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Re:Introducing Gemma 3n on Thursday June 26, 2025 @04:37PM (#44391076)
> Are there APK(s) that run on Tensor?

No. AiCore service internally uses the inference on Tensor (http://go/android-dev/ai/gemini-nano)

> Is there anything at all from anyone I can download that'll run it on Tensor?

No.

> If there isn't, why not? (i.e. this isn't the first on device model release by any stretch, so I can't give benefit of the doubt at this point)

Mostly because 3P support has not been a engineering priority.

Re:Introducing Gemma 3n on Thursday June 26, 2025 @02:29PM (#44389989)
The APK that you linked, runs the inference on CPU and does not run it on Google Tensor.
Google’s Grammar checker works completely offline.[1]

[1]https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/10/grammar-correction-as-you-...

(Disclosure: I work at Google)

Re:An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:49PM (#20934693)
Small Nitpick: You cannot reconstruct a square wave even if you use infinite fourier coefficients due to Gibbs phenomenon.(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_phenomenon)
Re:A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages on Friday October 27, 2017 @08:06PM (#15573239)
The whole world knows it as Arabic numerals. I am not contesting where it originated, I am just saying, that using Indian numerals confuses everyone.
Re:A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages on Friday October 27, 2017 @08:04PM (#15573234)
Hinduism and the Hindi language are two different things, and they are not related.
Re:Lessons learned building a toy compiler on Friday July 07, 2017 @03:47PM (#14721484)
Re:“It's The Future” on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @06:32PM (#12308985)
Looks like its not maintained.
Re:The End of Gmane? on Thursday July 28, 2016 @05:35PM (#12183361)
> Lights candles to summon Jason Scott to ingest it into the Internet Archive

And he has responded. https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/com...

India has about 18 official languages. Its hard to support all the official languages.

Also, the people who are online are mostly people who understand English. Supporting languages does not increase their outreach.

Re:Amazon software engineer interview on Friday July 08, 2016 @08:53PM (#12059571)
I am not talking about inventing data structures or an algorithm on the spot. It takes some amount of time to find the right data structure and the algorithm. I felt that the interviewers are not ready to give that time.

Say you have not seen a particular dynamic programming problem. It takes some time to get to the fact that there is a recursive solution to it, and then apply DP to it.

For a person who has seen that problem, it doesn't take a lot of time to write the code. While interviewing, you are compared to that person. Nobody takes that extra effort to actually appreciate somebody who thought about the problem and answered it.

For a tech industry that prides itself in hiring the best / most talented, this is ironic.

Re:Amazon software engineer interview on Friday July 08, 2016 @06:05PM (#12058950)
I used to believe this. As a masters student who is going to graduate soon, I have to put in months of preparation for the interviews. Nobody believes in your ability to write code even after having close to 100+ commits to a popular open source project. People expect you to come to the correct solution after 5 minutes of them asking the question.
Re:Amazon software engineer interview on Friday July 08, 2016 @05:57PM (#12058920)
I had this view when I was interviewing for internships during this quarter. I have spent working and interviewing at a couple of places, before I came to pursue my masters and I believed people valued coming up with the solution on the spot.

I interviewed at atleast 10 places for internships and every single of them asked one of the questions from either leetcode or cracking the coding interview. I found none of them cared whether I am thinking on my feet for a solution or not. As long as you can reproduce the answers to the questions in a nice manner, you got selected. None of my interviewers were trying to understand / empathize how difficult it is to come up with a solution really quickly when you have not seen the problem before.

The thing I learnt through the ordeal is 1. Nobody cares whether you are thinking on your feet or not. 2. You need a month of preparation going into these sort of interviews.

> You can't get cops to do their jobs without a bribe. Need a passport? You're going to have cough up cash to get the paperwork you need

I and thousands of students can vouch that we did not have to bribe to get our passports.

India is doing really well in terms of law, for the population density it supports. I would bet enforcing those rules in the US or providing 911 help similar to the US for a country with that large a population is incredibly hard. Its not about will power, but the scale at which it has to be enforced at the same time, so that it works.

Re:India's Plan to Bring Digital Banking to 1.2B People on Sunday April 17, 2016 @01:52AM (#11513641)
- You don't usually get charged to have a checking account in the US.

I have to maintain a minimum balance of 1500$ for the checking account to be free.

>> - The lack of interest on most US checking accounts is due to the very low inflation rate and nearly zero federal rate. Adjusted for inflation, what is the interest rate of your Indian checking account? Back in the 70s when inflation was high in the US checking account that carried interest were not uncommon. I do seem to remember that they were called something else, but I can't remember right now.

Agreed. I got carried away trying to make a point :).

Re:India's Plan to Bring Digital Banking to 1.2B People on Saturday April 16, 2016 @09:54PM (#11513152)
I have been guilty of sharing the PIN in restaurants, when they don't have wireless terminals (which happens very rarely). There are a couple of reasons why I didn't feel it was a security hole.

1. All Indian cards are chip cards, hence they cannot be replicated (or not replicated quickly)

2. I get a transaction message immediately. I know exactly how much money was charged into my account.

3. My credit card cannot be used anywhere to make a transaction > 20$ without a 2 factor message to my phone.

All these security ideas are built into the system and its not opt in.

Re:India's Plan to Bring Digital Banking to 1.2B People on Saturday April 16, 2016 @09:42PM (#11513126)
India is way ahead of the US financial system. I am a student here in US and I can't really fathom how bad the US financial system is.

- Intra bank wires / transfers are free and happen within 10s

- Cheques are free

- You don't have a system where you can lose all your money if you give your handwritten cheques to somebody (who came up with echeques anyway?)

- You don't get charged to have a checking account. They pay you interest for your account.

- Get a message about every transaction, every withdrawal that you do immediately.

One of the best articles I read on the subject was this http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/02/04/littles-law/
Re:Fourier Visualizations on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:43AM (#11010389)
> I am doubly upset at that teacher now.

You shouldn't be. Wireless Technology is an advanced class for Electrical Engineering majors. Electrical Engineering majors would have gone through a class of Linear systems, where they would have learnt the intuition behind Fourier transforms as shown in OP's demo. I think the teacher might have done you a disservice by not mentioning the prerequisites, but thats the only thing you can be upset about.

Re:Bqplot: Plotting library for IPython/Jupyter Notebooks on Thursday October 08, 2015 @02:00AM (#10351153)
Is there any documentation for the plotting library? I would love to explore it, but couldn't find many examples / documentation for different kinds of plot.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015) on Thursday October 01, 2015 @02:11PM (#10313252)
> Please note for Internships: We look for junior standing or above for all areas of engineering. We hire several interns every summer and fall. We aren’t currently accepting applications for summer 2016 but please check our job board in September for the job posting when we start the hiring process.

Should this be November? Or is there a link to apply for internships?

Re:HTML5 Deck of Cards on Thursday September 03, 2015 @02:28PM (#10166702)
Nope. Math.floor(-15.5) would be -16. It rounds a number downwards. -16 < -15.
Re:How Being Non-Confrontational Has Held Me Back in Life on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @10:47AM (#10152680)
I agree. The post explores how one must be confrontational when it requires.
Re:CλaSH – From Haskell to Hardware on Saturday May 09, 2015 @12:27PM (#9516809)
This is very interesting. I have always felt that having a language that has immutable constructs translates very well into a hardware description language. This is because most of the hardware modules are immutable, except for state machines, which can be modelled using state monads(or something similar).

Considering the hardware tooling right now, I would love to see a language with more abstractions than verilog or vhdl. I would love to see programming languages, that just don't compile to system verilog / VHDL, but can directly move to synthesizing step. I have worked with Bluespec and I don't see that as the successor.

I would say, a language like haskell(or a derivative) can map to a hardware really well, and this is a very good attempt. Please pursue it / turn it into a product, so that hacking on hardware(a FPGA) is much more easier and beautiful.

The article mentions "without a battery". The power source is the sunlight / light.
Re:Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 on Monday April 13, 2015 @05:46AM (#9366719)
I am asking a tangential question here. Is there any service that can stream android games / apps?

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