Anshuman Pattnaik

Senior Backend Engineer @vonage | Microservices API | Web Security | Cybersecurity | Software Development

[Anshuman Pattnaik @anspattnaik]

Software Engineer vs. Software Developer: The Final Equation

Software Engineering = CS Fundamentals (Algorithms, Data Structures) + System Architecture (Design Patterns, Scaling) + DevOps/Infrastructure + Security Design + Quality Assurance + Hardware Interaction/Optimization + Applied Math (Complexity, Cryptography) + Specialized Physics (e.g., Game Engines, Simulation)

Software Development = Programming Languages (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript) + Frameworks/SDKs (Tool Mastery, API Usage) + Secure Code + Unit Testing (TDD, Code Quality)

#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDeveloper

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

ANDURIL FOUNDER PALMER LUCKEY PRESENTS THE “BARRACUDA” CRUISE MISSILE ON JAPANESE TV:

“THIS IS DESIGNED TO SCARE CHINA INTO NOT TAKING ACTION ON TAIWAN. IT HAS A VERY SPECIFIC PURPOSE.

WE DESIGN OUR CRUISE MISSILES SO THAT THEY CAN BE VERY EASILY MANUFACTURED BY AUTOMOTIVE-STYLE ASSEMBLY LINES.

REMEMBER THAT DURING WWII, THE UNITED STATES USED THEIR PEACETIME FACTORIES AND PIVOTED THEM TO WARTIME USE.

IT’S MUCH LESS EXPENSIVE THAN A CONVENTIONAL MISSILE… IT’S CHEAPER TO MAKE 100,000 OF THESE THAN 1,000 EXISTING MISSILES.

I SHOULD BE ABLE TO BUY A WHOLE BUNCH OF THESE FOR LESS THAN A BUDGET COMPACT CAR.”

[Om @Om_Codes_]

Everything looks stupid at the start until...

[Deeptiman Pattnaik @deeptimancode]

Just open-sourced ForgeLattice — my independent research library for Post-Quantum Cryptography in Go.

Clean implementations of:
• ML-KEM (Kyber)
• ML-DSA (Dilithium)
• SHA-3 / Keccak

Fully validated against NIST KAT vectors.
https://t.co/fOpSDNP2P3

#golang #cryptography

[Hugging Models @HuggingModels]

NVIDIA just teased what might be its biggest PC shift in years.

“A new era of PC.”
That’s all they posted alongside Taipei coordinates ahead of Computex.

[Deadly Weapons @deadlyweapns]

L-SAM moves mid air without wings
Small lateral thrusters fire in controlled bursts, pushing the missile sideways in mid-air.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Major difference in my mind:
- an engineer, given a problem, invents and tries multiple solutions and stops when the solution is good enough. The goal is product innovation and shipping.
- a scientist asks new questions, proposes various new solutions, compares them (sometimes with old ones), and writes about it. The methodology must be sound or else peers will sneer. The goal is scientific breakthroughs and technological progress.

Both can be called "researchers". Many people can do both: these are activities, not identities.

Importantly, most product innovations are built on scientific breakthroughs and technological innovations that happened 2, 5, 10, or 20 years earlier.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This false nomenclature of “researcher” and “engineer”, which is a thinly-masked way of describing a two-tier engineering system, is being deleted from @xAI today.

There are only engineers.

Researcher is a relic term from academia.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

❤️❤️ Happy Mother’s Day ❤️❤️

Appreciation to mothers everywhere who brought us all into the world and nurtured their beloved children 🥰

[Space and Technology @spaceandtech_]

This is Ringbot, a Star Wars–inspired monocycle robot developed by Kim Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2024.

It uses a circular wheel and two legs with independent modules to move, balance, and control direction.

It can avoid obstacles, recover from falls, stand up on its own, and reach speeds up to 5 km/h.

[Math Files @Math_files]

Grigori Perelman stunned the world by solving the century-old Poincaré Conjecture—then refusing its rewards.

He declined the prestigious Fields Medal and he turned down the $1,000,000 Millennium Prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Perelman rejected fame and money, citing dissatisfaction with academic ethics and a lack of interest in recognition.

Choosing a quiet, reclusive life in Russia, he remains a rare figure who proved that the pursuit of truth can matter more than glory.

[The Scientific Lens @LensScientific]

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.

— Nikola Tesla

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

agree?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@gvanrossum Flight code for the rockets and Starlink satellites is written in C and C++.

Python is used where runtime performance is less important than rapid iteration and ease of use.

[Guido van Rossum @gvanrossum]

Hey @elonmusk, does SpaceX use Python, and for what? How extensively?

[Deeptiman Pattnaik @deeptimancode]

Understanding FIPS 202: The Design of Keccak, SHA-3, and SHAKE

A deep dive into how SHA-3 works — from sponge construction to non-linearity and domain separation.

Read it here 👇
https://t.co/kQtB4dkKME

[Anshuman Pattnaik @anspattnaik]

@karthikponna19 All

[JJ @JosephJacks_]

Shortly after ChatGPT was released, @JeffDean wrote a paper to Google management motivating the centralization / consolidation of all fragmented AI teams into one unified team … that was the birth of Gemini.

[Anshuman Pattnaik @anspattnaik]

@TheTrueVanguard Need for Speed: Most Wanted

[Boom Supersonic @boomsupersonic]

This Wright Brothers Day, we celebrate the moments that redefined flight. From the Wright Flyer to XB-1, every aviation “first” is powered by bold ideas, grit, and people who push what's possible.

[Anshuman Pattnaik @anspattnaik]

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