I’d love to be a fly on the wall for the board meetings of Indian IT services companies

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Commentary on TCS.

Here is an amazing podcast series from Prof Mahesh Panchagnula of IIT Madras where he talks to leading Professors about their field, their work, career opportunities for young students in these fields and more. I have gone through two podcasts in full so far: Ravindran on AI and

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes? 🤔😭

Xi’s speech in 2016. This was followed up by Federal, Provincial & City level govt investments in high tech across China. This is a key pillar of seeking strategic autonomy. Modi’s speech today on calling tech companies to build for India makes sense only when the govts invest.

Great illustration of the difference between "pattern matching" and "reasoning". Shows how current large models are still missing causality -- they don't really understand what they're saying and why! Clever model probing; fantastic work 💯

++ on item 4. Coding agents currently automate what’s easy for humans (just because that’s the data available for behavior cloning) and not the stuff that’s hard (reading through code, understanding/debugging, and “design” guidance)

So there’s a lot of news going around the “zero” bid that the Pixxel consortium put in for the PPP and all that jazz so thought I would clear some things up. Firstly the PPP was set up in such a way that the program was to be predominantly funded by the winning consortium

Important point from Deep Learning with Python...

Ease of doing business for startups. It's so hard compared to US - here's our story of how we lost $100K+ in funding because of poor processes/laws in India. We are incorporated in US and have an Indian subsidiary. This is a common structure for many startups as it allows you to

Ambient culture is deeply hierarchical; too many things are revered too much to ever question or even try to understand / test alternatives. Elders/seniors are “enforcers” who can’t handle even fledgling assertion of agency.

ISRO chairman explains how ISRO flagged a potentially catastrophic leak on the Falcon-9 and forced SpaceX to call off an earlier launch, which could have risked the lives of four astronauts included Shubhanshu Shukla. ISRO literally saved the Axiom-4 mission.

TIL the Basque Country is the most industrially dense regions in Europe. They collect their own taxes and reinvest in factories and local industry even villages with <2,000 people make something, from steel to machine tools, spindles and fasteners

why don't more people work like this? distributes weight over the back. no lumbar issues. (image grabbed over the net, too embarassed to share my setup - but its directionally similar and i realize i can work much longer in this setup than regular office ones)

UIDAI really botched in making the public understand what AADHAAR is and how it works, even though they’ve had well over a decade.