Ankush Das

Southern Asia

Senior Technology Journalist at Analytics India Magazine

Senior Tech Journalist @Analyticsindiam| Former Editor @itsfoss2 | | Threema ID : 65D74Y2Z | Signal: soulpredator.09

Articles

How Swiggy Manages the Chaos of 1.5 Million Alerts Every Day

4 days ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Ankush Das

Food-ordering platforms are very popular in many parts of India, and the technology behind them is constantly evolving. Businesses are continuously trying to keep up with customers’ demands, keeping all the essentials in mind. Whether it is the 10-minute delivery aspect or the conventional food delivery orders, companies keep on upgrading their platforms as they scale up, like Zepto’s shift to MongoDB and the move to rely on a combination of technologies.
How Swiggy Manages the Chaos of 1.5 Million Alerts Every Day

4 days ago | flipboard.com | Ankush Das

10 hours agoIt's very rare for civilians to get a peek inside a B-2 stealth bomber, but a few clips have offered a glimpse. In 2019, Defense News unveiled a video in which they partnered with independen…
Google Hands Over Agent2Agent AI Protocol to the Linux Foundation

4 days ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Ankush Das

The Linux Foundation announced the launch of the Agent2Agent (A2A) project on Monday at the Open Source Summit North America. It is a major step toward building open standards for interoperable AI agents. Originally developed by Google, the A2A protocol is now being donated to The Linux Foundation to ensure vendor-neutral governance and broader industry collaboration.
New Method Customises LLMs in Seconds, Beats Tuning: Research

5 days ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Ankush Das

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore and collaborators at Oxford University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of St Gallen have proposed a method to customise large language models (LLMs) without the need for conventional training. Referred to as Drag-and-Drop (DnD) LLMs, the new approach generates task-specific LoRA adapters directly from prompts, achieving significantly faster and often more accurate results than traditional methods.
New Method Customises LLMs in Seconds, Beats Tuning: Research

5 days ago | flipboard.com | Ankush Das

22 hours agoDon’t try to interrupt a bad habit. Instead, give in… and then think about how you feel about what you’re doing. I like to think I’m fairly disciplined. I can sit and write all day. I can do mundane physical tasks for even longer. (My superpower, if I have one, is the ability to perform mindless …
Yandex's Yambda Gives AI What Spotify and Netflix Didn’t

1 week ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Ankush Das

Recommender systems are everywhere, from playlists to product pages, yet the research behind them is often starved of scale. Unlike large language models that thrive on massive datasets, recommender algorithms are usually evaluated on tiny, outdated datasets. A global technology company Yandex hopes to narrow that gap between research and production with the release of Yambda-5B, the largest open dataset of anonymised user interactions currently available for recommendation tasks.
Yandex’s Yambda Gives AI What Spotify and Netflix Didn’t

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Ankush Das

16 hours agoRushing to adopt generative AI can derail your business. Here's what leaders need to know. AI, although established as a discipline in computer science for several decades, became a buzzword in 2022 with the emergence of generative AI. Notwithstanding the maturity of AI itself as a scientific …
YC Startup Unveils Open-Source Graphical Interface for Claude Code

1 week ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Ankush Das

Asterisk, a Y Combinator S24-backed startup known for its AI tooling, has launched Claudia, a free and open-source graphical user interface (GUI) designed specifically for developers using Anthropic’s Claude Code. The desktop app is now available to build from source across macOS, Linux, and Windows. The tool aims to solve a growing problem among developers working with Claude Code’s terminal-based interface.
YC Startup Unveils Open-Source Graphical Interface for Claude Code | AIM

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Ankush Das

1 hour agoBollywood actor Salman Khan, on Thursday evening, graced the screening of Sitaare Zameen Par in Mumbai with his presence. His attendance brought a smile to his fans’ faces as he met with Aamir Khan and Genelia Deshmukh. Videos of the same are currently going viral on all social media platforms. …
The Story of a Prisoner Who Became a Software Engineer

1 week ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Ankush Das

In a world where many may procrastinate learning to code or improving their skills despite leading a comfortable lifestyle, one man is proving that even the confines of prison cannot suppress a passion for coding. Meet the software engineer who, despite being incarcerated, is making his mark in the tech world. His story is a testament to the belief that anyone, anywhere, can master complex programming languages.