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This week, I learned: sqlite-schema-diagram generates schemas for SQLite databases using Graphviz TechEmpower web server benchmarks place Rust servers on top browser.new is a good example of a browser agent. It slowly but independently does a good job of achieving the result. Example: What crew is common in Ingrid Bergman - Cary Grant films? twinny is an open source VC Code Copilot alternative. typesense supports embeddings natively. Binary embeddings are good enough. Cohere releases binary embeddings. Extract.langchain.com is a poor early interface to featurize unstructured.io Hume.ai offers voice emotion API and emotion-based conversational responses. An empathic AI. Rust is non-trivial. Inspired by We are under DDoS attack and we do nothing, I “wrote” a small binary that serves a parquet file as JSON. It failed and I couldn’t fix it. spleeter is a better alternative to demucs. Splits audio into pyannote-audio does speaker diarization uvicorn is faster than hypercorn but hypercorn supports HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. FastAPI with uvicorn is reasonably fast. Representational engineering lets you control LLM output based on preference on the fly. When I set up a training: On inviting for DuckDB workshop on Sun evening, Gramener starts accepting immediately, Straive doesn’t. Straive has high spread of joining time. When joining Gitlab Pipelines Workshop, Straive starts meeting (e.g. Premlal) many minutes early. Gramener floods in (due to alert). Straive streams in slowly. Gitlab Pipelines Workshop acceptances: Gramener 47, Straive 100

In 2012, I started Gramener with half a dozen friends. This week, we were acquired by Straive, a part of Barings Private Equity Asia. How do you feel? I feel like the father of the bride. Gramener was registered on 26 Feb. A day before my daughter’s birthday. I’ve spent more time with Gramener than my daughter. That makes Gramener my elder child. Who’s moving into a new household. Along with me. (I feel like சகலகலா சம்மந்தி.) ...

Ashwini Mathur and I are conducting a webinar on the impact of LLMs in Pharma. It’s online at 10 am Eastern on Mon Sep 11. Simon Willison described LLMs as alien technology we’re still discovering. I couldn’t agree more - and it helps to see it from different perspectives. So, we’re pairing the tech research at Gramener with the domain research Ashwini Mathur is doing at Novartis to explore the good, the bad, and the surprising uses of generative AI. ...

And THIS is impact. Thanks for making MY 2022 an amazing year, Tanvi Bansal! LinkedIn

When Sunil Kardam said Gramener is the one place he got to apply all his skills - management, engineering, people skills and analytics - it reminded me how cross disciplinary Gramener is. There’s something to be said for generalists in the era of deep focus. LinkedIn

On 12 Jan 2012, on a flight back from London, I wrote: … it was clear in my mind. I would be an entrepreneur. I would create a small company that would probably fold. Then I’d do it again. And again, 10 times, because 1 in 10 companies survive. And finally, I’d be running a small business that’d be called successful by virtue of having survived. A modest, achievable ambition that I had the courage for. ...

We inaugurated a new office in #Hyderabad. 10 years ago, I wrote on my blog: “I would create a small company that would probably fold. Then I’d do it again. And again, 10 times, because 1 in 10 companies survive. And finally, I’d be running a small business that’d be called successful by virtue of having survived. A modest, achievable ambition that I had the courage for. Naveen Gattu, Mayank Kapur, Ganes Kesari, J. Ramachandran, Ravinder Ireddy, Vengatesh CR. – we’ve come a long way 😃 ...

We are looking for a Chief Sales Officer. (For Princeton, New Jersey.) Do you ensure clients get value from what you sell? Do you have the energy to go after partners and logos relentlessly? Do you feel the thrill of using data to tell stories? Are you game to take a $10m data company to $50m? We would like to talk to you. Please visit 👇 https://gramener.com/job/?id=90554 LinkedIn

If you’re a seasoned developer that enjoys working with data, have good front-end skills, and are challenged by impossible deadlines, please drop me a note. I’d love to work with you at Gramener Mumbai. LinkedIn

My blog’s been through a number of phases. Between 1996 – 1999, it was just a website with a few facts about my and some of my juvenile ramblings. Inspired by robotwisdom.com, I converted it into a blog – except that I didn’t know what blogging was and just called it “updating my site every day.” It was mostly a link blog. In 2006, around the time when I moved from Mumbai to London, I reduced my link-blogging and started writing longer articles talking about my experiences. This was a fairly productive phase, and I was churning a few dozen articles every year until 2012. ...

I’m writing this post on a one-way flight from London back to India. I’ve moved on from Infosys Consulting, and am starting up on my own. I’ve wanted to do this for a long time. There’s always more freedom in your own company than someone else’s. There’s often more money in it too, if you’re lucky enough. But my upbringing is a bit too conservative to make that bold step. However, given that my father runs his own firm, I figured it was just a question of time for me to do the same. ...

You may know me as S Anand. You may also know me as Prof or Stud at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, as Anand Subramanian at IBM India, Bhalla at Alakananda hostel, IIT Madras, and Bal at Vidya Mandir. LinkedIn CV (2024) History 1974-1978 at home I was born on the 23rd November, 1974 (a Saturday) at Tirupati. I flew back to Madras (now Chennai) in a few days along with my parents. I stayed at home for 4 years, thoroughly enjoying myself. My mother would feed me while telling me stories while I was perched on her hip looking at the cows behind our house (it was no mean feat — I think I weighed 20 kilos). Since I was the youngest grandchild in our family, no one was permitted to get angry with me — especially if I sat on them and hit them with whatever they wouldn’t give me. ...