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The Quantum Computer Doesn’t End at the Processor
Oct 9, 2026

The Quantum Computer Doesn’t End at the Processor

Part III — When interconnect physics begins to shape the architecture of computation Continue reading on Medium »

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The Last Negation: Did Buddhism Stop Where Advaita Begins?
Sep 20, 2026

The Last Negation: Did Buddhism Stop Where Advaita Begins?

A Vedāntic Inquiry into Śūnyatā, Anātman and the Irreducibility of Consciousness Continue reading on Medium »

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Engineering What a Quantum System Can Talk To
Sep 19, 2026

Engineering What a Quantum System Can Talk To

From Casimir physics to cavity QED and quantum interconnects, the boundary between a quantum device and its surroundings is becoming… Continue reading on Medium »

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Building an End-to-End Transformer Runtime in C99
Sep 7, 2026

Building an End-to-End Transformer Runtime in C99

What I learned by implementing training, inference, quantization, Metal acceleration, LoRA, caching, and serving in one codebase Continue reading on Medium »

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Your Campaign Was Beating the Target. Google Decided That Was the Wrong Target.
Sep 8, 2026

Your Campaign Was Beating the Target. Google Decided That Was the Wrong Target.

A quiet change to budget-limited bidding reveals a larger truth: automated systems obey the objective we configure, not the business… Continue reading on Medium »

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THE FUTURE OF MEDIA BUYING
Sep 6, 2026

THE FUTURE OF MEDIA BUYING

The DSP Is Becoming a Team of Agents Continue reading on Medium »

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Bran Stark and the Civilization That Forgot to Remember
Sep 6, 2026

Bran Stark and the Civilization That Forgot to Remember

What Game of Thrones unexpectedly made me think about India, Hindu civilizational memory, forgotten resistance, and the danger of allowing… Continue reading on Medium »

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The Casimir Effect: Engineering the Quantum Vacuum
Sep 5, 2026

The Casimir Effect: Engineering the Quantum Vacuum

The Casimir effect is often described as evidence that “empty space is not really empty.” That is true, but it is also an… Continue reading on Medium »

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ADVERTISING INTEGRITY
Sep 3, 2026

ADVERTISING INTEGRITY

The Ad Click That Can Empty a Bank Account Continue reading on Medium »

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AGENTIC ADVERTISING INFRASTRUCTURE
Sep 1, 2026

AGENTIC ADVERTISING INFRASTRUCTURE

MCP Has Entered AdTech. Governance Must Arrive Before Autonomy. Continue reading on Medium »

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CONVERSATIONAL ADVERTISING
Sep 1, 2026

CONVERSATIONAL ADVERTISING

The Search Box Has Started Talking Back — and Now It Sells Ads Continue reading on Medium »

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We Built the Platform. The Market Wanted the Solution.
Aug 22, 2026

We Built the Platform. The Market Wanted the Solution.

Reflections from two financial messaging products on architecture, productization, domain knowledge, and the importance of timing. Continue reading on Medium »

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Two Stars at a Hindu Wedding
Aug 9, 2026

Two Stars at a Hindu Wedding

There is a moment in a traditional Hindu wedding that has always fascinated me. Continue reading on Medium »

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When Crisis Becomes Culture
Aug 8, 2026

When Crisis Becomes Culture

How chronic uncertainty turns professional commitment into dependency — and slowly erodes skills, confidence, and mobility Continue reading on Medium »

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AI & Machine Learning
Jul 30, 2026

The Vector Database Is Not Dead. It Has Been Demoted.

Google’s Open Knowledge Format turns embeddings from a source of truth into a disposable build artifact — and that is the real end of… Continue reading on Medium »

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From AdTech Budget Pacing to UAV Edge Computing: Why Multi-Objective Simulated Annealing Deserves…
Jul 30, 2026

From AdTech Budget Pacing to UAV Edge Computing: Why Multi-Objective Simulated Annealing Deserves…

A practical exploration of how an optimisation technique used in advertising systems can help allocate real-time AI workloads across… Continue reading on Medium »

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Bitchat, Agitations and the State: When Protest Goes Off-Grid
Jul 25, 2026

Bitchat, Agitations and the State: When Protest Goes Off-Grid

A Bluetooth mesh app can protect citizens when governments switch off the internet. It can also turn an angry crowd into an anonymous… Continue reading on Medium »

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AI & Machine Learning
Jul 18, 2026

The Enterprise Context Graph

How multiple Latent Twins can create a shared predictive reality for people, applications, AI agents, and Large Language Models Continue reading on Medium »

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Beyond One Latent Space: The Mathematics of Shared Context
Jul 17, 2026

Beyond One Latent Space: The Mathematics of Shared Context

How Latent Twins can connect multiple realities, predict hidden states, and give AI systems a coherent model of the world Continue reading on Medium »

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Data & Analytics
Jul 16, 2026

Beyond Digital Twins: Building a Shared Predictive Context for Complex Enterprises

Why the next generation of AI systems needs a continuously evolving model of reality — not merely more dashboards, chatbots, and… Continue reading on Medium »

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When Do You Really Need Jaeger?
Feb 27, 2026

When Do You Really Need Jaeger?

Most systems don’t begin their lives needing Jaeger. Continue reading on Medium »

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Building an Agentic Home with OpenClaw: A Practical DIY Guide
Feb 27, 2026

Building an Agentic Home with OpenClaw: A Practical DIY Guide

The previous article explored the architecture of an agentic, policy-governed home. Continue reading on Medium »

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OpenClaw and the Autonomous Home: From Voice Commands to Policy-Governed Domestic Orchestration
Feb 14, 2026

OpenClaw and the Autonomous Home: From Voice Commands to Policy-Governed Domestic Orchestration

Home automation has evolved from programmable thermostats and rule-based lighting schedules to distributed IoT fabrics stitched together… Continue reading on Medium »

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OpenClaw, Mac Minis, and the Rise of Domestic Agent Infrastructure
Feb 14, 2026

OpenClaw, Mac Minis, and the Rise of Domestic Agent Infrastructure

There is a peculiar moment in every technologist’s life when the cloud – once romantic, elastic, and infinite – begins to feel slightly excessive. You provision a Kubernetes cluster to automate a browser. You spin up GPUs to summarize PDFs. You deploy Terraform to manage the thin...

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AI & Machine Learning
Feb 11, 2026

Mistral Explained: The AI That Thinks Fast, Lean, and Close to the Metal

Part of Series .. Continue reading on Medium »

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When Opportunities Come Looking for You
Feb 11, 2026

When Opportunities Come Looking for You

In every career, there are two kinds of opportunities. The first are the ones we pursue deliberately. We prepare for them, apply for them, pitch ourselves into them, sometimes even build them from scratch. These feel earned because we move toward them consciously. The second kind...

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The Wink That Arrived Midway Through a Global CTO Interview
Feb 7, 2026

The Wink That Arrived Midway Through a Global CTO Interview

Interviews at senior levels have a very different texture. By the time you are interviewing for a Global CTO role, the conversation is no… Continue reading on Medium »

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Kerala’s “100% Literacy” Claim: A Statistic That Became a Myth
Jan 21, 2026

Kerala’s “100% Literacy” Claim: A Statistic That Became a Myth

Kerala is a Southern State of India. Its Geographically beautiful state with Rich language and Serene beaches. Kerala is often described as India’s “100% literate” state, a claim repeated with pride by politicians, echoed by sympathetic commentators, and widely accepted as an unq...

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Between Conviction and Care: How I Learned to Think About a Home
Jan 30, 2026

Between Conviction and Care: How I Learned to Think About a Home

I did not grow up thinking about architecture in any serious way. Houses were simply places you lived in — functional backdrops to daily… Continue reading on Medium »

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Meta LLaMA Explained: The AI That Thinks Like an Open Research Lab
Jan 19, 2026

Meta LLaMA Explained: The AI That Thinks Like an Open Research Lab

Part 4 of the Series : Explainer for a 10th grader, Writing for a school. Continue reading on Medium »

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AI & Machine Learning
Mar 15, 2025

Claude Explained — The AI That Thinks Carefully Before It Speaks

A deep dive into Anthropic's Claude — its architecture, Constitutional AI training, and what makes it fundamentally different from other large language models in how it reasons, refuses, and responds.

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Advertising & AdTech
Feb 20, 2025

Programmatic Curation Explained — Why It Matters Now

Programmatic curation is reshaping how buyers and sellers transact in the open web — shifting power from opaque supply chains to transparent, curated marketplaces. Here's why it matters and what comes next.

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AI & Machine Learning
Mar 10, 2025

Google Gemini Explained — The AI That Thinks in Big Pictures, Not Just Answers

Google's Gemini represents a new direction in AI — natively multimodal, deeply integrated into Google's ecosystem, and designed to reason across text, images, code, and audio simultaneously.

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Leadership & Management
Jan 25, 2025

The Mother Teresa Effect in Startups — When Scarcity Is Mistaken for Leadership

In many startups, leaders who operate under perpetual scarcity are celebrated as saints — but the real question is whether they're solving problems or sustaining the conditions that create them.

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AI & Machine Learning
Mar 5, 2025

Understanding OpenAI's GPT Models — The AI That Feels Like Talking to a Smart Human

From GPT-3 to GPT-4o and beyond — tracing the evolution of OpenAI's transformer models, their emergent capabilities, and the design decisions that make them feel remarkably conversational.

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AI & Machine Learning
Mar 20, 2025

Agent Central — The Missing Control Plane for Enterprise Agentic AI

As enterprises deploy dozens of AI agents across functions, the missing piece isn't another agent — it's a control plane. Agent Central proposes a unified layer for orchestration, observability, and governance.

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Society & Culture
Feb 10, 2025

The Silence Between Headlines

What happens in the spaces the news doesn't cover? A reflection on the stories that never trend, the lives that don't make headlines, and why the silence itself is worth paying attention to.

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Society & Culture
Jan 15, 2025

That Time I Went to Infosys and Almost Became a Quality Guy

A candid, personal account of arriving at Infosys as a young engineer, navigating the machinery of India's IT industry, and the pivotal moment that set a different course entirely.

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Society & Culture
Dec 20, 2024

Transmission of Astronomical Knowledge in Ancient India

How astronomical knowledge was preserved, transmitted, and advanced across millennia in ancient India — from Vedic calendrical systems to the mathematical models of Aryabhata and Bhaskara.

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AI & Machine Learning
Mar 25, 2025

Agentic AI at Enterprise Scale

Moving agentic AI from proof-of-concept to production at enterprise scale demands a fundamentally different approach — one that treats agents as managed services, not experimental scripts.

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