Geetika Batra

VMWare | Programmer | Open Source enthusiast | Music lover | Adrenaline Junkie | Outreachy Alum

[Geetika Batra @GeetikaBatra]

Raise my hands, paint my spirit gold And bow my head, keep my heart slow 😊

[Geetika Batra @GeetikaBatra]

@_geetansh This is a really marvelous build! As someone from an ECE background, I wish I'd had something like this back then. Reflections and crosstalk finally feel intuitive when you can actually play with them. Congrats on shipping https://t.co/zFn5BVVuCi 👏

[Geetansh Arora @_geetansh]

Built a little side project for the hardware & high-speed engineering community: https://t.co/GcI128ogrG

​Interactive Signal Integrity and Power Integrity simulators to build intuition without the friction.

#SignalIntegrity #PowerIntegrity
#SIPI #Semiconductors #PCBdesign

[Geetika Batra @GeetikaBatra]

This is classic!

[Konsti Wohlwend @konstiwohlwend]

drama summary for those confused:

- Aug 15th: Tristan Buckmaster & Levent Alpöge make progress on a few important math problems

- they do NOT have a proof for the $1,000,000 Millenium Prize problem. BUT, they do claim to have a proof for a similar (non-Millenium) Navier Stokes problem that could help lead the way there

- Levent works at Anthropic, but this research was independent of his work there, with a mix of GPT and Claude models. Tristan is not related to Anthropic.

- Early Sep: Rumor spreads to OpenAI that Anthropic has solved a major problem. Tristan emails OpenAI to clarify. without revealing the problem they solved or how they did it.

- After hearing of the rumor, OpenAI started researching Navier Stokes with a new internal model.

- Sep 6th: OpenAI's Sebastien Bubeck tells Tristan that they solved the $1,000,000 Millenium Prize Navier Stokes problem. The approach is very similar to Tristan & Levent's approach to the non-Millenium problem.

- Tristan is suspicious of the timing, as only few others were trying this approach. OpenAI says the model didn't access his user data directly, but leaves unanswered whether Tristan's chat conversations were part of the training.

- OpenAI says they would partially credit Tristan for the $1,000,000 discovery (even though Tristan did not solve the $1,000,000 problem) — but only if they remove Levent as an author, as he works for Anthropic.

- Sep 8th: Tristan refuses to remove Levent, and rushes to publish their results independently.

Currently unclear is whether Anthropic had a separate solution for the $1,000,000 problem, or whether the rumor was about Tristan & Levent's independent research.

[Geetika Batra @GeetikaBatra]

@bright_har6612 @melovinjesus @robynrdobbins Metformin shows promising results to ameriolate brain glucose hypometabolism.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack.

Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords.

LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm.

Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks.

Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages.

Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

This is so hilarious.

Nothing can make Sam and Dario hold hands, not even the Prime Minister of India!

[sankalp @dejavucoder]

reminder for those who had bookmarked (17k). i am guessing you are back from holidays now.

i made some minor revisions and link fixes as well.

[AJ Stuyvenberg @astuyve]

When you ask a senior engineer for a deadline

[Work Chronicles @_workchronicles]

(comic) Dream job? I only dream of vacations.

[Akanksha Parmar @iAkankshaP]

This is Surya Namaskar like you've never seen before!

Pure dedication captured in Pranitee Vishnoi's flawless Surya Namaskar.

International Yoga Day 🧘

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Powerful.

[Geetika Batra @GeetikaBatra]

@tipsformenx

[Geetika Batra @GeetikaBatra]

@jackfsweeney The pattern follows fibonacci aka golden ratio

[Geetika Batra @GeetikaBatra]

@meelonmuskusa 9000000

[Jack Cohen @itsjackcohen]

The top 10 photos from last night’s solar storm & aurora borealis around the world.

1. Netherlands (@albertdrosphoto)

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

AI video haters have been real quiet after this one dropped

[Nikhita Raghunath @TheNikhita]

Tough day at VMware today 😞

So many EXCELLENT engineers on the market. If you are hiring, please make some noise or DM me!

[ISRO @isro]

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
'India🇮🇳,
I reached my destination
and you too!'
: Chandrayaan-3

Chandrayaan-3 has successfully
soft-landed on the moon 🌖!.

Congratulations, India🇮🇳!

#Chandrayaan_3
#Ch3