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Our vector DB team cooked with this one:
They built custom SIMD kernels for 4x faster vector search results.
In their write up they share how they built simdvec:
• Built a custom SIMD library to hand-tune AVX-512 and NEON kernels
• Bypassed Java limitations with native C++ kernels
• Optimized vector math at the CPU cache line
This means:
• 4x faster vector search than FAISS when data exceeds CPU cache
• Lower infra costs for large-scale search applications

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So right now basically anyone with a 16GB VRAM card can go on @huggingface and download a model which BEATS Claude Sonnet 4.5, all running locally 🤯
LOOK AT THE WATER PARTICLES??
What are they doing in these labs man
What is this @UnslothAI UD quantization magic?? I'm running the lowest Q3 here, it oneshots everything 😭
Bros what is happening?
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Was asked today on how the start-up space in Singapore looks among youth 🇸🇬
From my lens, peers from top universities rarely go after the entrepreneurial route. The default path is still clear: internships → grad role → climb. Safe & predictable.
and I do think Singaporeans are far more risk-averse than they should be.
A few reasons.
Firstly, National Service. Two years from 18–20 sounds small on paper, but it removes a critical window, the most “risk-free” years of your life. By the time men graduate at 24–26, the clock already feels like it’s ticking. Less room to experiment, more pressure to settle down and to get it right immediately.
Secondly, cost of living. Singapore is expensive. Every year a startup isn’t profitable, it’s not just “experience”, it’s real financial pressure. Rent, lifestyle, expectations. Combine that with graduating later, and suddenly you’re expected to think about stability, housing, and long-term commitments right out of school. Risk becomes a luxury.
Thirdly, culture. Singapore prides itself as a talent hub. However, if we’re honest, it’s a hub for world-class employees, not risk-takers. Our system trains you to follow rules, optimise for grades, and win in structured environments. Not to break things and build from zero.
Even at a personal level, I remember making my first 10k months at 19 running a sneaker shop. Instead of pride, it was met with skepticism. “Not stable.” “Not a real path.” The expectation was always: go corporate, climb the ladder, earn your stripes.
That mindset is deeply ingrained.
And it’s a shame, because Singapore has insane talent density. Smart, driven, resourceful people. Yet so many end up as middle/upper management in overseas giants instead of building their own.
Of course, there are exceptions. The hungry few who take the leap and make it work.
I can’t help but wonder, if even a fraction more took that risk, Singapore would not just be a “talent” hub, it would become the epicenter of innovation in Asia.
The ingredients are already here: dense talent, strong infrastructure, smart capital, global connectivity.
If that mindset ever shifts, Singapore become more than just a place that produces talent.
It starts becoming the place where Asia’s next generation of iconic companies are born.
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@Gregorein Love this analysis. Shows how wasteful of resources vibe coding can be. Imagine if number of tokens used is the productivity metric. I'd ask AI to scan my entire codebase so I can get that promo 😂
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AI & llms are an incredible tool, i use them every day... even burned over 3 billion tokens last year (2.5 in cursor alone)
but AI amplifies whatever process you feed it - including no process at all. Garry's site is what happens when you replace code review with a shipping streak counter.
A Duolingo streak for `git push` 🔥
the automatons did exactly what they were told. nobody told them to stop.
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this is a client-side audit only, of what the browser downloads. i didn't read a single line of the source slop. idc, qed 🧵

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so... I audited Garry's website after he bragged about 37K LOC/day and a 72-day shipping streak.
here's what 78,400 lines of AI slop code actually looks like in production.
a single homepage load of garryslist.org downloads 6.42 MB across 169 requests.
for a newsletter-blog-thingy.
1/9🧵

Garry Tan@garrytan
Absolutely insane week for agentic engineering 37K LOC per day across 5 projects Still speeding up
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@alibey_10 Question: As a solo dev, if I want to avoid using supabase, are my other local options to deploy a backend server that takes requests and send it to DB?
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@NeptuneOfAsia @TeamYouTube Same here, videos just aren't loading but website works fine. I'm on viewqwest ISP
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@TeamYouTube Hi I'm unable to load YouTube videos in Singapore, On phone, TV and laptop.
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Happy 3rd Anniversary, Arknights! And Doktahs too!
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#Arknights3rdAnniv #Messageinabottle
via @ArknightsEN
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Happy 3rd Anniversary, Arknights!
messageinabottle.arknights.global
#Arknights3rdAnniv #Messageinabottle
via @ArknightsEN
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National University of Singapore: Stop Censoring Sexual Discourse at NUS - Sign the Petition! chng.it/bgFcVd9p via @Change
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Je tente ma chance pour remporter le nouvelle écran #AORUS #KD25F avec @ScreaM_ et @AORUS_France !
#TeamUpFightOn gleam.io/ObgUD/aorus-x-…
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#RIPChristina Omg... I can't believe this. Will always rmb how she made me want to listen to covers way back when I was a kid
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