Hacker News: mehulashah

New comment by mehulashah in "Googlebook"

mehulashah — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:19:00 +0000

I just want to state for the record that this will fail harder than Google Plus.

New comment by mehulashah in "Making RAM at Home [video]"

mehulashah — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:30:21 +0000

This is cool.

New comment by mehulashah in "The Future of AI"

mehulashah — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:54:24 +0000

This is a great article and I share its goals. But, it ignores something fundamental about humans as a collective — capitalism. Capitalism is what got us here and is at odds with first understanding and then building. We’ve done this before with other technologies because that’s how our societies have learned to grow and collaborate at large scale. First build and build to its limits. Then understand and fix if necessary. Nothing new here, but stopping the trend toward epistemic collapse requires building incentives into the system for us humans to coevolve with AI.

New comment by mehulashah in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

mehulashah — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:12:21 +0000

This is sick.

New comment by mehulashah in "Dark Alley Mathematics"

mehulashah — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 04:25:06 +0000

So, I’m left wondering why he did it the hard way.

New comment by mehulashah in "When someone says they hate your product"

mehulashah — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 04:08:19 +0000

I learned the first time I got slashdotted:

1. Don’t engage in public with an antagonistic or upset user or reviewer.

2. The thread will unroll itself, and the immaterial ones will die out on their own.

New comment by mehulashah in "Remembering Lou Gerstner"

mehulashah — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 20:22:31 +0000

I spent 9 months at IBM in 1999. At that time, Lou’s legacy had already been solidified. He saved IBM. While not everyone agreed with his decisions, there was a culture of both honesty to customers and innovation that permeated the company. In contrast, look what happened to HP without such great leadership. Once a shining light in Silicon Valley, it turned into a shell of its former self.

Agentic Property Extraction: Simple yet Powerful

mehulashah — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:19:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aryn.ai/post/announcing-agentic-property-extraction-extracting-structured-data-fields-from-unstructured-documents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163379

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by mehulashah in "Being poor vs. being broke"

mehulashah — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:58:33 +0000

He right. I’ve seen poverty in India, but I misunderstood it.

There was a 12 year old kid who guided our boat down the Narmada after we spread my Dads ashes. He was not in school because he wanted money.

I told him I’d pay him double and continue to pay him for his days work, if he’d go back to school during the day and only row boats at night.

He said no. Just give me what you owe me.

He had no hope that education in the government schools would meaningfully change anything for him. Poverty is not a single static state. It’s a negative feedback loop that requires systemic change to get out of.

New comment by mehulashah in "Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'"

mehulashah — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:29:03 +0000

Certainly research has made it into product with the help of the innovators that created the research. The dial is turned further here where the research ideas have yet to be tried and vetted. The research begins in the startup. Even in the dotcom era, the research prototypes were vetted in the conferences and journals before taking the risk to build production systems. This is no longer the case. The experiments have yet to be run.

New comment by mehulashah in "Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'"

mehulashah — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:21:19 +0000

Most of the folks on this topic are focused on Meta and Yann’s departure. But, I’m seeing something different.

This is the weirdest technology market that I’ve seen. Researchers are getting rewarded with VC money to try what remains a science experiment. That used to be a bad word and now that gets rewarded with billions of dollars in valuation.

New comment by mehulashah in "The history of Casio watches"

mehulashah — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 04:04:01 +0000

This site is a stroll down memory lane for me. I had one of the calculator watches as a kid. Used it everywhere, especially when shopping or going out to eat with parents. It was cool to cross check totals and check tax calculations. I was a nerdy kid and craved math.

New comment by mehulashah in "OpenAI Grove"

mehulashah — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:06:18 +0000

This smacks so much of a Silicon Valley episode. “Pre-idea individuals” … Sounds like they want people with no opinions. Next we will say stuff like “No thought personas”

New comment by mehulashah in "ChatGPT is NOT a LLM – GPT is"

mehulashah — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:54:09 +0000

I like this post. I see this confusion all the time! What’s the difference between ChatGPT and gpt-5 or gpt-4o, and so on. OpenAI’s carefully crafted naming schemes don’t help. Though, I come from AWS so glass houses.

Anyway, agents are control systems that using planning, tools, and a collection of underlying models. ChatGPT is an agent. What kind? The kind optimized for the general user looking to do work with public knowledge. That’s the best definition I can come up with.

Anyway, let’s make sure people understand the difference between AI systems and AI models. The former is where a lot of startup activity will be for a decade. The latter will be in the hands of a few well funded behemoths.

New comment by mehulashah in "I kissed comment culture goodbye"

mehulashah — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:59:44 +0000

Oh dear. Should I comment on this?

New comment by mehulashah in "The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood"

mehulashah — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 06:31:13 +0000

I’m surprised by the argument. It’s not wrong. You need more data, but that presumes that the task is to pre-train on data. Additional compute is also useful for unearthing tacit capabilities in the models. This requires inference time scaling and post training usually on specific downstream tasks using RL. Sure that generates data, but it’s not the same as the Internet, and can be scaled.

New comment by mehulashah in "Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video]"

mehulashah — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 06:28:15 +0000

I took 6.034 from Winston and still have the lecture notes and book. Though dated, they remind me of what was great about MIT. The constant change, upheaval, search for scientific truth, and desire to help humankind. RIP Patrick Winston.

New comment by mehulashah in "AI models need a virtual machine"

mehulashah — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 18:46:39 +0000

Trust me. I’m usually the last to jump on a bandwagon. That said, this is not just my take, but the take of many others that I trust. Andrej Karpathy, Joseph Hellerstein, etc.

New comment by mehulashah in "AI models need a virtual machine"

mehulashah — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 18:45:02 +0000

Agree. The non-determinism is a problem. Perhaps systems thinking can help here. After all, traditional computer systems often behave non-deterministically and we’ve learned to make them more reliable.

New comment by mehulashah in "AI models need a virtual machine"

mehulashah — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 14:40:00 +0000

I shared your opinion for a while. But, that’s not what’s happening. People are using them for everything. When they do, expectations are set. Vendors will adjust and so will the rest of the industry. It’s happening.