Philipp Krenn

@xeraa
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🎩 of DevRel & Developer 🥑 at Elastic — toots about Elasticsearch, Kibana, search, observability, security
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Philipp Krenn6d ago

obligatory GTC keynote tweet when you make the top slides: building HNSW graphs with up to 12x the throughput and 7x faster merges on elasticsearch and NVIDIA cuVS (a GPU-accelerated library for vector search)
powered by CAGRA (graph-based ANN algorithm built to run natively on GPUs) that still works with CPUs for search

full post: https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-nvidia-cuvs-integration
and find us at GTC — we have a booth and I'll be around today and tomorrow

PS: yeah, this is a lot of acronyms

Philipp Krenn6d ago

nvidia GTC where every second word (spoken and on booths) is AI, agent, or token 😬

PS: who else is around?

Philipp KrennMar 11
BM25 for "sparse visual-word activations"? https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05781
BM25 just refuses to disappear or even take the back set for retrieval
Philipp KrennMar 9
soon...
and there's already the .md version for every elastic docs page and you can download the full docs as MD in a ZIP file too
Philipp KrennMar 7
the irony on the vibecoding subreddit
Philipp KrennMar 1

outage scenario: electricity turned off because of a drone / rocket attack

ongoing updates: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Show threadPhilipp KrennFeb 27
overview on https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks with a deep dive in https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks/report 5/5
Amplifying — AI Benchmark Research

Systematic analysis of how AI systems make decisions — from product recommendations to developer tool choices.

Amplifying
Show threadPhilipp KrennFeb 27
models have personalities in their recommendations and how conservative or cutting edge they are — massive differences even within a close "family" 4/5
Show threadPhilipp KrennFeb 27
new defaults — some general and some language specific (the report is very JS and python focused) 3/5
Show threadPhilipp KrennFeb 27
depending on the area, there is a clear bias towards building vs buying
feature toggles as a full blown company were always a weird choice... 2/5