Hacker News: aashu_dwivedi

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

aashu_dwivedi — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:10:38 +0000

Leave your contact / email on your profile for people to reach you.

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Eating less can lead to a longer life: study in mice shows why"

aashu_dwivedi — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 12:09:58 +0000

can you elaborate what are the medical trials which are going on for this?

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]"

aashu_dwivedi — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 05:12:08 +0000

What does closed source mean in this context? The weights are open and the model architecture has to be open for people to use it for inference.

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Show HN: Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code"

aashu_dwivedi — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:08:29 +0000

I asked it the number of digits and a few more details, took a guess and it confirmed the secret code.

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Show HN: ColBERT Build from Sentence Transformers"

aashu_dwivedi — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 12:27:38 +0000

Do you mean it's faster when the embeddings are pre-computed or is it faster when the embeddings are computed on the fly as well. Also, what's the recommended way to store the colbert embeddings as, because of the 2d nature of the embeddings it's not practical to store in a vector database.

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Interactive C++ for Data Science"

aashu_dwivedi — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 03:58:39 +0000

What are type A and Type B?

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Git-Based Wiki"

aashu_dwivedi — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 12:26:16 +0000

I keep my emacs org files in a repo. Which is pretty much the same thing.

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Wirecard CEO exits as search for missing billions hits dead end in Asia"

aashu_dwivedi — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 13:20:26 +0000

I didn't remember them by name but after reading the wikipedia page, I remember they are the company which acquired Drangon systems in liu of a large number of stocks.

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?"

aashu_dwivedi — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 05:33:30 +0000

You should definitely consider it, I am a graduate from the same program :)

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Ask HN: What are you learning?"

aashu_dwivedi — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 07:25:39 +0000

The assignments in the old course are in matlab. There are also unofficial assignments available in python. They can also be submitted for grades in coursera. You might want to have a look at them.

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Ask HN: What are you learning?"

aashu_dwivedi — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 07:24:24 +0000

How are you going about it?

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Ask HN: What are some example of low tech improving your life?"

aashu_dwivedi — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 15:44:19 +0000

does this work with kindle?

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Ask HN: Best Way to Measure Progress?"

aashu_dwivedi — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 08:59:10 +0000

I use woebot to keep track of my happiness.

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Help Advance the World with Advanced Linear Algebra"

aashu_dwivedi — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 06:32:18 +0000

I like the Georgia Tech's approach to this. Most of their courses from the online master's are also available freely as mooc on udacity.

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Q-Learning"

aashu_dwivedi — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:53:45 +0000

Yes. So we use a Nueral network as a function approximator for Q values and call it deep Q

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Math Basics for Computer Science and Machine Learning [pdf]"

aashu_dwivedi — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 10:10:13 +0000

I've just finished the coursera's Mathematics for Machine Learning: Linear Algebra (https://www.coursera.org/learn/linear-algebra-machine-learni...) and I'd say its very good for beginners

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Ask HN: Resources on how Google/Facebook etc. approach software design?"

aashu_dwivedi — Thu, 30 May 2019 05:10:40 +0000

I've recently moved all my podcast subcriptions to google podcast and now I am sad that I can't find this one there.

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Google’s Cloud TPU Pods are now publicly available in beta"

aashu_dwivedi — Wed, 08 May 2019 09:53:42 +0000

It's not for GCP but the ML products.

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)"

aashu_dwivedi — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 04:12:48 +0000

Interesting. But your website doesn't mention how can one apply to your bootcamps?

New comment by aashu_dwivedi in "Show HN: HN.Academy – Top online courses recommended by Hacker News users"

aashu_dwivedi — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 08:37:35 +0000

I am curious to know how you built it, do you keep polling for the new a items on the HN? How do you figure out if it's a course? Do you use regexes for it or something more sophisticated / complecated?