Viswajith V

Curious. Optimist. Engineer.

Currently @SnowflakeDB.

[Digvijay S Mahra @agesBack]

Some of y'all know I host quizzes for friends. In 2023, I picked it up again as a hobby - the old-fashioned way: PPTs!
Between '23-'25, I made just 4 editions. 1 every 6 months. Each took ~40 hours to put together.
So naturally, in today's day & age, I had to build something 🧵

[Matic Robots @maticrobots]

Introducing Cues: Voice & Gesture control for Matic

We raised $115M and spent 9 years to make the world’s first intuitive home robot

Say you spilled coffee: Point to the spill and say, "Hey Matic, clean this" and it will hear, see, locate in 3D, and go clean on its own.

Matic comes with a lot of features:

1. Say "Hey Matic" - it locates your voice, turns, and looks at you
2. Say "Hey Matic, follow me" and start walking. Matic will follow behind
3. Say "Hey Matic, go clean the living room". Since it knows your house map, it navigates and just does it

It's so easy, a 5 year old and an 80 year old can use it and it understands 75 different languages.

Matic has 8x the airflow, specialised cleaning algorithms for rugs, corners, toekicks, mopping, etc and cleans better than any other robot vacuum.
Also keeps improving with software updates.

13,000 families use and love Matic.
WIRED magazine gave it a 10/10 (the only hardware to receive this rating in a decade)

Buy yours at https://t.co/nLfY5pchxB and if you don't love it after 6 months, we'll give you a full refund.

To celebrate our launch, we're cleaning 300 homes with Matic in San Francisco and New York City.

Comment "Matic" below, we'll send you the link to sign up and come to your doorstep to clean your home with Matic.

[Viswajith V @viswajithiii]

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

[Jenin Younes @JeninYounesEsq]

After watching videos of the Alex Pretti shooting multiple times, I've concluded that this shooting is an even more clear-cut case of murder than Renee Good's. (I was a criminal defense attorney for 9 years).

Contrary to the Administration's claims, Pretti never approached the officers with a gun; he's clearly holding a phone. The officers get aggressive and accost two women, whom Pretti attempts to shield from the officers' aggression. The officers pepper spray all three, and then begin tackling Pretti as he continues to try to protect one of the women.

It's hard to see exactly what happens in the dogpile, but it's obvious Pretti's gun--which we've learned he was carrying legally--has been removed when the officers fire at him multiple times. There is no self-defense case here.

The Administration needs to take this seriously instead of tarring the victim as a "domestic terrorist" once again. A refusal to acknowledge that this warrants an investigation is pouring gasoline on a fire.

[Viswajith V @viswajithiii]

@Fourmilab @Fourmilab Looks like the website is down (at least the HackDiet part)?

[Viswajith V @viswajithiii]

@NicoleMoiseyev What is it this time?

[Viswajith V @viswajithiii]

All that free speech but not where it matters 🫤

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Again by far my biggest worry about Elon Twitter is that we’ll have too little free speech not too much — if he’s willing to do this for the Indian prime minister consider Xi’s influence….

https://t.co/SohX1pTt7R

[Viswajith V @viswajithiii]

@Nithin0dha @zerodha Honestly, this is so awful I checked the posted date to make sure it wasn't an April Fool's joke. Do you really think this program is "fun" for your employees with BMI > 25? Or that it makes them feel like they belong?

[Nidhi Razdan @Nidhi]

Countries like Israel, the US and the UK step up booster doses, but here in India theres a bizarre reluctance to start boosters for the elderly and frontline workers. We have the vaccines ( many will expire soon) so what are we waiting for ? My piece https://t.co/EixxMJJudl

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

🇺🇸 is currently sitting on over 100 million unused vaccine doses. An estimated 35-40m are #AstraZeneca, which 🇺🇸 still hasn't authorised to use on Americans and probably never will.

It is an absurd situation while half of all doses made in 🇪🇺 are exported (chart @jfkirkegaard).

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

India is in the throes of a horrendous COVID surge

Horrendous

They are struggling to get more people vaccinated

We are sitting on 35-40 million doses of Astra Zeneca vaccine Americans will never use

Can we please give or lend them to India? Like may be now?

It'll help. A lot

[Viswajith V @viswajithiii]

@fuzzyKB You can buy KN95 masks. Based on everything I've read, they are basically the same as N95 masks, but are not approved for use in medical settings in the US, so you're not taking anything away from healthcare workers.

[Viswajith V @viswajithiii]

@ashley__sands Congratulations!! Looking forward to listening. 🙂

[Viswajith V @viswajithiii]

Supreme Court of India: Statement on judgment against Prashant Bhushan in the contempt of court matter - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/BMjrwbhQ49 via @ChangeOrg_India #StandWithPrashantBhushan

[Viswajith V @viswajithiii]

#PyCon2019 @kitehq has a really cool Python autocomplete tool!

[Wei Lien Dang @weiliendang]

“@stackrox helps security teams understand the impact and severity of events throughout the environment” - @diogomonica at #DockerCon

[OpenShift Commons @openshiftcommon]

Don't Miss Tomorrow's @OpenShiftCommon's Briefing with @StackRox on #HowTo ensure comprehensive security across the entire #container lifecycle https://t.co/icuVGGpcV6

[StackRox @stackrox]

Demo w/ @a_golshan of StackRox alert stories. Examine events & data for enforcement and responsive action https://t.co/CBFL2sF2dl #infosec

[Aaref Hilaly @aaref]

Great to see @stackrox team on Friday -- gong in active use! Wonderful culture & super talented team (& they're recruiting...)

[Viswajith V @viswajithiii]

Exercise that Franchise! | T5E - The Fifth Estate | IIT Madras' Campus News Body http://t.co/MOGxwB7if4

[Viswajith V @viswajithiii]

@asmitaghosh18 It's not! :D