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New comment by xiaolingxiao in "Zip-NeRF: Anti-Aliased Grid-Based Neural Radiance Fields"

xiaolingxiao — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 12:06:13 +0000

Has anyone tried to turn this into a "product or experience" of sorts, and care to share their experience in doing so?

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "Rise and Fall of Rethink Robotics (2019)"

xiaolingxiao — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 21:52:51 +0000

Considering a hardware robotics startup right now. Can you expand on this : All the "user friendly" gimmicks are just obstacles in their way.

And what were some of your other conclusions having worked on an arm solution?

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "Rise and Fall of Rethink Robotics (2019)"

xiaolingxiao — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 19:32:14 +0000

The lab i works had had a rethink robot for research purposes. It seem to be part of a wave of consumer-facing robots that have all since folded. With the exception of Waymo, DJI, and skydio. You have to remember at the time eveyone was searching for the next big computing platform, and it wasn’t that clear the iPhone would be it. After the iPhone succeeded, hardware investors became even more convinced, especially when money was cheap.

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "Apple’s Best Hope for New Headset: a Smartwatch-Like Trajectory"

xiaolingxiao — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 16:23:22 +0000

Has anyone heard of this launch will be associated with a launch of an SDK for app developers as well?

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "The secret joke at the heart of the Harvard affirmative-action case"

xiaolingxiao — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 22:31:40 +0000

The same shifting criteria were applied to Jews. In the early 1900s proficiency in Latin was required because only prep school offered Latin, so it was an implied filter that’s nonetheless “impartial”. Then Jews became very good at Latin, so the ivies phased out Latin as a criteria and began admitting talent from the interior, because Jews did not settle there. So this whole game is applies to Asian Americans now, not at all surprising

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "[dead]"

xiaolingxiao — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:47:32 +0000

Would you be willing to expand on thst?

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "Ask HN: What projects did you build to get better as a programmer?"

xiaolingxiao — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 22:51:27 +0000

Writing a full CRUD todo app on both web and iOS helped me understand things a lot better. The most important thing is to keep it simple, and by going across platforms you can see the importance of good data representation design.

The idea is to start off by making bad decisions, and slowly refactoring your way to good abstraction, this helps you intuit the reason for abstractions.

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "Leaving China"

xiaolingxiao — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 19:45:32 +0000

Can other expats who has since left, or have decided to stay, share their experience as well?

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "Ask HN: Has anyone made the transition from app development to ML/AI work?"

xiaolingxiao — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:52:15 +0000

So I did a lot of ML work in grad school and have also built 4 iOS apps and two web apps. I can tell you building statistical models is not a very interesting grind, it’s mostly cleaning data and fiddling parameters. It’s also unlikely anyone would hire non-stat/math degreed person to do that stuff. On the other hand you’re prob goood at turning models into a. Usable product. Here’s a recent library to do that in NODE https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/scikit-learn-ts

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "SVB Financial: Blow Up Risk (2022)"

xiaolingxiao — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 18:26:22 +0000

Note this was published dec 2022.

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid"

xiaolingxiao — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 18:23:50 +0000

I concur. The person in the lawsuit Beth winkelstein is an absolute academic bully, eveyone who has ever come across her knows it. It just goes to show how little accountability there is in the University.

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s deep fake company announces $20M investment"

xiaolingxiao — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 03:19:46 +0000

A movie express this exact scenario: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/

The funny thing is that th book it’s based on satirizes the falsehood of Soviet communism, the movie satirizes the falsehood of consumer culture as an opioid.

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "Crypto lending unit of Genesis files for U.S. bankruptcy"

xiaolingxiao — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:56:14 +0000

how does this affect DCG, one of the biggest bag holder in the space.

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "Crypto Collapse and the End of the Magical Thinking That Infected Capitalism"

xiaolingxiao — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:46:05 +0000

Does anyone have a non paywall version of this?

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big? (2021)"

xiaolingxiao — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 19:26:45 +0000

I believe this is the papers that got timnit and mmitchel fired from google, followed by a protracted media/legal campaign against google and vice versa.

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "Indians are taking over corporate America–and tech layoffs won’t stop them"

xiaolingxiao — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 19:55:44 +0000

Could you explain why being South Indian Brahmin is significant here?

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "$25K investment for side projects from South Park Commons"

xiaolingxiao — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:02:16 +0000

ok that's helpful thank you. Is there someone in your office whom I may contact for more questions? Perhaps over a call.

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "$25K investment for side projects from South Park Commons"

xiaolingxiao — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 19:27:38 +0000

Hey how far along are the side projects when ppl apply to SP? Is there a penalty if people are too far along?

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "SwiftUI Is Convenient, but Slow"

xiaolingxiao — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 17:46:25 +0000

hey i also build mobile apps in swiftui. do you have more resources on why $binding could be slow?

New comment by xiaolingxiao in "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer"

xiaolingxiao — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 22:01:54 +0000

I read it before studying cs and I thought it was fascinating and made me want to study it. After studying it at the grad school level I re read it and found the book somewhat pedantic. It’s a bit like the black swan in the regard: it package advanced under grad level stem topics with colorful anecdotes and musings.