Highlights from Kafka Summit 2024 🧵 #KafkaSummit #bangalore

Often AI is not what you need

In-flight entertainment what? Leopold Aschenbrenner just dropped this banger. Very accessible info on the path to AGI for AI noobs (as long as you know matmul) situational-awareness.ai

Kids. Just buy index fund. Dont spoil your life understanding financial terms. Do something good with your life.

To avoid thinking the same thing as everyone, I try and fail to read a book that's not part of the typical SV Tech Elite curriculum once in a while🥲

I have two excellent python roles I'm hiring for. Here they are: Senior Backend Engineer@Loop AI - Just raised $6 million to build observability for restaurants. Serving 8000+ restaurants in the US. Needs experienced pythonistas to make their seed stage codebase scalable.

Explainer: What's R1 and Everything Else This is an attempt to consolidate the dizzying rate of AI developments since Christmas. If you're into AI but not deep enough, this should get you oriented again. timkellogg.me/blog/2025/01/2…

Brilliant! The serenity to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to change what can be, and the mathematics to know the difference

2nd year ug, we built an intelligent kamikaze drone in Gazebo using YOLO + geotagging algorithms, wrote a research paper and won the Smart India Hackathon 2022. Today, India deployed kamikaze in real ops against terrorism. From code to combat, our summer project just got real.

THE BIGGEST HACK TO FINDING STARTUP IDEAS USING AI AND AI AGENTS IS HERE (6 min tutorial with Idea Browser launch)

Wow the AI space is truly in large part a list of people who don't trust Sam Altman

I got fired today. I'm not sure why, I personally don't think there is a reason, or that it's important. When I joined twitter, I joined because of the engineers I met in SF. They seemed happy. They were having fun. Engineers at play. Engineers that were enabled. It was good!

>be microsoft >acquire wizardlm team >do absolutely nothing and riddle them with politics >wizardlm team leaves for tencent in may >wizardlm team delivers SOTA reasoning model in june biggest microsoft fumble ever

We came second in the GPT-5 Hackathon. We are building ML for the electric grid. The grid will define the next 100 years. We want to redefine the grid. We are looking for a founding MLE and a founding engineer. Talk soon :)

On many graphs of the physical world, China is in first place by a wide margin. But if you look more closely, India is a distant but real runner up.

Ken Cao-The China Crash Chronicle Shubham Mishra If India solves it's garbage problem, it will look clean and will overnight add 5 trillion dollars to its GDP valuation. Same India, but rich India. Looks matter. There is a reason everyone dresses well for interviews. You don't go in shorts & say, evaluate my mind not my dress.