(8/8) Some of the advertising strategies by stock brokerage & RMG apps raise similar fears in my mind. /fin

Babar Azam seems to have lost his mojo. Since 1-Jan-2023, his test average has dropped from 43 before that to 24 after, and his ODI average has dropped from 55 to 44. Even his T20i average which used to be 58 once upon a time is now under 40. #PakvsWI

My passport was stolen from me in China.

Excited about youtube.com/watch?v=1v5Oxt… Will likely buy if has obstacle avoidance and if there's a way to operate it without putting on those glasses.

Hard truth: It's not your manager's job to motivate you. That's your job. Their job is to remove obstacles, provide clarity, and create conditions for success. Your job is to bring the energy, drive, and commitment. Don't outsource your ambition. Great performers fuel themselves.

You can build the perfect plan, work harder than anyone, and still watch everything fall apart if you can’t survive the emotional whiplash of startup life. No one tells you that being a founder is mostly learning how to survive yourself. Everyone preaches execution. You get

Rahman hasn't given a quality Hindi soundtrack for a decade now After Delhi 6 (2009), he'd been declining but still gave a noteworthy film per year (Rockstar, Jaane Tu, Raanjhana, Highway), but since Tamasha (2015), even great Hindi songs (forget full soundtracks) have been rare

Looks like it will indeed pour cats and dogs in Bombay tomorrow, but anyway, what does IMD stand for?

Interesting

Coupled with the draconian Prevention of Money Laundering Act, a CM can be arrested by ED and denied bail for 30 days thereby easily toppling an elected State Government.

Pro tip for travellers: Don't get wow-ed by aerial shots of places. You won't be airborne when you get there. Drones can make _any_ place look a lot better than how it actually looks (forget feels) on the ground from an eye level perspective.

While talking of debt, suicide, etc, I think a whole lot of people have accidentally conflated classic cricket betting (which has gone nowhere) with making teams on fantasy cricket apps.

You mean NOT together?

The sign of good reading culture is abundance of book stores. The sign of a great reading culture is abundance of second-hand book stores.

brandpaglus 1 - 0 distributionpaglus Meta added a discoverable usable useful multi-modal LLM within WA (incl groups). Perplexity Pro is free with Airtel. But still, ChatGPT seems to dominate, even for trying-AI-1st-time new users in India, forget old-habits-die-hard old users

Five years ago the frontier of LLM math/science capabilities was 3 digit multiplication for GPT-3. Now, frontier LLM math/science capabilities are evaluated through condensed matter physics questions. Anyone who thinks AI is slowing down is fatally miscalibrated.