mikaraento

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Mika Raento was until recently a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, working on mobile machine learning features, infrastructure and SDKs.

From 2014 to 2018 he worked as a generalist consultant at McKinsey & Company, in McKinsey Digital, ending as an Engagement Manager.

From 2010 to 2013 Mika Raento was the VP of R&D at ZenRobotics Ltd, leading the development of the world's first waste-sorting robot.

Before joining ZenRobotics, Mika worked at Google on the first versions of Google Latitude. He joined Google via the acquisition of Jaiku Ltd, where he created the Jaiku S60 mobile client.

Mika has PhD in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki and a MSc in the same from the University of Jyväskylä. He lives in Käpylä, Helsinki, Finland.

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Comment · 2 months ago
Though to be more charitable closure was a direct reaction to the difficulty of maintaining a huge JavaScript codebase for Gmail and static typing like Java really helped. Typescript is better but closure was miles better than raw js.
Comment · 3 months ago
Today’s version would be to grade shell script homework randomly on either Linux or macOS :)
Comment · 7 months ago
Do you know of a good ready-made implementation of such a proxy? I’ve been looking for one.

GitHub is also a worry in terms of exfiltration. You can’t block pushes to public repos unless you are using GitHub Enterprise Managed Users afaict.

Comment · 9 months ago
Favelas
Comment · 9 months ago
That might be somewhat ungenerous unless you have more detail to provide.

I know that at least some LLM products explicitly check output for similarity to training data to prevent direct reproduction.

Comment · 10 months ago
You do know that something similar is true for JPEG, right? :)

JPEG is a compression method. Files with JPEG-compressed data are most likely to be in either JFIF or EXIF container formats. Both will almost always use the .jpg/.jpeg file extension.

Comment · 11 months ago
Nit: RDP’s roots are more in multi-user windows like Citrix Metaframe than in remote administration. I’ve found it to perform better than the alternatives (remote X11, VNC, Chrome Remote Desktop) for remote GUIs. Nomachine is the only alternative that was close to its performance.

(And before somebody jumps in to correct me - in ancient times X11 performed quite well over the network but modern Linux GUI apps are no longer designed to minimise X11 network traffic)

Comment · 11 months ago
I’m sorry you went through that
Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Relatively common in Finland to use young nettles like you’d use spinach in hot dishes (soup, blanched, pancakes).
Comment · 1 year ago
I can be that someone this time. The ”repair and protect” version has helped my low-level toothache.
Comment · 1 year ago
Heads-up to people trying this: Gmail will often put forwarded email into spam. Be careful especially in the beginning to check your spam folder. They may also reject the mail as spam, esp if your volume is large.

IIUC it’s hard to make forwarding to play nicely with DKIM and spf. There’s some disagreement on how to handle it. (I’m being purposefully vague as I did interact with folks handling this on the google side and don’t want to cause them trouble for helping me out).

Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for the links.

AFAICT these have not resulted in any shipping products.

Comment · 1 year ago
Sorry, I meant to emphasize _different_ mechanical connections. That a sensor that detects pressure has a different mechanical linkage than the one detecting vibration. So you need multiple different manufacturing techniques to replicate that at correspondingly higher cost.

The “more than 10000” also has a large impact in size (sensors need to be very small) and cost (you are not paying for one sensor but 10000).

Of course some applications can do with much less. IIUC the article is all about a _universal_ humanoid robot, able to do _all_ tasks.

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