apexkid

Congratulations on the launch.

My question is that how will you deal with future government regulations. In developing world, the government does not like crypto and may impose laws like upfront taxation to discourage people from investing.

apexkid

작년discuss

How to use ChatGPT and Perplexity to read paywalled content from business insider, new york times, and more.

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2년 전discuss

Wanted to share a side project I recently wrapped up after stumbling across [Karpathy's micrograd](https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd).

ML is mostly Python territory these days, and for good reason—it’s simple, flexible, and gets the job done. But as someone who spends most of their time in C++, I thought: What if I tried building something ML-related in C++? Sure, I had an idea of the challenges — verbose syntax, manual memory management, and, let’s face it, a lot less “fun” compared to Python—but I wanted to see what it’s really like.

So, inspired by micrograd, I decided to build my own autograd library in C++ from scratch. This wasn’t about translating Karpathy’s code (I’ve barely read it, honestly). My goal was to understand the inner workings of Autograd and Computational graphs, like the ones used in PyTorch, and recreate those ideas in C++.

The result? A small library that can train simple neural networks for tasks like linear and logistic regression.

It’s been a wild ride—balancing the elegance of ML concepts with the quirks (and occasional frustrations) of C++.

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to tackle ML with C++, or just enjoy geeking out over low-level implementations, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Code and project details are here: https://github.com/apexkid/micrograd-cpp.

apexkid

2년 전discuss

I took on a new year's resolution to resume writing blogs. The last I did was when I was doing my undergrad. At that time, blogging was not that popular but I still loved it. But I got busy in work and lost that passion.

So here is to new beginning. Looking for support from the community.

Happy New Year!

apexkid

2년 전discuss

I am working on Zipshot. http://zipshot.co -- The goal is to make the best free screenshot & OCR app for mac.

This is my side project because I needed an app like this for my daily use and I hate the fact that every other good app is paid even though maintaining such an app really doesn't cost anything.

Zipshot solves several problems:

  - Easy to use shortcuts like cmd+shift+1
  - No desktop clutter as images are uploaded to Zipshot cloud.
  - Share via links.
  - Powerful editor and figma style comments for annotations.
  - OCR that works without the internet on 11 languages.
  - Slack & Gmail integration.
  - Context aware naming.
  - Serious privacy measures.
  - One click data download.

Who is it for:

  - Users who take 5+ screenshots a week with mostly the purpose of sharing it with their team or friends.

I am improving it every week. Here are the things I am working on:

  - Make the on-boarding and permission seeking workflow simpler.
  - Speed up the app for apple silicon devices.
  - Support OCR for rotated text and include more languages.

Here is an example demo: https://app.zipshot.co/bp4jr1

apexkid

2년 전discuss

Thanks for your support.

apexkid

2년 전discuss

> periodically just take a snapshot of everything in RAM.

Sound similar to `stop the world Garbage collection` in Java. Does your entire processing comes to halt when you do this? How frequently do you need to take snapshots? Or do you have a way to do this without halting everything

apexkid

2년 전discuss

Great blog. What framework did you use to setup your blog?

apexkid

3년 전discuss

I like your vision but I do not understand the fundamental proposition here. The creators in the platform are supposed to perform specific tasks to raise money -- That's called "having a job". Essentially the platform is a marketplace to hire part time workers for specific one time tasks. If so, why position it as a campaign to raising funds as if it is some sort of charity.

Is the underlying assumption that creators can charge more on this platform as compared to the usual pay they will get for the same task and in doing so they can raise money faster? If so, I would be highly skeptical of this assumption and validate it rigorously.

apexkid

4년 전discuss

Unless you were recently hired, you should look out for another job and quit. The argument that you are already compensated as per market standards only holds true if you were hired less than an year ago. Also, the company should have given you raise even if it was smaller value in percentage terms. Not giving any raise is a clear indication.

apexkid

5년 전discuss

This article is as bullshit at it can get with no proof and random catch phrases on the lines of "ohh blacks are hated in America". Truth is, there is absolutely no place for cast in any top Indian engineering colleges. Millennials and GenZ does not give a single fuck to what the cast of a person is. That too in IITs were 90% students come from middle or poor class of society and have similar lifestyle. There can always be one random incident but that does not mean that the entire community can be painted in same color.

Truth is some sections of American society do not want immigrants to work there and these articles are born from the same mindset. India is losing its caste based social norms as the years pass by much faster than America is losing Black are inferior mindset. Even political changes have come in India which has narrowed the caste lines to almost extinction.

apexkid

6년 전discuss

How are royalties paid to the music labels?

apexkid

6년 전discuss

How does funkWhale deal with piracy of music and copyrights?

apexkid

6년 전discuss

China should be immediately stripped off its veto rights in United Nations. Such genocide should not be accepted by the world just because someone has money.

apexkid

6년 전discuss

You must be an NDTV viewer so:

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

apexkid

6년 전discuss

No but the government which took this decision won 60%+ seats in last election. So I speak for democracy.

apexkid

6년 전discuss

Amnesty's resources are better spent in operating in those countries where there is no democracy such as middle east, africa, china, etc. Good they got an exit from India where they are useless :)

apexkid

6년 전discuss

This is all motivated reporting. India has such a strong and independent judicial system which does its job. If any charges are put incorrectly then courts will grant relief. India is democratic country.

apexkid

6년 전discuss

Indians are very pleased at this decision. Amnesty has been a major organization to hold biased views of human rights of terrorist in Kashmir without accounting for the loss of citizens life that are damaged due to terrorism. Their agenda has always been motivated while operating in India. A diverse and large country like India doesn't need such an organization preaching whats right. India is largest democracy on face of earth.

apexkid

6년 전discuss

Amazon is every other on fire in media for poor working conditions but they don't care because stock buyers of Amazon don't care. They will continue to invest as long as their wealth grows. This is what true capitalism is.

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