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neel8986on Microsoft is preparing to add ChatGPT to Bing

This is an extremely important point. Something like ChatGPT without attribution can completely kill the open web. Every company will keep their information in closed walled garden if no traffic is flowing through them . I don't see a scenario where something like stackoverflow can exist if no one goes to the site.

neel8986on Show HN: Death by AI

Google have literally invented LLM using Transformer. LLMs are trained on large corpus of text. Google have bigger corpus than anyone. So this prediction of google's demise don't make any sense. ChatGPT literally have no advantage in terms of technique and dataset that Google don't have. Reason companies like google are exposing their internal LLMs are they are not production ready to handle 50 billion queries a day

neel8986on Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

> Owning a Tesla was a source of pride and is now a mark of shame and mockery.

This is so true. Why sabotage your main user base? Owning Tesla is similar to staying in trump tower. I am really waiting for tesla sales numbers in liberal states like California and NY.

neel8986on Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max

Then why are they creating new factory for iphone in India and not in US?

neel8986on Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/11/04/poli...

Example of how musk can blackmail governments at critical juncture. Never ever should any govt depend on this egomaniac POS for such critical infra

neel8986on Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

The way employees were treated was beyond disgraceful. Really feel sorry for my younger self who believed that Musk truly cares about Humanity. Never ever hero worship a billionaire while thinking he will change the world. They are all ego manic pos hungry for more and more control. Small things you can do a) If you care about environment don't buy an over expensive electric car. Think about efforts to improve Public transport b) SpaceX is not about putting man on Mars. It is about elon wanting to control world's internet through Starlink. Whenever a small nation falls for the trap raise your voice.

neel8986on Commission proposes to accelerate the rollout of instant payments in euro

Instant payment in India (UPI) has been revolutionary. Last month 6.7 billion transaction took place amounting to $138B!! https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/upi/product-statistics Every major company tech company ( Google, meta, amazon, flipkart ) wants to be a part of it. This can be a huge opportunity for European startups

neel8986on Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

There are other companies including Walmart or Amazon having larger revenue. But what truly exceptional is Apple's net income. Trailing 1 year is almost 100B !! Only Saudi Armaco can touch that

neel8986on U.S. Covid death toll hits 1,500 a day amid delta scourge

My biggest fear is immunity of an individual lasts around 6 month.Thats why we are looking at wave after wave in different countries approximately 6 months apart. Data from Israel is scary and kind of points to similar trend.

neel8986on Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus

Looks so much similar to Modi in India. At some point we are all helpless in front of blatant rhetoric. We will destroy our institutions just for the hatred for "others"

neel8986on Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations

Driving in India seems so challenging compared to any other country :D. Being an Indian I think driving any where else will be so much more boring.

neel8986on BlackRock shelves unexplainable AI liquidity models

Great examples. I think algorithms in sites like Facebook did something similar. In order to maximize view/clicks, they themselves created problems like an echo chamber or promoting divisive articles which in turn made the whole experience worse

neel8986on Why Can’t Apes Talk?

It seems around the world being unscientific and plain stupid is a great asset for winning democratic elections. We will be horrified if a well know professional speaks such rubbish but somehow okay with the facts that such people can handle countries with multi-trillion dollar economy

neel8986on Ask HN: How to raise a seed round for people with no elite connections?

Incubators, startup battlefields can be a good place to start

neel8986on New Study: Rewarding Good Teachers and Firing Bad Ones Accomplishes Nothing

In my opinion carrot and stick model works in areas where 1) participants are extremely competitive 2) End reward is huge (fame, money). That's why such model excels in areas like competitive sports, investment banking, startups etc. Teaching has neither component. If you give great teachers rockstar like salary may be it will work. Similarly most of the researchers I meet are fed up with publish or perish model of research

neel8986on New Study: Rewarding Good Teachers and Firing Bad Ones Accomplishes Nothing

Can it be the case that the constant fear of being fired is not an ideal environment for a teacher? Teaching needs a long-term commitment which needs a different kind of incentive than a bonus. I have similarly observed that researcher who wants to do fundamental research are not very comfortable in startup environment which lacks security.

neel8986on CS230: Deep Learning – Project Reports and Posters, Spring 2018

Is the lectures videos of cs230 available anywhere

neel8986on Ask HN: What is the best AI powered product demo you have experienced?

Google search, translation?

neel8986on The next billion users are the future of the internet

transliteration involves a good understanding of english alphabets and qwetry. Many people in india don't have that. Only people who regularly type using transliteration are those who are familiar in english

Also hindi language search is lacking many features which is taken for granted. Situation for other language are even worse

Look at the result for two same search in english and bengali https://www.google.co.in/search?q=delhi+to+calcutta https://www.google.co.in/search?q=%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B...

neel8986on The next billion users are the future of the internet

It is extremely difficult to type in Indian local language. I can hardly go to 10-20 wpm in Hindi or Bengali. Also as mentioned in the article more than 80% population in India is not at all comfortable in English. I have seen my mother (who has a master degree in her native language) struggling really hard to form a proper google query in English.

I don't know what is the correct solution but voice can definately be valid option

neel8986on The Quantum Theory and Reality (1979) [pdf]

One explanation[1] i heard is observation is a actually equivalent to entanglement. Now we know that two elements entangled will have to maintain the state corresponding to its entangled peer. Now if you observing (or taking measurement) the whole system gets entangled to the particle. you are observing and hence the wave function collapses.

You can look at a better explanation here [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc

neel8986on Ask HN: How to Seriously Start with Machine Learning and AI

Regarding calculus, I think basic multivariable calculus can be enough for starting. If you need a refresher you can look for (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-02sc-multivariabl...)

Also the basic idea of chain rule is important for deep learning.

Regarding statistics, I already mentioned the probability course which describes most of the important statistics concept you need. Also, some idea of Hypothesis testing can be helpful

neel8986on Ask HN: How to Seriously Start with Machine Learning and AI

This is kind of a masters degree course i created for myself to get knowledge of Machine Learning from bottoms up

First, you need a strong mathematical base. Otherwise, you can copy paste an algorithm or use an API but you will not get any idea of what is happening inside Following concepts are very essential

1) Linear Algebra (MIT https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra... ) 2) Probability (Harvard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbB0FjPg0mw )

Get some basic grasp of machine learning. Get a good intuition of basic concepts

1) Andrew Ng coursera course (https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning)

2) Tom Mitchell book (https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Tom-M-Mitchell/dp/00...)

Both the above course and book are super easy to follow. You will get a good idea of basic concepts but they lack in depth. Now you should move to more intense books and courses

You can get more in-depth knowledge of Machine learning from following sources

1)Nando machine learning course ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2OtwL5T1ow)

2)Bishops book (https://www.amazon.in/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Informati...)

Especially Bishops book is really deep and covers almost all basic concepts.

Now for recent advances in Deep learning. I will suggest two brilliant courses from Stanford

1) Vision ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfnWJUyUJYU )

2) NLP ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQQ-W_63UgQ)

The Vision course by Karparthy can be a very good introduction to Deep learning. Also, the mother book for deep learning ( http://www.deeplearningbook.org/ )is good

neel8986on India has a hole where its middle class should be

Entire benefit of globalization in India has only reached the top 10% (or maybe 1%). If you think about Indian exports it is mostly concentrated in IT and high skill crafts like jewelry. Only a few Indians can take benefit of that.

What we need is a system which can mass export cheap goods like clothes or shoes. China and Korea have crawled out of poverty by following this simple formula of exporting cheap goods which need some basic skills.

But sadly even Indias much smaller neighbor like Bangladesh is doing far better in such sectors. Archaic labor laws are still holding back India in mass manufacturing

neel8986on A dive into spatial search algorithms

Nice algorithm. I am curious what happens when the dimension becomes really large (more than 100). I have heard about kd tree but as far as I know the performance becomes really bad for d > 16. What should be the strategy of finding nearest neighbours for such high dimensions?

neel8986on I gave up TV, then qualified for Olympic marathon trials and got my PhD

We at least have an option of not buying TV. Internet addiction is far worse. The sad part is I can not even avoid my laptop as it is where I do all my work. The device on which we work is slowly the biggest source of our time sink

neel8986on CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition

Some background in Linear Algebra and calculus will be really helpful.

If you want to implement backprop from scratch just look at the segment around https://youtu.be/I2TfdXfSOfc?list=PL05WXsDr_SWRGcuy5LA5eNjCq...

He explained really well how you can automatically get the derivation without going through painful calculation. Also i will suggest you to stick to the class as second half contains less maths and more fun techniques kind of like lego blocks :)

if you just want use neural net in production I highly recommend using something like theano/ keras

neel8986on CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition

+1 for CS224d. Richard Socher is a great teacher and you can understand almost the entire class with very little background in NLP and Deep learning. However basic matuarity in LA will be helpful.

Both CS224d(NLP) and CS231n(vision) provides a great practical introduction to Deep learning. Thanks Stanford for proving such high quality material for free

neel8986on Sanitation and Health Rights in India (YC W16 Nonprofit)

I agree with some of the points you made. But saying that indian government has completely failed and it was better under British rule is not completely correct.

Some of the achievement of independent India are

1) Fully functional democracy: India is perhaps the only country which is able to avoid a strong dictator among all its colonized peer. We provided universal suffrage from day one. Indian democracy is not perfect but we regularly topple corrupt or inefficient government without bloodshed or civil war. Considering the diversity in culture and not so educated population this is a great achievement

2) Creating a country out of diversity: During Indian independence Churchill said India will soon be broken down into pieces. Many others believed the same as difference between different part of India is far greater than europe. Still we survived any major secession effort and currently very few Indian want to be a independent nation. We have 14 major languages. Two of our south asian neighbours went to civil war just because of two major language could not coexist. We have the 2nd largest population of muslim living peacefully with about a billion Hindu population without going through radicalization. In retrospect this unity in diversity will be biggest achievement of Independent India

3) Food self sufficiency: Through out British rule famine was a part and parcel of our life. Just in Bengal famine in 1943 about 3-4 million people were killed. If you consider the magnitude it can only be compared to holocaust. Even in 1950s and 60s we had literally beg USA or USSR for food grains. Currently we are completely self sufficient in terms of food which is a big achievement considering the need for feeding more than a billion mouth

5) Strong Institutions: Independent India has created very strong Institution including a fair Judiciary system, Monetary Institute(RBI, SBI), Educational Institutes (IIT,IIM,AIIMS) or research institutes(ISRO). Benefits of these institutes can be felt even in silicon valley. Also because of the achievement of students from these institutes abroad, India could create a strong software and service industry

6) Forming the base of strong economy: Because of all the above points (and many other) currently India is considered as the fastest growing major economy. Its current economic situation is somehow similar to China in 2001. As we embraced market economy 15 years after china I think it is in a comparable situation. Next 20 years of growth of above 6% can do wonders to infrastructure as we have seen in China.

People always compare India with China and come to the conclusion that it is a failed state. But in my opinion apart from China and South Korea ( I am excluding city states) India have done fairly well after independence in comparison to other colonial countries, and is poised to progress in much faster pace. My only regret is that we should have embraced market economy 20 years before. But still saying Indian government has completely failed in not entirely correct

neel8986on Ask HN: Why don't more web projects start with a JVM stack?

There are lots of good startups with scala/play framework as their stack