Jawad Khan

Engineer; Inventor; Shepherding electrons and shaping atoms. Strong proponent of teaching kids next century skills from an early age. Dad of @SisandBro

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Winning the NeurIPS Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search... https://t.co/rx068mmNHP

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@henrythe9ths AI Guide, was looking for one!

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I just subscribed to AI News! https://t.co/tYVlk54WZZ

[Andrew Hires @AndrewHires]

@fuelfive Keep your Hamming Distance to the big problems low.

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

If you figure out how the brain works, you’ll be the richest Nobel laureate in history.

[Santiago @svpino]

Scrum is a cancer.

I've been writing software for 25 years, and nothing renders a software team useless like Scrum does.

Some anecdotes:

1. They tried to convince me that Poker is a planning tool, not a game.

2. If you want to be more efficient, you must add process, not remove it. They had us attending the "ceremonies," a fancy name for a buttload of meetings: stand-ups, groomings, planning, retrospectives, and Scrum of Scrums. We spent more time talking than doing.

3. We prohibited laptops in meetings. We had to stand. We passed a ball around to keep everyone paying attention.

4. We spent more time estimating story points than writing software. Story points measure complexity, not time, but we had to decide how many story points fit in a sprint.

5. I had to use t-shirt sizes to estimate software.

6. We measured how much it cost to deliver one story point and then wrote contracts where clients paid for a package of "500 story points."

7. Management lost it when they found that 500 story points in one project weren't the same as 500 story points on another project. We had many meetings to fix this.

8. Imagine having a manager, a scrum master, a product owner, and a tech lead. You had to answer to all of them and none simultaneously.

9. We paid people who told us whether we were "burning down points" fast enough. Weren't story points about complexity instead of time? Never mind.

I believe in Agile, but this ain't agile.

We brought professional Scrum trainers. We paid people from our team to get certified. We tried Scrum this way and that other way. We spent years doing it.

The result was always the same: It didn't work.

Scrum is a cancer that will eat your development team. Scrum is not for developers; it's another tool for managers to feel they are in control.

But the best about Scrum are those who look you in the eye and tell you: "If it doesn't work for you, you are doing it wrong. Scrum is anything that works for your team."

Sure it is.

[Jawad Khan @KhanJB]

@drgurner Gardening! ❤️

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

They say that people who work with their minds, relax with their hands...

Painting a room today, and it's like meditation.

Find a way to
- Unwind,
- Think, and
- Do.

That's the sweet spot, if you can get it.

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

A technology quietly maturing over the last 10 years that few people talk about.

But it's at the bottleneck of current limitations on GPU performance and compute.

A 🧵 on how Silicon Photonics will enable the next computing hardware revolution, starting with interconnect

[Santiago @svpino]

AI will not replace you. A person using AI will.

[Jawad Khan @KhanJB]

@lexfridman Good question! By Occam’s razor: God!

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@elonmusk Ohm no!!

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@Wisdom_HQ @memdotai mem it

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@daniel_eckler @memdotai mem it

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Join me at Scale TransformX https://t.co/swFdCYlxn4 #AIExchange

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This is a very good resource to get started in Deep Learning. Digging it!

[Kirk Borne @KirkDBorne]

👉FREE 1000-page #DeepLearning eBook PDF (updated 2022) at https://t.co/FOW0eGT58N ➕ interactive Multi-Framework Code, Math, and Discussions: https://t.co/AZp4NegJAG
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[Jawad Khan @KhanJB]

Watch “Unleashing Similarity Search with Intel Optane Persistent Memory” on #Vimeo https://t.co/nLvWfc4QlA

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Sometimes the Best Storage is No Storage https://t.co/42SpwXWSrV