Hey, I'm Ash!
- Founder of Unum.cloud.
- Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science researcher.
- Organizer of Armenia's
🇦🇲 C++ community. - Background in Astrophysics. 2x dropout.
- Invested in ½ of Forbes Cloud 100 IPOs.
- Fluent in English, Russian & Armenian.
For the past 15 years, I have been coding mainly in C++, CUDA, Python, and Assembly on x86/ARM.
My handle is @ashvardanian on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
HackerNews
- Up to 100x Faster FastAPI with simdjson and io_uring on Linux 5.19.
- Beating OpenAI CLIP with 100x less data and compute.
- Abusing vector search for texts, maps, and chess.
- Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel.
- Server Hardware Super-Cycle 2022.
- Failing to reach DDR4 bandwidth.
Materials
- Talks
- Personal Blog
- Corporate Blog
- Cherry Picks:
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Linux, mmap, io_uring, Intel SPDK, ACID transactions, Key Value Stores, UKV, LevelDB, RocksDB, UDisk, Log Structured Merge Trees |
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General Purpose GPU Programming, OpenCL, CUDA, Vulkan, SyCL, Hardware vs Logical Abstractions, Parallel Algorithms |
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AI Research, Neural Networks, Multi-Modal Architectures, Contrastive Loss, Semantic Search, Embeddings, Lipshitz Constraints, Socratic Models |
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Python, Data-Science, GPUs, Rapids, Pandas vs cuDF, NetworkX vs cuGraph, NumPy vs CuPy, Modin, Dask, Ray, PyTorch, Apache Arrow, BLAS, RetworkX |