Sundar Narasimhan

Mathematics in the Library of Babel — Daniel Litt Mathematics isn't only about saying true things. It's about asking the right questions, being confused, stumbling about, getting distracted, being wrong, recognizing when you're wrong, being stuck. Mo...

One hour is not enough to read and digest this important note wrt #ArtificialIntelligence and #Mathematics by @daniellitt.com Following up on #Knuth’s shock shock paper!

10 GitHub Repositories to Master System Design - KDnuggets Want to move beyond drawing boxes and arrows and actually understand how scalable systems are built? These GitHub repositories break down the concepts, patterns, and real-world trade-offs that make gr...

Another useful post re #SystemDesign @github.com repos @kdnuggets.com

Pandas vs. Polars: A Complete Comparison of Syntax, Speed, and Memory Need help choosing the right Python dataframe library? This article compares Pandas and Polars to help you decide.

Thanks to Bala Priya @kdnuggets.com for introducing me to #Polars for #Python #Datascience projects. Handy addition to #Pandas (replacement 🙂?)!

Data Commons Hosted MCP: Zero-Install Public Data for AI- Google Developers Blog Connect AI agents to Data Commons instantly with the new hosted MCP service on Google Cloud. Enjoy secure, scalable, and free data access without the hassle of local server management.

Nice! @developers.google.com provides a hosted MCP server for @datacommons.org! #ArtificialIntelligence #Data

Several articles re #Judgement vs probabilistic optimizations as exemplified by #LLMs and #ArtificialIntelligence are emerging.. this book review on #Uncertainty and #Risk is worth reading! How #Reflexivity and crowd behavior can alter systems and outcomes!

A picture of Hannah Ritchie's book Clearing the Air

@hannahritchie.bsky.social's new book, “Clearing the Air”, will be published in North America on February 17th! (link to pre-order now in 🧵 )

Hannah, our Deputy Editor and Science Outreach Lead, published her first book, “Not the End of the World”, in 2024...

The Maintenance Race - Works in Progress Magazine The world’s first round-the-world solo yacht race was a thrilling and, for some, deadly contest. Its contestants' efforts can teach us about the art of maintenance.

@stewartbrand.bsky.social amazing writing - am told he has a new book on #Maintenance coming out! Books referenced here now on my #toread queue as well!

Kardashev scale - Wikipedia

Had never heard of the #Kardashev scale - thanks to @mattlevine.bsky.social and @moneystuff.bsky.social podcast. Fascinating stuff!

Minisforum MS-02 Ultra mini workstation hands-on — can it replace my hulking desktop PC that is 11 times larger? This new mini-PC features a 24-core Arrow Lake CPU and a surprising amount of modern expandability options in a modest sub-5-liter chassis.

@tomshardware.com has a good Minisforum MS-02 review.. had been considering quieter @beelink.com units but lack of vPRO on those have me looking 🙂

The Anthropic Hive Mind As you’ve probably noticed, something is happening over at Anthropic. They are a spaceship that is beginning to take off.

#steveyegge (who has had an illustrious career) attempts to figure out how #softwaredevelopment might evolve in the #AI #LLM era! Interesting to read about the #HiveMind!

The 5 Home Lab Upgrades that Changed Everything for Me Learn about 5 home lab upgrades that transformed my setup, from 10GbE networking to mini PCs, Proxmox, Ceph, and container orchestration

And this one! 😀

6 essential self-hosted services I run 24/7 These QoL applications are essential for my daily tasks

More services to learn about for my #homelab setup thanks to @xda-developers.com

How to turn Claude Code into a domain specific coding agent Authored by: Aliyan Ishfaq Coding agents are great at writing code that uses popular libraries on which LLMs have been heavily trained on. But point them to a custom library, a new version of a libra...

Nice detail on how to handle docs + context windows to handle code generation tasks with #ClaudeCode @blog.langchain.com

5 PCIe devices that are perfect for your home lab Those spare PCIe slots aren't going to fill themselves

Hmm need to give #PikVM a try!! Thanks to @xda-developers.com #Hardware

Best New Popular Nonfiction - August 2025 - Readworthy Check out this month’s popular nonfiction picks — which include a #1 New York Times bestselling work of true crime, a thought-provoking exploration of the origins of language, and more!

Couple of really interesting #nonfiction #books here! #Crime #Iran #ClimateChange

Python: The Documentary [OFFICIAL TRAILER] | Coming August 28 🚨 YouTube video by CultRepo (formerly Honeypot)

Neat! #Python #SoftwareDevelopment

Building a Vibe VPS A workable Vibe VPS build to give your Claude Code a home at less than $20 a month

Love these step by step articles (need to try Hetzner)! Agree re NoMachine and Claude #SoftwareDevelopment Thanks to @craftingteams.substack.com Termius and Mosh are my gotos as well!

A US Sovereign Debt Crisis is Bullish for the Dollar | Brent Johnson Podcast Episode · Monetary Matters with Jack Farley · 07/27/2025 · 1h 23m

Always interested in contrarian opinions well defended like this one Brent Johnson @ Santiago Capital argues for the USD bull case even given our debt crisis today! #Investing

12 Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software (For Developers) Over the years, I’ve relied heavily on industry-standard tools like Postman, Notion, GitHub, and...

@dev.to article summarizes key open source alternatives to popular software (but has Mastodon instead of @bsky.app?). Others I’m not quibbling with .. #SoftwareDevelopment

Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLite CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X. Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to …

Umm wait — 200m rps with #cgi-bin? Really? Need to check this out! Thanks to @simonwillison.net for the pointer!

MIT Sloan’s 2025 summer book collection | MIT Sloan Eight research-backed titles covering retirement transitions, artificial intelligence and skills development, and how to build an innovation advantage.

Great timely #Books to read this summer @mitsloan.mit.edu !

10 Tools Every Homelabber Should Try at Least Once I bet you haven't used at least one of these homelab tools.

Knew about most of these but not all .. check out essential #HomeLab services @howtogeek.com.. (need to try out #Scrypted for instance)

Migrating the Jira Database Platform to AWS Aurora - Work Life by Atlassian Explore how Atlassian successfully migrated four million Jira databases to AWS Aurora, overcoming unique technical and operational challenges at massive scale. Learn how the team balanced reliability,...

Great article @atlassian.com on their migration of four million #Postgres instances to #AWS Aurora .. must read if you are using single tenant configs! #Database

10 GitHub Awesome Lists for Data Science - KDnuggets Most popular educational resource list on GitHub for Python, R, SQL, analytics, machine learning, datasets, and more.

Another awesome 🙂 article that wonders if just adding that word makes your GitHub repo awesome 🤔 ? #DataScience #MachineLearning @kdnuggets.com

Meta joins Kotlin Foundation We are proud to announce that Meta has officially joined the Kotlin Foundation as a gold member, marking a significant milestone in our ongoing commitment to Kotlin and the broader Android developm…

$META joins #Kotlin foundation for their #Android builds @engineering.fb.com

Inside Java's Language Renaissance The path to making Java simpler, more expressive and more data-oriented.

Short summary of why #Java renaissance is taking hold courtesy @newstack.io - covering language feature evolution!

10 GitHub Repositories to Master Web Development in 2025 - KDnuggets Learn web development skills through courses, exercises, interview questions, checklist, and project ideas.

Not a front end dev myself but am deeply interested in the frameworks and techniques that make better UX possible — @kdnuggets.com list below is nice (has other bits for someone starting out).

Building A Modern Dashboard with Python and Taipy | Towards Data Science A guide to building a front-end data application.

Gradio, streamlit and now Taipy - nice series of articles on how to build dashboards with #Python! #datascience @towardsdatascience.com

Developer Joy: A Better Way to Boost Developer Productivity In this article, Holly and Trisha explore why joy isn’t a distraction from productivity: it’s the secret ingredient. From debugging brain waves in the middle of a jog to cutting out test flakiness, th...

+1 to focusing on developer joy to impact productivity.. good article @infoq.com — shoutout to @quarkus.io 🙂

What’s next for AI and math The last year has seen rapid progress in the ability of large language models to tackle math at high school level and beyond. Is AI closing in on human mathematicians?

Great article on math and #ArtificialIntelligence @technologyreview.com - great discoveries have also happened when two different fields were connected via a brilliant insight!