vardhanw

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Engineer with a passion for learning, a sense of responsibility for the greater good and sensitivity to problems faced by humanity and its impact (on itself and on nature).

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Comment · 2 months ago

So, does "reasoning in latent space" mean that it does/will not use tokens (e.g. using CoT etc.)?

Comment · 3 months ago

Video: https://x.com/myprasanna/status/2077069901546852688

Also: >Some of my customers today: A PM is now the full R&D team. He reloads $1,000 a day in tokens and merges code faster than any team he's managed. > Tokenmaxx, not peoplemaxx. Come tokenmaxx with me.

The great flattening – article on Vorflux (launched by Rippling co-founder) twitter.com

2 vardhanw 3 months ago 2 comments

Comment · 1 year ago

The Units seem to be independent i.e. could be followed in any order. Can someone knowledgeable confirm this? I know Set theory etc is the basis of many things usually in a formal mathematical setting, hence asking.

Comment · 2 years ago

The society of mind is an interesting reference. I remember browsing through it around the late 90's when it came out. It seemed to provide some theory for the basis of some of our cognitive functions in terms of a collection of cooperating agents. But then, I guess, what the agents themselves are made of was not clear/understood? Are today's LLM models capable of taking the form of those agents, and can we take inspiration from SoM to see how they can evolve together towards a more powerful (real/AG?) intelligence?

Comment · 2 years ago

https://www.forksoverknives.com/the-film/

Comment · 2 years ago

Seems like the fact of a large India-Egypt trade link via the red sea was known atleast a year back, and specifically this evidence from Berenike. This [0] link describes the author William Dalrymple talking about it and also about his book [1] which is already out, which presumably covers this in more detail. A lot of Indian scholars are (re)discovering Indic history and we can expect much more of ancient India specific history to come out, which was unknown or has been forgotten over the ages, given the ancient nature of the Indian civilization.

[0] https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/economy/story/indias-anc... [1] https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Road-Ancient-India-Transformed...

Comment · 3 years ago

This article [0] proves that the Pāṇinian Shiva Sutras are optimal in some mathematical sense. I'm just learning to get into this, learning Sanskrit grammar, etc. and get a sense of the Asthadyaayi [1] so that I can approach it later in more detail. There are various ways to approach it and some online sites make an attempt, but as per an acquaintance who has been taught under a teacher, it [1] is almost impossible to understand without a teacher. Still, this document [2], seems to give a good understandable overview with pointers for further study.

[0] https://user.phil.hhu.de/~petersen/paper/petersen_jolli_proo... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%E1%B9%A3%E1%B9%AD%C4%81dhy%C... [2] https://learnsanskrit.org/vyakarana/

Comment · 3 years ago

Looks like a service outage in some regions (again).

MS Teams Outage piunikaweb.com

3 vardhanw 3 years ago 1 comments

Comment · 3 years ago

Thanks for developing, and now open sourcing, Harmonic. It has been my favorite HN client for a few years now, something to it that make you not want to leave!

Comment · 3 years ago

Could you explain in simple terms (if possible) what is the similarity? For context, I worked for a brief time with ART before Y2K in BU CNS, and took a few courses there, but had to leave it for 'reasons'.

The Bitter Truth: Python 3.11 vs. Cython vs. C++ Performance for Simulations medium.com

5 vardhanw 3 years ago 3 comments

Comment · 4 years ago

Its Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest. Was it a spell check error or a deliberate misspell for some reason?

Ask HN: Indexing a Set of Personal Sites

9 vardhanw 4 years ago 2 comments