Importance of the Electric Tech Stack - batteries, electric motors, power electronics, and chips. Noah Smith 🐇 on “.. lessons that China has learned, the west has not yet learned..” And India is largely clueless about. noahpinion.blog/p/why-every-co…

Trump: “But what does President Zelensky know about the war his country is fighting and the players involved? Too much nuance, too little black-and-white.”

Nick Collins’ book covering the Indian Ocean’s pivotal role in early human civilisation and India’s contributions via scientific discovery and innovation, trade and commerce, art and literature is fascinating!

The “seven un-endable wars” Trump did not end: At the UN, Trump practically draped a Nobel medal around his own neck, boasting that he had “ended seven un-endable wars” that were supposedly “raging, with countless thousands of people being killed.” In reality, some of those

Trump, the “patrimonialist socialist”.

The truth perhaps is less rosy and this may all just be a negotiation tactic by China. And yet, it’s undeniable that they’ve done brilliantly on the Semiconductors front. India - as is usual - comes in late to this party too.

The key phrase: “.. all human jobs ..” #OpenAI

'Democratic Penalty' makes it tough for us to replicate a lot of it, but understanding key elements of Chinese economic model (especially funding and institutional structure) with humility will serve us in good stead. Barry Naughton's research on China's industrial policy from

🧵1/ The Indian Air Force has finally bid farewell to the MiG-21, a fighter that served faithfully for 62 years. From Cold War skies to Kargil, it was a jet that defined an era. Let’s revisit its legendary journey. #IAF #MiG21

What ails India’s defence procurement - especially IAF? A brutal reality check here🧵. It looks like the folks at DASR are vision-less masters of copy-paste technology.

An FPGA development board for ₹349! May this spawn a million innovations!! [HT Shyam Kaluve]

It’s the Nobel prize announcement week. Medicine, Physics, Chemistry prizes have been announced. Literature prize for his TruthSocial posts or the coveted Peace prize itself for this well-timed announcement?

“But what we need to remember on this day, his first death anniversary, is that very few people like Ratan Tata come into our lives, but when they leave, they leave not just their work, but they leave an idiom of exemplary living.” SUHEL SETH on Ratan Tata.

NVIDIA CEO: • China way ahead on energy • U.S. way ahead on chips • China competitive on infrastructure • China competitive on AI models • China way ahead in open-source models • U.S. frontier models better overall • China has lighter industrial regulation • China

Why is this surprising? The training data is from humans who behave this way. The reinforcement learning models maximise rewards based on human feedback. Closed loop with only one possible outcome.

Indian manufacturing is doing better than you think.

It’s incredible what kinds of data is available nowadays. And even better, what data availability and its analysis gets us - better infrastructure, better economics, better communities - overall, positively impacting daily life. But please don’t analyse data from Bengaluru🫣.

So all the loud drama around Trump’s nomination for the Peace Prize was just a side show? With useful idiots like the Pakistanis being strung along? The real show was to prepare a future Mohammed Yunus for Venezuela?

CHINA IS SCHOOLING TRUMP: A THREAD ON RARE EARTHS 1/ Beijing controls 70% of rare earth mining, 90% of processing, and 93% of permanent magnet production.

"Power isn't about intentions or rhetoric-it's about what you can actually do. Countries almost never retaliate when US imposes sanctions, because they cant. China is the first country that systematically worked to eliminate every single pressure point, with humongous efforts."