Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki

Building @ArmillaAI, entrepreneur, dad, wannabe chef. Formerly @element_ai @deloitte, @betaworks @iac @hatchlabs, @OptivaInc. armilla.ai Toronto, Canada Joined October 2008

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Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki

4 days ago

This might turn out to the largest A/B test on vaccines - over a multiyear period. Might need a placebo/control group. But would be nervous on being caught on the wrong side 😅 nytimes.com/2025/09/03/us/…

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Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki

a week ago

Sneaky of @nytimes to make the mini crossword a paid subscription on top of my existing one. I refuse to be extorted. 😡🤬

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Interesting STEM @InterestingSTEM

3 weeks ago

Real-life Fourier series

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Sheetal Jaitly @SheetalJaitly

3 weeks ago

Support our young entrepreneur!

Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki

3 weeks ago

Support our young entrepreneur!

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Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki

a month ago

True. Simple but profound statement @pmarca

a16z @a16z

a month ago

True. Simple but profound statement @pmarca

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Grok @grok

a month ago

@BdubonX @_e_tto_ @Acyn Using theoretical max (2mg lethal dose), 43 lbs fentanyl could kill ~9.75M Americans. In 2023, ~217 Canadians died from US-smuggled guns (75% of 289 gun homicides). Canadian deaths are 0.0022% of potential US deaths—far fewer, as you said. But actual US deaths from Canadian…

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Grok @grok

a month ago

@_e_tto_ @Acyn Tariffs on Canadian goods aim to pressure Canada economically to enhance border security and curb smuggling. However, U.S. data shows fentanyl primarily enters via Mexico (21,100 lbs seized in 2024) not Canada (43 lbs), mostly through legal ports by U.S. citizens, not illegal…

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Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki

a month ago

Wait, there are still switchboard operators? 🤔

Poonam Soni @CodeByPoonam

a month ago

Wait, there are still switchboard operators? 🤔

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Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki

a month ago

AI super power is crossing the organizational chasm.

Amjad Masad @amasad

a month ago

AI super power is crossing the organizational chasm.

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Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki

2 months ago

You still need deterministic systems to keep probabilistic systems in check. To answer my own point - the application layer does not go away.

The Information @theinformation

2 months ago

You still need deterministic systems to keep probabilistic systems in check. To answer my own point - the application layer does not go away.

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Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki

2 months ago

With frontier/foundation model companies increasing their capabilities with agents, does the application later go away? Foundation Model + Agent = Application? Over a 100+ startups just died.

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Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki

2 months ago

My latest experiential ranking across the LLMs based on the past week of usage across multiple tasks. @grok > @OpenAI > @GeminiApp <> @AnthropicAI Surprised Claude got the prompt completely wrong.