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umangrathi··on What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs
smaller tasks also helps in choosing smaller models to work with, instead of waiting for a large model to respond (really not usable when doing customer facing work)
umangrathi··on What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs
It was a great read, aligned on many thought processes from our own tinkering in breaking down tasks for LLM. Eagerly look forward to the next 2 parts, this one has been educational.
umangrathi··on What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs
This has been really interesting read. Aligned that if you leave a user along with LLM, some one will break. Hence we choose to use large number of templates wherever suitable as compared to a free reign for LLM to respond with.
umangrathi··on Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira
Recommend Clickup highly for multi user flows on a free tier (infinite users), only issue you can not attach many files (have uses google drive link for that earlier)
umangrathi··on Khan Academy launches Khan World School online high school
I am looking forward to the day, when quality formal education is available online to all which you may complete at your own pace instead of going with a strict semester and class system. Also, along with offline schools for supporting social learning and helping classes which require offline components like labs, in person support classes, interest based study groups etc.
umangrathi··on WeekToDo – Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App
Thank you, its a great check list
umangrathi··on Banks, gangsters and the strange resurgence of cash
On the other end here in India there are few vending machines, but mostly are now based on digital payments.
umangrathi··on SUVs are offsetting EV car gains
Main issue is practical situation of roads in urban areas of India and water logging. Everyone prefers to have a higher seating position to manage the same, apart from the flavor of the month factor. I am personally looking to buy my next vehicle and given the prices of EVs considering a micro SUV just launched because of the factors mentioned earlier.
umangrathi··on Ask HN: What LinkedIn alternatives don't suck?
https://www.polywork.com/invite/umangrathi-weedle

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umangrathi··on Dating in Delhi when you're poor
Somewhat of a personal understanding, settling down later in life is one of the key problems today. In early 20s you are flexible, by later 20s you gonna earn your own skin and ways of life. It becomes harder to gel up with someone else. In case you are luck, make it work early or as they say keep looking.
umangrathi··on Launch HN: Swipe (YC S21) – Simple Billing and Accounting for India
Best wishes with the launch. I am in constant search for a solution which can work for my father. He is running a large hardware retail/wholesale business single handed in a location not having quality accounting manpower. Its been a search in futility so far, as there is severe need of user friendliness in the market for complete solutions(my father not that used to computers yet).
umangrathi··on Digitising rural land records, one drone at a time
While I was discussing the same with my friends in the industry, came to know about the following facts: 1. Even though resolution is high, drift of min 5m is there for the best of the satellites i.e. relationship between image and gps location. Also given the drift is random, harder to correcct. 2. Indian Surveys require Ground sample distance of around 3mm, drones can get this flying at 50 m height, getting the same from satellites would be too hard and expensive.
umangrathi··on Digitising rural land records, one drone at a time
Any thoughts on getting this right using satellite data alone instead of drones? What are the challenges?
umangrathi··on A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls
Are there any alternatives? Or how one should approach making an app from scratch?