Shiva
@vshivanand.bsky.social
Product Leader (Microsoft, ex-AWS/GE/Ericsson). In a past life, I built router operating systems, control systems for steel and cement plants, and ported parts of .Net to Mono, a DSL, a in-memory database.
How much local AI can you squeeze out of a 16GB Mac Mini? Cloud is great, but I wanted to muck with the silicon. I vibe-coded a test harness to benchmark 13 local LLMs. From Llama 3.2's cache speed to the brutal 14B memory swap cliff, here is the data: blog.shiv.me/posts/2026/f...
From Digger to DeepSeek: A Quest for Local Silicon
Vibe-coding a 13-model benchmark harness to test the limits of local inference on a 16GB Mac Mini.
blog.shiv.me
Your data is scattered across apps — Goodreads, Spotify, notes — and each platform decides what AI sees. Flip it: one vault YOU control. You pick what goes in, which AI reads it, full audit. $5/mo. Would you pay? Poll: 1/ yes, take my money 2/ no, it’s too much 3/ maybe 4/ I’d self-host it
Hello PMs of Vancouver! Here is an opportunity to join the amazing Eventstream team at Microsoft. If you want to know about what we do in this team, or want to dive deeper into my experience joining this team about a year ago, come chat. www.linkedin.com/posts/vshiva...
Microsoft Fabric, Real-Time Intelligence Senior Product Manager | Microsoft Careers | Shivanand Velmurugan
Hello PMs of Vancouver! Here is an opportunity to join the amazing Eventstream team at Microsoft. If you want to know about what we do in this team, or want to dive deeper into my experience joining t...
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“Reuters examined the data from the Gaza Health Ministry to look more closely at those who have died. It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”
The lives lost in Gaza: A closer look at those killed in the conflict so far
The death toll from the war already dwarfs the numbers killed in previous bouts of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza over many decades.
reuters.com
Ending the night with this. *Get your hankies* A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
“For his part, Musk claims that he purchased Trump outright by spending nearly $300 million on his 2024 campaign.” - @borowitzreport.bsky.social
Putin Agrees to Negotiate with Musk over Ownership of Trump
The negotiations are proving contentious.
open.substack.com
So this tracks on trend. First, fire people manning nuclear codes, then layoff people managing infectious diseases. What could go wrong?
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2y agoUSDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
In defiance of the latest tariffs, I’m skipping buying a new one of the one on the right, and instead going local — FYI, it is quite vile. However, for country! 🤣 #Canada #HoldMyBeer
Like I said: Quiet coup www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
nytimes.com
Yay! I can now bridge mastodon on Bluesky! Well played @ap.brid.gy
Shiva@shiv.mastodon.cloud.ap.brid.gy · 2y agoSo, since I was last here… 1/ it has been 2 years! 2/ Twitter has devolved into a ball of mud that has been set ablaze 3/ Bluesky has introduced yet another reason to rebuild a social graph. Apparently this time, we don’t won’t have to rebuild our social graph again. 😂 4/ My friends and […]
