Aniket Sharma

Googler, IITK'21
Ah so you are finally here. Why not help yourself with some of my future prophecies and sarcastic take on things.

[Aniket Sharma @Anikets2909]

Urgent: Critical U-turn on Hoodi Main Road (opp BlueDart/near Metro) has been blocked with stones. This forces 2km detour to ITPL Main Road which is already choked, causing massive gridlock.

Is this an authorized closure? It's making the traffic situation much worse. Please investigate and restore access.

@blrcitytraffic @BlrCityPolice @BBMPCOMM @CPBlr #BangaloreTraffic #Hoodi #Whitefield

[Aniket Sharma @Anikets2909]

@ChatGPTapp doesn't have a sense of time. I asked it (politely) to do an evil laugh for 1 minute straight. But, the max it can do is 5 seconds.
It knows what time is theoretically, but I think it can't contemplate time's physical interpretation... yet.

[Aniket Sharma @Anikets2909]

Package/Software incompatibility issues are the WORST. Restarting from the last functioning checkpoint is always easier than trying to debug, thinking it's just a small fixable affair.

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Will the LLMs struggle? (Maybe).
Perhaps companies will be stuck with Old Tech, just so that they can exploit LLMs which are cheeper.
Or maybe there will be special jobs to just tutor LLMs on the new tech.

Let's wait and see. 🍿

[Aniket Sharma @Anikets2909]

A thought - The reasons LLMs do so well in Programming is because they are trained extensively on every issue, every bug that someone reported, and someone solved.
But what will happen when a new technology comes out, but no one is there to resolve issues on Stackoverflow (1/n)

[Aniket Sharma @Anikets2909]

"Just imagine what you see in your VR headsets, come to life. Imagine being Physically present in this wonderful place." - Companies in 2050 selling Gym, Park, Badminton tickets for a fortune.

[Kurzgesagt @Kurz_Gesagt]

Guess we're the most famous birds on this platform now, @duolingo

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Nice vision broadening TED talk on future use of AI.

https://t.co/v6J1BLiGF7

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Hmm.. maybe deadlines ARE important.. else we will be doing the same thing again and again as perfection is a mirage

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In 1971, Phil Knight was teaching accounting at Portland State University.

One day, he overheard a graphic design student say that she couldn’t afford to take a painting class.

Knight paid her $35 to design a logo for his start-up shoe company.

When he saw the design, he said,

“I don't know if I like it, but maybe it will grow on me.”

Knight didn’t have time to fuss over the logo. "We had a deadline," he explains. He had signed a contract with a factory to produce 3,000 pairs of Nike's first shoe. "Production was starting on the shoe that Friday."

Before then, they needed a logo.

“You don’t like it?” Knight’s chief operating officer asked of the student’s design.

“I don’t love it,” Knight said, “but we’re out of time. It’ll have to do.”

Takeaway 1:

It's said that if not for constraints and deadlines, nothing would get made.

George Lucas, for instance, worked on drafts of the first Star Wars for years. "I never arrived at a degree of satisfaction where I thought the screenplay was perfect," he said.

But then he struck a deal with a movie executive from United Artists—"At that point, it became an obligation," Lucas said.

"If I hadn't been forced to shoot the film, I would doubtless still be rewriting it now."

Takeaway 2:

At Nike's IPO in 1980, Phil Knight gave the student who designed the Swoosh 500 shares.

She never sold.

Since the IPO, there have been 7 stock splits. So those 500 shares have become 64,000 shares. At the time of this writing, Nike is at $110/share.

$110/share x 64,000 shares = $7,040,000.

It makes me think of something Robert Greene once told me:

“Above all else, focus on acquiring knowledge and skills. Knowledge and skills are like gold—a currency you will transform into something more valuable than you can imagine."

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[Aniket Sharma @Anikets2909]

@_PVRCinemas Hi, I don't see any point why you are asking for my contact details. The issue is related to the Cinema facility. I think instead of even properly reading the complaint you are pasting a general reply. It's really disrespectful.

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

ok…

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Congratulations guys!!!
You certainly made IITK and whole India proud.
@Dragnoid99 @aryanc304 @ mohanraghu

[ICPCNews @ICPCNews]

Regional Champion - Asia West
Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur
#icpcwfdhaka

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@PulkitNijhawan7 Oh.. then I hope I am not a false positive in their ML result 🤞

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Dear @cars24india, calling car-less people on a daily basis will not provide them with cars to sell.

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@GamingLegion @BJP4India @narendramodi @AmitShah Still you are under hangover.For the last 6 years Rahul &Sonia have become insignificant. Ab to Modiji hi sarve sarva hai.Lockdown was done by Modiji &Rahul ,Sonia had nothing to do.
However,this strict lockdown &migration was only Indian phenomenon.