🤷🤷‍♀️New data: SHRUG 2 is out!! Development Data Lab has been working on this for two years, a HUGE update to India’s coolest data platform: 1. Maps of *every* 2011 town and village, with ids 2. All data at every geography (villages, districts, ACs, etc)... devdatalab.org/shrug 🧵1/N

✨When I joined @DeepMind, I dreamed of using AI to impact the lives of billions of people. Today in nature I am proud to present our system AlphaDev that has discovered enhanced fundamental algorithms in computer science! 🚀 A quick thread. 🧵

Heads you win Tails I lose? Humanity dealing with unintended consequences and taking 2 steps back 😣

Years ago when my wife and I we were planning to buy our home, my dad stunned me with a quick mental calculation of loan payments. I asked him how - he said he'd learned the strange formula for compound interest from his father, who was a merchant in 19th century Iran. 🧵 1/4

The progress China has made in renewable energy just THIS YEAR makes the entire rest of the world look like it's standing still. I wrote in December that to call China the "world leader in renewable energy" was a colossal understatement. That’s even more true today. Thread 🧵

Who's the most talented, innovative, and/or interesting musician under age 30? (Links to exemplary songs would be appreciated)

The Manhattan project didn't just invent the nuclear bomb, destroyer of worlds. It forever changed the scale and scope of our collective scientific ambitions It began what I call "Civilization-Scale Science" - and there's no greater force for progress today Let me explain 🧵

Big Pharma doesn’t want you to know about Saffron - As effective as Ritalin (ADHD) - As effective as Prozac (Depression) - As effective as Celexa (Anxiety) Nothing to see here

The world really is big enough to validate any and all worldviews The world is less stone and more clay The doomers, coomers, and improovers are all correct and will actualise the micro-reality predicted by their micro-worldviews Whatever belief you WANT to hold, you will find

A 🧵 of peer reviewed published scientific research where the authors left out a key coauthor 😉: “As an AI language model…” Elisabeth Bik

LLMs as Database Administrators Data is growing and DBs are growing. There are a lot of potential ways to automate the tasks of data administration using LLMs. This paper presents D-Bot, a framework based on LLMs that continuously acquires database maintenance experience

Five types of people you want to surround yourself with: the inspired, the passionate, the motivated, the grateful and the open minded.

A few of my favorite stories of how founders validated their startup ideas: 1. After 6 ideas that didn't work out, Rujul Zaparde (Rujul Zaparde) and Lu Cheng created a 16-point checklist for what a great startup idea needs to hit.

𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 In the latest paper by Google Engineers, they researched how to define, measure and manage Technical Debt. They use quarterly engineering satisfaction surveys to analyze

What the fuck I was today years old when I learned that your peripheral vision doesn't perceive color Your color-sensing cones are bunched up to perceive the center of your vision

Chandrayaan-3 Rover Footage Processed w/ AI I took some time to clean up the rover deployment footage sent back by the Chandrayaan-3 mission. The original footage is a timelapse, and what ISRO published was using rudimentary frame interpolation to time it properly. I went ahead

The World Yo-Yo Contest is the culminating yo-yo competition of the worldwide competitive circuit and is considered the most prestigious yo-yo competition in the world. Mir Kim is the current 1A world champion. x.com/dj_destruct/st…

Chandrayaan-3 Mission: Smile, please📸! Pragyan Rover clicked an image of Vikram Lander this morning. The 'image of the mission' was taken by the Navigation Camera onboard the Rover (NavCam). NavCams for the Chandrayaan-3 Mission are developed by the Laboratory for

Dyson has a factory in Malaysia that runs 24 hours a day and puts its vacuums through “relentless testing”. Each device goes through 150 tests including: ▫️Dropping 100x from 1 meter high ▫️Vacuuming 750 miles of surface ▫️Running motor non-stop until it dies How long does it