Sri
@yantrashikshaka
Optimist | sarvē janāḥ sukhinō bhavantu |
Pakistan is the world's most dysfunctional country. There are a few African countries that are worse off, but they have much more of an excuse.
Unpopular opinion: Papa Powell was one of the best Federal Reserve governors.
I once met a Japanese carpenter, Kenji Matsumoto, in Auroville. He told me that a professional photographer apprenticed with him for a few months. And when he returned to photography later, he discovered his skills had improved. Exploring other disciplines can enhance our own.
Pure mathematics, carnatic music, bharatanatyam, classical art, sculpture, chess or go, mridangam, classical poetry, fine cooking - what is common to all of them? (apart from the fact that I am not good in any of them 😁, at least I get to appreciate some of them) We need…
On the day of The Merge, the ETHBTC ratio was ~0.075. Today, weeks into a very strong eth rally, it is 0.0317. Eth folks should really hold back their "I told ya so"s while the ratio remains embarrassing for them.
Big Tech harvesting Indian data in the absence of a local LLM. Digital colonization happening in real time while the government is asleep at the wheel.
airtel is offering 1 year perplexity pro for free in India google is offering 1 year gemini pro free for students in India India ke data par apna AI train karne ki ninja technique 🤣
Socialism means the government redistributing economic resources. The whole "compassion" argument is a smokescreen for expanding government power over economic resources. It has failed spectacularly everywhere it has been tried, including the version tried in India. The…
Socialism isn’t wrong because it has compassion. It’s wrong because it doesn’t work.
🚨NVIDIA CEO just redpilled the MIT study claiming AI makes people dumber > “I haven’t read the MIT research lol” > “I literally use AI every day and my cognitive skills are actually advancing” > most of his job as CEO = asking good questions > “I’m not asking a machine to teach…
Imagine paying 850 sats for a piece of paper a small group of dudes can print at will.
Imagine paying $118k for a set of man-made numbers
> be surya siddhanta > curated in 4th or 5th century > calculates the earth’s diameter to be 8,000 miles (modern: 7,928 miles) > calculates the diameter of moon as 2,400 miles (actual ~2,160) > calculates the distance between moon and the earth to be 258,000 miles (now:…
I can believe Grok 4 is routinely nailing Physics Olympiad style problems, and yet it seems to still be missing the core of insight which is so critical to physics. I have asked it three of my standard tough problems, where the answer is much less important than the chain of…
claiming that modern cs curriculum is outdated because it doesn't allow students to use cursor or "vibe code" rhymes with the valley instructing budding engineers to eschew formal coursework in compilers, os, databases to learn more difficult things, like javascript and equity…
AI has upended the once "safe" CS career path. New grads are facing unemployment rates twice those of art history majors, and a CS degree is no longer a surefire ticket to wealth. At the same time, small, focused teams are scaling from zero to eight-figure revenue in months. In…
No better random number generator than Trump’s tariff rates on various countries. #MAGA
When Karna, Shakuni and Duryodhana came up with a "brilliant" plan of going to Lake Dvaitavana under the pretext of a Ghoshayatra, they congratulated each other with either - a high-five, - a down-low, - or just a handshake. #mildlyinteresting that these gestures are this old.
With all that OCAML coding and MIT PhDs, supposedly the finest minds in Quant/High Finance ended up using an algo version of "marking the close" strategy that Jesse Livermore talked about in 1900s and Burrabazaar Marwaris have used at Lyon's range since early last century.