Sriram Ramachandrasekaran

Distributed systems, data pipelines, ML systems. Looking for work opportunities.

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

Powerful people/societies/entities/nations without the necessary balance cause havoc. Time and again, we see this and yet we invest so less time in building our own balance.

Balance is not cool, sexy, visible, but, it's fundamental.

[Dr Steven Quay @quay_dr]

I was doing some computer file clean up recently and came across this picture of Gobind Khorana.

I took it when I was in Cambridge, MA for a meeting and, as I did most times when I visited Boston, I made a point of stopping and spending time with Gobind.

This was taken outside an assisted living center where he resided.

For those who might not know who he was, his research at Univ Wisconsin & MIT led him to discover the Rosetta Stone of Life, the three nucleotide to one amino acid genetic code.

That discovery made him the first Indian-born scientist to win the Nobel Prize.

I got to his lab at MIT as he was moving from the world of RNA/DNA to membranes and photon processing. We did some foundational work using carbene precursors to generate covalent protein-membrane couplings via laser photolysis.

During his peak three decades of research he published a paper every 11 days. He invented ALL of the chemistry that made DNA/RNA synthesis possible...and never patented a thing.

My favorite times in his lab were the early Saturday mornings when his phone wasn't ringing, there were few of us working, and we could just talk about science, life, etc.

He was the gentlest man I have ever known.

RIP Gobind (1922-2011)

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

@kishorelive I hope it was some joke as well. At the end people make decisions. We are rather easily tricked by ego and fear.

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

@nitya Incredible.

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

@kvlly Hey, we did that thing in the checklist.

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

@copyconstruct This!

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

@manojlds I did a few years ago. But, nothing much now.

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

@manojlds Got it, thank you for clarifying.

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

@nidhiikala Apart from alternatives suggested, a sustainable way would be to keep reducing your "added sugar" needs gradually as opposed to going from 100 to 0.

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

@rakyll Oh and congratulations 🎉 looking forward to all the changes you and the team make.

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

@rakyll Are there opportunities for mid-senior eng roles in your team ? I am eager to explore if there's any.

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Since time immemorial, when a CEO asks a PM at Product Review, “what do you need to 10X users/revenue?”, “what will make you go faster?”, etc

The PM steadfastly responds “We need [N] more engineers”. The Eng Mgr nods approvingly

A story thread, with some hard truths to swallow:

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

I would like to talk to someone on the @AnthropicAI engineering team in Seattle, area. Please RT for reach.

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

Even a paper ballot process has risk of being attacked by humans and AI. So, making EVM specific claims like this is pointless.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

We should eliminate electronic voting machines. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while small, is still too high.

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

@Kartikayb77 This is reasonable but a myopic view of time and money. It's only useful when you want to decide on non-core things.. and what is non-core to each is different. So, ymmv.

This is what has taken us to a place where we pay money to go sit in a place for some quiet time!

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

@paraschopra There's some truth to this, but, there's a difference between "not having enough to eat" and undernourished are typically calculated and looked into. I don't have data handy, but, undernourished is what it means. Food on the plate != Nourishment.

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

@meerasndr @Sonic_Pi Great to see this! Good luck and hope you have fun!

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

@GaneshPrashanti @shrayasr Thank you, I shall.

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

Any recommendations for personal strength trainers for elders (>60) in #chennai near RA puram/Alwarpet area?

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

This is Mike Fremont.

He's a 102 year old runner who holds multiple age related world records in the marathon, half marathon & canoeing.

He's also beat cancer while curing his arthritis using his diet.

Here are his secrets to longevity:

[Sriram Ramachandrasekaran @brewkode]

@shrayasr @GaneshPrashanti Thank you.