Kavi
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Kavi
@kvrjr
22 | ai engineer | authentic content only: #agenticai #quant #gamedev
Bangalore Katılım Ağustos 2021
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Apologies, followers, today im going super saiyan
Syra@Syraavibes
Ppl who keep tweeting with 0 likes fear no one 😭
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Confessions and realities
42M, 55LPA
I am a 42-year-old man with a senior job in IT. I have a house in Chennai, a supportive wife, and two children. On paper, everything about my life looks perfect. I have achieved all the things society says a man should achieve.
In my twenties, life felt different. I had friends to spend time with. We would hang out at Marina Beach and Besant Nagar beach, watch movies at Rohini, Udayam, and Kasi theatres, and ride around Mount Road on my RX100.
In my thirties, I had colleagues to talk with over tea breaks. We would discuss apartments, onsite trips, and share random stories about life and work.
But now, in my forties, life has turned into a quiet routine. My phone rarely rings for anything personal. Most calls are about office work, bank alerts, or someone from home asking me to pick up milk on the way back.
The loneliness of a man in his forties is unusual. I am not physically alone, but I often feel like a machine.
When I enter my home, I am simply “Appa.” I am the person who pays school fees, fixes the Wi-Fi, and handles repairs. My wife is busy with her work and the kids. My children are teenagers now, living in their own worlds and their own rooms. They love me, but they mostly see me as the person who provides comfort and stability. They no longer see me as an individual.
At the office, I am the senior person. I am expected to have all the answers. I cannot tell my team that I feel tired. I cannot tell my boss that I sometimes struggle to keep up with new technologies. I must appear confident and strong, even when I quietly worry about the future.
Sometimes I drive home slowly from work just to spend a few extra minutes in the car. I listen to songs from my college days.
For those fifteen minutes, I am not a manager or a father. I am simply myself again.
I realize that I have not had a real conversation about my feelings with anyone in years.
My old friends now exist mostly as names on WhatsApp. We send “Happy Birthday” or “Congratulations” messages, but rarely talk. When we meet at weddings, our conversations revolve around our children’s grades or the cars we drive. We never talk about what we actually feel.
The hardest part is that I cannot even complain. If I tell my family that I feel lonely, they look confused and say, “But we are all here with you.”
They do not understand that a person can be surrounded by people and still feel like they are on a desert island.
Society teaches men that if they provide money and security, they have succeeded in life.
But no one teaches us how to deal with the silence that comes with it.
I have built a beautiful life for everyone around me, but sometimes it feels like there is no space left for me inside it.
And maybe… this is what life in your forties feels like.
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THIS GUY REPLACED EVERY SUBSCRIPTION FOR OVER 30 SERVICES WITH A HOMELAB HE BUILT USING CLAUDE CODE
he built his own self hosted version of basically every service you pay for online and runs it all from a 27U server rack in his house
the goal was simple:
stop renting access to your own data, stop paying monthly subscriptions for things you can run yourself, and have one private dashboard that controls everything in your digital life
he opens one homepage on his browser and from there he can:
> stream his entire movie and TV collection through plex or jellyfin
> request a new movie through overseerr and watch it appear in his library automatically once it's downloaded and tagged
> back up every photo he takes through immich (his own google photos)
> store all his files through nextcloud (his own google drive)
> manage his audiobooks, ebooks, music, RSS feeds, recipes, and bookmarks from one place
> block ads across his entire network with adguard home
> see live grafana stats for every machine running in his house at any moment
and a lot more
the homepage dashboard even shows the current weather, his calendar, system stats, download queues, library counts, and shortcuts to every service he uses
the hardware list:
> netgate 1100 router running pfsense+ for firewall, DHCP, DNS, and VLANs
> tp-link 8 port managed switch
> tp-link archer C6 access point
> raspberry pi 4 dedicated to a full screen grafana dashboard
> HP laptop with i3 11th gen and 24GB RAM running proxmox VE as the main hypervisor
> compaq laptop with a core 2 duo and 4GB RAM running proxmox backup server
> tower PC with a core 2 duo running unraid for the NAS
the proxmox VE box runs every self hosted service inside a debian VM with docker compose. backups run on a schedule with chunk based deduplication. unraid handles all the storage with mixed drive sizes and a single parity drive
every device is on a tailscale tailnet so he can hit anything from anywhere in the world without poking holes in his firewall
then he built his own private streaming empire on top of it:
> plex and jellyfin pointing at the same library
> overseerr to request movies and shows
> radarr, sonarr, lidarr, readarr managing different media types
> prowlarr indexing everything
> sabnzbd and qbittorrent handling the downloads
> bazarr pulling subtitles automatically
> tautulli for plex stats
> trailarr for trailers
then the rest of the stack:
> nextcloud replaces google drive
> immich replaces google photos
> paperless-ngx for OCR document management
> adguard home blocks ads across the entire network
> miniflux for RSS, karakeep for bookmarks
> mealie for recipes, navidrome for music, audiobookshelf for audiobooks
> calibre for ebooks, code server for VS code in the browser
> stirling PDF, IT tools, microbin, searxng, pairdrop
every service surfaces through homepage, a self hosted dashboard he built tooling around to auto generate the YAML config (made with claude code)
this guy is paying $0 a month for what most people pay $200+ in subscriptions for and had an initial setup cost of ~1000 to 1500 USD
the homelab community is quietly the most overpowered and cracked group of builders on the internet


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@lucashjin Not a video editor and I'm surprised this didn't exist all this while
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Stop investing in vector database wrappers.
The infrastructure required for long-running autonomous agents didn't exist, until today.
Introducing @kyrodb - An Autonomous vector database where cache is a first-class part of the retrieval kernel, not just an external acceleration layer.
Today's vector DBs fail in production because they treat memory like static lookup tables. In read-heavy scenarios, cold-cache spikes violently increase P99 latency and degrade UX.
Long-running autonomous agents simply can't survive on this.
So we built a new caching mechanism called Hybrid Semantic Cache (HSC). It natively learns from your access patterns to predict your next-likely queries.
No more cold cache spikes.
12 μs P50 overall on MS-MARCO dataset, with 73.5% cache hit rate, which means 3 out of 4 queries never touch cold storage.
On ANN track:
→ Performing SOTA across all datasets.
→ The only vector DB to break 99.5% recall on the hardest dataset GIST-960 (99.91% @ 95 QPS). 1M vectors, 960 dimensions.
→ Massive reduction in embedding recomputation and compute costs, basically TCO for an enterprise.
But fast retrieval is just step one. We are moving toward creating the Cognitive Data OS. A perfect solution seamlessly combining ultra-fast retrieval, right context, and reliable memory.
This is what long-running autonomous agents need, this is what production systems need, and we at @kyrodb are building the bedrock for it.
We launched our closed pilot last week, and the response has been incredible: companies are already building on KyroDB for agentic apps, real-time RAG, and voice AI agents.
Now we're opening the pilot to a handful more teams worldwide.
Retweet and comment 'kyrodb' to get early access.

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@redrodeo03 I think it shouldn't "meet in the middle" by distance but rather by time, considering each mode of transport each person is willing to take.
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Read this book and did all the exercises when I was 15. Best introduction to ML ever.
paulopacitti 🌐@paulopacitti
if you're a CS grad or SWE and have zero knowledge about ML/AI, this is the best book to start (3rd edition is the best). I've been recommending for many friends and they also say that. You can read online @fchollet rocking as always
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@mosthighzar @IvanAs1256143 @IAmJakeHuffaker @SteveLovesAmmo Fair enough. Though, this was about a hypothesis/thought experiment than believing in souls. And I might have over explained shit, thanks to my autism brain.
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@kvrjr @IvanAs1256143 @IAmJakeHuffaker @SteveLovesAmmo I can be empathetic without believing in souls.
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@mosthighzar @IvanAs1256143 @IAmJakeHuffaker @SteveLovesAmmo Very interesting reasoning. I'm gonna leave it at this. I just hope you're empathetic towards other people who aren't you. Even if you'd never be them in this lifetime.
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@kvrjr @IvanAs1256143 @IAmJakeHuffaker @SteveLovesAmmo I’m also my genetics, and I couldn’t get those genetics from anyone but my parents.
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@stunna408_ @IAmJakeHuffaker @SteveLovesAmmo What's so hard about understanding hypothetically of being born as anyone else? Don't imagine your same body spawning somewhere else in this hypothetical alternate reality- you're a different person and you're actively living their life now.
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@kvrjr @IAmJakeHuffaker @SteveLovesAmmo Im talking about you... You cant be born to different parents, otherwise it wouldn't be you. You just wouldnt exist. Its not like you're born, and randomly assigned a parent at birth lmfao
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@mosthighzar @IvanAs1256143 @IAmJakeHuffaker @SteveLovesAmmo "you" (subjective experiences) would then be someone else. And not mosthighzar
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@star_xeno @IAmJakeHuffaker @SteveLovesAmmo That's no proof. You still can't disprove if we're both the same conscious with just different memories and disjoint senses.
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@RdHdSteppeson @IvanAs1256143 @IAmJakeHuffaker @SteveLovesAmmo This is starting to get more into different schools of philosophy. We ain't going back in time ofc. But "could have been" implies an alternative reality and ofc you could have been living my life right now and vise versa
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@kvrjr @IvanAs1256143 @IAmJakeHuffaker @SteveLovesAmmo But you couldn’t. You are you, you never could have been anyone but you.
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