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Ashwin Nanjappa 🦋

@codeyarns.bsky.social
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Work: DL inference on GPUs Fun: Books, Technology, Science Fiction, GPU, DL, C++, Python, The Economist. 🐘 mastodon.social/@codeyarns 🏠 codeyarns.com Opinions are my own and not representative of those of my employer.

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MLCommons @mlcommons.org · 02/02/2026
🚀 NEW: MLPerf Inference v6.0 debuts Qwen3-VL + Shopify Product Catalog benchmark 40M products daily. Real production data. First Qwen model in MLPerf. Submit by Feb 13, 2026 → bit.ly/4k9F5YS #MLPerf #VLM #Shopify #MLCommons
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MLCommons MLPerf Inference v6.0 Qwen3-VL Shopify Catalog
text on a checkered background with mlcommons and shopify logos
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/01/2026
Anyone Else Here xkcd.com/3188/
Comic. [Comment section on a video. 564 comments, including posts from three different avatars: “Who else is here in 2023?” “Is anyone else watching this in 2017?” “Anyone else here in 2025?”] [caption] For some reason, confused time travelers always try to find each other using YouTube comments.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
"Maddeningly, voters want contradictory things: low prices when they shop, high wages for themselves; not many immigrants but lots of cheap labour; rising house prices when they own and lower ones when their children want to buy" www.economist.com/leaders/2025... From The Economist
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The truth about affordability
Voters in rich countries are angry about prices. Politicians could make things worse
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Never worked in a newsroom, but have you noticed they've developed their own sort of haiku, where you have to create a sentence with the precise length such that it fits 3 lines then cuts off before purportedly relevant info: What command of language. They could've been poets...
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 02/01/2026
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
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Amber 🌸 @shimmermathlabs.com · 11/08/2025
This truck’s tire is bigger than my 2006 Mazda MX-5!
Photo of huge lifted black truck on left and cute red 2006 Mazda MX-5 on right.
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MLCommons @mlcommons.org · 12/11/2025
MLPerf Training v5.1 results are live! Record participation: 20 organizations submitted 65 unique systems featuring 12 different accelerators. Multi-node submissions increased 86% over last year, showing the industry's focus on scale. Results: mlcommons.org/2025/11/trai... #MLPerf 1/3
New Results! MLPerf Training v5.1
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 09/08/2025
I'd forgotten the joy this logo could promise.
The logo for Golden Harvest films in yellow and red.
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Don’t be pusillanimous, take a look at this great project
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Mildly interesting. Book from 1917. Note the apostrophe before phone!
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A perfect parasite doesn't destroy the host. It kees the host functional enough to keep itslef alive indefinitely.
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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
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Internal Tech Emails @techemails.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Mark Zuckerberg on rebranding Facebook May 3, 2018
When you get an Amazon Echo and start using it after you already use Amazon for commerce, you feel like Amazon is getting more relevant in your life. However, when you get Instagram and start using that in addition to Facebook, you feel like Facebook as a company is getting less relevant in your life.

This is because we haven't effectively linked Instagram and WhatsApp to our corporate Facebook brand. The majority of people don't even know we own those services, and many of those who do know that still see them as sufficiently independent acquisitions that they do not reflect on the person's relationship with Facebook.

I believe this contributes significantly to our brand issues. We have data that many people see Facebook as getting less relevant and believe our best days are behind us. Many think our services are getting worse -- which makes sense since our service is really about the network and we'reactively fragmenting our network. This all means people will be less likely to try our new products or any other features we build.

Long term this is likely a bigger brand issue for our products than our recent privacy issues because it gets to the heart of whether we are a company that can even build useful things and remain relevant in people's lives. Tech companies can withstand crises, but once you're Yahoo -- large but irrelevant -- it's tough to get people to even consider your products and it's difficult to succeed. Unfortunately, this brand dynamic is accelerating for us.

I do not believe our current corporate brand strategy is sustainable. From a relevance perspective, we need to find a way to make it so that when a person uses more of our apps, they feel like we're serving them better and becoming more relevant in their life, not less.

I only see two solutions to this: we either needto aggressively brand all of our services with Facebook as our corporate brand, or we need to create a new corporate brand and aggressively brand all of our services with that.

We are not a holding company, so Alphabet is not the right analogy for us. People have a relationship with us, and they do not with Alphabet. Most people don't know what Alphabet is, and Alphabet isn't relevant in their lives. In that case, Google remains the corporate brand people have a relationship with.

If we want to consider rebranding, a better model is Apple, Microsoft, or Samsung -- companies with strong consumer-facing corporate brands that are distinct from any specific product, but aggressively attached to all of their products.

That said, an impulse to consider rebranding feels largely motivated by fear that the Facebook brand is irreparably tarnished. I disagree with this and believe it would be difficult to executesuch a rebrand without it coming off like an Altria moment. The only way I could see this working is if we find a name so symbolic of our mission that it feels like we're running towards our core rather than away, and so inspiring that we'd proudly stamp it on every service we provide.

That seems difficult, so it's likely the strongest move is doubling down on the Facebook brand -- like Amazon has with their lead product -- and aggressively branding Instagram and WhatsApp with it. When you open those apps, it would say "Instagram by Facebook" and "WhatsApp by Facebook". We may even need to put Facebook branding in the chrome of those apps where the app names and logos are today to cement this relationship in people's minds.

We don't have to execute a change this month while the Facebook brand is at a global minimum, but this is such a big shift, it seems critical to have a coherent corporate brand moving forward, and it will take time to execute, so we should start now.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Man NYC is dangerous. I thought I was looking pretty intellectual reading obscure Wodehouse on the subway from Penn Station to Brooklyn, and then I swear to God I look down and there's a middle-aged woman making notes in a copy of Notes from a Dead House by Dostoevsky.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 13/07/2025
People didn’t “used to be fine” without air conditioning during heat waves in the U.S. - a lot more people *just died*. According to this study, air conditioning has cut heat deaths in the U.S. by around 80% since 1960. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship Over the 20th Century
This paper examines the temperature-mortality relationship over the course of the 20th century US both for its own interest and to identify potentially useful a
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Peanuts are an underrated nut. If they were more expensive, they'd be in the deluxe mixed nuts jar.
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Joe Jaszewski @joeja.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Boise School District, once again showing why they are one of the best. 👏👏
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MANJUL @manjultoons.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
#cartoon #vadodarabridgecollapse #PhotoOp linktr.ee/MANJULtoons
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
My review of Hearts Of Darkness: A Film-maker’s Apocalypse (dirs. Eleanor Coppola et al) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
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Hearts of Darkness: A Film-Maker’s Apocalypse review – Francis Ford Coppola and the mother of all meltdowns
Coppola said his masterpiece Apocalypse Now ‘is not about Vietnam; it is Vietnam’ – this superb film shows how little he was exaggerating
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/07/2025
Dehumidifier xkcd.com/3109/
Comic. SALESMAN [pointing at dehumidifier on sale]: This dehumidifier model features built-in WiFi for remote updates. PERSON 2: Great! That will be really useful if they discover a new kind of water.
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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 27/06/2025
Delete Apple Account > Throw away iPhone > Sell house > Live in woods > Find bottle in nearby stream > Has note inside > F1® The Movie tickets available now!!1
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Beth Loves Bollywood (Beth Watkins) @bethlovesbollywood.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
#Tagorespotting in Monsoon Wedding (2001)
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Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I used to run with a pretty tough gang when I was younger.
Giant cast of GODZILLA VS. MEGALON. From left to right: android Jet Jaguar, Godzilla, alien cyborg Gigan, and Seatopian beetle god Megalon.
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
We still don’t appreciate the extent of his genius.
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Gavin vs. The Random Deinonychus @randomdeinonychus.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This tokusatsu-inspired M3GAN 2.0 poster rules so hard. bloody-disgusting.com/movie/388495... Bit bigger than I have wall space for at the moment, though.
Poster for M3GAN 2.0 that presents the titular robot in the foreground, dressed like a Japanese superhero, while the other robot looks in the background. Japanese text is all over the poster and lightning is coming off of M3gan.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 23/06/2025
By the time you’ve reached your forties you will have lived to see the newspapers that insisted that the country you grew up in was on the verge of social collapse portray those very same years of your youth as a period of blissful social cohesion.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
we're living through one of the greatest technological revolutions in the history of mankind and it's not AI
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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Strive to always be the person you are when you're wearing sunglasses.
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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
#History of #pretzel, probably: 1. Let's tie breadstick in a knot and call it pretzel. 2. Let's make pretzels tiny and sell them in bags as snack. 3. Let's enlarge the pretzel snack and sell them in pairs. (picture taken at an Austrian supermarket) #speculation #joke #sarcasm #cynicism
Two large thin pretzels in a wicker basket. The pretzels are wrapped in clear plastic and are stacked somewhat vertically.

Yellow sticker on package with black text: 50%
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
the level of misinformation sparked because of this bananas EEG preprint is just really tragic. By the way if you think that a researcher caused cognitive decline to happen to participants in a study you should probably be freaked out by that
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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 20/06/2025
Can I interest you in some Unix containers?
Packages of food containers on a store shelf called “unix ware”.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
We've been conditioned to think forests should be neat and tidy, but that's parkland: a domesticated version. REAL forest ecosystems are wild, tangled, and unruly.
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Tonseus @tonseus.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Found outside a temple.
A notice taped to a wall. The notice says the following:

JAGGERY (GOD) FOR SALE
ORGANIC GOD - JAGGERY FROM
OUR KEMBRE FARM IN PURE FORM
(WITHOUT ANY CHEMICALS)
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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
You can keep your Kindles. I'll take one of these please.
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Entire Discworld series turned into a rotating book wheel - Yanko Design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAdnN0TDZ5w To say that the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett has a cult following is one of the biggest understatements in book world. It's a pretty long series but ...
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JacketDan’s Stunt Spooktacular @jacketdan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Concurrently terrifying and erotic Goodnight
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
By the 1900s, the movie industry had a problem: supply could not meet demand. DAVY JONES' LOCKER (1900) is a Biograph release that printed footage of a skeleton marionette over an actuality shot of a shipwreck, creating a surreal scene, and stretching existing material into new entertainment.
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
We need to bring more clarity to our speech.
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Kid Vanguard @kidvanguard.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Liquid Glass is just Aqua Platinum
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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
damn they really cranked these out
The peacock page for JAWS, listed here as JAWS 50
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 17/06/2025
Publishers don’t pay for nonfiction books to be fact-checked, the author does out of their advance.
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Nakul Shenoy 🕴️ @nakulshenoy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I can’t help but wonder how that conversation went. DT: “I talked to you. And I stopped the war.” NM: “We talked. But you did not mediate. We stopped it on our own.” DT: “OK. But I stopped the war.”
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/12/2024
We need a better, kinder, and more compassionate world than this.
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 17/06/2025
CLI people, what's your method to sync your dotfiles, especially if (a) devices are on different architectures, and (b) may be shared access, like servers? Chezmoi, Mackup, Stow, something else? It's hard to google this stuff because old reviews are subject to bitrot. www.chezmoi.io/comparison-t...
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Comparison table - chezmoi
Manage your dotfiles across multiple machines, securely.
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Erin L Ptáček @bobotjones.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Defragged zebra where the stripes have been concatenated to the front half of its body.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I get blamed for stuff just because I did it.
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Kid Vanguard @kidvanguard.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Now we need to find Mr. Glass
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‘I realised I was alive’: Sole survivor of Air India crash recounts tragedy
Viswashkumar Ramesh, the only survivor of the Boeing 787 plane crash, said he witnessed other passengers die.
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Kid Vanguard @kidvanguard.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The biggest logic leap in the first Mission Impossible is old Jon Voight knocking out young Tom Cruise.
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