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Sriram Ramachandrasekaran retweeted
I was doing some computer file clean up recently and came across this picture of Gobind Khorana.
I took it when I was in Cambridge, MA for a meeting and, as I did most times when I visited Boston, I made a point of stopping and spending time with Gobind.
This was taken outside an assisted living center where he resided.
For those who might not know who he was, his research at Univ Wisconsin & MIT led him to discover the Rosetta Stone of Life, the three nucleotide to one amino acid genetic code.
That discovery made him the first Indian-born scientist to win the Nobel Prize.
I got to his lab at MIT as he was moving from the world of RNA/DNA to membranes and photon processing. We did some foundational work using carbene precursors to generate covalent protein-membrane couplings via laser photolysis.
During his peak three decades of research he published a paper every 11 days. He invented ALL of the chemistry that made DNA/RNA synthesis possible...and never patented a thing.
My favorite times in his lab were the early Saturday mornings when his phone wasn't ringing, there were few of us working, and we could just talk about science, life, etc.
He was the gentlest man I have ever known.
RIP Gobind (1922-2011)
Sriram Ramachandrasekaran retweeted
Since time immemorial, when a CEO asks a PM at Product Review, “what do you need to 10X users/revenue?”, “what will make you go faster?”, etc
The PM steadfastly responds “We need [N] more engineers”. The Eng Mgr nods approvingly
A story thread, with some hard truths to swallow:
Sriram Ramachandrasekaran retweeted
This is Mike Fremont.
He's a 102 year old runner who holds multiple age related world records in the marathon, half marathon & canoeing.
He's also beat cancer while curing his arthritis using his diet.
Here are his secrets to longevity:
Sriram Ramachandrasekaran retweeted
|| श्री गुरुभ्यो नमः ||
I consider this as a blessing to perform for Saint Sri. Tyagaraja’s Aradhana✨
Performing a concert this evening at Lakshmi Venkateswara Temple, Redmond today evening Jan 27th (Saturday) between 5:30 - 7:30pm PST along with Sri. Tejas Srinivasan & Sri. Arvind Raman.
All are welcome! 🙏
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Sriram Ramachandrasekaran retweeted
All relationship is a mirror in which the mind can discover its own operations.
Sriram Ramachandrasekaran retweeted
|| श्री गुरुभ्यो नमः ||
I'm excited to perform the Inaugural concert for Ninaad at Shirdi Sai Baba Temple, Redmond on Nov 25th (Saturday) between 9am - 10:30am PST along with Chetana Shekar & Jagadeesh Jayaprakash.
All are welcome! 🙏
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Sriram Ramachandrasekaran retweeted
So, we lost the battle to define observability. You know it, I know it. Observability was supposed to *mean* something, and in the early days, it did.
"Observability" once meant the kind of exploratory, open ended investigation our systems increasingly demand.
Sriram Ramachandrasekaran retweeted
.@nireyal , author of “Hooked” and “Indistractable,” on distractions.
“So the first step to becoming indistractable is realizing that most of our distractions begin from within. We tend to blame the pings, dings, and rings, but that only accounts for 10% of our distractions. 90% of our distractions begin from uncomfortable internal states. Boredom, loneliness, fatigue, anxiety...”
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Sriram Ramachandrasekaran retweeted
To whomsoever it may concern #avaniavittam
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Sriram Ramachandrasekaran retweeted
Building more clarity around who "my people" are for @lifeshift_ai :)
If this sounds like you, please DM me. I'd love to connect with you for a quick chat and work on solutions that serves you better!
As always, feedback appreciated \m/
ALT My people <3
Sriram Ramachandrasekaran retweeted
🚀📣 We are super excited to announce the General Availability of the latest version of Typesense v0.25.0 today! 🎉🎊
Here are some key highlights:
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🤖 AI / ML based search:
⭐️ Semantic Search - Search for conceptually related terms, even if the exact keyword does not exist in your dataset
⭐️ Hybrid Search - Combine both keyword and semantic / vector search results in a single query using rank fusion, and filter and facet on them.
⭐️ Automatic Embedding Generation - Use one of the built-in ML models like S-BERT, E-5, etc to have Typesense automatically creates vectors based on fields in your JSON data
⭐️ @OpenAI, @Google PaLM API & Vertex AI API integrations: Have Typesense automatically make API calls to remote embedding services like OpenAI / Google, to generate vectors for the JSON data you index in Typesense
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🔎 Keyword Search:
⭐️ Query Analytics - Typesense now supports aggregation of popular search queries which can then be used as insights into query patterns
⭐️ Query Suggestions - You can use historical search terms collected by the Query Analytics feature, to power Query Suggestions.
⭐️ Update Documents by Query - you can now do an the SQL-equivalent of UPDATE...WHERE for documents in Typesense.
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📣 Other Announcements:
⭐️ If you use @langchain or @llama_index, we now have integrations with these frameworks so you can easily integrate Typesense as a vector store with chat LLMs like ChatGPT to get it to respond with information from your data indexed in Typesense.
⭐️ You can now create clusters with GPUs on Typesense Cloud (starting from 8GB RAM, 4vCPU). This is useful to speed up automatic embedding generation for semantic / hybrid search use-cases.
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📈 Some Stats:
⭐️ We now serve *1.3 BILLION searches per month* in Typesense Cloud.
⭐️ We’ve reached 7M Docker downloads.
⭐️️We’ve reached 14K GitHub stars.
Sriram Ramachandrasekaran retweeted
I’ve been a hospital chaplain now for eight years at hundreds of deathbeds. I want to tell you something I’ve witnessed.
Most people, at the end, realize they’ve spent a lot of their life hiding. Sometimes by choice, or because they could not safely choose to be themselves. ➡️
Sriram Ramachandrasekaran retweeted
"When you are eating, eat. When you are going for a walk, walk. When you are reading, give your attention completely to that, whether it is a detective novel or a magazine or the Bible or what you will. Give your complete attention. Complete attention is complete action, and therefore there is no, ‘I should be doing something else.’ It is only when you are inattentive that there is the feeling that you should be doing something better. If you give your complete attention when you are eating, that is action. So what is important is not what you are doing but whether you can give total attention."
From Public Talk 9, Saanen, 28 July 1966
~J. Krishnamurti
Sriram Ramachandrasekaran retweeted
There's a new programming language in town - it's Mojo! I'm more than a little excited about it. It's Python, but with none of Python's problems.
You can write code as fast as C, and deploy small standalone applications like C.
My post is below, and a 🧵
fast.ai/posts/2023-05-03-moj…
