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chheplo

135 karma · joined October 16, 2013

A Herd doesn’t harbor a Unicorn
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chheplo··on DALL·E 2 vs. $10 Fiverr Commissions
DALL-E is for text-to-image, not text-to-art. This experiment is valid in terms of benchmarking the extent to which LLM understands a series of texts. For an AI researcher, this gives more fuel for the next iteration.
chheplo··on Ask HN: Are Tanks Obsolete?
Yes
chheplo··on Red Dwarfs Will Be Humanity’s Last Home Before the Universe Dies
“No human ever steps in the same universe twice. For it's not the same universe and he's not the same human.” Now extend this to billions of years. Do we still call it humanity, or use English, or same Homo Sapiens?
chheplo··on Heavy Wears the Crown and the Kohinoor
Why would someone post partial wikipedia article as a blog?
chheplo··on I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)
My early years were in rural India, so even Motorcycles were rare to sight. However, I did my dumpster diving with Books and Magazines, and collected a lot of relics.
chheplo··on I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)
He was able to tinker with a radio at age of 10, in 1940. I had my first electronic at 19, in 2003, growing up in India. Today, almost anyone in the world can have access to the latest tech easily. Great minds were there and are everywhere in the world, they just didn't have access to resources. Think how fast the research monopoly of US is going to shrink.
chheplo··on If – A Poem by Rudyard Kipling
Invictus. That's my favorite poem.
chheplo··on Keanu Reeves Thinks NFTs Are a Joke
At least you can use the goods for something
chheplo··on Google wants you to work for them for free
Don't we have OSM already?
chheplo··on Jeff Bezos’ Space Joyride Emitted a Lifetime’s Worth of Carbon Pollution
Writing this article on a computer and servers that maintains it may have indirectly consumed tones of CO2, too, I assume.
chheplo··on Kavita – Self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats
Nice. I have been waiting for something like this. I will be monitoring closely, and once it has highlight and notes feature, I will move my books from iCloud.
chheplo··on DownThemAll (2019)
We are still talking about Download Manager in 2021. Something went wrong somewhere.
chheplo··on Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
Very interesting. Would love to try your application if you have your code published. I have been looking for something similar for a while.
chheplo··on Busting the 10x software engineer myth
Why do we even discuss this type of clickbait posts, few times every year?
chheplo··on Ask HN: What are some tools small startups use for subscription management?
Thank you. One thing I was looking into was integrating my user DB with subscribe/preferences/unsubscribe link that is being sent with each email. Mailchimp does it very well. I am not sure I can integrate my Django user model with sendgrid, but I will sure check it out.
chheplo··on The Fall of Silicon Valley
There are few of this type of articles written by 'nobody' every month.
chheplo··on ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
I ordered in March and the shipping schedule keep getting delayed. I hope it doesn't turn out to be a typical Kickstarter or Indigogo hardware project, that never ships.
chheplo··on How to run your own mail server (2017)
I have been using Mail-in-a-Box https://mailinabox.email/ successfully for many years now, for both my personal account and my company. The only problem is that occasionally Gmail and Outlook mark my sent email as SPAM to the receiver.
chheplo··on Weirdstuff Warehouse is closed
Wow.. This is sad.
chheplo··on Enter a pair of names to see if any intersections in the US match those names
I tried The example given on the landing page and it's not working either.
chheplo··on IISc Bangalore scientists are doing seed bombing with drones to plant a forest
Just a small anecdote: Coming from generations of farmer family and gardener myself, this experiment feels like a "Cloudy with a chance of seeds" for rodents and squirrels.
chheplo··on G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft
This can be Alibaba of GM as after few years majority of GM's market cap will be due to their stack in Lyft.
chheplo··on Goodbye Marco
Deepest condolences
chheplo··on India goes digital
A Hacker heaven..
chheplo··on ISRO to launch Google satellite
It is still cheaper compared to 1984 standards.