
Manifesting a world with deeply embedded privacy-first AI | Currently @AmericanExpress, Ex-@unacademy
Bengaluru,India
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Poornima Alugubelly retweeted
Don't think of LLMs as entities but as simulators. For example, when exploring a topic, don't ask:
"What do you think about xyz"?
There is no "you". Next time try:
"What would be a good group of people to explore xyz? What would they say?"
The LLM can channel/simulate many perspectives but it hasn't "thought about" xyz for a while and over time and formed its own opinions in the way we're used to. If you force it via the use of "you", it will give you something by adopting a personality embedding vector implied by the statistics of its finetuning data and then simulate that. It's fine to do, but there is a lot less mystique to it than I find people naively attribute to "asking an AI".
Every LLM course seems to push for the whole Vector DB, RAG pipleline, I get that they are going for scale but a weekend app which doesn't have more than 5MB of embeddings doesn't need a vector DB, a numpy array will do, is there anyone teaching from first principles like this?
Need a @WisprFlow /Paraspeech for mobile, I don't want to type anymore
Poornima Alugubelly retweeted
You either die building AGI or live long enough to be a meeting note taking app
Poornima Alugubelly retweeted
Privacy-first AI is gonna boom, and as unexpected as it might sound, Apple is already quite ahead in the race.
The End of Cloud Inference
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Building apps on top of local LLMs makes you obsessively resource-conscious, optimizing RAM down to the last MB like my life depends on it lol
I am the server now and RAM is my AWS bill
Poornima Alugubelly retweeted
Bulletproof React is a great reference if you are starting a new React project. Have personally used it in the past
github.com/alan2207/bulletpr…
Poornima Alugubelly retweeted
I have seen too many posts of students who got selected for the @neogcamp 23 batch
Congratulations 🥳 , But getting admission is not the only thing that helps you to become a front-end dev and also get a good job.
Here's what my experience and things you should keep in mind👇
Poornima Alugubelly retweeted
We are looking for more generalists to join our team at @roc8HQ. Your work will have an impact on changing the hiring landscape in India. We have a lot of room to scale, so there won't be any shortage of challenges. If this excites you, head on to roc8.careers/join.
Poornima Alugubelly retweeted
Sunday mornings are usually lazy, but yours's is going to be magical!
Presenting the HARRY POTTER TRIVIA QUIZ!
We have limited spots, 4 rounds, exciting tie breakers, and a complete Potterhead as the quizmaster!
So if you solemnly swear to be up to some good, see you Sunday!
Poornima Alugubelly retweeted
A thread of some of the likely most unpopular and unconventional hot takes on software and programming.
All very personal opinions, most derived out of personal preferences, rather than logical/rational reasoning.
I don't necessarily apply all these in practice though.
Poornima Alugubelly retweeted
💡 Being a code ninja can enable you to get started as a Software Engineer (SWE). However, in today’s top product companies, it isn’t enough to be great at just programming.
To be a successful SWE, you’ll need to understand the business domain as well. Let’s see why 👇
Invact Metaversity starts its second innings; to launch new courses in six to eight weeks
@invactHQ @tanaypratap #FEEducation
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Poornima Alugubelly retweeted
So for the first set of my two blogs for #neoBlog22,
I wanted to target the "Web" aspect of Web Development
I've written a blog to hopefully dumb down what happens when you search a URL and learn about how the web works
Special thanks to @neogcamp
hamzahusein.hashnode.dev/wha…
Poornima Alugubelly retweeted
Roc8 x neoG launches neoGrad'22🚀
We are excited to announce, after 6 months of upskilling @neogcamp , the neoGrad'22 batch is ready to be hired!
Watch Poornima(@Moony_codes), one of our grads placed @graphyapp by @unacademy , talk about her roc8 experience to @sanjana_bh .
Hi everyone I'm elated to share that I've joined @graphyapp by @unacademy as a Software Engineer.
This moment wouldn't have been possible without @neogcamp , @roc8HQ, and the amazing people behind it.
Many thanks to @tanaypratap for being the best teacher one could ask for
My teammates and pod mates @romabulani @Nikhil_Belide @himadri2110 @msdeshmukh09 @SjtgShivam @rutvikumak13 @RohanMo33437915 for always helping me out














