thallukrish
Re:LeMap – Learning Enterprise Map
on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:03AM (#49641647)
I believe the time is ripe to capture how an enterprise works into a living map that can answer questions about its data and processes for analytics, BI and everyday decision making.
LeMap is an attempt to build the tools that make this possible.
AI Artist
In Tamil, there is a casual saying 'nee kodu potta avan rodu poduvan'. The meaning is you draw a line and he will make the road. Mainly used to talk about someone who is very capable, someone who can expand and explore and make it big if only you can show him the direction. I feel AI is somewhat like that. You can make it expand your thoughts and ideas. But you need to know the line you are...
Re:Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus...
on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @11:38PM (#46522620)
When complexity increases, you end up handholding them in pieces.
Re:SymbolicAI: A neuro-symbolic perspective on LLMs
on Friday June 27, 2025 @11:34PM (#44402144)
Yes. That seems to be the case.
While it may not be saving any time compared to generating general python code vs. specific symbolic code, the real value could be that it has an engine to enforce the contract on LLM responses with the library or even do the calls to the LLM as a common piece of code making it less error prone and bringing consistency in the interactions with the LLM.
Re:SymbolicAI: A neuro-symbolic perspective on LLMs
on Friday June 27, 2025 @11:08PM (#44402063)
Since code is generated by LLM these days, how does specific syntactic constructs like a Symbol which essentially carries the context and can be manipulated with python operators help when compared to a normal python code generated by LLM with all the checks and balances instructed by a human?
For example, I can write in this syntax to convert all fruits to vegetables or I can simply prompt an LLM to construct a program that takes a list of fruits and calls a LLM in the background to return the vegetables equivalent.
I am trying to understand the difference.
Re:Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life
on Friday February 21, 2025 @10:53PM (#43135937)
The problem with organizing is not the lack of tools or techniques.
It is simply not possible to devise a system which works automatically with little effort.
Everything requires varying levels of discipline which is hard to keep up with time and a different situation.
Programming with Punch Cards [pdf]
Re:Recipes from Scratch
on Sunday October 15, 2023 @05:00AM (#37888158)
this is like minecraft.
Re:How to find time to learn after work (2017)
on Monday August 28, 2023 @10:56PM (#37303024)
Don't find time for something.
Find something that takes your time.
Ask HN: Is AI a glorified memory machine?
If every problem is bounded by a bunch of data points on a multi-dimensional plane, and some sort of clustering is done on them that reflects the problem domain, then isn't running through the samples during training equivalent to memorizing them and associating them and allowing for a small margin of error making it look like the model is able to generalize. In short, doesn't that just boil...
Re:OpenAI ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue
on Thursday December 01, 2022 @05:29AM (#33814519)
Will it give the same answer for a question or change the answers every time you ask it ? Just curious.
Re:The Problem with Intelligence
on Thursday September 15, 2022 @10:25AM (#32852550)
Humans seem to do a million different things. And all of them were kids growing into adults and do by learning to do things.
Isn't that good enough if a machine did just that - ready to learn if taught, to be classified as being generally intelligent ?
Re:More content by people, for people in Search
on Friday August 19, 2022 @06:05AM (#32519218)
What if unique content is not the one I want?
Re:The Creator's Dilemma
on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @02:23AM (#32148171)
I've been a dev building things and I can resonate with what you say very much.
A builder is like someone who has a hammer in his hand with everything around looking like a nail.
Esp. if you are a builder who is constantly excited with your own ideas, it's hard to ask who would want that ?
The Creator's Dilemma
Re:Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @09:25AM (#31422469)
There is no perfect answer for a query.
There can only be contextually meaningful answers.
They can be from highly relevant to far off.
It is very hard to prove a search engine as bad in general.
It may not work for you. But it may still work for a lot more.
Google has indexed the entire Web. This is as large a span as one can take.
Re:Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)
on Monday April 11, 2022 @03:05AM (#30985578)
Wrote this during the lockdown.
https://thallukrish.medium.com/noise-and-well-being-a9f0b30d...
Re:Back to India
on Saturday April 09, 2022 @04:39AM (#30966260)
Actually the place does not matter if you have dreams bigger than the place. Pursue them wherever it makes sense. If your dream is to build a startup go build it. If it should be done in India or Timbuktoo, go do it there.
Just because you stay in the US or Europe, doesn't mean you can have better dreams. You may be among those who are able to dream better. It may give you better clues as to how to dream compared to India.
But hey, in a flat world, you can dream sitting anywhere and go for it wherever you are. It may be a bit harder to do things in India. But without a doubt, the number of problems you can solve in India is far greater than developed countries. In that sense, if you are done with all the Education and stuff and you are reasonably good on finances, India is a lot cheaper to sit and dream and make things happen.
Re:Ask HN: What makes people add links to HN?
on Sunday March 27, 2022 @11:14PM (#30826740)
Unless you are outright promoting commercial stuff, I feel for writers who are relatively unknown and would like to get feedback on what they write, HN is a good place to post links.
This is not different from posting interesting links you find. It is not self-promotion as you are not selling anything here. Instead you are trying to see if the content resonates with others and kickstarts a discussion.
In fact, I see it as no different from the comments we are writing here.
Ask HN: What makes people add links to HN?
I wonder what motivates people to add links to HN ? I have added many of my blogs in the hope that people will read / discuss about it. But for those who add links to HN is it the discussion from the community the only thing? And most times the comments are very interesting to read, but beyond that does it really translate into commerce and connections for people ?
Re:Happiness and the Art of Being (2012)
on Thursday March 24, 2022 @12:48PM (#30792393)
The more you think about enlightenment, the more you are away from it.
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?
on Sunday February 06, 2022 @10:26AM (#30233314)
oh you are spot on with your feelings. And you can do nothing about it. You will figure out however something that will work for you and move on with life. I could've told this and that. But I just want to be honest.
Ask HN: What is your opinion on whether Covid will disappear or not?
Is our life going to be like this. Variant after variant will come and keep hammering us. Our economy, our Child's education and eventually human race will go back to Farming ? Or do you think this is just a trying phase that will pass like many others?
Re:I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is b...
on Saturday January 08, 2022 @09:05PM (#29859098)
Why can't they give laptops and internet connection free to kids and get them going online until this settles down?
What is so difficult about this ?
Re:I just don’t want to be busy anymore
on Monday September 27, 2021 @12:53AM (#28667185)
People don't know what to do with their time. For those who know, they don't know why they do, what they do.
Re:Competitive programming is useless
on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @03:48AM (#28286081)
Anything competitive is useless
Re:I hate almost all software (2011)
on Sunday August 15, 2021 @01:09AM (#28186412)
You can't express this feeling better than this. Oh! what a relief that someone could state the problem.
Re:Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016)
on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @10:49AM (#27894428)
There are 1000s of SHOW HN. But a fraction of them get attention. So does that mean the idea was worthless and the person went ahead spending time building it? No, the person who builds always finds it fascinating. It may not become a hit. But you can't say the idea is worthless. It is a lottery. Only few make it. The magic is about doing the best you can on the idea you like and leave it to the audience to decide just like a Movie.