I'll never forget this clip of a cocoa farmer in Ivory Coast tasting chocolate for the first time.

we are 11 months in to 6 months away from AI stealing your programming jobs

The software industry is rapidly converging on just three languages: Go, Rust, and JS.

It would be smart to learn one of those really well, and have at least a working acquaintance with the other two.

The difference between Australian Kit Kat and Indian Kit Kat is insane!

Milk solids 25% in Australia, 16.2% in India.

Cocoa solids 22% in Australia, 4.5% in India.

It is so unfortunate that our Governments allow these companies to operate like this. Strange!

Congrats to AI at Meta on Llama 3 release!! 🎉
ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llam…
Notes:

Releasing 8B and 70B (both base and finetuned) models, strong-performing in their model class (but we'll see when the rankings come in @ lmsys.org :))
400B is still training, but already encroaching…

🥁 Llama3 is out 🥁
8B and 70B models available today.
8k context length.
Trained with 15 trillion tokens on a custom-built 24k GPU cluster.
Great performance on various benchmarks, with Llam3-8B doing better than Llama2-70B in some cases.
More versions are coming over the next…

What does the 'Open' in ONDC stand for?

Can a random college kid just get ONDC APIs and build an app on top of it?

Why call open when only large companies with 'access' can only use it.

BRICS calls on the Middle East to stop using the US dollar for oil trade settlements.

#FoodForThought The Times Of India

“The goal is to use Israel to wash money out of the US and European taxpayers through Israel and back into the hands of of a transnational elite (BlackRock)…

The goal is an endless war, not a successful war”…

Two news items about a day apart.

1. Swiggy's health insurance for their delivery workers is dependent on them meeting targets.

2. Swiggy's corporate workers get additional leave if they have pets.

Firefox 🔥 Firefox on Android is the only phone browser that you can customize with add-ons. Install Ghostery + uBlock Origin and you have safe, peaceful browsing. Add Stylus as well for customizing sites and you're really cooking

NEW: Swiggy has gamified health insurance for its food delivery workers. Divided into gold, silver & bronze, their insurance changes weekly as per the category they fall under that week based on the points earned.

My latest for Rest of World: restofworld.org/2024/swiggy-he…

This is criminal.

this single line of code will drastically improve the accuracy of pretty much any search.

And it will add next to no cost and next to no latency. I can think of no reason not to use it. Nils Reimers and the team really killed it with this one.

find the details here…

I figured it's finally time to prep a timm 1.0 release 🥳 It's been stable for some time. The feature that pushed it over the line? I finally implemented features_only=True support for vit models. Sorry for the long delay on that one. Built on a new `forward_intermediates()` API

🎉 The TC39 signals proposal advances to Stage 1!

There is still a ton of validation and exploration to do and questions to document and find answers to, but this is super exciting! ✨

github.com/proposal-signa…

Another thread of maps I like. This time we are looking loosely at the Indian sub continent. Included are India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
First up, Rivers! 1/13

Big day for Indian 🇮🇳 chess.

Pragg wins
Vidit wins
Gukesh maintains 1st place

Candidates 2024 is on fire.

one of the few cases in which Germany is doing something right when it comes to digitalization 🇩🇪

government and state affairs are too important to give them in the hands of propietary vendors

news.itsfoss.com/german-state-d…