Devi A S L

mom of 2, long time pythonista,
Engineer

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

With many 🧩 dropping recently, a more complete picture is emerging of LLMs not as a chatbot, but the kernel process of a new Operating System. E.g. today it orchestrates:

- Input & Output across modalities (text, audio, vision)
- Code interpreter, ability to write & run programs
- Browser / internet access
- Embeddings database for files and internal memory storage & retrieval

A lot of computing concepts carry over. Currently we have single-threaded execution running at ~10Hz (tok/s) and enjoy looking at the assembly-level execution traces stream by. Concepts from computer security carry over, with attacks, defenses and emerging vulnerabilities.

I also like the nearest neighbor analogy of "Operating System" because the industry is starting to shape up similar:
Windows, OS X, and Linux <-> GPT, PaLM, Claude, and Llama/Mistral(?:)).
An OS comes with default apps but has an app store.
Most apps can be adapted to multiple platforms.

TLDR looking at LLMs as chatbots is the same as looking at early computers as calculators. We're seeing an emergence of a whole new computing paradigm, and it is very early.

[Nivedita Ramesh @RameshNivedita]

I wrote about why along with financial literacy, a fuck-off fund is essential to every woman. https://t.co/luVRk5hCcR

[Licypriya Kangujam @LicypriyaK]

This is the world's *shortest film.* It lasts only *37 seconds*. The director took only *30 minutes* to produce it . But the message is amazing!

[Neerja @neerjadeodhar]

Journo request: I'm looking to interview women in forensic science --- this includes people in the profession, as well as students. My DMs are open!

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

About the news of the withdrawal of the Personal Data Protection Bill 2021, a few comments:
1. Just because THIS bill is being withdrawn doesn't mean that another, updated version, can't be introduced for passing later. It's not clear that there won't be
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[Devi A S L @asldevi]

@paulg Also probably increased conditioning - one starts accepting the ways as they are, without thinking on why it is so.

[Laura 🌲 ⛰️ @LauraDeming]

Who is, to engineers, what Feynman is to scientists? Popular but thoughtful, represents the spirit behind the discipline.

[MBA Social @mba_social]

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[Anand Chitipothu @anandology]

We are looking for experienced women in tech to join us a mentors at @FOSSHack. Please tag the amazing women developers in you network to help to make the event more diverse.

https://t.co/xPf4jITIjW

@pyladies @pyladieschennai @pyladieshyd @pyladiesblr @GirlsWhoCode

[Anand Chitipothu @anandology]

If you are interested to know what does it take to run a successful FOSS project or how to get started join us for AMA session with @AmanVirk1, the creator of AdonisJS, at 4PM today. @FOSSUnited @FOSSHack

[Devi A S L @asldevi]

@adhicutting Restarting, that too if the break is long, is not easy but not impossible. Along with brushing up their skills, picking up new tech trends, one needs to "show" that they're back to their toes. For the last part, contributing to OSS projects and networking do really help.

[Anand Chitipothu @anandology]

We are looking for a software developer to join us at @FOSSUnited. If you are a Python programmer and excited about community owned FOSS Platforms like https://t.co/TONDMtMcZF, apply now.
https://t.co/rgA9B36H8d

Please RT for reach.

[Pranesh Prakash @pranesh]

"We condemn the caste system…but we ignore the fact that we who have received Western education constitute a caste more exclusive &amp; intolerant than any of the traditional castes. Let us resolutely break down the barriers of this new caste… to achieve Svaraj in Ideas" – KCB

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

Biggest reason why you should increase your exposure at exponential levels.

[Shreyas Karanth @shreyas94]

Just got my first delivery from Blossoms through their website today (yes, Blossoms has a website where you can order online now at https://t.co/CVjCSldAoE).

Look at how cutely they've wrapped it in brown paper, like my 6th grade school notebook!

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Courage is perhaps the least discussed attribute of highly successful product people and among the most vital.

It sounds too elementary, so most people don't consider courage when they are evaluating how to maximize their impact.

[PyCon India @pyconindia]

It's our pleasure to announce Sebastián Ramírez (@tiangolo) as the second speaker in the keynote lineup of #PyConIndia2021

Sebastián is the creator of FastAPI, Typer, and other Open Source tools.
https://t.co/wgEG2uwyNZ

Tickets at: https://t.co/YtqF9Hlbk2

[Vijay Shekhar Sharma @vijayshekhar]

सभ्य धमकी 👌🏼
(Bruce :: CEO of Adobe)

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Teach your children early what you learned late.

[Razorpay Tech @RazorpayTech]

Getting vague abstract feedback about your career development or just feeling stuck? We’ve curated some of the favorite engineering books amongst Razorpay backend engineers and put them up by when you should read them in your career. Comment with your favorite books as well! 🧵