Shreyas Divan

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[Shilpa Godbole @godbole_shilpa]

Won’t it be fun if Ambanis launch an EV brand called Thechla (ठेचला)?

[Ipostanything LFC @postanythingLFC]

What a game of football.

[Siddharth Chhaya @sidchhaya]

Sorry to interrupt your Sunday, friends.

I really hesitated to write this, but if I don’t speak up today, I will be facing a severe financial crisis within a week or two.

To be clear, I am not asking for charity or financial help. I am asking for work.

I have been completely without work for the last three months. My last project ended on June 30th, and since then I have knocked on every door I know—calling, texting, meeting contacts, and following up.

People say they will try, but after that first talk, the silence takes over. Calls go unanswered or get cut after a couple of rings. I honestly don't know whether the industry is shifting because of AI or if my age (52) is working against me, but despite over 13 years of solid experience in the field, nothing has materialized.

Now, my savings are down to the very end. I can barely hold out for another week or two.

I am a professional content writer, translator, and speaker who is comfortable on stage and in front of the camera. I write and translate fluently across Gujarati, Hindi, and English, with Gujarati being my strongest suit.

Many of you already know my grasp of politics and my political writing, but I am equally adept at covering Bollywood and cricket. My priority is media houses, digital platforms, or publications, but I am open to any genuine writing or translation opportunity.

I can work remotely or take up assignments on-site anywhere in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, as I need to be close to my elderly mother to take care of her health.

Because my situation is urgent, I am especially looking for quick-turnaround freelance assignments or immediate projects where payments can be settled on submission.

If you or anyone in your circle has work, please reach out to me directly in my DMs.

A humble, earnest request: while I deeply value your warmth, please refrain from sending just "best wishes" or "stay strong" messages right now. I am fighting hard to stay out of a very dark headspace, and right now, only actual work leads can pull me through.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and thank you for your support. My inbox is open. 🙏

[Sandeep Kulkarni @moneyworks4u_fa]

PGHH: One of the most brutal derating (90x PE to 27x PE) without commensurate deterioration in business fundamentals.

[Shreyas Divan @DivanShreyas]

@SwiggyCares @Fabelle @Swiggy Is that a solution? That I have to send it back and you refund? How does it get sent in the first place? Is there repackaging happening in your facility?

[Shreyas Divan @DivanShreyas]

@Fabelle @SwiggyCares @Swiggy

Ordered from Instamart, received only half chocolate inside packaging.

[Shreyas Divan @DivanShreyas]

@SwiggyCares @Fabelle @Swiggy Order # 247415528157567

[blue @bluewmist]

A mistake that cost me 5 years: Thinking preparation was progress. Reading every book. Taking every course. Planning every detail. Meanwhile, someone dumber than me started badly and figured it out. Preparation feels productive but it's often just fear dressed up as strategy. You learn to swim by getting in the water, not by studying water.

[Prabhakar Kudva @prabhakarkudva]

Over the years while reading concalls i have seen the following patterns. Categorizing them into these buckets will help you take better decisions:

1. Good now, clear ahead
2. Good ahead, gap until execution
3. Good now, hazy ahead
4. Bad now, visible recovery
5. Bad now, hope offered
6. Nothing now, nothing coming

Each bucket needs to be approached differently and will have an implication on your allocation and position mgmt. Also depending on your style you may give preference to a different bucket. But knowing this is quite helpful for clarity of thought.

[Shreyas Divan @DivanShreyas]

@waitin4agi_ @aparanjape

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Warren Buffett jokes about Charlie Munger's Costco obsession

"Charlie and I were on a plane recently that was hijacked. The hijackers picked us out as the two dirty capitalists that they really had to execute"

"They were a little abashed about it, they didn't really have anything against us, so they said each of us would be given one request before they shot us. They turned to Charlie and said, what would you like as your request?"

"Charlie said, I would like to give once more my speech on the virtues of Costco, with illustrations. And the hijacker said, well, that sounds pretty reasonable to me"

"He turned to me and said, and what would you like, Mr. Buffett? And I said, shoot me first"

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

The curse of discipline is that every day looks the same. The curse of indiscipline is that every year does.

[TIMES NOW @TimesNow]

J. Sai Deepak Joins The CJP Protest Debate

The situation escalated because protesters gained narrative advantage while the government appeared unprepared. I believe there may have been excesses from both sides, but genuine students should distance themselves from disruptive elements: @jsaideepak speaks to @roypranesh

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese engineer invented the QR code for one job, tracking car parts on a Toyota line, then his company chose to give the patent away for free, which is the only reason it ended up on every restaurant table on Earth.

His name is Masahiro Hara. The company was Denso Wave, a parts supplier owned by Toyota.

In 1992 the problem landed on his desk, and it was not glamorous. Workers on the factory floor were drowning.

Every car part had a barcode, but a barcode can only hold about twenty characters, so to track one component they had to stick five or ten barcodes on it.

A worker would stand there scanning a single part ten times in a row. Some of them were scanning close to a thousand barcodes a day. The job had stopped being about building cars and turned into pointing a scanner at stickers all day long.

And there was a second problem nobody upstairs cared about. This was a factory. Oil got on everything. A smudge of grease across a barcode and the whole thing became unreadable, and the line stopped.

Hara was asked to make the scanner faster. He looked at it for a while and realized the scanner was not the problem. The barcode itself was the ceiling. A line of black bars can only hold information going one direction, left to right.

He decided to build something that held information in two directions, up and down as well as across, so it could store hundreds of times more in the same little square.

Then came the part that sounds made up but is not.

Hara played Go on his lunch breaks, the old board game with black and white stones sitting on a grid. He was staring at the board one day and it clicked.

The grid of black and white stones was already a way to store information in two directions. That was the shape of his code.

But building the code was the easy half. The hard problem was speed, because the whole point was to be fast, and a scanner wastes most of its time just trying to figure out where the code is and which way it is turned.

The fix came to him on a train. He was looking out the window at buildings, and one building stood out from all the others because of its shape against the sky. That was the idea.

He put three little square targets in three corners of the code. The moment a scanner sees those three squares, it knows instantly where the code is and how it is rotated, even upside down, even at an angle.

Now here is the detail that shows how far he was willing to go. Those three corner squares only work if nothing else on the page looks like them.

If a magazine ad or a cardboard box happened to have the same black and white pattern nearby, the scanner would get confused and grab the wrong thing.

So Hara and his tiny two-person team went and surveyed printed material. Magazines. Flyers. Cardboard boxes. Piles of it, for days, reducing every picture down to its ratio of black to white area, hunting for the one ratio that almost never shows up in print anywhere. They found it. One to one to three to one to one.

That exact rhythm of black and white is baked into every corner square of every QR code on Earth, and it is there because it is the pattern the printed world almost never produces by accident.

Then he solved the oil.

He built the code so it carries a backup of its own information, spread mathematically across the whole square. You can tear off, smudge, or scratch out up to thirty percent of a QR code and it still scans perfectly, because the code rebuilds the missing piece from the copy it kept of itself.

A worker could get grease on a third of the label and the line would keep moving. This is the same math that lets a scratched CD still play and lets a spacecraft send data back across the solar system without asking to repeat itself.

He finished in 1994. He named it Quick Response, after what it does for the person using it, not after what it is.

And then Denso made the decision that actually mattered.

They held the patent. They could have charged a fee on every single scan, and given how many billions happen now, that would have made someone unimaginably rich.

Instead they announced they would not enforce their rights to collect royalties, and they published the specification openly so anyone could use it. Hara later said it was not even a big argument inside the company.

That one choice is the whole story. A code that costs nothing to use is a code everyone builds on. Airlines put it on tickets. Phone makers built readers into cameras.

Then a pandemic hit and the world needed a way to hand someone information without touching anything, and the free little square that a Toyota engineer built for greasy factory workers was suddenly on every menu, every payment, every door.

Hara still works there. He has said, more than once, that he never imagined it would spread this far, and that the part he is proudest of is that it got used to keep people safe.

The man built it to survive oil on a factory floor. It ended up surviving everything else too.

You have scanned his work a hundred times this year. Now you know whose it was.

[MSRDCofficial @MSRDC_official]

PUBLIC APPEAL

Due to a landslide and continuous heavy rainfall, traffic movement on both the Pune–Mumbai Expressway and the old Mumbai–Pune Highway has been severely affected.

Traffic in both directions (Pune–Mumbai and Mumbai–Pune) has been stopped until further notice.

Citizens are requested not to undertake any journey between Pune and Mumbai until further directions are issued. Those planning to travel are advised to postpone their journey and follow traffic advisories and updates issued by the Government agencies.

We request your cooperation in the interest of public safety.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Welcome to the Reds, Andoni 👋

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

James Milner has announced his retirement from football. Congratulations on an incredible career, James ❤️

[Shreyas Divan @DivanShreyas]

@karpathy I did something similar - I wanted to 'chat' with the existing earnings call transcripts, annual reports, etc of any company.
1. Run a pipeline which downloads the relevant data into /raw
2. Haiku cleans it and prepares /extracted folder.
3. Interact with it using Sonnet/Opus

[Shreyas Divan @DivanShreyas]

@myBESTElectric There is a power outage in the Dadar TT area. Please assist

[Shreyas Divan @DivanShreyas]

@amazonIN @ICICIBank @ICICIBank_Care no one has gotten in touch yet.

[Shreyas Divan @DivanShreyas]

@ICICIBank_Care I have an Amazon ICICI credit card. I have auto payment setup but the last payment did not go through due to auto pay threshold setup by me. I paid the entire amount with a delay of 15 days. I have been charged >10% of the amount as interest whereas

[Shreyas Divan @DivanShreyas]

your site mentions 3.75% pm interest. I called customer care and they said a detailed calculation will be sent within 20 mins but it has been 2 days and I haven't received it. Please look into this. @amazonIN @ICICIBank