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rohittidkeon The Modern Mathematics of Deep Learning

I believe that the curse of dimensionility doesn't apply here as we are optimizing the "universal apppriximator" of the "surface" of the possible real world function.

rohittidkeon C# 9 Pattern Matching

i have been using C# since 2010.I find it a good language but I believe the future is not for strict statically typed languages and but for smart linters which probably could take over compilers.

The effort you put into strict types doesn't deliver the returns. Languages like Typescript incmy opinion are the best as they provide optional typing and support things mixins for example which is difficult to implement in C#

rohittidkeon AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

If this continues the motivation for open sourcing your work will be lost.

rohittidkeon FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization

Facebook is one of the best companies in the tech world. They open source so much tech and pre-trained ml models. Even being smaller than MS and Amazon their contributions are huge. (i don't know what AWS contributes)

rohittidkeon An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft

Agree this is a good solution, open apis to avoid monopoly

rohittidkeon New Cars’ Pedestrian-Safety Features Fail in Deadliest Situations

Guys, I want to buy a car and my Main concern is pedestrian safety. In the report they didn't mention which car fares the best.

rohittidkeon Open-source companies gather to gripe: Cloud giants sell our code as a service

Its very good this topic is coming up. Fortune 100 companies pay a lot of money for these services, a classic example is Azure Search, which is using ElasticSearch. I wonder how the ElasticSearch community or the founder is benefited. I am curious to know. Also AWS sells a dozen of open source project as services.

rohittidkeon Huawei Takes a Step Toward Replacing Google's Phone Software

they want to do everything chips,os,software,camera tech,battery-tech,own gorilla glass tech...ambitious company but I wouldn't want power concentrated in this way :)

rohittidkeon Tree planting: Where can I do it and which type is best?

Yup but its like a cat mouse game. There never will be no crime so the in the government laws must keep evolving, just as the thieves get more innovative. But the laws are needed. In Germany at least now they are taking climate change seriously. Munich has invested a lot in public Transport and by 2030 it would really at a good level. The parking lots Story I will make a Blog soon with preise carbon calculations so that its advantage us both for the Business and the climate.

rohittidkeon Tree planting: Where can I do it and which type is best?

Could we plant trees in parking lots? A law must be made. In the US especially West Coast (Seattle) for example and also in Germany a lot of flat space has been taken by parking lots. Its actually crazy seeing these huge parking lots. Could we plant verticle wines and change the geometry (introducing gradients to add area for a tree - simple pythogoras concept) to add space for at least a tree per car slot or maybe at times even more.

rohittidkeon Saving Lydia

I am trying to donate from Germany but can't because of an error. Not a valid phone number. Any body faced the problem?