    A quick note, on platform.searchaf.com The account creation process hits a snag with verify-email links received on email giving a 404. hope it helps. On a parallel note, It would …

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    Comment #41200871

    So a little backstory, I have worked in Logistics and warehousing, albeit as a senior dev on robotics solutions and its needed implementations. What you don't want to do is hire a …

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    Comment #41122709

    I have grappled with the same conundrum. Here are my takes on documentation writing. First is the X axis of type of document we are called on to write. 1. There is personal writing…

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    Comment #41038641

    Hey Brendan, > If your company is paying for commercial software that includes kernel drivers or kernel modules, you can make eBPF a requirement. Windows soon, may still be atleast…

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    Comment #40855500

    Location: Bangalore, India Remote: OK Willing to relocate: Depends on the Opportunity. Technologies: Python,Golang, Cpp. ML[NLP + GenAI], ROS, Linux [Kernel + Networking + eBPF], k…

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    Comment #40122900

    Now that's one tricky rabbit hole. If you are planning on buying a camera, the deliberation seems to be a part of the shopping process. Post buying though, the differences seem eit…

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    Comment #40122766

    did you chance upon @MentourPilot on youtube and his breakdown of the MH370 investigation + recent update? If not, I am afraid you may have another hour to spend, but its very like…

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    Comment #40122256

    So, I was looking at some performance issues which seemed to be stemming from linux networking stack. We eBPF with docker/k8s a fair bit as a PaaS, and I ended up getting into the …

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    Comment #29428868

    out of curiosity, if the blog post itself an org-mode output? if yes then : 1. What tools did you use for the images? 2. That's a neat sidebar. custom ya-snippets? 3. Would love to…

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    Sure. So a lot of what you want to grow depends on the weather prevailing in your area. If you have warm and humid climate with atleast 60% sunlight days. you should be able to gro…

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    Comment #29080069

    Location: Bangalore, India Remote: Remote only Willing to relocate: Maybe. Depends. Technologies: python/golang/kubernetes | ROS & ROS2 robotics | ML Overview: Open to Projects/Con…

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    Comment #29079347

    I've been burnt out with the current state of work. I work for a japanese cloud robotics company and have been witness to a great long term idea being plagued by bad management and…

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    Comment #15641909

    This is not entirely true. Speaking from my rather long sojourn with CS Research in an industrial research lab setting. While it helps to start out with researchers, many fields of…

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    My experience stems a relatively brief period (~8months) of managing a resource strapped team of 5 devs to deliver pretty complex and largely vaguely specd out products for my vent…

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    Comment #9785800

    The most critical step is to get the lib in your workflow , preferably with (build-introspect-debug) capabilities. This increases the upfront time to start, but leads to much quick…

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    Comment #9662612

    I have been a fan of Pipes for a while. Kudos to @psadri and others who made it possible with the state of web tech back in the days. It was a very well made tool both frontend and…

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    Comment #9293184

    Thats a tough question to answer. Between bukowsky , Edgar Alan Poe, Shakespeare, a few of miltons work, Gulzar, Tolkien, you can imagine the choice to be tough! But here is an unl…

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    Comment #9244364

    I can vouch for F.lux. Its such an essential tool for me now and I have made it a point to get it on all my devices. Apart from the advantages it has in not disrupting my sleep cyc…

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    Comment #9081192

    I see you have mentioned TF-IDF as something which you are planning to try. That should be interesting. The way I see it, (and i may very well be slightly off point) you have a cor…

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    Comment #9057161

    @mahouse, i edited the description in light of the new information. What he pointed out here was perfectly right (at that time instant)

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    Comment #9057091

    Hey @apaprocki, The archive pages for bloomberg (at businessweek.com) seem to have dead links and redirecting to businessweek.com instead of the content article. Is that intentiona…

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    I totally agree @at_10. Have updated the title to reflect that.

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    Comment #9056872

    hey james, Thanks for pointing this out. this indeed is awesome!