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Vipul Vaibhaw @vaibhawvipul.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

"Strong Opinions, Loosely Held" introduces critical failure modes in engineering teams. It encourages performance over truth. We need to stop rewarding charisma over correctness. vaibhawvipul.github.io/2025/12/15/H...

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The ‘Strong Opinion’ Fallacy: Why I Prefer Strong Hypotheses in startups

Not affiliated with any company or my current employer.

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Vipul Vaibhaw @vaibhawvipul.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Trying (and Failing) to Understand Fermat in Six Months! The phenomenal usage of abstractions and that reminded me of Dijkstra - "The purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise." vaibhawvipul.github.io/2025/11/25/I...

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Vipul Vaibhaw @vaibhawvipul.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

After years of wanting it, my copy of Jim Gray’s Transaction Processing finally arrived.

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Vipul Vaibhaw @vaibhawvipul.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It’s worth noting that understanding doesn’t always precede expression. Often, it’s the other way around. Iteration loop is often a path to beauty. vaibhawvipul.github.io/2025/10/06/B...

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Vipul Vaibhaw @vaibhawvipul.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

This guy on the left is senior engineer working remotely from Prison! Remote work gives an ability to change lives. This is so inspiring. Thank you to Turso DB for giving him this opportunity.

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Vipul Vaibhaw @vaibhawvipul.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

This is a nice book. Finished first part in a single sitting. Highly recommended.

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Vipul Vaibhaw @vaibhawvipul.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

One advice about code performance optimisation - "Reducing the work does not necessarily decrease its running time"

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Vipul Vaibhaw @vaibhawvipul.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The paper argues that the origin of life - biological or artificial - can be understood as a computational phase transition, where self-replicating structures emerge naturally from simple, interacting components. Reframes life’s beginning as a generic property of complex information systems. 🤯

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Vipul Vaibhaw @vaibhawvipul.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Hooked! @dwarkesh.bsky.social has best signal-to-noise ratio podcast in the world right now!

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Vipul Vaibhaw @vaibhawvipul.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Built a small automatic differentiation engine with dynamic computational graph support deep learning framework in Rust from scratch. Gets to 98% accuracy on MNIST dataset in just 1 sec of training! github.com/vaibhawvipul...

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Vipul Vaibhaw @vaibhawvipul.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Wrote a lorenz attractor simulator (Butterfly effect from chaos theory). Play with it - github.com/vaibhawvipul... written in python. Easy to interact with. Teach yourself fundamental idea of Chaos Theory.

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Vipul Vaibhaw @vaibhawvipul.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

AI infrastructure isn’t SaaS. It’s energy. Will we get a NASDAQ for compute? GPU futures? Regulated utility margins? Been digging into auction theory and energy economics to make sense of it. Full write-up drops on June 7th.

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Vipul Vaibhaw @vaibhawvipul.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

BREAKING NEWS MATH FOLKS To anyone remotely interested in math, AI, or the future of thinking itself - Terence Tao (GOAT) is writing proofs in Lean using Claude and OpenAI's GPT-4o. And get this - he’s live streaming it. Let that sink in! What even is this timeline?! youtube.com/watch?v=zZr5...

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Formalizing a proof in Lean using Claude and o4

YouTube video by Terence Tao

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Andy Grove @andygrove.io · 02/05/2025

It took me a really long time to understand the flow of execution between JVM and native code during query execution in Comet. I wish I had thought about adding a tracing capability earlier. github.com/apache/dataf...

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perf: Add performance tracing capability by andygrove · Pull Request #1706 · apache/datafusion-comet

Which issue does this PR close? Closes #1705 Rationale for this change This feature makes it possible to visualize the flow of calls during query execution. What changes are included in this PR?...

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Vipul Vaibhaw @vaibhawvipul.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Linus created git in 10 days, without vibe coding.

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Vipul Vaibhaw @vaibhawvipul.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

No labels, just highlights. Can you figure out why these two cities are the most important in tech?

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Vipul Vaibhaw @vaibhawvipul.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I wrote a piece on Open source as a hedge against tariffs and sanctions. It talks about companies like huawei strategically investing in RiscV, Linux, Apache and CNCF to keep the latest tech access and protect itself. Global order has changed. For China, Open source is an offensive play.

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