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Ask HN: Which of the following ML topics do you wish had good tutorials?

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Show HN: Torchutils – a PyTorch library for quick and systematic experimentation

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I still love programming – what's wrong with me?

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Ask HN: How do you decide to release a new ML model in production?

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Is “Learning by Doing” a Myth?

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Tutorial on Backprop and Compute Graphs

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Calling Python from React in an Electron App

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Why I left Microsoft

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What does a PM do?

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3 Things To Look For In A Startup Idea

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Show HN:I am building a recommendation service for online TV and movies

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How does OAuth 2.0 work in the real world?

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Tool to speed up unit testing

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What is good software design?

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What is cloud computing?

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I have been grappling with a similar sentiment for a while now. I hate to think of myself as a Luddite, but I love the act of writing code. A blank VS Code in front of me is a beautiful sight full of wonder and possibilities :-) Here is how I rationalize the two - the pride and satisfaction I get from my work depends on how much effort I put in applying some previously acquired specialist knowledge, which itself took some decent amount of effort to acquire. This is why a beginner programmer is just as proud of their temperature convertor as a professional distributed systems engineer of their new 2PC module.

A quote that I read somewhere, possibly by Naval Ravikant, strikes at the heart of this - "a creation without a (human) creator is meaningless".

5 gün öncediscuss

Neither the Github nor the HF repos have anything on the XiaomiRobotics-1 model or datasets :-( They have a bunch of assets (datasets, code, model, etc.) for XiaomiRobotics-0 however, but I don't know much about that family of models.

21 gün öncediscuss

Sad to learn that future generations of programmers won’t benefit from learning from him directly. I took his SICP course a couple of years ago after numerous failed attempts at reading the book and even watching the MIT videos. David’s course was the first time the concepts really clicked.

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Agree! Negotiating focus blocks both at home *and* work can be super helpful. Of course, this is not always possible. Without knowing anything about your situation, it might be useful to rule out burnout as a possible reason for loss of flow.

21 gün öncediscuss

For sure, any task or activity that is hard enough and just outside our reach, can get us into flow state. The trick is in ensuring that it is the right kind of hard, it is not too hard, and we time box the activity/task. If you think of how to beat the boss fight in a video game even when you are not playing it, it is the "right kind of hard". For me, beating the boss fights in Elden Ring were too hard, never got into flow state in that game :-)

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Debugging can be super fun as we eliminate possibilities and it feels like we are converging to a solution. There have been instances where Claude (Opus family) was not able to effectively debug and I had to step in and do it. But debugging an over-engineered library for example, can become very wearisome. This is when I am really thankful for having Claude Code, it is able to figure out the bug and its fix/workaround pretty fast. I can then get back to doing my main task instead of spending an indefinite amount of time stepping through sloppily written code.

22 gün öncediscuss

Ok here are the flow related links. This was about 1.5 years ago when I was trying to figure out burnout and it turned out flow (or lack thereof) was closely related.

  * https://youtu.be/VbUFMYs0kXQ?si=xiNw4ZFlla8k-p7w  The person who gives this talk (Rian Doris) has a good newsletter that I still read. I just checked their website and it has gone in full commercial mode, so YMMV.

  * https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_your_elusive_creative_genius

  * https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465074871

  * https://www.betterup.com/blog/meaning-of-personal-values

22 gün öncediscuss

Not being able to enter flow state is a very interesting observation. I've felt it too to the extent that I went down a whole new rabbit hole of what it means to be in flow state. Let me know if anybody here wants to know more, happy to post some links.

To answer your question - I discuss the approach with Claude Code (e.g., should I implement my own ACT model in JAX or PyTorch, Python or Rust or Julia, etc.). Then write the initial part of the code myself. Opening up a blank vscode is a simple joy of life I refuse to give up :-) I'll ask Claude for advice if I get stuck, it will helpfully offer to write that code for me, I obstinately decline. Eventually, I'll get bored of some minutiae or other, at which point I'll ask Claude to complete just that part of it.

28 gün öncediscuss

Reminds of this couplet by Kabir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabir):

जब हम पैदा हुये तो जग हँसे हम रोये,

ऐसी करनी कर चलो, हम हँसे, जग रोये।

Translation: When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced;

Live such a life that when you depart, you smile while the world weeps.

geçen aydiscuss

Reminds me of the "Named Tensor" experiment in PyTorch from a while ago. https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/2.12/named_tensor.html

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I'll put in a plug for David Beazly's SICP course. While we didn't build a full Lisp interpreter, we built something similar over a week-long hands-on course. I believe his github for the course is private and only available to students. https://www.dabeaz.com/sicp.html

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Thanks for your response! I totally get your point about the delay in getting the robot, I ordered mine from PartaBot and they did take a couple of weeks to get here. But when they did, they worked great out-of-the-box :-)

Will email you to compare notes.

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> The author does explain his reasons for not using LeRobot in the post - although "I also use LeRobot for training and running baseline policies, and the vendor SDKs for the hardware.")

Ah! That is exactly what I use it for as well :-)

I am liking the SO101 - teleop and robot both work great. For sure, it is very easy to get started with. I was able to collect around 50 demos with them and train my first ACT policy within days of setting up the robots. Happy to share more detailed learnings from this if/when you get started with it. https://github.com/avilay/learn-robotics

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Hey this is cool! I am doing something similar myself with the SO101 arm robot from Robot Studio using a patchwork of my own code and LeRobot. Would love to collaborate with you if you are open to it. You can find me on Discord as `.avilay`. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/avilay_lerobot-huggingface-ro...

Would like to know your reasoning on not going with LeRobot.

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Two things semi-parallelly:

  * Robotics Hello World: Objective is to implement ACT model to train my arm robot on simple pick-and-place tasks. Leaning heavily on HuggingFace's LeRobot library, but stopping short of using their model implementation and training loop. https://github.com/avilay/learn-robotics

  * Designing a new programming language: This is when I want to escape the annoyances of coding in Python and start daydreaming about a new language :-) https://github.com/avilay/kulfi

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Can a kind soul write down their interpretation of the story? I didn't quite get it.

[Edit]: Thanks for all the explanations!

4 ay öncediscuss

The point about papercuts adding up so resonates with me! I loved Zed initially and did find it more responsive than VS Code, loved the Zed Agent autocomplete, etc. However, I eventually and reluctantly went back to VS Code. The papercut that finally did it for me was [this open bug](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/36516) because of which I was not able to step into a packaged library's code when I was debugging my own code, this was in Python.

4 ay öncediscuss

The two don’t have to be mutually exclusive. You can let the agent code and you review it, or vice versa. No different from being a team lead where you don’t write all the code, or even review each and every line of code, but you have a very firm grasp of the code base.

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Totally agree with this! Being "kindly honest" is way better than being "brutally honest". Being honest and direct is important of course. I have often found that delivering constructive criticism in the so-called sandwich manner often obfuscates the message, so delivering it directly is much better. However, being kind to the receiver of the feedback by having empathy for them and supporting them as they process that feedback will help land that message far more effectively than being "brutal" about it.

5 ay öncediscuss

This hit a nerve as I am in the middle of developing a webapp for myself using NiceGUI. I find CSS, especially its layout framework, pretty confusing and sometimes downright intimidating to work with. `inline`, `block`, `flex`, `grid` seem reasonable when you read about them. But when using it, especially within frameworks when flexboxes are nested within grids which are nested within flexboxes and so on, it becomes hard to reason about. And then you throw in media-queries in the mix and it becomes even more dense.