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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath

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Engineer + Researcher curious about software and computing. http://rvprasad.com

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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · Dec 26

Done with #adventofcode 😃 Thanks @was.tl 👏

Programming with different languages -- #Clojure, #Crystal, #Elixir, #Rust, #Scala -- was easy 😀 except for the naming problem, e.g., scan vs accumulate (Crystal), filter vs select (Crystal), and_then (Rust) vs flatmap 🤨

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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 23h

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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 1d

💯 @wired.com had been doing a kickass job of covering news that is usually covered by MSM. I have been recommending Wired in my circle for some time now 😃

Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 1d

"We would expect people who are AI literate to not only be a bit better at interacting with AI systems, but also at judging their performance with those systems,” Welsch added, “but this was not the case.” 🤦🤦🤦

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AI Is Causing a Grim New Twist on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, New Research Finds

New research shows how AI tools is making a Dunning-Kruger specimen out of everyone that uses them, no matter how smart.

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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 1d

Is such a business model legal when we consider how ownership and IP laws apply to in-house processes and practices?

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#business #laws

How AI labs use Mercor to get the data companies won’t share | TechCrunch

Mercor CEO Brendan Foody has built a $10 billion empire freeing up valuable data from legacy industries and making it available to AI labs.

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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 2d

Great write-up about cloud vs bare metal. Detailed and balanced with hard numbers. The way it should be 👏👏👏

#cloud #software #computing

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AWS to Bare Metal Two Years Later: Answering Your Toughest Questions About Leaving AWS

Two years after our AWS-to-bare-metal migration, we revisit the numbers, share what changed, and address the biggest questions from Hacker News and Reddit.

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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 2d

Frou Frou's "Details" has a unique sound. The album seems to borrow and blend different musical styles/influences with electronic music. #music #musicsky

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YouTube video by Frou Frou - Topic

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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 3d

I am not a fan of the #Python language. Even so, I love the recent action of PSF. It takes spine to stick by one's values and PSF sure has both 👏🙌👏🙌

pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting point-of-view that the bursting of the AI bubble may serve a rich ground for nerds (:

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The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down

When the AI bubble bursts, the nerds will do their best work.

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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 4d

'AI has all the hallmarks of a bubble. “There’s no question,” he says. “It hits all the right notes.” Uncertainty? Check. Pure plays? Check. Novice investors? Check. A great narrative? Check. On that 0-to-8 scale, Goldfarb says, it’s an 8.'

www.wired.com/story/ai-bub...

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All

I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 4d

Yesterday, I stumbled on clojure.land 😃

#clojure #programming

Clojure Land

Discover open-source Clojure projects.

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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting. This morning, I read a LinkedIn post about how Amazon's Bedrock team is using AI coding agents to generate most of their Rust code. I wonder if you had read it and what were your thoughts about it. (Yet to read your blog post.)

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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 4d

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language

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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 6d

Out of curiosity, can unused data centers be repurposed? If not, what happens to these data centers? And, who will foot the bill for these data centers when they are not needed, e.g., the AI bubble bursts?

#tech #investments #ai

Brahm Resnik @brahmresnik.bsky.social · 7d

Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.

Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 7d

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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 7d

Tron:Ares is a fun movie to watch in theatre. Visually and aurally rich. Great soundtrack by NIN. The plot is meh. The best part is the movie has no slow bits. #movie #music

Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 8d

Makes sense! I had similar observations with student's ability to reason and think critically. I wish universities and high schools collaborated to address these gaps.

Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 8d

Is this observation true of freshmen who have taken Stats or AP Stats in high school?

Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 8d

At times, instead of thinking in terms of support/love and opposition/hate which involve engagement, we need to step back and think if we should engage. Indifference may be more apt and necessary.

Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 8d

I wonder if academia contributed to this state by chasing Silicon Valley's tail in prioritizing research topics and directions; be it due to funding, student interest, publication pressure, etc.

Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 9d

Appreciate your effort 👏👏👏 Take care, your sanity is more important than AoC 😄

Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 9d

I think we can and should do better as an industry. Given how the industry is evolving, I believe the current normal will change in the coming years. Let's see how this skeet ages 😄

Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 9d

Tame Impala's latest album, Deadbeat, has its moments. Unlike its predecessors, it did not immediately grab my attention; maybe, it will slowly grow on me. We will see.

#music #musicsky

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 9d

This is the kind of email we academics live for.

#academicChatter #academia #soundStudies #commsky

Hi Aram, sorry for the late email I'm finishing up the readings for this week. Each class you tell us to let you know if we want more readings if we find the topic interesting. I want more readings on sound studies! I wasn't aware this was a field, and I'd love to read more!

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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 10d

Systems like AWS will fail. A way around "AWS is too big to fail" is to reduce the coupling between the #reliability of systems/services and the reliability of AWS, e.g., use multi-cloud or on-prem or some mix, consider system's availability independent of AWS' availability.

#systems #aws #cloud

Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 11d

Good point. I hope that, after the systems are back up, orgs/teams that offer critical services conduct post-mortem analysis for their systems (i.e., not just rely on post-mortem from AWS), pause to consider that "cloud too can be a SPoF", and adapt their systems.