I support Recommendations CoreML team at @meta, and build large scale recommender systems(model & infra) for FB Reels, IG Reels and In Feed Recommendations.
Menlo Park, CA
Joined November 2008
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My PyData talk is up: youtube.com/watch?v=likDxYXh…
Notebook I went through: github.com/bugra/pydata-seat…
The github repo has slides as well!
Berkshire's annual report of 2024 is a worth of read: berkshirehathaway.com/2024ar…
Even though, over the course of it(1965-2024), it is far superior to S&P 500, the last 14 years(2011-2025), it is trailing behind.
This week, I covered How to use LLM in Recommender Systems and Infini-Gram LM: mlops.substack.com/p/how-to-…
Making something out of the most boring photo categories: Passport photos: maxsiedentopf.com/passport-p…
I covered this week State Space Sequence Models(SSSM) over Transformers: mlops.substack.com/p/state-s…
Also, Melange seems very interesting scheduler for heterogeneous scheduling in GPU Inference. Notion also have a write-up for their data lake re-architecture/rewrite, a lot of stuff!
I read second time SPQR this year, I liked this book so much that, read one more time.
Mary Beard offers a fresh perspective on the history of ancient Rome, covering nearly 1,000 years from its founding to 212 CE. 1/n
Beard challenges many accepted stories about Roman history. For example, she downplays the decisiveness of Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon and questions the conventional division of emperors into "good" and "bad" rulers. 7/n
An interesting history of vector analysis: math.ucdavis.edu/~temple/MAT…
Hamilton and his quaternions, Tait, Grassman's treatment, rising on the shoulders, finally Gibbs came and ran with it!
I covered this week Hallucination Attenuated Language and Vision Assistant(HALVA) from Google: mlops.substack.com/p/halluci…
This week, I covered Quantization Aware Training(not as much as known as vanilla quantization) in MLOps Newsletter! mlops.substack.com
mlops.substack.com/p/quantiz…
You cannot expect anything less from Spanish. When there is an exclamation mark, it should be preceded with rotated exclamation mark to make it clear!
I covered this week ThunderKittens in the MLOps newsletter: mlops.substack.com/p/thunder…
It makes the GPUs go brr!
This week, I covered ChatGPT-4o in the newsletter: mlops.substack.com/p/gpt-4o
Also, has some of my thoughts on various business models that gen-ai companies might pursue!
Very good blog post: wadetregaskis.com/swift-suck…
in debugging a benchmarking and how to do root-causing one after another validating/invalidating hypotheses on the issues/problems.
