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blackcat201··on Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Vanishes
Seems like the working version is overwritten by the newer archive
blackcat201··on Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Vanishes
internet archive link : https://web.archive.org/web/20210424052632/https://forensicn...
blackcat201··on PyTorch 1.8, with AMD ROCm support
The supported ROCm version is 4.0 which only the latest AMD instinct supports it. There's still a long way before its supported in the latest consumer RDNA 2 GPUs ( RX 6000 series )
blackcat201··on Launch HN: Albedo (YC W21) – Highest resolution satellite imagery
15 dollars per square kilometer is quite affordable for this level of resolution! Is there any info about satellite coverage or plans that you can share?
blackcat201··on Show HN: LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System
Do you get good results when adding scraped youtube audio? My model performance on LibriSpeech dev drops a bit when adding youtube audio to the training dataset ( my guess is likely due to poor alignment from auto generated captions ).
blackcat201··on Show HN: LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System
Cool project, seems like your model have similar WER as mine (4th reference in readme). Do you plan to do any pre-training on the encoder part in the future? Maybe something like this[1]

[1] https://ai.facebook.com/blog/wav2vec-20-learning-the-structu...

blackcat201··on Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B
Does Intel only sold the NAND manufacturing parts to SK Hynix or it also includes the SSD controllers IP? Because most of Intel SSD performance came from the controller not the NAND flash themselves, in fact Intel usually lag behind in NAND flash manufacturing.
blackcat201··on Ask HN: Essential skill needed to be a programmer?
Just my 2cents, alot of people mentioned alot criteria which I heard during my days as (empathy : backend engineer, abstract thinking : android dev, communication: company tech lead). But I think the core is the mindset to self improve that's best for you right NOW (self discipline).

This is really really really hard to do, since we are mostly lazy beings who rather click 50 arrow up key to find the one important command than remembering it or just dont mind to repeat a mundane process without finding a shortcut to do it faster. Programmers who I met that manage to finish a task in 10 minutes instead of 1 day usually have this trait. But I guess this applies to other jobs as well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Btw, I used to work as a part timer at my university department. One day one of the staff ask me to reformat about 90 Excels document to her desire format, she spend 10 minutes showing me how to type them out one by one. After this, I went to setup Python environment in that computer and google how to read excel docs. In a few hours I have finish the work that what would took me more than half a day to finish.

blackcat201··on Ask HN: How to get into the chip industry?
EE Master here, this is a wide topic but usually from my experience (friends around who work in chip industry, ie TSMC, MediaTek).

Generally, you have the hardware design (Layout designer, R&D, Process engineer ) this typically need a Master and mostly PhD in EE or related fields. From what I heard in Taiwan, TSMC only accepts Master/PhD for these position and internship.

Then you have the interface side which writes firmware codes for these chips ( SSD controler ). These are more like your typical software engineering, you will need at least BC degreee and well verse in C/C++. But usually it's hard to get in with a BC degree unless you are recommended by one of the employee.

If you don't have any of the mentioned degree, the fastest way is to get one. It is really hard to learn yourself since this is a highly automated industry with most of the work available in maintainence and cutting edge R&D.

Otherwise, your job scope in chip industry is limited to a few ( Firmware is a good start )

blackcat201··on Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine learning
For neural networks unless it's calibrated otherwise the confidence score has little meaning to the accuracy. [1] see figure 4 and you will understand what I mean

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.03263.pdf

blackcat201··on Ask HN: Does Google have a way to report scam advertisements?
Adsense has one small info button on the top right where you can click and report, however, for Youtube video ads, there's no visible way to report them as well, especially softcore porn. What's worse is that Youtube doesn't care whether the current audience is suitable or not as long as the ads were shown at the intended target ( ie gaming related video )
blackcat201··on Small Lab Makes Big Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion Tech
can you elaborate or attach some source why LPP is not credible?
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