Nirant
@NirantK
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AI engineer that takes companies from RAGs to riches
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Joined December 2012
2 entries in 1 quarter to my personal Brag Doc — highest rate since 2021!. Might have done something right last year?. All hail my bae, my personal serotonin dealer with an assist from Duloxetine.
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Hear me out: VC-funded Chromium-fork with first class native-support for LLMs which competes globally.
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Looks like Kazinama has been missing for a while now. No new music for a prolific account. I miss it
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Medical and age-linked premium hikes are a double whammy — the price of services and goods increases, and so does the premium. So you lose when paying the premium and then again when you're claiming it 😅.
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If you're paying 30% of the insurance amount as premium, at what point will the insurance be worth less than putting a 1.5x premium in a Liquid fund?.
While people keep bragging about low inflation,. I just paid my parents' Medical Insurance premium. 3 years ago I paid,.1.72 lakhs for a 3-year medical cover for a 10L policy. This time the company asked for,.3L for 3 years medical cover for a 10L policy. That inflation is a
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Spikes are all that matter after a certain kind of minimum.
Average builds you quietly, spikes open the doors. Back in 2015, I spent days manually going through 1500 IIT Bombay CVs to shortlist a few for the company I was part of. Each was evaluated across ~5 sections, 3 points each. - Average work? 1 point. - Good work? 3 points. - An.
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Nailed it. Same risks as social media and WhatsApp in hindsight: Unknown, new stupid behaviours.
I’m starting to believe that (current) AI systems pose risk to humanity not because they are super intelligent, but rather because they are super stupid in ways we can’t know upfront.
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@ajeetdsouza @vortex_ape @tokenbender Frappe (ERPNext?) by @rushabh_mehta and friends is Commercial OSS ERP, not just out of India but out Mumbai. Quite rare. I don't know their revenue as a business, and they do maintain the package: 43 contributors (incl. employees) in just last 1 month!.
@NirantK The Frappe web framework @ are by Indian devs. It powers (arguably) the most powerful open source ERP software. And many more.
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@ajeetdsouza @vortex_ape And the latest — one of the moderators of the GenerativeAI Community and a maverick in his own league @tokenbender: RL for smol LM experiments. It's clever, and pushes reward design in a new direction which atleast I've not seen outside academia!.
is it possible to pretrain a language model using pure reinforcement learning from scratch?.random weights, no cross-entropy loss pretraining. you may have many questions in your head.
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@ajeetdsouza Happy to include a former co-conspirator in @vortex_ape! .
@NirantK it's been a minute but shoutout to @vortex_ape who built Camelot to tackle gnarly pdf parsing back when he was still in the country and the problem was much more of a pain.
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@ajeetdsouza Kitty and Calibre come from the same dev in Mumbai as far as I know .
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Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal - kovidgoyal/kitty
@NirantK For me, Kovid Goyal, the developer of kitty. Kitty is still my go to choice for a terminal emulator on any OS.
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zoxide by @ajeetdsouza has been maintained for almost ~4y now! pretty cool! .
give a follow to my fren @ajeetdsouza . wrote and maintains zoxide (in rust, btw), it has 25k+ stars and the first thing i install on my system.
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