AI MDA TCH AD ADITHYA GIRIDHARAN Zvec: Alibaba Just Open-Sourced “The SQLite of Vector Databases” — And It’s Blazing Fast Every decade or so, someone takes a powerful technology that requires dedicated infrastructure and collapses it into a library you can…
HUM AD ADITHYA GIRIDHARAN I’ve Been Asking the Wrong Interview Question for months (And Here’s What I Finally Learned) *Sometimes the best learning moments come from the most embarrassing realizations.*
AI TCH AD ADITHYA GIRIDHARAN Lighthouse Attention and the Case for Removable Sparsity Nous Research’s new long-context training method wraps around standard attention, runs 17× faster at 512K tokens, and then quietly deletes…
GEN AI AD ADITHYA GIRIDHARAN Karpathy Joining Anthropic Isn’t About Talent. It’s a Bet That Pretraining Isn’t Done. The hire’s structural signal lives in the assignment, not the name. Anthropic is putting one of the field’s most respected researchers on…
AI LIF AD ADITHYA GIRIDHARAN Continuous Diffusion Language Models Were Held Back by a Habit, Not a Limitation A new MIT paper argues the gap between continuous and discrete diffusion language models came from an unexamined design choice — pulling…