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Ash Vardanian

@ashvardanian
Building @unum_cloud since 2015 · Investing @aal_vc · author of USearch, StringZilla, NumKong & other open-source infra
London, San Francisco, Yerevan
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    Ash Vardanian
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    Jul 31
    USearchMolecules goes 3D and gets a new home under Unum Bio A few years ago, together with the AWS Open Data initiative, I published an amalgamation of several large public molecule datasets, augmented with precomputed fingerprints to make billions of molecules searchable with
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    Ash Vardanian
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    Aug 17
    Aho-Corasick. 32 GB/s on a single GPU. Fairly boring. No algo or engineering advances. Still, may be the fastest multi-pattern matcher. Prepare to: pip install stringzillas-cuda>=5.2 Broader numbers (+BM25 scoring) across vocab sizes are already on github.com/ashvardanian/S…
    Aho-Corasick github.com/ashvardanian/StringZilla github.com/ashvardanian/StringWars
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    Ash Vardanian
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    Aug 10
    Yes, supporting archaic platforms absolutely sucks life out of you… But there’s a special kind of engineering joy in creating a completely unnecessary constraint for yourself, then becoming unreasonably proud of solving it 😅, aka: > world’s fastest software for that task,
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    Pete Cawley
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    Aug 9
    Replying to @zakarum4 and @noinconsistency
    Here’s the secret: life is too short to worry about supporting platforms where `unsigned long long` isn’t 64 bits (ditto platforms where CHAR_BIT isn’t 8, platforms where the endian isn’t little, and so on).
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    Ash Vardanian
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    Aug 6
    open-source users & upstream projects: “we need features & patches” github: “three out of every two CI failures are actions resolution outages”
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    Ash Vardanian
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    Aug 5
    StringZilla v5.1: Accelerating AES-256 & SHA-256 ? 🔑 I have no idea how many cycles the world burns on AES-256 and SHA-256, but "a lot" feels like an understatement... Every HTTPS handshake, every encrypted disk, every content-addressed blob. Every object you put into S3 gets
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