Hacker News: sundalia

New comment by sundalia in "GPU utilization can be a misleading metric"

sundalia — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 18:18:08 +0000

Application-specific metrics are the way to go. For ML training this is one example: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/g...

New comment by sundalia in "Transformers in music recommendation"

sundalia — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 02:25:30 +0000

AFAIK all efforts in that direction were way too costly a few years back and degraded models considerably. Spotify, for the longest time, only trained on an equivalent of manually curated playlists by experts and users to understand similarity.

New comment by sundalia in "Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub"

sundalia — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:00:38 +0000

Yup, we can close the thread and ack that GitHub does not care.

New comment by sundalia in "Panic at the Job Market"

sundalia — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 02:19:45 +0000

There's good points the author makes about problems in interviews + some economical facts but pieces like:

> Sorry, you’re not qualified to be a professional software developer because you wore the wrong color shirt to the interview. You should know the color buleruplange is triggering to generation delta

Just make me feel like I wouldn't like to work with this person.

New comment by sundalia in "Ties between Google's Project Nimbus and Israel's military"

sundalia — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:10:52 +0000

(?)

New comment by sundalia in "Ties between Google's Project Nimbus and Israel's military"

sundalia — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 03:14:35 +0000

Then don't make claims you can't justify :)

New comment by sundalia in "Ties between Google's Project Nimbus and Israel's military"

sundalia — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 03:13:29 +0000

We're talking about a company's actions, why does vote matter?

New comment by sundalia in "Ties between Google's Project Nimbus and Israel's military"

sundalia — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 22:58:37 +0000

Would appreciate data.

New comment by sundalia in "Ties between Google's Project Nimbus and Israel's military"

sundalia — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 22:58:12 +0000

Many Googlers are not comfortable with that.

Lots of them are immigrants who understandably don't want to be associated with US-endorsed genocide.

New comment by sundalia in "xAI announces series B funding round of $6B"

sundalia — Mon, 27 May 2024 16:02:36 +0000

>> It’s not participating.

I wonder why

New comment by sundalia in "xAI announces series B funding round of $6B"

sundalia — Mon, 27 May 2024 06:47:27 +0000

Unique? You mean tweets? Yeah sure

It's 6B down the drain. Saying grok 1.5 is competitive is a joke, if it was any good it would be ranked well in chatbot arena (https://chat.lmsys.org/). Elon is a master in hyping underperforming things and this is no exception.

New comment by sundalia in "Show HN: Boldly go where Gradient Descent has never gone before with DiscoGrad"

sundalia — Sun, 26 May 2024 19:44:25 +0000

This is very interesting. A few questions:

- Why do you think similar approaches never landed on jax? My guess is this is not that useful for the current optimizations in fashion (transformers)

- How would you convince jax to incorporate this?

New comment by sundalia in "OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?"

sundalia — Sat, 18 May 2024 15:07:29 +0000

How is it serious if money is the motor of freedom of speech? The suing culture in the US ensures freedom of speech up until you bother someone with money.

New comment by sundalia in "OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?"

sundalia — Sat, 18 May 2024 05:26:55 +0000

+1, this is just the commenter saying what they want without an actual court case

New comment by sundalia in "What I mean when I say that machine learning in Elixir is production-ready"

sundalia — Thu, 09 May 2024 17:00:37 +0000

Quite frankly, I see a lot of text in this post and no numbers.

For something to be production-ready I'd expect you to at least cover major things like "latency to serve x in Elixir instead of lang y is k% better" or "EMFU we got when training x in Elixir was comparable to lang y".

These are two random metrics that are of course biased to my experience but the article just feels empty without numbers.

New comment by sundalia in "The man who killed Google Search?"

sundalia — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 02:28:07 +0000

Jeremy Howard comes to mind. The sheer good that fast.ai brought as free quality educational material feels enough for "good in general" :)

New comment by sundalia in "Measuring personal growth"

sundalia — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:49:56 +0000

>Some friends told me they find this blog post mildly sociopathic

These are likely tech friends I suppose? I would say non-tech people would drop the mildly.

This is leaking the productivity frenzy mindset through the cracks, but appreciate the attempts through the text to push back against it.

New comment by sundalia in "What is the most useful project you have worked on?"

sundalia — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 23:57:07 +0000

Absolutely would not work in the US (as, unfortunately, most public services). There's already a huge lobby from TurboTax and other players. All countries that got to this level of automation already had publicly developed, free software for tax payers previously.

New comment by sundalia in "The window for great-grandmothers is closing"

sundalia — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:00:46 +0000

Not everything has to be clear and to the point. The sentence's murkiness adds emotion to the text. I'm not a native speaker (just like the writer isn't) and maybe that's why we're not so bothered.

But this comment is exactly what I expected from HN.

New comment by sundalia in "Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT"

sundalia — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 13:50:11 +0000

The intro query "youtube downloader" already showed me relevant results (some website where you paste an URL and bam download). I think there's a big tech bias in the whole post (how relevant is a mastodon poll, for real).

Not saying the current landscape doesn't suck with ads everywhere and incentives to not give exactly relevant results at times, but I think google is pretty good still.