Akila Welihinda @awelm_

Agents Infra @OpenAI awelm.com San Francisco, CA Joined January 2016

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Akila Welihinda @awelm_

9 months ago

I feel very fortunate to have spent a lot of time with Suchir on his last day at OpenAI. He was such a humble & brilliant researcher. You will be missed ❤️

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Akila Welihinda @awelm_

a year ago

It is sometimes said there are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming, and off-by-1 errors

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My favorite thing about working at @OpenAI is being given the total freedom to dive deeply into your rabbit hole of choice. My choice was the Kubernetes scheduler and I've written a personal blog post sharing some interesting things I've learned about it awelm.com/posts/kube-sch…

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Akila Welihinda @awelm_

2 years ago

OpenAI is nothing without its people

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Akila Welihinda @awelm_

2 years ago

I’m in Chicago for kubecon this week! DM me if you’re around and want to grab coffee or dinner

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317070 @317070

3 years ago

Did you know, that you can build a virtual machine inside ChatGPT? And that you can use this machine to create files, program and even browse the internet? engraved.blog/building-a-vir…

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Akila Welihinda @awelm_

3 years ago

good attitude for life: I can never learn everything but I can always learn anything

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Akila Welihinda @awelm_

3 years ago

Today I accidentally discovered you can close Chrome tabs with a middle click ✨

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Akila Welihinda @awelm_

3 years ago

I wish all programming languages supported flatMap

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Akila Welihinda @awelm_

3 years ago

I can't wait for Apple Pay JS to become widely adopted. Would make purchasing stuff from random online vendors so much easier

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Akila Welihinda @awelm_

3 years ago

pull request or it didn't happen

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Akila Welihinda @awelm_

3 years ago

Excellent Git extension which lets you create, rebase, and merge a stack of dependent PRs in a single command. I love "stacked PRs" because I can work on next steps while my previous PRs are still in review github.com/ejoffe/spr

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Akila Welihinda @awelm_

3 years ago

A house in space with a nebula in the background #dalle2

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Akila Welihinda @awelm_

3 years ago

Career Update: I will be joining the Supercomputing team @ OpenAI starting next week. The progress of the AI industry in the last few years has completely exceeded my expectations and I'm glad to be entering such an exciting field!