For the sake of this discussion, we’ll not go into the personal cost I had to pay and keep this technical. Think of reducing cost as increasing throughput of the model on a given hardware. Sometimes improving latencies for a model - running it faster - also corelates to improving throughput and thus reducing cost. Whenever that correlation is implied do note that the primary objective of the…
I am part of a group at work that’s attending a course on ML Accelerators. Few of the early sessions has us go through some of the famous ML model architectures. There were few questions that were asked to the professor that at first sight felt unnecessary but immediately made me write notes to research later. Here’s the first batch of these questions and my takes on it after thinking more on…
I came across the word Negative Visualizing from the book A Guide to the Good Life by William B Irvine. It means visualizing how you would live a negative situation. While it seems pessimistic at first to think about the bad things in such depth, on the contrary, if done right you start appreciating what you have now & are better prepared for the worst, if it comes. let’s talk about the scenario I…
I have been super bullish on Generative AI ever since ChatGPT released. In fact, some of us at Glance were exploring Generative AI even before it became a well-known concept or term. We experimented with image inpainting and summarization tasks several years ago - when they were barely any good. One of the tools we developed was built on the idea that AI could generate content, leaving humans to…
If there is one person or character from popular culture, real or fictional, that I truly identify with, it is Alexander Hamilton from Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton How did I come to know about Hamilton? Like many others, I discovered Hamilton through a chance encounter on Bumble with someone who claimed to know the lyrics by heart. Intrigued, I set out to listen to the musical, curious to…
Ok, Bollywood isn't really making great movies all the time, I agree. But blatantly making accusations that the industry has gone to shit (which seems to be the opinion on the online trolling platforms i.e. social media) - is straight up wrong. I saw 6 Bollywood movies in the last month, sharing a bit more about the 3 seen more recently An Action Hero This movie felt like the same genre as Fan but…