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sooham

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University of Toronto. Qualcomm. Intel. Amazon.
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sooham··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)
I hate your company. You posted my homework and assignments online without my permissions by paying off TAs in my university. That was theft.
sooham··on OpenAI has solved the XY problem
FYI: The title is a sarcastic take on OpenAI's codex lack of nuance, not that the XY problem has been solved.
sooham··on Ask HN: Favorite product that got shut down?
timeful! God the app had such a good interface for managing your day. Why did Google have to buy and shut it down!!!!
sooham··on A $3B bet on finding the fountain of youth
Look up tretinoin it reverses aging to some degree.
sooham··on Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs without anything planned. How did it go?
It was a much needed break. I was burnt out working at Qualcomm during the first two years of my career, and to be honest I don't think I was a good fit for my team as I lacked understanding of hardware. I took a three month break to interview with startups and big-tech companies, got an offer from Amazon for 44% more pay and travelled to Turkey. I am returning to work in two weeks with a fresh mind.

Maybe I will start my own entrepreneurial journey in my late-20's but for now I am young.

sooham··on OpenAI Codex
Since reading code is significantly harder than writing code, I hope OpenAI's model allows users to infer a natural language explanation of a given snippet of code. This should be possible if it is a generative model.
sooham··on Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
Basic Number Theory with the purpose of understanding modern cryptographic systems.
sooham··on Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions
At one tree per second It would take 38000 years to plant 1.2 trillion trees. This proposition is beyond our currently available resources.
sooham··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2019)
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada Remote: NO Willing to relocate: Only to cities in Canada. Technologies: Python, Deep Learning, numpy, scipy, pandas, C,C++, embedded C. Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/2Vi3Oy4 Email: rafizsooham+HNjobs@gmail.com

I have prior experience with deep learning, accelerating deep neural architectures and statistics. I will graduate with my bachelors degree in May 2019.

sooham··on SingleSpot: meet singles in bars and cafés around you
I think the meetup protocol with this app is getting it wrong by asking women to initiate. Men tend to initiate despite the rejection of interest; most women are not as forward and find it attractive that the man approach them. Why would the app depend on women to initiate?
sooham··on American Entrepreneurs Who Flocked to China Are Heading Home, Disillusioned
Canada is also quite welcoming of immigrants.
sooham··on Ask HN: Does anyone use Pine (now Alpine) for email any more?
University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science uses Alpine as the default command-line email client.
sooham··on How to Get Rich Quick in Silicon Valley
As an intern nearly done with work in the Bay Area I find the whole idea of permanently immigrating to Silicon Valley repugnant. Housing prices are in the millions, terrible healthcare, earthquakes every other week, dire state public transportation, apathetic attitude towards its homeless and, lots of groupthink. I suggest any YUPPIE (in a developed nation) with offers from a big four here reconsider their local offices imho. It is depressing to think this is the best place for STEM careers in the world.
sooham··on Text Embedding Models Contain Bias
Despite the controversy surrounding "debiasing" classifier outputs, I think further research in this area is still of merit. This area of research would help us understand and build transformations over latent / high level representation space, a general use case applicable to all fields interacting with machine learning.
sooham··on [dead]
Stronger than the miniquakes I felt over the last few hours in San Jose, CA.