- Couple of bad news from the village: an old widow died after shock of bank proceedings against her 5 lacks loan sent her to a comma. She was milking her cows when she fell back. It is typical for banks to announce these things loudly in public because public shaming seems to work on villagers. The rural economy has been under duress for a long time and Iran war made things worse. There are long lines for diesel, petrol and LPGs, and prices of fertilizers are up. Despite what your media and govt telling you (or keeping mum), things have not been positive for a long while.
- Talking of govt telling anything to the public, they have not yet released the Air India crash report. And there are many more still pending. Congress govt used to tone deaf, BJP govt is an improvement, it is just deaf.
- It was heartening to see PARI is publishing many more news stories. I’ve setup a monthly subscription. Currently, I only subscribe to two news portals, PARI & Caravan. I’ve cancelled most others: frontline, Indian Express, and even EPW after Thakurta fiasco and trustees using Prof. Beteille name on the letter while he was ailing in the hospital. It was vile! Vote with your money, it works!
- I tried to read “Inversion of Control layer” but couldn’t find motivation after a few paragraph. I am pretty sure it has some value in it but the motivational example is way too “enterprisey” to pay attention to.
- “Why Japanese Companies Do So Many Different Things” was an interesting read.
- I think I am now suffering from AI fatigue and communication slop it causes. The social rules around using/producing AI content are in flux. I feel irritated when someone sends AI generated content my way but occasionally do the same myself. One solution to this is maybe to slow down and take time to do things the old way but not using AI now feels like “not using your super-powers”. Interesting times I am living in.
- Its been over 6 months that my Tata Nano XTA is still in garage. The mechanic has been telling me this week or next week for last three months!
- I wished I watched the Bangladesh and Australia second ODI match. Bangladesh played excellent cricket.
- It is becoming very very hard to watch cricket when India is playing — the advertisements are so cringe on Hotstar. And commentary has become really meh — commentator are also parroting ads! I don’t know how long they are going to milk nationalism.
- Perhaps I need to find a more sports-friendly streamer who is less interested in shoving ads down my throat. I watched few hours of NZ and ENG test match on Sony LIV which otherwise has terrible content; and SL and ENG T20 match (Women World Cup). Commentary was good. I get to learn a few things and tidbits about cricket and cricketers. And ads were just ads. Or maybe I am just getting old.
- Age has stopped becoming “just a number” now, more and more it feels like a timer!
- So have you heard that someone has 1 trillion dollars now? A few decades ago, I read a historian talking about how after world war II, super riches have become things of a past! 🙄️
- Following is a really good talk — a bit long. Ask AI to summarize if you are interested in content, and then enjoy the details.
Watching you become an AI user has been rather interesting. How the mighty fall I guess.
On sports, It’s just a money printing machine now. The fans can wear their “They are doing to advance the game bro” glasses but doesn’t change the fact that both BCCI and FIFA deserve to burn in hell for ruining everything good sports. The fans should be blamed as well for gidding up to insane ticket prices and ad slop on television.
Fair enough. I couldn’t avoid it at work, it was mandated and I wanted to learn these tools as well. Some of the folks I admired said decent things about them as well. Its true that ehese models have become pretty good for last few months. But they are quite akin to addictive drugs/steroids. I am still figuring out how to strike a balance. The rush they cause is the perception that things are moving faster (not sure if they are) — perhaps they are hitting dopamine center/lizard brain. I heard many of these companies have hired folks from Facebook. These folks are apparently expert in “engagement”.
I am an undergrad student majoring in maths and minor in cs. I mean it is very interesting to see that in India the more you are educated higher the chances of being unemployed and with system programmers like you and some of those who I know personally being mandated to use AI makes the computer science very uncertain and the job market for students like us very unpredictable. I think nowadays it’s better for someone to go into medical science or finance because at least the pay is good and the job market somewhat steady