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Minimal Effort Scaling with Ray.io - Easy Analogies to Get Started
How to scale up complex workloads with minimal effort via Ray.io's modules. Useful for AI/ML and other computationally intensive tasks in particular.
Shrijith Venkatramana
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Introducing: 5 Quick Advertising Lessons for Busy Makers, Builders, & Engineers
Makers, Builders and Engineers all over the world have great ideas, decent execution but find it hard to attract the right attention, nurture it, and eventually translate that into sales. Here are 5 quick lessons to change that for the better.
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The Newton of Engineering Management
Google's Misstep: Trying to Fire All Managers When people think of Engineering Management, they think it is this sort of fuzzy field, where definite statements or principles have no place. In 2002, the leaders at Google thought, the whole field of management was bunk, and they said, let&
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AI/ML Business Use Cases You Cannot Afford To Ignore
Unsure or anxious about your team's AI/ML strategy? Like many business leaders, I too was a bit confused and anxious. Every day I see new developments in AI/ML flowing into my feeds. And such deluge of activity can be overwhelming for business leaders. How a conversation
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Rickover Series #3: Engineering in Practice
What does it mean to be a professional or to practice a profession? There is no one better to define this for us than, Admiral Rickover. He truly walked the talk, and got the job done. These are my takeaways from Admiral Rickover's essay: "Engineering in Practice&
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Rickover Series #2: A Talented Mind - Opportunity & Obligation
The rarity of a good mind A good mind is rarer than a full bank account. The bank account can be taken away from you. But a good mind is a secure possession capable of miracle-like feats. Nobody can take it away from you The origin & limits of intelligence
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Rickover Series #1: Engineering Opportunities
What follows are notes from Admiral Rickover's speech: Engineering Opportunities The Administrator's Job The most important function of an administrator is: * Selection of personnel * Training of personnel "If one chooses the right people, there is little else to do" Purpose vs Security On graduation,
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My Experiments with Open Source AI/ML to Improve Team Productivity (Part 1)
I saw everywhere recently that OpenAI's SORA is making waves across the web. SORA is capable of making videos out of textual descriptions. I went to their website, trying to give it a go. No way to try it immediately, though. I'd have loved to make
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How I Built a Great Team Culture using First Principles (No Gimmicks)
Do you want to build a team culture that you can be proud of? If yes, you are in the right place. My system will help you build the team culture you aspire for. Team culture means two things: First, the way in which the team faces challenges together. Second,
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Inside Marker: A Guided Source Code Tour for an AI-powered PDF Layout Detection Engine
Last week, Marker, the PDF to Markdown converter, topped the Hacker News homepage for a while. As a curious student in the ML world, I thought it’d be a good opportunity to look under the hood, and learn more about how this awesome Document AI tool works. What is
The End of Books? The Future of Reading in the Age of AI Magic
Napoleon is supposed to have said, Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. People tend to unconsciously recognize how powerful the activity called reading is. For almost 600 years now, the printed book, and its spiritual successor the eBook have
The Mechanics of Mental Concentration: A Deep Dive
"The characteristic of distractions is that they are many. But the characteristic of concentration is that it is one" In this article, I aim to explain my current understanding of the human phenomenon often known as "mental concentration". Consider it as my present understanding of the