vipulved

Hi, this is Vipul, I am a co-founder of Together. We plan to release the model weights under Apache 2.0. The amount of creativity that Stable Diffusion unleashed for instance is only really possible with permissive licenses!

Rather distriburbing reading, including Kahn's 44 step escalation ladder.

A very similar thing happened to me when I was pitching Gmail on anti-spam and realized they were running a forked version of Vipul’s Razor and claiming it was their own. They never contributed anything back... it’s unfortunately not uncommon.

What a squirmy and deflective piece of writing.

Grabby and wrong, and most of the value created is for Google.

Not sure which problem you are referring to and would like to hear more. It’s cool that you can go to a website, spend 5 mins to fill out a form and start getting emission free power. A good step in the right direction.

These are almost completely wrong. The goal of AC is to get to “what I meant to type” and good AC systems are designed with priors (eg frequency), common spelling mistakes, etc in mind.

If you think that design/redesign is a waste of time, a good exercise would be to try and understand why fashion constantly evolves, ie why you no longer see people in bellbottoms and corsets.

Great story. One thing however they don’t do is quantify “Booming business”. Is this a few small boutique agencies or larger industry?

In 2000, I managed to put together $ for a US trip from India to attend YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) at CMU. I had been on #perl for years, and knew a lot of rhe community, but I had never spoken with Larry. I remember I was given a shared dorm room (even though I had requested a single), and as I was settling in, this guy in all black walks in, and says hi I am Larry, I am your roommate. I was like hey Larry, and went back to unpacking, and in about a minute realized it was _the_ Larry. It was awesome as Larry then took me around the conference and introduced me to many of the other legendary Perlers. A+ dude.

Post-acquisition morality is tiring.

One would assume that the author, who decided to publish a time-insensitive piece anonymously, was smart enough to employ language to intentionally misdirect analytical methods.

A more positive implication is that downstream security has gotten good enough that large breaches like this can’t be systematically exploited for financial gain. Two factor auth seems to be more pervasive, and there’s a host of retrospective security tools in the industry.

That said, I have no doubt there’s a vibrant underground market for all this data, and its likely being used in more surgical attacks already, and could, one day, be the basis of a broad attack (once an appropriate attack vector becomes available).

Topsy Labs is hiring hackers in San Francisco.

We condense nuance from petabytes of fact. Often in milliseconds.

We hack in Python, Perl, C++, Hadoop.

We wrote a distributed RDF store that holds 100B triples, and a search engine from filesystem up that organizes indexes in real-time.

We run Topsy.com, Otter API (otter.topsy.com) and we are building some amazing new products in the intersection of social data and search.

If you do any two of (C++, Perl, Python, Hadoop) really well, write to me at vipul@topsy.com.

Vital stats: 32 people. $30M in funding. 1000+ machine cluster.

cheers, Vipul Ved Prakash Co-founder, CEO Topsy Labs