sharath rao

VP of Data/AI at Handshake. Ex-instacart, ex-Yahoo. Using machine learning to help people be better people and machines be better machines.

[sharath rao @sharathrao]

4 years at @Instacart this past week and continuing to be an amazing ride. Thanks team for the kind words, the 🎈 and the 🍉

4 operating principles that evolved over the years

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[sharath rao @sharathrao]

@felixprehn AI

[sharath rao @sharathrao]

@hurryknee @airindia we were told that the luggage will be arriving through another flight today and delivered at our home tonight. however, we haven't received any details since. no response to phone calls to SFO air india number and we cannot leave a messages because voicemail is full.

[Jagannath Putrevu @jputrevu]

A summary of the investments we made into our ML/AI platform over the last 6 months at instacart https://t.co/ZLxDlsnheH

[Delip Rao e/σ @deliprao]

This is another one of those ill-thought, fear-mongering scientific disinformation about LLMs, and I will explain why in this long thread. 🧶

[sharath rao @sharathrao]

Couple hours on the phone later got booked for a significantly suboptimal itinerary. Will reach SFO 36 hours later flying an extra few hours with 6 hr layover in Houston instead of 12 hr direct.

[sharath rao @sharathrao]

@UnitedAirlines we have a flight booking for Auckland to sfo. Your systems can't detect the confirmation code. The flight doesn't exist for today. we are at Auckland airport. There is nobody from united airlines here. We are on hold with united for an hour.

[sharath rao @sharathrao]

ODNME8 is the ticket reference code. if you see this please DM me for more details

[Hamel Husain @HamelHusain]

This wave of ML advances feels different than all others before it. Usually, lots of people sleep on it or just pay lip service to ML.

This time, people are rushing to ship ML products, and successfully doing so at breakneck speed.

[Marco Polo @MarcoPoloMaps]

Brazil's northernmost point is closer to every country in the Americas than to Brazil's southernmost point

[sharath rao @sharathrao]

@realEstateTrent @beautiful_rule Brain preservation via cryogenics

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Two massive black holes are locked in a dance at the center of the OJ 287 galaxy. The larger black hole is surrounded by disk of gas; it is also orbited by a smaller black hole that collides with the disk, producing a flare brighter than 1 trillion stars https://t.co/ChLhn9rVxm

[Peter Reinhardt @reinpk]

As @Segment grew from 0 to >$200M ARR, I had three health scares. Each scare made me realize that good physical health is *required* to push hard and win as a founder, and you have to own your own healthcare. The medical system simply won’t do it for you. /1

[Apoorva Mehta @apoorva_mehta]

There is much to celebrate today @instacart , so I thought I’d share a few defining moments since we launched 10 years ago. A thread 🧵

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

"You said you are a doctor? We have someone on board who just collapsed."
"Sorry, I'm not that kind of doctor. I'm an economist."
"Great, this guy collapsed when he read about how GDP is calculated."
"Sorry, I'm not that kind of economist..."

[Danielle Baskin @djbaskin]

San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge is one of my most favorite train routes in the world. We're so lucky that this is our public transit. 🪄🚄

DALL-E 2 x BART #dalle #dalle2

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Wow is this good. Every would-be startup founder should read this. Everyone who cares about the future, because this is what the way forward sounds like, not the whining and cynicism that fills Twitter and the media.

https://t.co/VaJpx880qZ

[max saltman @maxsaltman]

I love finding New Yorker cartoons so dated that the joke is lost entirely and the cartoons become just descriptions of people doing normal things.