Dhruv Aggarwal

learning, building and investing

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Master 🧵

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@TheDevilesh How to optimize for meta organic?

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@LuckyInvest_ARK Why do you believe that this re-entry will do better over the past launch?

Carpisa was present in Tier 1 locations with similar portfolio. What is different this time around?

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@arjuns__ They were rich in mind, reality just took time to catch up

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AI is the new oil and India gonna be importing it all

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@CNBCTV18Live @TimsyJaipuria Exports are the answer not puny measures.

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@kawal279 Faster growth potential

Legacy businesses are a great option if the business has reached escape velocity. Else, you could aim for faster growth in a new vertical

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@arindam___paul My understanding is the repetitive nature of the product. TAM is too small for one consumer durable product at a time.

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@MichLieben Ads

[roon @tszzl]

say it with me now. experts are fake, smart generalists rule the world, everything is designed by people no smarter than you, and courage is in shorter supply than genius

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Arnold Schwarzenegger on his love life:

"A conflict grew up in our relationship. She was a well-balanced woman who wanted an ordinary life, and I was not a well-balanced man and hated the very idea of ordinary life.

She thought I would settle down, that I would reach the top in my field and level off. But that's a concept that has no place in my thinking.

For me, life is continuously being hungry.

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

I wanted to grow. I wanted to continue on. The life she wanted would not permit that."

— from the new episode on Arnold. Available right now!

[Dhruv Aggarwal @DhruvAggs]

@theisaacmed I like this agency. Haven't worked with them but the https://t.co/AKPI6gwpcr reminded me of them https://t.co/hmLMkcMR1k

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Paul LeRoux walked so that @galligator could run.

🫡🫡

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@vikpai Spot on. Meritocracy does exist but the rewards are in favour of the ruling class

[Ash @ashvinmelwani]

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@ashvinmelwani GoMarble

[sysls @systematicls]

Want to understand how the best models in Numerai crush the competition every era? 🧵

Cue: Feature Exposure

Feature Exposure is a diagnostic metric measuring how much your model depends on specific features.

High exposure creates regime-dependent performance and should generally be reduced.

Feature Neutralization is the technique for reducing exposure by removing linear feature relationships from predictions.

It:
1) Uses pseudoinverse projection to residualize predictions
2) Preserves higher-order interactions while removing direct effects
3) Can be tuned via proportion parameter and feature selection

The Core Trade-off:
Lower exposure = more consistent performance but potentially lower correlation. The goal is finding your optimal balance.

Best Practice:
Selectively neutralize to the riskiest features with a tuned proportion parameter, rather than fully neutralizing to all features.

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This is the TLDR of feature exposures.

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[Dhruv Aggarwal @DhruvAggs]

ambition and happiness are at odds with each other

v few ambitious happy people in the world

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india is limited by the scarcity of large private profit pools

large profit pools tend to create passion projects that result in human progress

eg. universities, museums, and invention

even now most large profit pools in india are owned by the govt or capital intensive busines

[sphinx @protosphinx]

India has had a Google dev center forever but they don’t quit in droves to try building another Google because the company pays really well

unrelated

the British Indian Army was entirely Indian yet they didn’t revolt much to start their own either as they were paid really well

[Tara Viswanathan @TaraViswanathan]

One of my favorite things about my husband is that he will call me out on even the tiniest victim mindset.

Even things that are socially acceptable.

Me: “Pregnancy is uncomfortable.”

Him: *grabs me by the shoulders and stares me straight in the eye*

Him: “best friend, this is AMAZING. You’re growing a human! Our human. How cool is that?! Can you get a massage? What can you do to make it less uncomfortable? You can do anything. You’re in charge.”

He never lets me complain about anything.

It’s the best.

I used to get annoyed that he wouldn’t “empathize”.

Now I want everyone to be like this.

You are either in control of your life or you’re not.

It’s a choice.