ganeshkrishnan

Big Island is an extremely interesting place. Its just few kilometers wide but it has around 8 climate zones ranging from snow, desert, volcano, tropical, beaches, rainforest what not. You can drive less than an hour and go from desert to snow and snow to tropical.

There is one public bus that goes around and once I was the only passenger and the driver stopped the bus near the ocean to show the travelling whales/dolphins.

Absolutely not. I dont want to be unbanned. I gave up my media job protesting the Iraq war and I will give up all my social media accounts protesting this rabid propaganda russian ukrainian war.

Thank you for being polite enough to explain though. I really appreciate it.

You can follow some indie people on twitter. meetup is almost dead so best bet is to get into this indie groups and then network out or even go to coworking group events

An absolute majority of startups are not vc funded. Only the ones you hear about are.

You either need to join the right group or talk to some founders.

We are bootstrapped genai company working on reducing hallucinations in LLMs and similarly we know tons of other AI companies that are bootstrapped

and "moving gold" just means changing paperwork on who "owns"

Usually yes, but in this case and ALMOST all cases recently its physically shifting gold around. Argentina moved it from Argentina to London, most global south countries are physically moving their gold to their own country (India: https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/india-gold-flying-engla..., China: https://internationalbanker.com/banking/whats-behind-chinas-...)

The sanctions on Russia has triggered a flight of capital and gold across countries. I am just surprised why US is buying so much gold given that its mostly developing countries to buffer up their own reserves so that they can trade in their own currencies.

US has USD so why is it stocking up on Gold. Someone somewhere knows the answers.

its all delivered in secret flights and routes. Last year, an insider in Canadian airport got tipped off about impending arrival of gold and got along with his friends for the "largest heist in canadian history" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Pearson_International_...

It doesn't work like this. The stock might fall around $10-$20 every month in the worst case scenario. In which case the premium of $180 will keep rising every week, 90% of which will expire worthless.

You have to buy really farther out or really far off strike both of which have nearly zero probability ( delta is nearly zero and less than 1)

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Much of South India and Eastern India was already British ruled by the early 1800s.

No they were not. They were run by private East India Company. With the revolt of 1857 and quashing of the rebellion, the official Raj by the British Royals began

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857

You are still bickering over pedantic stuff. Britain profited from slave trade. They just didn't want to use the term "slave" and used "colony" instead.

The British Empire was actually one of the most benevolent ones.

Whoopsie daisy. What stage of civilization have we reached?

The "abolish slave trade" was done in 1833. India was colonized in 1857 officially. Apartheid didn't end until the 90's

Britain ended slavery and started colonization. But yeah "they ended slave trade"

No amount of info will convince people that colonization was evil and abhorrent because they were party to it, they benefited from it.

uses OpenAI for LLM inference and embedding

This becomes a cyclical hallucination problem. The LLM hallucinates and create incorrect graph which in turn creates even more incorrect knowledge.

We are working on this issue of reducing hallucination in knowledge graphs and using LLM is not at all the right way.

It's one of the reason Russia was very hesitant to shoot them down initially. Some of the planes were cessna and similar single engine prop planes that were loaded with explosives and remote controller:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/04/02/ukraine-pac...

LLMs dont have the same usecase as encoder only models. Lets assume you have around million keywords and you want to find the most similar to a keyword that the user input.

In pre-processing you would have calculated the vector encoding of all the million keywords before hand and now with the keyword the user input, you calculate the vector and then find the most similar vectors

LLM is used by end user, encoders are used by devs in app to search/retrieve text.

I’m sure this is no consolation, but as a born-and-raised citizen who has paid into social security for 15 years now, I have serious doubts about seeing a positive return on those taxes myself.

Look at the bright side though: You get a chance to get conscripted for a war against Iran/Russia/China and also get to blow up windowless mudhouses in the desert to protect democracy and freedom back in the states.

It takes around 20+ years to go from H1b to permanent visa/green card. In the meantime your kids born in US have grown up, graduated, you have a house and everything could be yanked at the border when you are travelling.

Meanwhile vast majority of them pay into taxes and social security and leave the US and never see a dime of that money.

Immigrants are the easiest group to exploit by everyone because they have no voice and are vilified by vast majority of the people include the so called intellectuals in here.

here it is https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/uscis-announces...

I read through it and even asked chatgpt for summary and it looks like "passport is now required" and "one beneficiary one draw" that is if you put in multiple petitions it will only consider you once.

I thought Elon was talking nonsense when he mentions frivolous government rules but reading these h1b changes makes me question my own sanity about the government "rules" which they aptly named it as "Final rule" (wtf?).

The rabid chants went from: we need to stop illegal immigration and make sure everyone enters legally

To:

We need to make sure we only allow valuable immigrants that add to the economy

To:

Cancel this program. They are gaming the system.

You can choose the game to play but you can't choose the rules of the game.

50 million is chump change for Facebook. In a fair world, we would have competition against facebook and there would be choices for consumers. In this real world we are stuck with the bottom feeders like facebook which just works with impunity.

Not only did facebook lose all the data, it disabled customer support chat in Australia for all services including advertising.

Our company fb account (for travelers) was disabled due to "Suspicious activity" and then permanently deleted. But they conveniently left the ad account on which we can neither login nor disable. If we do a charge back, Facebook will instaban the instagram account as well and in process we could lose our 16 year account.

There is a huge group of such people here https://www.reddit.com/r/facebookdisabledme/

Both reddit and facebook belong to trash of history (for different reasons)

but the nuance is Elon only wants what benefits him most at the time.

Isn't that almost everyone? The people who left OpenAi could have joined forces but everyone went ahead and created their own company "for AGI"

It's like the wild west where everyone dreams of digging up gold.

yes in an abstract way. Same for Vishwanathan Anand (name and his fathers name with no surname) or even Sundar Pichai (name and fathers name)

It’s probably the place where discussing race has the least social tolerance.

No. the rest of the world doesnt discuss it because it makes the least sense. I gave you examples above. It doesnt make sense to put an Aussie and Canuck in same bracket, neither does it make sense to put a Thai and Japanese in same bracket for whatever data point you want.

Even within India a sikh has nothing in common with naga has nothing in common with Tamils.

Race is an absurd abstract. Why not hair color? or eye color? or eye shape?

You are missing my point: Asians - vietnamese, chinese, japanese, naga indians, have very little in common from educational/ecnonomical/social point of view.

Same with "whites" (whatever the definition is and for the life of me I just dont understand). An Australian moving to Canada has a culture shock that is inversely similar to a Japanese going to Paris.

Americans are weirdly still clinging on to the race concept

Neither is "White". An Australian is completely 180 opposite of Canadian in almost everything and there is almost nothing common except monarchy and English language.

Are Amish white? People from Turkey? Sicilians? Argentinians?

I find the whole concept of "race" perplexing and catering to the lowest common denominator.

I had couple of bitcoin from 2013. Sold most at 10k and held on to one at 50k. I was absolutely super duper sure, 50k was the top.

where can I sign up for this?

Sarcasm like this will warrant a spastic response from paul graham, cuban and his dick cheney thank-you-for-your-service hordes about how america is exceptional and lord himself created the country with his bare hands ...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-bill-could-turn-heat-09300...

The US is upping the ante in its information war with China, with the House of Representatives backing a bill to spend US$1.6 billion within five years to promote anti-China propaganda, according to observers.

The $1.6B funding is really working its way up to everything. Best time to start a media business and grab some of that funding.

The fact that it's the only country he's been able to visit since the warrant was issued

Putin has visited around 20 countries after this ICC warrant including UAE, Saudi Arabia, China, Armenia, Vietnam , India (planned), Uzbekistan ...

Start here and start counting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_presiden...

But I know you wont. Your response will be shifting some goal posts like "these are not real countries because they don't exist in my coloring book"