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brij0102 | 1 year ago | on: What happens if you swallow gum?

But now you have peanut butter hair!

brij0102 | 3 years ago | on: A girl wanted to keep the goat she raised for a county fair. They killed it

Looks like the state senator lost an opportunity to buy and gift the goat to the kid

brij0102 | 5 years ago | on: The road to electric is filled with tiny cars

Electric assist bikes could serve you well if the distance works out

brij0102 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: ML training in Keras – use Sanic/Flask?

One idea is to use an nginx front-end and invoke python as a process. It feels very last century though!

brij0102 | 5 years ago | on: Jio’s phone will run Android and cost about $54

There are environmental considerations in manufacturing these, as well as need for immense amount of clean water which is already in short supply in India; the devil is always in the details ...

brij0102 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: ML model to predict war and extent of it?

This has to be a solved problem! If nothing else, hedge fund managers probably have at least a simplified model.

brij0102 | 6 years ago | on: EU beckons Indian tech talent

H1 tightening is suggested as a reason for reduction in house prices in SV ... the uncertainty keeps folks from making the commitment. Prices of course are still high in the valley but multiple offers outside of a few cities are a thing of the past

brij0102 | 6 years ago | on: EU beckons Indian tech talent

I remember reading a while back that CA encourages retaining native identity (comparisons were made between a quilt and a melting pot ...)

brij0102 | 6 years ago | on: EU beckons Indian tech talent

Anecdotal but I have recently noticed a spurt in ‘retained’ workers for dot-net, Java, and ‘open source’ work in India for anywhere from 2100 to 2800 dollars a month. Maybe this is more for small companies but those small business owners couldn’t dream of hiring someone for twice as much than that even in rural US (and no benefits or payroll and easy increase or reduction in the strength). Outsourcing and automation are way more powerful forces pressuring down salaries, whatever the visa regime (and constantly competing against each other too)

brij0102 | 6 years ago | on: Is China Beating America to AI Supremacy?

It depends on where in the AI lifecycle we are ... I believe we are still barely scratching the surface and mostly using it to solve old problems. This ‘race’ could just help improve the field enough that we can get to some real fun stuff!

brij0102 | 6 years ago | on: Where Are the Tech Zillionaires? San Francisco Faces the IPO Fizzle

wine cellars and penthouses can definitely be part of retirement :)

brij0102 | 6 years ago | on: When will the Netherlands disappear?

Interesting! Does this handle storms? I suspect we'll see a lot more storms and much higher waves along with the increase in sea level ...

brij0102 | 6 years ago | on: India locates lander lost on final approach to moon

Any chance the rover might have survived? Also I wish it was more a ball than a shape that could tip over!

brij0102 | 6 years ago | on: India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon

So the algo didn’t account for that or the hardware wasn’t able to compensate?

brij0102 | 6 years ago | on: India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon

That would always be a problem though, right? So for unmanned moon landings, do we instead need those inflated bouncy balls? Or did the previous successes just got it right?

brij0102 | 6 years ago | on: India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon

What do we think went wrong? I expect maths to be right but there was a comment somewhere about the regolith with fine particles whose specific composition could have caused unexpected dust clouds as the lander sped to the ground ... how was this tech different from the other 3 successes?

brij0102 | 6 years ago | on: India’s Messy Electric Vehicle Revolution

Memory is foggy and I don't have a citation but didn't the definition of literacy in India just involved the ability to read/write your name (officially by govt)? I wouldn't be surprised if a significant percentage was functionally illiterate - that doesn't mean they aren't smart though - likely smarter than the author :)

brij0102 | 7 years ago | on: Low-earth orbit satellites threatened by debris from Indian anti-satellite test

Maybe the illustrious members of HN should stick to their strengths and come up with a technological solution to the following two: - how can a nation achieve equivalent ability as this without actually destroying a satellite - how can such debris be rendered harmless

brij0102 | 7 years ago | on: Forget Fortnite–my son is still obsessed with Minecraft

I remember when my 7 year old got into it and the experience was amazingly similar ... then I found that the newly learnt swear words came from those videos. If it weren’t for the gratuitous language in the article too, I’d have loved to get him to read it!

brij0102 | 7 years ago | on: America's first big offshore wind farm sets record low price

I wonder if some of these savings should be set aside to directly go towards cleanup operations - processes to scrub CO2, reduce ocean acidification etc