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New comment by verma7 in "Microgpt"

verma7 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:25:53 +0000

This is amazing! Thanks for optimizing the code using Claude!

New comment by verma7 in "Microgpt"

verma7 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 06:00:57 +0000

I wrote a C++ translation of it: https://github.com/verma7/microgpt/blob/main/microgpt.cc

2x the number of lines of code (~400L), 10x the speed

The hard part was figuring out how to represent the Value class in C++ (ended up using shared_ptrs).

New comment by verma7 in "Done, and Gets Things Smart (2008)"

verma7 — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 06:11:48 +0000

My guess is Craig Silverstein, as he mentioned that Larry and Sergey might have worked with him at Stanford.

New comment by verma7 in "You’re Never Too Old to Become a Beginner"

verma7 — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 20:25:12 +0000

I am planning to learn how to write better. I am starting that by maintaining a stream of consciousness personal daily log. Also get more practice by commenting on Hacker News :)

New comment by verma7 in "What Is Life? (2019)"

verma7 — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 19:43:10 +0000

The analogy of the question "What is life?" with "What is a computer?" bring up interesting parallels. The author defines a computer as any device that has transistors, RAM, etc that is, the computing substrate. But there were devices that didn't use transistors, but used vacuum tubes or mechanical gears (like Babbage's Analytical engine), which I think are still computers. We have some good theoretical model of computers: like Turing machines. One possible definition of a computer is any device that is Turing complete.

I wonder what such a theoretical model of life would look like.

New comment by verma7 in "Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities"

verma7 — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 04:11:34 +0000

How would you get the distribution from the sum of numbers individually?

New comment by verma7 in "Bill Thurston's answer to “What's a mathematician to do?” (2010)"

verma7 — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 04:10:14 +0000

|Q-Z| is countably infinite, but |Q| = |Z|. There are countably infinite rational numbers that are not counting numbers, yet there are exactly as many rational numbers as counting numbers.

New comment by verma7 in "Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group"

verma7 — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 06:56:49 +0000

Change List: internal Google lingo for what is more commonly known as patch, diff, or pull request in the Open source wold.

New comment by verma7 in "What Happens to the Body on No Sleep"

verma7 — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 03:25:39 +0000

You might find the last section "Sleep spindles and intelligence" in https://www.tuck.com/sleep-spindles/ interesting.

New comment by verma7 in "Ask HN: What Have You Learned at Google as a Software Engineer?"

verma7 — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 20:03:08 +0000

It's easy to transfer to transition to the manager ladder by becoming a TLM (Tech Lead Manager) once you are L5 or higher.

New comment by verma7 in "Study finds that mindfulness is associated with reduced procrastination"

verma7 — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 02:02:25 +0000

Headspace app has worked well for me too. I have been using it for more than 3 months, meditating for 20 mins every day and I feel calmer throughout the day.

New comment by verma7 in "Leisure Is Our Killer App"

verma7 — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 04:52:42 +0000

There are broadly speaking two kinds of meditations: focussed meditation and awareness meditation.

I heard a useful analogy of the mind being like an elephant that wants to wander around on its own.

In focussed meditation, we try to focus your attention on our breath, or some point inside our body or an idea. We tie the elephant with a rope to a pole. If it wanders too far, we tug it and bring it back to the pole.

In awareness meditation, we just observe where the elephant roams wherever it wants. That is more like leisurely mind wandering.

New comment by verma7 in "P = NP Proofs: Advice to claimers"

verma7 — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 05:31:51 +0000

I hope to see the day when this website gives the wrong answer.

New comment by verma7 in "Uber S-1"

verma7 — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 04:17:48 +0000

What about Ola in India?

New comment by verma7 in "OpenAI LP"

verma7 — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 06:34:37 +0000

Aren't axioms just training data that you feed to the model?

New comment by verma7 in "When Does Intelligence Peak?"

verma7 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 07:21:16 +0000

FWIW, I am 35 and I feel like my memory has declined from when I was 10 - 20. I used to be able to remember a lot of content for exams, song lyrics, and general knowledge.

Nowadays, I sometimes have this occur to me: I am thinking about something that I know that I know, but I cannot recall it.

New comment by verma7 in "Why I left Google"

verma7 — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 09:04:07 +0000

This post has a slightly more coherent and detailed account: https://medium.com/@scifipromise/imposter-syndrome-or-not-my...

New comment by verma7 in "Facebook will lose 80% of users by 2017, say Princeton researchers (2014)"

verma7 — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 05:14:02 +0000

My data model says 9 women and 1 man.

New comment by verma7 in "Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL"

verma7 — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 03:35:20 +0000

I gave a talk at MesosCon about how we (are starting to) run Cassandra across multiple datacenters at Uber (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2jFLx8NNro, https://schd.ws/hosted_files/mesosconna2016/60/mesoscon-uber...).

4 Unique Ways Uber, Twitter, PayPal, and Hubspot Use Apache Mesos

verma7 — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 01:27:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.linux.com/news/4-unique-ways-uber-twitter-paypal-and-hubspot-use-apache-mesos

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11931453

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