risubramanian (u/risubramanian)

risubramanian commented on Rents are dropping across the US edition.cnn.com/2020/06/1... · Posted by u/xbmcuser

_bxg1 · 6 years ago

Probably because of shortened commutes. But if many commutes disappear altogether, that could offset it.

In many parts of the country, heating plays a large role as well. Heating 100 units in an apartment building is going to be more efficient than heating 100 single family houses.

risubramanian commented on Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks quantamagazine.org/symbol... · Posted by u/Zuider

Jugglerofworlds · 6 years ago

I'm planning on applying for PhD programs this fall to work in this area. There are only a few places in the world right now that I know of working on these types of problems. They are:

* Martin Vechev, ETH Zurich

* Dawn Song, University of California Berkeley

* Eran Yahav, Technion

* Miltiadis Allamanis, Microsoft Research Cambridge

If anyone knows other advisors looking for graduate students in this area, please let me know. Due to personal circumstances I can most likely not apply to ETH Zurich or Technion (I don't speak Hebrew anyway), which leaves me with only one potential advisor in a program that I really want.

There is also the Python writing model that Open AI showed recently at the Microsoft Build conference, so maybe there is some interest growing at other places as well.

I was also recently working on a deep learning decompiler but was unable to get my transformer model to learn well enough to actually decompile x64 assembly. I have the source code for the entire Linux kernel as training data, so it's not an issue with quantity. If anyone is interested in helping out with this project, please let me know in a comment.

risubramanian · 6 years ago

Premkumar Devanbu at UC Davis works in this area. I've taken his graduate course on the subject.

risubramanian commented on Tesla’s success in Europe catches industry off guard nytimes.com/2020/03/04/bu... · Posted by u/lxm

hilbertseries · 6 years ago

I don’t think traditional car manufacturers benefit from dealerships. That’s just some classic US regulatory capture, where car manufacturers can’t sell directly to the consumer to help protect the consumer. Because when you think of someone trying to protect you, you think a car salesman.

risubramanian · 6 years ago

Europe doesn't have the same franchise laws as the US, and they still use dealers.

risubramanian commented on Products I Wish Existed blog.eladgil.com/2020/01/... · Posted by u/eladgil

def8cefe · 6 years ago

What does the author mean when he says 'black sun-like VR network'?

Googled and couldn't figure it out. Hoping it's a reference to some good sci-fi I haven't read.

risubramanian · 6 years ago

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

risubramanian commented on Daytripper github.com/dekuNukem/dayt... · Posted by u/omarchowdhury

buildzr · 7 years ago

This is why I built a custom tool to automatically hide all "marked" windows as soon as I switch off of them.

Could be integrated with something like this pretty easily.

risubramanian · 7 years ago

I'd use a separate virtual desktop for off-topic tasks, then just switch to that. Simple command in Linux, probably also in Windows

risubramanian commented on Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays vice.com/en_us/article/pa... · Posted by u/elorant

saagarjha · 7 years ago

> If it is cost-prohibitive for every essay to be graded by humans, then they should be dropped from the tests.

Apparently it is. But everyone still wants writing to be assessed…

risubramanian · 7 years ago

The SAT dropped the writing section a few years ago, and many schools don't care about the GRE writing score.

risubramanian commented on Show HN: Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library github.com/timqian/chart.... · Posted by u/timqian

risubramanian · 7 years ago

Matplotlib has this too!

https://matplotlib.org/3.1.1/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.x...

risubramanian commented on Tech Interview Handbook yangshun.github.io/tech-i... · Posted by u/yangshun

yumraj · 7 years ago

Given the current state of tech interviews, they have more or less become like standardized tests, such as SAT, ACT, GMAT, GRE... with guides, cheat sheets and perhaps neighborhood coaching institutes on the horizon with instructors who have cleared tech interviews in FAANGs.

Are we going to see tech recruitment become more and more like college admissions where a top score in the interview is just one of the criteria and no longer sufficient to get a job?

Perhaps next is asking people to write essays regarding career, goals, why they want to work their, extra curricular etc..

risubramanian · 7 years ago

You joke, but I've seen several applications where I've been asked questions like "What achievement are you proudest of?" and "How would you contribute to the diversity of our team?".

Also cover letters cover some of this.

Actually, I wouldn't mind a standardized test like the GRE, where a good score might actually keep your resume from getting thrown out immediately.

risubramanian commented on Uno Platform – Cross Platform .NET UI platform.uno/... · Posted by u/kristianp

krispbyte · 7 years ago

Does Cross Platform here mean only Windows, Web and Mobile or Mac and Linux as well?

risubramanian · 7 years ago

The documentation mentions Mac support, but no Linux

risubramanian commented on GNU APL 1.8 lists.gnu.org/archive/htm... · Posted by u/lelf

xvilka · 7 years ago

Do you have any examples or links to confirm that?

risubramanian · 7 years ago

Check out K, Q, and KDB