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bhavit sharma

1 year

Ladies, if he's: Reproducible: Loves you/hates you consistently, Hermetic: Seals promises tight, Sandboxed: Knows his boundaries, Immutable: Steady in core values, Declarative: Clear about needs, Garbage collected: Leaves past mistakes behind then you're dating NixOS, not a man

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

4 months

you ever read a paper so good that author clearly wants to make you feel smart and satisfied, and doesn't pretend that he's smarter than you? challenges your notions and then proves them in the very next section? so lucky to stumble upon this.

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

>quits openai >starts hyping twitter with open source tweets >says it's more important than anything else >Joins Google many such cases

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

bhai how tf do I tell my roommate to stop watching Netflix all day because it clogs up my internet bandwidth. mf does no work all day and is still somehow making money

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

are you kidding me? 4 GB worth of cookies?

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

8 months

cooking...

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

8 months

Hot take: Google's decision to display a 'Sign in page is getting a new look' is actually a good thing. Given how much of the internet relies on google oauth, a sudden change to their sign-in page without any warning could lead to phishing attempts using the old page design.

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

1 year

How Indian companies and U.S. companies that are hiring in India enforce a two-month notice period is almost criminal. In the U.S., nobody serves more than a two-week notice period. Completely messes with the planning while hiring

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

9 months

from jee to icpc to startups, i always choose one rat race and surprisingly, I love it

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

9 months

us government and h1b

Ryan Moulton

@moultano

9 months

What is preventing you from moving to San Francisco?

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

<=1000 jee rank is the 6 feet equivalent of intelligence. Oh your rank was 1100 because you made a calculation mistake? That's cute, but you're still not allowed in the 6 feet club

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

8 months

this guy has some of the worst takes on software in general and now this

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

One of the biggest psyops by YC and VCs is "big tech is bad" to make engineers work for pennies as equity (0.1% for 80 hours/week) and half the base salary of big tech. Make informed, cynical decisions when VCs pitch this.

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

2 months

hi and we're hiring for just about everything!

Magic

@magicailabs

2 months

LTM-2-Mini is our first model with a 100 million token context window. That’s 10 million lines of code, or 750 novels. Full blog: Evals, efficiency, and more ↓

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

9 months

i once interviewed for a cto for a company (indian) whose founder was a 23 yold (he told me within 2 mins of meeting him). i got rejected because i asked q's. funnily, his company pivoted. lol they had this req. "we prefer people who are single and not in relationships"

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

@ajay9470 I knew one mfer will come out of nowhere and say skill issue. yes my brother in Christ, it's always a skill issue

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

1 year

The cure for male loneliness is having an anon handle with 10K+ followers on Twitter

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

6 months

born to build artificial god, forced to build my O1 application

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

1 year

Man, veritasium is having an absolute banger of a career

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

4 months

im asking this again but for india

Ilya Miskov

@ilyamiskov

4 months

Can you guys recommend a high quality everyday backpack that is comfy, has water bottle pockets, can fit a 16" laptop, and doesn't look like ass?

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

4 months

a co-worker suggested another paper like this:

Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation in Machine Learning

This paper is a broad and accessible survey of the methods we have at our disposal for Monte Carlo gradient estimation in machine learning and across the statistical sciences: the problem of...

arxiv.org

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

tpot is great because one day your mutual could be an anon being a high quality reply guy for your tweets and the next day they're leaving the country to pursue a PhD in PL

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

1 year

at this point I don't want any pretty girls to come into my life, I don't want to ruin my week or month or an year anymore

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

interesting that cognition chose to focus on the typical SWE tasks instead of using their background to create a better bot for solving CF problems - it's because they're bottlenecked on model's reasoning like any other LLM, but it does say a lot about a typical SWE's work

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

leaving this shithole of an app once someone actually implements their database features.

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

8 months

oh overheard at "third wave": "tumhaare red flags ka sindoor banake laga lungi apne sir pe"

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

OMG THE NEW SBI WEBSITE REDESIGN LOOKS AMAZING, THANK GOD THEY FINALLY HIRED SOME GREAT WEB DEVS TO FIX THEIR BROKEN WEBSITE

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

4 months

@starshipneil I was reading about SVD before and then its connecting to PCA. I was confused and this thing cleared up every single assumption for me -

A Tutorial on Principal Component Analysis

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a mainstay of modern data analysis - a black box that is widely used but (sometimes) poorly understood. The goal of this paper is to dispel the magic behind...

arxiv.org

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

8 months

my first post - some random notes that i took while doing while doing pset 1 of cs229. some cool problems on matrix derivatives

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

9 months

im once again asking you to not be a reply guy to e/girls

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

8 months

a lot of bayes theorem and conditional probability problems would've been easier if english wasn't so darn ambiguous

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

Haha, H-1B lottery, haha, psych! The first time, it was funny; the second time, it hurts. i ain't going to stay around to apply for the 3rd time. please sake sike...

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

4 months

dating apps should be banned in every society/country. there should be a state sponsored marriage app for every country, a large scale govt effort to target the fertility crisis and ensure people have partners which in turn lets govt earn more taxes

Rakesh

@rakwtf

4 months

let's say we make a new dating app. what would you want in a dating app? what's wrong with current dating apps? how should a dating app ideally be? how can we fix/reimagine online dating? dating should be fun, not exhausting. drop all your suggestions, or tag someone who knows.

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

10 months

copium, they are literally the best in their field, not just because of hard work, but also because they are superhuman, belonging to the 0.0001% of geniuses on the planet, and I don't mean this lightly in any sense.

sylvia ploth

@wahifunnywalaa

10 months

@avataram reminder that success in 90% of modern day academics is a factor of how many times u reiterated (ratta marna) the same concepts. JEE topper is not the "highest IQ" as u'd like to believe. They just happened to practice far more than any other person.

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

1 year

The best thing about being the eng lead is I get to define everything in our codebase. It's only one month, and I have introduced nix, devbox, made everything monorepo and no one can stop me and oppose my decisions. lfg

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

8 months

bruh

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

10 months

the best kernel is linux and it came out of open source and not a big corp :) oss will win, just like it always have. cope is thinking openai will win because you were the first to realise transformers will scale.

roon

@tszzl

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i don’t think this is remotely true but it’s hard to fight open source copium because people act like you shot a dog or something

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

mfs in sf going through stockholm syndrome and calling vandalism as just "kinda insane"

Prateek

@weights_thief

7 months

SF is kinda insane. Somebody burnt two white teslas just two blocks from each other. One of my close friends had his car parked next to one of the Teslas. This is what his car looks like now. Funnily enough, it still works (including lights) and we were able to drive it around.

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

AGI will be solved if all the legendary grandmasters put their mind to it

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

8 months

God, please give me the confidence that LinkedIn users have when they write their bios in the third person.

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

6 months

openai needs to hire ashish arora and the indian coaching industry to train/teach these models. the 1t models will be in the first batch, and the 1b models in the last. give em 2 years, and, if not agi, these models will definitely crack jee, ias, and neet

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

1 year

want someone to go to Dashashwamedh Ghat with

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bhavit sharma

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

8 months

my life became a lot better after I stopped reading r/relationships, r/singularity, r/antiwork, r/deadbedroom, r/openai. r/unixporn is still the best subreddit

ourania, tit brained retard⁶

@ouranometrian2

8 months

People should stop reading depressing subreddits. Stop reading deadbedrooms, detransition, and the zerocovid sub please.

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

1 year

Visited my cousin prepping for RMO today. Got teased (re forced) into solving them myself. fortunately I solved the problems. He was impressed and said he liked my structured thinking of solving. He couldn't prove his solutions for some problems and fluked them. > feels good.jpg

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

4 months

@dotnetschizo you're seriously keeping thinking fast and slow in the same category with the other crap? the book is filled with so many fun experimental titbits and anecdotes.

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

10 months

i don't want an ai girlfriend or boyfriend or friend. i want an ai partner, like jarvis, who i distinctly know isn't real. i hate the anthropomorphism by these startups and i hope they die before even reaching series a

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

1 year

@suumitshah And what exactly is your motivation about boasting layoffs at your company? it's good that you got the gains but you could've posted this without sounding like an obnoxious privileged perso. Those laid off people have families, life to take care of, not cogs in a wheel

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

10 months

uhmmm what?

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

9 months

xoxo - sequoia series a founder

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

11 months

@cto_junior Psyop by adderall companies

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

6 months

my bros take a gap year to get out of their relationships

Ojasvi🐈

@ojasvikhurana

6 months

Foreigners take gap year to travel, we take it to crack IIT xD

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

10 months

i take Ls almost everyday in my life and i'm still an optimist hoping that things will get better and igmi. In words of andy: "Remember. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

why frontend is hard? Claude even after creating the best model and 1B$+ in their bank can't add latex rendering in their UI -_-

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

11 months

it's time

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

2 years

@mitsuhiko Bazel has massively simplified our build process and reduced our incremental build times from 10 minutes to 1-2 mins...

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

11 months

Fun Fact: Adam D'Angelo's team won silver medal in ICPC Finals. He also won Silver medal in IOI

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

9 months

sex is a very intimate and sacred act remember, your body is a temple, and you shouldn't be sharing it with anyone who can't solve leetcode hard

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

5 months

This delivery took 3 years ❤️

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

1 year

GPU scheduling is so hard, no wonder kubernetes doesn't allow for GPU virtualization by default

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

6 months

world will be a great place if @code open sources their remote ssh and container extensions. it's so cool how they mount an entire filesystem lazily, syncs edits between files so quickly and gives me such a breeze to work with remote VMs or containers

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

5 months

rejecting bad decisions is more important than selecting good ones

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

(not kidding) - i printed out my sbi bank statement and went to the bank to get it signed. The officer lady deadass just signed everypage, without verifying my account number or balance or my name or anything. >mfw you wonder how a lot of Indian ended up in European countries

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

6 months

"You're fired but do you want to UPSKILL yourself with the latest DS/ALGORITHMS course, and we promise you to get into Google"

Rishabh

@rishabhbansal97

6 months

finally got my picture in news 💪

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

4 months

@MattZeitlin bro they hyped up white walkers since the first scene of GOT only to be killed by arya in just one back stab like wut?

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

10 months

it's here <3

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

1 year

So many incels complaining "women get laid more than me", "women can get followers by posting their photo", "women have so many guy friends". Bro, just accept the game, and try to win and rizz instead of crying.

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

@InjarapuC yeah, i'd do the same too

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

5 months

I'm going to spend my entire day in search of a great monospace font. Recommendations welcome

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

anon girls should never show their face - keep an air of mystery and ok to show hands, hair but never face

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

remember, no matter what - you becoming a millionaire from a startup as a founding engineer/whatever is close to zero. it's important to talk to the founder atleast 10 times before joining where you're the one interviewing him.

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

4 months

@PradyuPrasad stay away and focus on problem solving than tooling

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

5 months

mfers post the most basic take and then call it hot take

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

1 year

Installing Linux is like having a child. Full of potential, but if it throws a tantrum, it's on you to figure it out. however, using windows/mac is like having a fun niece - only fun and its their parents responsibility to deal with tantrums!

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

back to my home in jaipur and they should rename it to arrakis

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

4 months

uhm what? are we going to claim that being hydrated is good for your health?

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

1 year

pretty disgusting to see people rooting for startups to die because openai announced a bunch of products. keep on building, keep on grinding. if you were good enough to build a wrapper then you're good enough to build deep tech

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

1 month

AI solving codeforces is such a beautiful thing, imagining near future where the model explains div 1E problems to me from scratch, gives successive hints to me, and directs me towards the right solution. can't wait for it

atharva

@k7agar

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codeforces banned use of AI. it was going to happen, but this soon?

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

1 month

@k7agar Pretty much impossible to enforce this

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

5 months

@riksucks let people celebrate their wins

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

@grhmc ah that makes more sense, I'm still wondering why is it storing 4 gb in local storage. possibly all my notes for offline support?

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

10 months

@PradyuPrasad yes. all the pain for 1 month is totally worth for the next 20 years

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

@maicurioushoon I see branch change at iitk, i instantly like comment and subscribe

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

6 months

i go to pubs to talk to strangers not my friends

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

9 months

"i don't get addicted" ~ famous last words before trying psychedelics, alcohol, relationships and nicotine (def not me)

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

9 months

it's a great question imo. YouTube exposes a lot of metrics (YouTube studio) so youtubers can make better videos. Why can't Zomato/swiggy expose these to restaurants, help make capacity planning better for resturants which only helps Zomato eventually

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

8 months

looks like touching grass, third wave and her do make me calm

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

6 months

ML with category theory for better formal reasoning? Seems like a great approach. @samlakig ideas for your PhD 😉

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

6 months

> me, grug brain > wants to write some code > Asks question to gpt-4, claude-3 and gemini 1.5 > takes another 10 minutes to read through all the answers, and select the best one Why isn't anyone building a model router, model combiner or whatever? maybe @JuliusAI_

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

1 year

I still believe joining faang right after grad is one of the best things you can do for your career. If you can get over the part of doing mundane tasks (boring tasks are part of every job) and focus on learning the tech of your team/orgs/tools then you're doing great

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

1 year

@10x_er If you think she's a 10 instead of being a distribution along 1-10 then my brother in Christ, you're a frequentist

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

8 months

ai this, ai that, why don't you call your aai and ask how she's doing?

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

7 months

attention is all my parents need

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

5 months

it's so over for BJP but also for all the standup comedians who made their careers in the last decade

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

1 year

imo working 70+ hours is a skill issue

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bhavit sharma

@avaitopiper

9 months

one of the coolest projects we've worked on in the last month, and we're just getting started this year! The model is 8B, 128K context window! DM for trial!

Dynamo AI

@dynamo_ai

9 months

DynamoFL is excited to announce Dynamo 8B, our Foundation Model, with leading performance across multilingual benchmarks vs. Llama2-13B, Mistral 7B, Bloom-7B! Read our #benchmarks Download Dynamo 8B on #HuggingFace (1/2)

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