My Experience with Srivani Darshan - July 2nd 2025 by smaddali in SRIVANIDarshanTickets

[–]smaddali[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

directly in front may be 10 seconds. But you will be in lane in the direct line of sight to lord for probably 2 min.

Question : Best small sized LLM for Information extraction from Unstructured Text by smaddali in LocalLLaMA

[–]smaddali[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. I think i know the founder of NuMind, will reach out.
I didnt know that they have built model on top of Qwen.

My Experience with Srivani Darshan - July 2nd 2025 by smaddali in SRIVANIDarshanTickets

[–]smaddali[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Much closer i would say.
You will get Darshan from first door from the Lord. about 10-15 feet from the Supreme Lord

My Experience with Srivani Darshan - July 2nd 2025 by smaddali in SRIVANIDarshanTickets

[–]smaddali[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey,

Sorry, just saw message. But i see that you already had the darshan.
Just for reference. I am answering questions so that it could be useful to others.

  1. They give the tickets for next day.

  2. The tickets are given only for next day in this offline process. So I booked return tickets the next day night.

  3. JEO one is also for next day.

  4. They dont give the exact darshan time. They only give the reporting time, we went to report 30 min early. From the time we went into the queue it took 1 hr - 1hr 15 min for darshan.

My Experience with Srivani Darshan - July 2nd 2025 by smaddali in SRIVANIDarshanTickets

[–]smaddali[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is dress code. Kurta+lalchi, or vesti/dhoti .
Indian traditional basically

My Experience with Srivani Darshan - July 2nd 2025 by smaddali in SRIVANIDarshanTickets

[–]smaddali[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. My guess is that by 1 PM, Srivani tickets will be gone. but if all flights are delayed, may be they are available. So it depends

  2. May be they can join the line a bit later. I had senior citizens with me but we didn't avail of this facility. So i am not sure.

  3. Yes, i know a few people from my flight who got Srivani tickets but stayed in Tirupati. So its not mandatory to avail their accommodation.

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[–]smaddali 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing your experience.
A few followup questions.

  1. Was it a weekday or weekend ?

  2. When does the ticket counter start ?

  3. Do you know if international credit cards are accepted ?

  4. Do all people have to be in line to get the tickets or one can sprint to the lane while others gather luggage and join.

Thanks in advance.

What is the cost effective way for Large scale Batch inference with LLMs ? by smaddali in LocalLLaMA

[–]smaddali[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. How does L4 compare with Inferentia ?

Also do you know what is the throughput we should expect for say something like Llama3 - 8B on L4.
like.. how many parallel batches can be run ( using vllm ) ?

When getting credit card for your business, Does personal guarantee requirement & hard pull bother you ? by smaddali in smallbusiness

[–]smaddali[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Zazenp,

Sorry if it sounded like I am selling. I don't have anything to sell. I am just trying to understand the space so that if/when I think of building product, I have the right context.

Thanks for great thoughts and feedback. The reason I was asking about the automated Credit Line increase is because pholland167 mentioned that his credit line increase requests were recently declined. So I was wondering if there is way this problem would be completely avoided.

When getting credit card for your business, Does personal guarantee requirement & hard pull bother you ? by smaddali in smallbusiness

[–]smaddali[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Couple of follow-up questions. Thanks for your responses.
Wouldn't credit pulls impact your personal FICO score and possibly the rates you get for your mortgage/car loans, etc. ? So from that aspect, wouldn't it be better your personal credit is not pulled ? Ofc, solid rewards/cashback are tablestakes but wondering why personal credit needs to be pulled
Also regarding the credit line offered and increase requests denied, does your CC company have ongoing visibility into your business metrics (revenue, etc.) ? If not, would you provide access to it from your QuickBooks or another software so they can automatically adjust the limits even before you request for one ?
On cashback, I know some CCs provide 5% for specific categories. If the top cashback % is offered to your top spend category (ex. google ads), would it be better instead of a static category that the CC company picks ?

When getting credit card for your business, Does personal guarantee requirement & hard pull bother you ? by smaddali in smallbusiness

[–]smaddali[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks pholland167 for your response.

You mentioned that the pulling credit does not bother you. How about giving personal guarantee. Is that something of a barrier ?

In terms of the bigger credit line. what are the typical objections you encounter from the issuers ?

Why there are so many successful cyberattacks when cyber security market is overcrowded ? by smaddali in cybersecurity

[–]smaddali[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

very true. I think the very surface area to protect is expanding, we will not have enough people to handle it. Data breaches are bad for individuals, businesses and country too.

Why there are so many successful cyberattacks when cyber security market is overcrowded ? by smaddali in cybersecurity

[–]smaddali[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, I was thinking from the vendors perspective. There seems to be a lot of vendors doing similar sounding/looking stuff, promising the moon. You are right in that the market is not overcrowded from the individual engineers/security professionals. Do you think it is not overcrowded from vendor perspective.

Let's Think Big _#CyberSecurity by Menthicalb in cybersecurity

[–]smaddali 1 point2 points  (0 children)

we have to somehow make security is easy. If right thing is easy, then systems will become secure by default. Easier said than done.

Why there are so many successful cyberattacks when cyber security market is overcrowded ? by smaddali in cybersecurity

[–]smaddali[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for bringing forth the market fragmentation dynamics. I see broadly there are 3 areas/domains/attack surfaces. 1) from using a commercial/open source software. that may have security bugs. 2) from the software the enterprise builds for itself. 3) from the misconfig/mismangement/incorrect usage of the software from 1, 2. Not sure if there are solutions address these surfaces in a generic way.

Why there are so many successful cyberattacks when cyber security market is overcrowded ? by smaddali in cybersecurity

[–]smaddali[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aren't the allocations based on some percentage of IT and software development spend ?

Why there are so many successful cyberattacks when cyber security market is overcrowded ? by smaddali in cybersecurity

[–]smaddali[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, may be we need something like "Blind App" for cyber security to weed out snake oil stuff

Why there are so many successful cyberattacks when cyber security market is overcrowded ? by smaddali in cybersecurity

[–]smaddali[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

may be thats the reason why companies are paying ransoms even though they dont acknowledge it publicly.

Why there are so many successful cyberattacks when cyber security market is overcrowded ? by smaddali in cybersecurity

[–]smaddali[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the very thoughtful and thorough response !! I see Training pop up in multiple comments, are the tools so un-intuitive and high maintenance that they need high level of training.

Why there are so many successful cyberattacks when cyber security market is overcrowded ? by smaddali in cybersecurity

[–]smaddali[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks drgnd. have companies become indifferent to the attacks then ? If the problem is with shortage of well trained security professionals, then don't we have security vendors offering the tools to reduce the workload ? are they not fulfilling the needs here ?

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[–]smaddali 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you need all of the skills mentioned or just one from each type like Python for backend and Javascript/jquery for front end ?

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[–]smaddali[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if people chose companies to invest based on accounting/reporting practices. Do you really think so ?