About Founder of Unum Cloud. Computer Science & AI researcher without publications. Twice Astrophysics dropout. Invested in ½ of Forbes Cloud 100 IPOs. Fluent in English, Russian & Armenian. Co-organizer of Armenia’s 🇦🇲 C++ group. For the past 15 years, I have been coding mainly in C++, CUDA, Python, and optimizing Assembly on x86/ARM. Prefer spaces over tabs, east-const, and procedural programming over object-oriented or functional. My handle My nick is @ashvardanian on GitHub, Link...| Ash's Blog
Most materials are in English unless literally flagged otherwise. The absolute majority is on the subjects of Systems Design, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence. The 🗣️ talking head links aren’t technical, and in the ones with a 👯♂️ - I am just a wingman supporting another speaker. 2023 AI.dev Linux Foundation Conference: Retrieval Augmentation and Semantic Search at Scale. San Jose, California, US. Event. All Things Open Conference: Bird’s Eye View of Open-Sourc...| ashvardanian.com
We went through life with a smile. Now I am smiling through tears, alone. Yesterday was the memorial service. One week ago, I didn’t know what that meant. Yesterday I was sitting next to a coffin with the love of my life and our daughter in it. Today I must share their story. Sona There was a girl no one knew. Some have seen her, and some talked to her. Some were friends, and some were relatives, but she was so much more than anyone could have imagined.| Posts on Ash's Blog
A full-scale war started between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey on September 27th, 2020. The disputed region of Artsakh or “Nagorno-Karabakh” hasn’t seen such escalation in over two decades. It is an ethnic conflict, that has a religious taste and an almost perpetual political engine keeping it up. It started as an attempt to redistribute power between different nations of the region, but today is used by local dictators to create an illusion of an external enemy.| Posts on Ash's Blog
While the world is too busy fighting COVID, reassembling the economy and preparing for the most turbulent elections in a century, one man certainly had been using that volatility to push his agenda further. As they say, never underestimate the man with the plan. And Tayyip Erdogan certainly has one. A plan that we must all counteract! Disclaimers. The Middle East is one of the most disputed regions in the world.| Posts on Ash's Blog
On September 27, 2020, Azerbaijan attacked civilian populations of Armenia and Artsakh. Recep Erdoğan of Turkey reacted by calling “Armenia the biggest threat to peace in the region”. Please, look at the numbers below and decide for yourself. Armenia Azerbaijan Turkey Population 3 Million 10 Million 82 Million Leader Nikol Pashinyan since 2018 Ilham Aliyev since 2003 (after father) Recep Erdoğan since 2003 GDP 12 Billion $ 47 Billion $ 771 Billion $ Military Budget 0.| Posts on Ash's Blog