Vineeth Loganathan

Vineeth Loganathan

@vineethl.bsky.social

I post about Tech, Politics, Books, and Sports. Girl Dad! Director of AI at Thumbtack.com. Previously led AI Teams at Airbnb.com and Microsoft.com Pronouns: He/Him.

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When you live in a world where caring about other people is political and billionaires gleefully celebrate using the power of the government to hurt people, a vanilla Superman story from the comic books reads like a radical leftist agenda.

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After a short era in which people questioned the value of academia in ML, its value is more obvious than ever. Big labs stopped publishing the minute commercial incentives showed up and are relentlessly focused on a singular vision of scaling. Academia is a meaningful complement, bringing... 1/2

This article really helped clarify things for me. Economic indicators seemed great: low unemployment, high consumer spending despite CPI inflation. Turns out a lot of those indicators are propped up by the top 10% of the wealth distribution, which makes the whole economy very fragile.

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Glad MAGA voters are hearing what Musk, Vivek, and the elites of the GOP think of them. They've always looked down on Trump voters. They mock them as stupid and ignorant behind their backs. Now Musk is calling them "contemptible fools." Well, here's your new master, MAGA. Enjoy.

First they came for undocumented immigrants. I cheered because I was a legal migrant. Then they came for legal Haitian Asylum Seekers. I cheered because I was on H1B. Then they came for H1Bs. I cheered because I like pulling up the ladder behind me. Then they came for me...

I was out at a conference last week. So catchup posting. I accept the #BookChallenge: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day7

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Not dunking on this person in particular, but I hear this a lot from people who aren’t professional engineers. The difficult part of software has nothing to do with code.

John Bruce Anderson@veganleftist.bsky.social

If I were a professional coder, I'd be scrambling to find a sustainable career path. I used to hire coders, now I prompt generative AI.

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