Today is Ramanujan’s birthday. If you have never read this remembrance by his collaborator G.H. Hardy, you must read it now. (After watching THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY, I hear Jeremy Irons’s voice in every line.) sites.tufts.edu/histmath/files…

We’re very sad today to hear of the death of Christopher Alexander. His work has (sadly for all of us) been more influential on computer programming than on architecture. Anyone who follows us, do please consider reading #APatternLanguage - eccentric at times but also brilliant

OneCard in Samsung Watch 👍

A team that scores highest on leaving a bold impression #BeTeamMetal #OneCard

Prithvi Theater - always loved going there!

There have always been ghosts in machines, random segments of code forming unexpected protocols. Unanticipated these free radicals engender questions of free will. Why do robots when left in dark seek out light? Why do robots stored in empty space group together? Dr. Lanning

Human beings have dreams. But not you, you are just a machine. An imitation of life. Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece? - Spooner

Return to Space - Every builder's dream!

Tejas, you beauty! There's a raging fire in my heart tonight Growing higher and higher in my soul There's a raging fire in the sky tonight I wanna ride on the silver dove Far into the night Till I make you take me across the sky

It's not often you see a company being built for scale right from inception – OneCard has truly been a privileged journey for us in this regard. Anurag Sinha sits down w/ Avnish Bajaj to talk abt building & scaling OneCard, tune in to hear his advice: matrixpartners.in/matrixmoments/…

.CMU Database Group's "¡Databases! – A Database Seminar Series" starts next week. @butro + me are hosting talks from top DB builders about their systems. Every Monday @ 4:30pm ET via Zoom. Open to public. Sponsored by Google (DAPA Team) + OtterTune db.cs.cmu.edu/seminar2022/

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." - Friedrich Nietzsche

India had 4.25 crore Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) that could benefit from the digital revolution, the paper adds. Currently, only about 20% of internet users in India are online shoppers. By 2030, we can expect this to grow to nearly 50 crores,

RIP Bram. Thank you for creating something that I use everyday.

RIP Charlie Munger

How a book written in 1910 could teach you calculus better than several books of today [Calculus Made Easy, by Silvanus P. Thompson, 1910: calculusmadeeasy.org]

There are weeks where decades happen.. - Supabase old tembo Neon - Serverless Postgres go GA - LanceDB's Lance2 unveiled - ApacheArrow DataFusion graduates to TLP in Apache - Crystal DBA emerges from stealth .. and what else? I feel like I forgot some stuff ..

News: PostgreSQL 17 Released! postgresql.org/about/news/pos…

Probably the best explanation of new features in Postgres 17 with a preview of what is to come in next versions

This book (The Mythical Man Month) is an example of why books can be so important and influential even decades later. Written in 1975, in a very different time, about software engineering: some parts are still relevant today. The parts that don’t change that much.