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New comment by pitchups in "School vs. Wikipedia"

pitchups — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 21:49:08 +0000

Not sure what your particular area of expertise is but every time I have browsed Wikipedia for articles related to technical topics including math, programming, AI/ML as well as science, I have found their articles accurate and informative. I also recall a few studies comparing the accuracy of articles on Wikipedia with Encyclopedia Brittanica and journals, which conclude that Wikipedia compares favorably with both (easily found via a google search).

New comment by pitchups in "Launch HN: FlutterFlow (YC W21) – Build Apps Visually"

pitchups — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 17:35:26 +0000

Looks great. But is it restricted to building mobile apps only or can it also help you build web apps in Flutter?

New comment by pitchups in "Inside a viral website"

pitchups — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 01:58:28 +0000

We run a few high traffic websites, and would be great to monetize our US traffic at $10 cpm. But your profile link to your LinkedIn page returns a Page not available error. Please get in touch - would be great to chat.

Could this be Satoshi Nakamoto's Twitter account?

pitchups — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 07:01:07 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/varun_mathur/status/1363868622758834179

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26234558

Points: 15

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New comment by pitchups in "Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?"

pitchups — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 17:24:40 +0000

Would be interested to know if you can do all this by using their open-source conmmunity edition, or would you need to use their paid / Pro version. Since the pricing for the paid version is not given, not sure but assuming it would be fairly expensive to use / deploy? My preference is for an open source tool so we are not locked in to a propreitary platform for the long term.

New comment by pitchups in "Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom"

pitchups — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 03:05:49 +0000

I was wondering what would be the requirement for self-hosting Jitsi - in terms of server resources - bandwidth, CPU etc? Is the Video/VOIP transmitted client to client or does it get routed via the server? Thanks.

New comment by pitchups in "Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom"

pitchups — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 02:51:08 +0000

> Well, if there's only 2, maybe 3 of you...

Do you mean for more than 3 - the call/video is routed through the server and would consume server bandwidth? If so how is jitsi paying for all this if it is free?

New comment by pitchups in "Intel Acquires AI Chipmaker Habana Labs for $2B"

pitchups — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:17:26 +0000

Interesting that this is Intel's second acquisition of an AI chipmaker. They had acquired Nervana for $400M in 2016 - but now seem to be abandoning it in favor of Habana's chips. They would need to redo the Nervana software stack to work with Habana. As per the article, one of the reasons is:

"Nervana’s Neural Network Processor (NNP-T) uses a proprietary interconnect for scaling, while Habana’s Gaudi can scale to thousands of nodes over standard 100Gb Ethernet."

Intel Acquires AI Chipmaker Habana Labs for $2B

pitchups — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:01:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2019/12/16/intel-acquires-habana-labs-for-2b/#4d1a484519f9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21807808

Points: 2

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List of Unsolved Problems in Computer Science

pitchups — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 16:29:21 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_computer_science

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614883

Points: 2

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New comment by pitchups in "The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius"

pitchups — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 16:18:53 +0000

Prediction:'Bus ticket collecting' will enter our lexicon as a new way to describe obsessive pursuits with little or no perceived impact - or at least it would appear to have no foreseeable impact or future to you at that point in time. The opposite of what you should be doing with your life if you want to make a difference. As in : "Although I enjoyed my new research area, at times I wondered if I was merely bus ticket collecting.."

The paradox though is that you cannot know in advance if you are merely bus ticket collecting or pursuing something that will have a real impact. Just like Darwin had no way of knowing if his excessive obsession with natural history would go on to change the world, and lead to the theory of evolution. In the essay, pg does give heuristics on how to figure out the difference - but the greater the potential for impact the less likely it is that you will be able to tell the difference. In other words, the most transformative discoveries will likely seem most like bus ticket collecting and a wase of time, at least initially.

New comment by pitchups in "Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B"

pitchups — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:04:57 +0000

Kudos to Stripe on an amazing journey! Interesting to revisit the original HN submission of Stripe's launch:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053883

New comment by pitchups in "Sergey Brin’s Resume (1996)"

pitchups — Sat, 03 Aug 2019 23:59:32 +0000

The most interesting part of this resume is hidden though. Click view source to see it..

Twenty-one cities in India will run out of groundwater by 2020

pitchups — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 03:12:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.firstpost.com/tech/science/indias-water-crisis-bengaluru-delhi-chennai-hyderabad-among-21-cities-to-run-out-of-groundwater-by-2020-4590221.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20322186

Points: 111

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New comment by pitchups in "The rise and fall of the company behind ‘Reader Rabbit’ and other games (2018)"

pitchups — Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:13:13 +0000

Having watched Shark Tank for a long time, I always wondered if Kevin O'Leary just played a ruthless shark on the show or if he really was one. The article seems to confirm he is definitely the latter: "He was the soulless businessperson who just came in and bought a bunch of companies and scaled them back and laid off all the good people.”

Moreover, he manages to sell TLC for $3.5 billion to Mattel, which is forced to sell it for just $27 million 18 months later. Of course, that was a poor decision by Mattel's then CEO, considering she was warned not to do the deal: "TLC was a “house of cards.” The business was boosting its revenue by purchasing new companies, but the significant acquisition costs weren’t reflected in their top-line earnings."

Interesting that another shark on the show - Mark Cuban - also became a billionaire by selling his company to Yahoo at its peak, and Yahoo then essentially shutting it down.

POET: Generating Increasingly Complex Learning Environments and Solutions

pitchups — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 18:51:43 +0000

Article URL: https://eng.uber.com/poet-open-ended-deep-learning/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18867523

Points: 2

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New comment by pitchups in "Fastai for PyTorch: Fast and accurate neural nets using modern best practices"

pitchups — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 19:50:40 +0000

I am using it for classification right now - but pretty sure you should be able to do object detection quite easily as well.

New comment by pitchups in "Fastai for PyTorch: Fast and accurate neural nets using modern best practices"

pitchups — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 19:10:43 +0000

Great - can't wait to try out the new version! I am running fast.ai in a virtual environment. How does one upgrade to the latest version for both Fast.ai and PyTorch. Are the new versions backwards comaptible with the earlier version - would it break any code? If not, would you recommend I clone the current install and upgrade that to be on the safe side. Thanks!

New comment by pitchups in "Fastai for PyTorch: Fast and accurate neural nets using modern best practices"

pitchups — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 18:55:51 +0000

This is great news! Here has been my experience using Fast.ai : I had been training a deep learning network using Keras with Tensorflow, for diagnosing medical images - and it took me several months of hard work - tweaking parameters, training and testing to get acceptable levels of accuracy for our models. And then last month, I switched to Fast.ai (their pre-release version) and I was blown away - my models trained faster, and I matched and finally exceeded accuracy levels acheived with my earlier models. And I accomplished what had taken several months in Keras, in just a few days! And the biggest reasons for it were in my view, fast.ai's learning rate finder, the differential learning rates, and Test Time augmentation - all which are advanced features built into fast.ai. And the other great thing is that fast.ai uses the best defaults automatically, and it trains much, much faster than Keras / TF for some reason.

So I can't wait to try the new release out. I think Fast.ai has set a new bar for deep learning frameworks in terms of speed and ease of use. Thank you for all your great work!

Why the Medical Research Grant System Could Be Costing Us Great Ideas

pitchups — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 16:01:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/upshot/why-the-medical-research-grant-system-could-be-costing-us-great-ideas.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17339278

Points: 5

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