Shiva
@Shiva_Uvacha
Tech and Product Executive. Passionate about Tech, FinTech, startup ecosystem, AI, geo politics. Fanatics of all kinds pls keep away.
People overestimate technology progress in the short term and under-estimate it in the long term. By the time India builds and operationalises human 5th gen fighter jet, human operated fighter jets would be outdated, inefficient and expensive compared to the fully autonomous…
"General Atomics Aeronautical Systems successfully completed a groundbreaking demonstration on July 8, integrating technologies across multiple affiliates to showcase long-range kill chain effects, including an autonomous air-to-air engagement. The flight integrated local and…
We need to remove this idiotic commie mindset that is creeping up in research nowadays. The only criteria for authorship is contribution to the IP. Otherwise even a sweeper, lab technician, system administrator all have "contributed" and should be given authorship by this…
Authorship is given to *everyone* involved in building the solution- from ideation to coding to deployment; that’s what honest research is. Authorship order may vary, but that’s a different point. Please don’t promote academic dishonesty with stupid analogies.
For all mocking of Trump one needs to acknowledge that he is doggedly pursuing the interests of US (his comical conduct is only a distraction) and doing everything he can to prolong US and dollar hegemony. India can play ball but it and only if it is a win-win and not…
Trade Deals: How the American Empire extracts Wealth from its Treaty Allies in Europe & Japan In the span of just a few days, the United States has sealed two sweeping trade pacts first with Japan, then with the European Union that may go down in history not as triumphs of…
Why do Indian IFS babus have such a meek demeanour even while interacting with tiny nations and tinpot dictators? Our ambassadors need to be recruited from industry. Babus should just serve them as they are glorified clerks. Only 10% of IFS who have genuine leadership skills…
India's first public engagement with Syria's Sharaa govt Top diplomat of MEA's WANA or West Asia and North Africa Division, Suresh Kumar meets Syrian Foreign Minister Assad al-Shaibani in Damascus
+100. Govt is under the mistake. impression that corruption has been curtailed. True that top ministers aren't corrupt unlike during UPA times but bureaucracy corruption has increased manifold. Even in schemes like the 100 day employment scheme, where corruption was…
Spoke to a Sanghi businessman for Gujarat. He said bureaucratic corruption has increased many times over since Congress. This the biggest failure of the BJP govts across the country—their coddling of and giving a free rein to the bureaucrats. Is it because Babus speak English?
This problem is worse for NRI engineers working in India who are deducted 12% of their total salary (not just base salary) for EPF. So if EPF deduction is done right (many companies don't deduct it properly leaving it a liability for the future both for them and the NRI…
Have seen some friends hesitate to accept promotion for the same reason. Once you cross the 50LPA mark, you have to pay additional 10% surcharge on top of 31.2% tax you're already paying. So, basically whatever increase in salary due to promotion, most of it will go to Govt as…
Lots of angry reaction to my comment seems to come from folks who don't have much idea about how internships work in IIT and IISc. US univ rarely have this concept. There everyone in a lab usually contributes to the IP. These interns are not generally involved in research and…
If you want to know what is really happening with IT / ITES industry in India, look at campus recruitment. Spoke recently to few BE / BTech students. Campus recruitment in Tier II has slowed down substantially. In Tier I campuses also, the number of offers and packages are not…
Folks need to understand some hard truth about GCCs. GCCs are a net job addition to India but why there is sudden rush of GCCs? Trump is tightening student visas and H1B. As a result hundreds of thousands of Indians who get employment in USA every year would find it hard going…
What a budding champ! Hope she becomes the first women super GM from India.
Divya Deshmukh beats Koneru Humpy in tiebreaks to become the FIDE Women's World Cup Champion 2025 - and become India's 88th Grandmaster! In the all-Indian Finals which went to tiebreaks, Divya defeated Humpy 1.5-0.5. The first Rapid game ended in a draw, and the next one Divya…
Good point. Infy / Wipro don't have such excuses. They suffer from think small syndrome. Infy shied away from investing in OpenAI which could have catapulted Infy into big leagues had they made a sizeable investment.
TCS is such a complex case. Indirectly, 65% ownership of TCS is with philanthropic institutions. It is also the cash cow for Tata sons, to fund other ambitious projects. Hence, dividend payout is important. It’s a fight between investing in future tech & immediate dividends
Indian IT/ITES industry is at risk not from AI but from GCCs. GCC means companies are insourcing their work. And with AI, they can do it far more economically than outsourcing it to the likes of TCS / Infy / Wipro. AI is both a risk and an opportunity. AI will disrupt many of…
Anyone doubting India’s IT is a fool Rather more IT is shifting to India But the real threat is no R&D by Indian companies We need our own Bell Labs and OpenAI. Current dhandho mindset won’t work
Surprised at how vital this complaint has gone. Paid coding interns are like masons used by an architect to implement their design. They shouldn't expect architects to give credit for the design of the house in an architecture review. Authorship isn't given to coders but only…
I interned at an IIT and built the entire codebase for a research project. Just saw the paper published in a journal, with zero mention of me as an author or contributor. I did the work. They took the credit. This is beyond unfair. :D
Some academic authority needs to correct Elon Musk here. Slavery wasn't a standard practice in Hindu India. Only the Islamic rulers had it. And British actually had slavery in the way of indentured servitude. The hundreds of thousands of plantation workers taken to Sri Lanka…
Slavery was standard practice throughout Earth until it was almost entirely ended principally by Anglo-American forces in the 19th and 20th centuries. Slavery still exists in some parts of the world btw. I’m not suggesting Britain was purely angelic, but, nonetheless, this is…
Impressed with the quality of academic research in China. And this isn't even Tsinghua!
MASSIVE claim in this paper. AI Architectural breakthroughs can be scaled computationally, transforming research progress from a human-limited to a computation-scalable process. So it turns architecture discovery into a compute‑bound process, opening a path to…
May sound extreme, but the border conflicts between Thailand and Cambodia on territorial claims of two Siva temples of the 11th-12th centuries may probably be better resolved by India’s involvement. India, as spiritual mother country, can offer to manage the two temples until…
With the convergence of AGI and robotics, there is just no reason for any human inside of any machinery - be it fighter planes or tanks or submarines. In the coming years we will see top nations automate all of these. It is not just about safety of humans.. They will slow down…
I might get roasted but someone needs to say it: I genuinely don’t see the point of putting humans inside tanks anymore. Modern armor is increasingly a liability, not because tanks are useless, but because putting humans inside them limits what they can do, how long they can…
What a beauty! Sleek, elegant, proportionate. SSS makes some of the neat looking weapons. I hope they get more support from defence establishment.
Like an idea suspended, the @sssdefence M72 hovers—silent, waiting, inevitable. The M72 Assault Rifle & Carbine has had multiple wins with top police forces of Bharat in 2025. We look forward to showcasing the M72 to our customers during the International Police Expo at Pragati…
It is a very poor mindset to think that one earns wealth to only give to their kids. This mental affliction is the most amongst Indians. You earn wealth, try to do something purposeful and impactful with it. There are infinite opportunities for it in India! Do leave some…
Met my oldest client today. Age - 85 Networth - $ millionaire Lives with wife. No kids. Super fit for his age. Due to slower impulses he has stopped driving the car, hasn't gone out of Pune, doesn't go out more than 5 kms from his house. He has no FB/Insta account. He has…