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New comment by tourist_on_road in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

tourist_on_road — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:27:30 +0000

Can a employee sponsored greencard holder move jobs within 3 months after getting greencard approved granted the new role is pretty similar to one before? will there be any issues in terms of naturalization/reapproval.?

New comment by tourist_on_road in "Large-scale vehicle classification"

tourist_on_road — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 05:51:38 +0000

Nice post. Instead of using inpainting for model explainability, why not use attention maps to understand where the model is focusing to get a particular prediction?

New comment by tourist_on_road in "DALL·E now available in beta"

tourist_on_road — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 17:16:02 +0000

Super impressive to see how OpenAI managed to bring the project from research to production (something usable for creatives). This is non trivial since the usecase involves filtering NSFW content, reducing bias in generated images. Kudos to the entire team.

New comment by tourist_on_road in "Life is not short"

tourist_on_road — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 18:55:41 +0000

Looks like the site went down due. you can access the article here -- https://archive.ph/QQ5iV

New comment by tourist_on_road in "Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision"

tourist_on_road — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:41:39 +0000

Good point. The fact there is no inductive bias inherent to transformers makes it difficult to train a decent model on small datasets from scratch. However, there are recent research directions that try to address this problem [1].

Also baking in some sort of domain specific inductive bias into model architecture itself can address this problem as well [2].

[1]: Escaping the Big Data Paradigm with Compact Transformers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05704

[2]: CvT: Introducing Convolutions to Vision Transformers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15808

New comment by tourist_on_road in "Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision"

tourist_on_road — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:30:49 +0000

Transformers gained popularity due to the scalable nature of the architecture and how well it can be parallelized on existing GPU/XLA hardware. Modeling is always conditioned on the hardware available at hand. Transfomers lack inductive bias which make it generic building blocks unlike CNN/RNN like models and by injecting inductive bias like positional encoding, it can be well translated to various domains.

New comment by tourist_on_road in "Snowflake to Acquire Streamlit"

tourist_on_road — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 22:25:39 +0000

Congratulations to the Streamlit team!

Personally as a machine learning practitioner, Streamlit was a god send tool to quickly setup demos without having to fiddle with front end code. I hope they continue to support the open source ecosystem even after the acquisition.

New comment by tourist_on_road in "Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant"

tourist_on_road — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 20:23:08 +0000

Something to note -- Indiana U doesn't have engineering stream unlike Purdue. Only thing close to engineering is computer science and Intelligent systems engineering.

New comment by tourist_on_road in "Show HN: Embeddinghub: A vector database built for Machine Learning embeddings"

tourist_on_road — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:10:00 +0000

Great work! Looks like you are using HNSWLIB. From what I understand HNSW graph based approach can be memory intensive compared PQ code based approach. FAISS has support for both HNSW and PQ codes. Any plans on extending your work to support PQ code based index in future?

New comment by tourist_on_road in "Golden Handcuffs"

tourist_on_road — Thu, 13 May 2021 17:39:33 +0000

I sense greed on part of coinbase. If coinbase doesn't want to have 4 year vest schedule which makes up a significant portion of salary, Why don't they follow what netflix is doing and just give out salary as full base salary instead of any RSUs.

a16z on Cloud Gaming

tourist_on_road — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 22:18:14 +0000

Article URL: https://a16z.com/2020/11/16/cloud-gaming/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25130676

Points: 1

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New comment by tourist_on_road in "Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers"

tourist_on_road — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:58:24 +0000

..without a fan

New comment by tourist_on_road in "A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode"

tourist_on_road — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 23:17:23 +0000

In this regard. I like the google approach for not asking questions that are publicly available on internet.

These are basic computer science fundamentals and critical thinking capabilities that essential for performing the job atleast for software development roles.

New comment by tourist_on_road in "A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode"

tourist_on_road — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 22:53:25 +0000

Isn't it what computer science is all about. You won't necessarily see the exact problem. But having the ability to reduce the problem at hand to an efficient algorithm that you might have "regurgitated".

New comment by tourist_on_road in "A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode"

tourist_on_road — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 18:42:19 +0000

But it might come handy when implementing - route optimization problems - Building database query optimization engine

You can argue that not everyone is implementing these from scratch every day. But it could be argued that given an opportunity, an engineer should have the skills and ability to build these systems.

New comment by tourist_on_road in "India, Jio, and the Four Internets"

tourist_on_road — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 23:38:25 +0000

Well, the entire business started with his father Dhiru bhai ambani. It just happens to operate in a different way compared to the organizations we know in the west.

New comment by tourist_on_road in "Critical SAP Bug Allows Full Enterprise System Takeover"

tourist_on_road — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 17:19:18 +0000

The irony

New comment by tourist_on_road in "Recently minted database technologies that I find intriguing"

tourist_on_road — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 19:45:52 +0000

How does tiledb compares to something similar like milvus

New comment by tourist_on_road in "Show HN: Neuropod – Uber ATG's open source deep learning inference engine"

tourist_on_road — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 17:33:37 +0000

From the looks of it. It is from uber ATG not from AI labs. I believe those are two different orgs. Someone from uber can clarify

Hummingbird,compiles trained ML models into tensor computation for inference

tourist_on_road — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 22:15:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/hummingbird/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23422627

Points: 3

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