Shonku_

Posting here, cause it's probably the only community which can relate to it, and find flaws. The background is, my college's coding club is pretty dead and lame. I am an upcoming second year student, who did some stuff in the last year, and is currently an intern in one of these openai mafia.

Based on my observations after reading the ExperiencedDevs subreddit, LessWrong and HackerNews, what I understood is that the landscape is not longer like it was in 2023-24. Hence I want to make a little effort to make it easier for my juniors and peers to navigate this fuzzy ambiguous landscape.

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Posting here, cause it's probably the only community which can relate to it, and find flaws. The background is, my college's coding club is pretty dead and lame. I am an upcoming second year student, who did some stuff in the last year, and is currently an intern in one of these openai mafia.

Based on my observations after reading the ExperiencedDevs subreddit, LessWrong and HackerNews, what I understood is that the landscape is not longer like it was in 2023-24. Hence I want to make a little effort to make it easier for my juniors and peers to navigate this fuzzy ambiguous landscape.

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I am not a BArch student, but hey it was nice read to read about architecture.

Here's the article.

main points:

1. the first institution in India to award a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture (1949)

2. apparently, this place had such a profound impact on the man behind Delhi's "Steinabad", Prof Allen Stein, that he ended up staying in India for decades.

3. Buckminster Fuller experiments with bamboo-made G

This was my first reverse engineering attempt with a proprietary software artifact. I work on Edge AI, and I was about to rage quit due to the staggering lack of documentation about NPUs which everyone from Qualcomm to MediaTek to Apple is hiding.

I found some genuinely never known before stuff:

1. the compiler silently can downgrade your model weights' precision without telling you

2. memory placement uses HiGHS which is a linear programming solver (not heuristics)

3. the same model on two different chips with identical reported VTCM can have 33x difference in DDR traffic, why? I don't know, Qualcomm never published the memory capacity the VTCMs of any of their SoCs

4. There's an undo

boards.4chan.org/g/

add to that, this book: The Programming Contest Training Manual (leans more towards the algorithmic side).

hope it helps

cheers

note: i personally made/solved/created 1,4,9,10,11,12,15,17,18,20,25,38,43,44,46,50,52,55,57,58,59,60,61,66,69,72,74,75,82,86,92,94,102,107,111,125,141 which is barely 25% of it.

hi there,

background:

- vc funded SF based AI infrastructure startup ( with < 10 people)

- they reached out to me after seeing my systems/ml infra work

- its an internship

they've asked me to suggest "any ballpark figure" - and i got no clue how to do that

using an LLM i came up with this formula:

```

Ballpark =

max(

Previous_salary * 3,

0.15 * US_market_monthly

)

```

which gives roughly 800-1200 USD per month, considering ill be working remotely from india.

i have a hard time (i feel uncomfortable?) talking about money, and have only worked with indian startups till now. i am unconfident slightly being an upcoming second year student. i dont want to oversh

recently I saw a posting from xAI, which stated:

"please send [...] with ~3 bullet points demonstrating evidence of exceptional ability to [...]"

what qualifies as that?

how can one achieve a feat, for it'd require something grandiose - that includes, a huge capital upfront.

would love to know, if any of you have had the opportunity to interview or come across any such candidates.