Rahul Choudhary

Software Engineer
Interests: Philosophy, Physics and Politics.

[Rahul Choudhary @RahulEWD]

@ghatti_chutney Get all your information about the project from rera website instead of what sales people tell you. Look for layout plan approved by BDA. It will have nala buffer, relinquished land, kharab land, HT buffer.

[Rahul Choudhary @RahulEWD]

@bmprajwal_ @karnatabala1956 @hippierani Dude you're the idiot who thinks - kid is screaming/talking - parent is not parenting.
Kids scream and talk when they are excited or upset etc. It's natural.
Parenting involves repeated instructions. Only idiots expect the kid to keep quiet when they're told to.

[Rahul Choudhary @RahulEWD]

@bmprajwal_ @hippierani How do you think children are taught anything that you mention?
Have you ever taught a kid something which is against their natural instinct?
Kids are taught by repeated instructions.
So it's natural to find kids screaming in a train. They take time to learn.

[Rahul Choudhary @RahulEWD]

@AronPolitidoxy @KatKanada_TM @BasedMikeLee You were right the first time. In second video you make critical mistake. Your denominator for male crime is male population whereas for black crime your denominator is all crimes. That's not how risk and probability should be calculated.

[gregorein @Gregorein]

so... I audited Garry's website after he bragged about 37K LOC/day and a 72-day shipping streak.

here's what 78,400 lines of AI slop code actually looks like in production.

a single homepage load of https://t.co/TqaEZsF44N downloads 6.42 MB across 169 requests.

for a newsletter-blog-thingy.
1/9🧵

[dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ @DahliaKurtz]

"If ISIS started a streaming service you'd call your agent."

The Oscars are tonight. Remember @rickygervais' words of wisdom:

"So if you do win an award...don't use it as a platform to make a political speech. You're in no position to lecture the public about anything."

[IntegralAnswers @IntegralAnswers]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Breast & Formula Fed Toddlers Linked to Autism Diagnosis 🚨

[ᴋᴀᴍʟᴇsʜ sɪɴɢʜ / tau @kkstau]

Veg Comedy

TW: Capsicum

I hate capsicum, I condemn it, I question its existence. Its Hindi name is an oxymoron. The English word for it has a letter missing, should be crapsicum. It's the most disgusting thing humans have allowed into their kitchen.

Sometimes, I get capsicum on my pizza, I pick it and throw it away. There have been times when I have ordered another pizza just because I can't stand the aftersmell. The Satanic strips of slime pretend to be sublime, while the g of its green stands for grotesque. I have often wished the government made a law to ban capsicum, the devil's own vile veggie, Satan's snack, Shimla's mirch.

If you like capsicum, I might question your taste but I won't dislike you for it.

I will support your right to like it, eat it, pickle it, and make love to it. I won't go out and demand that the pizzamaker be hanged for topping my pizza with strands of an abomination despite my clear instructions in the order.

I don't consume it but I know some fellow citizens do. I don't call for the arrest of the vegetable vendor who openly displays this horror at his stall. Even children can see these green shiny balls stacked on top of each other in a country where pornography is bad but aesthetic injury is common.

To be honest, I worry about the children sometimes. They are impressionable and might think it's okay to consume capsicum. I know some of them do. But if parents don't object, who am I to?

Yes, as citizens we must be vigilant about this vulgar veggie becoming popular among the youth and greedy vendors making money off the poor taste of some ignorant youth. Recently, in Ahmedabad, a street food vendor was caught on camera adorning a capsicum pakoda with dollops of cheese. Gujaratis believe adding copious amounts of cheese will any crap delectable to the dhokla-abused palate. Innocence is a cheez.

But as a citizen, I have learned to live with it while staying away from it. As long as there is demand, there will be a vendor to meet that demand. Since I know the local area SHO, I can get this vendor kicked off the street.

I know the political party people as well, so a couple of FIRs filed for this sick behaviour won't be a big thing. But then some other dirty Duggu will sneak a bagful to kids in the park. They will eat it raw, without a parent supervising them. You never know what these GenZ kids are up to.

Let's be honest, as long as these kids have the right to roam around in the vegetable mandi, and cash in their UPI wallet, they will pick anything forbidden, fruit or vegetable.

They might be having yellow and red bell peppers for all you know. Many potato and onion sellers are hawking in the neighbourhood. Some of them keep capsicum too. How many can you keep an eye on, in this era.

After all, I too was a young boy at some point. Forbidden fruits were tempting, then, like now. But then I grew up and realised how distasteful capsicum can be, The last three letters are not even acceptable in a civil conversation. Especially on the dinner table. How can you imagine eating something like that, in front of the kids?

Different folks, different strokes, I guess. Oh, I so hate capsicum. I will not defend this level of dirty. But I will, till my last breath, defend your right to make Shimla Mirch Ke Pakaude dash dash dash.

To enhance this post, I looked for a picture. I am attaching that just for reference. Sorry, I have to go, puke now

[Shobhit Bakliwal @shobhitic]

wrote some of my thoughts on the Evil Google thing

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

# on shortification of "learning"

There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this content also enjoy it because fun has a much larger audience, fame and revenue. But as far as learning goes, this is a trap. This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those "Garden Veggie Straws", which feel like you're eating healthy vegetables until you look at the ingredients.

Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that "10 minute full body" workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym. You want the mental equivalent of sweating. It's not that the quickie doesn't do anything, it's just that it is wildly suboptimal if you actually care to learn.

I find it helpful to explicitly declare your intent up front as a sharp, binary variable in your mind. If you are consuming content: are you trying to be entertained or are you trying to learn? And if you are creating content: are you trying to entertain or are you trying to teach? You'll go down a different path in each case. Attempts to seek the stuff in between actually clamp to zero.

So for those who actually want to learn. Unless you are trying to learn something narrow and specific, close those tabs with quick blog posts. Close those tabs of "Learn XYZ in 10 minutes". Consider the opportunity cost of snacking and seek the meal - the textbooks, docs, papers, manuals, longform. Allocate a 4 hour window. Don't just read, take notes, re-read, re-phrase, process, manipulate, learn.

And for those actually trying to educate, please consider writing/recording longform, designed for someone to get "sweaty", especially in today's era of quantity over quality. Give someone a real workout. This is what I aspire to in my own educational work too. My audience will decrease. The ones that remain might not even like it. But at least we'll learn something.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Absolutely masterful interview on Gaza of Dominique De Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, who famously led France's opposition to the Iraq war and who, IMHO is the best diplomat the West has produced in decades.

This is so important, so incredibly well argued, that I decided to translate it in full:

"Hamas has set a trap for us, and this trap is one of maximum horror, of maximum cruelty. And so there's a risk of an escalation in militarism, of more military interventions, as if we could with armies solve a problem as serious as the Palestinian question.

There's also a second major trap, which is that of Occidentalism. We find ourselves trapped, with Israel, in this western bloc which today is being challenged by most of the international community.

[Presenter: What is Occidentalism?]

Occidentalism is the idea that the West, which for 5 centuries managed the world's affairs, will be able to quietly continue to do so. And we can clearly see, even in the debates of the French political class, that there is the idea that, faced with what is currently happening in the Middle East, we must continue the fight even more, towards what might resemble a religious or a civilizational war. That is to say, to isolate ourselves even more on the international stage.

This is not the way, especially since there's a third trap, which is that of moralism. And here we have in a way the proof, through what is happening in Ukraine and what is happening in the Middle East, of this double standard that is denounced everywhere in the world, including in recent weeks when I travel to Africa, the Middle East, or Latin America. The criticism is always the same: look at how civilian populations are treated in Gaza, you denounce what happened in Ukraine, and you are very timid in the face of the tragedy unfolding in Gaza.

Consider international law, the second criticism that is made by the global south. We sanction Russia when it aggresses Ukraine, we sanction Russia when it doesn't respect the resolutions of the United Nations, and it's been 70 years that the resolutions of the United Nations have been voted in vain and that Israel doesn't respect them.

[Presenter: Do you believe that the Westerners are currently guilty of hubris?]

Westerners must open their eyes to the extent of the historical drama unfolding before us to find the right answers.

[Presenter: What is the historical drama? I mean, we're talking about the tragedy of October 7th first and foremost, right?]

Of course, there are these horrors happening, but the way to respond to them is crucial. Are we going to kill the future by finding the wrong answers...

[Presenter: Kill the future?]

Kill the future, yes! Why?

[Presenter: But who is killing whom?]

You are in a game of causes and effects. Faced with the tragedy of history, one cannot take this 'chain of causality' analytical grid, simply because if you do you can't escape from it. Once we understand that there is a trap, once we realize that behind this trap there has also been a change in the Middle East regarding the Palestinian issue... The situation today is profoundly different [from what it was in the past]. The Palestinian cause was a political and secular cause. Today we are faced with an Islamist cause, led by Hamas. Obviously, this kind of cause is absolute and allows no form of negotiation. On the Israeli side, there has also been a development. Zionism was secular and political, championed by Theodor Herzl in the late 19th century. It has largely become messianic, biblical today. This means that they too do not want to compromise, and everything that the far-right Israeli government does, continuing to encourage colonization, obviously makes things worse, including since October 7th. So in this context, understand that we are already in this region facing a problem that seems profoundly insoluble.

Added to this is the hardening of states. Diplomatically, look at the statements of the King of Jordan, they are not the same as six months ago. Look at the statements of Erdogan in Turkey.

[Presenter: Precisely, these are extremely harsh statements...]

Extremely worrying. Why? Because if the Palestinian cause, the Palestinian issue, hasn't been brought to the forefront, hasn't been put on stage [for a while], and if most of the youth today in Europe have often never even heard of it, it remains for the Arab peoples the mother of all battles. All the progress made towards an attempt to stabilize the Middle East, where one could believe...

[Presenter: Yes, but whose fault is it? I have a hard time following you, is it Hamas's fault?]

But Ms. Malherbe, I am trained as a diplomat. The question of fault will be addressed by historians and philosophers.

[Presenter: But you can't remain neutral, it's difficult, it's complicated, isn't it?]

I am not neutral, I am in action. I am simply telling you that every day that passes, we can ensure that this horrific cycle stops... that's why I speak of a trap and that's why it's so important to know what response we are going to give. We stand alone before history today. And we do not treat this new world the way we currently do, knowing that today we are no longer in a position of strength, we are not able to manage on our own, as the world's policemen.

[Presenter: So what do we do?]

Exactly, what should we do? This is where it is essential not to cut off anyone on the international stage.

[Presenter: Including the Russians?]

Everyone.

[Presenter: Everyone? Should we ask the Russians for help?]

I'm not saying we should ask the Russians for help. I'm saying: if the Russians can contribute by calming some factions in this region, then it will be a step in the right direction.

[Presenter: How can we proportionally respond to barbarism? It's no longer army against army.]

But listen, Appolline de Malherbe, the civilian populations that are dying in Gaza, don't they exist? So because horror was committed on one side, horror must be committed on the other?

[Presenter: Do we indeed need to equate the two?]

No, it's you who are doing that. I'm not saying I equate the faults. I try to take into account what a large part of humanity thinks. There is certainly a realistic objective to pursue, which is to eradicate the Hamas leaders who committed this horror. And not to confuse the Palestinians with Hamas, that's a realistic goal.

The second thing is a targeted response. Let's define realistic political objectives. And the third thing is a combined response. Because there is no effective use of force without a political strategy. We are not in 1973 or in 1967. There are things no army in the world knows how to do, which is to win in an asymmetrical battle against terrorists. The war on terror has never been won anywhere. And it instead triggers extremely dramatic misdeeds, cycles, and escalations. If America lost in Afghanistan, if America lost in Iraq, if we lost in the Sahel, it's because it's a battle that can't be won simply, it's not like you have a hammer that strikes a nail and the problem is solved. So we need to mobilize the international community, get out of this Western entrapment in which we are.

[Presenter: But when Emmanuel Macron talks about an international coalition…]

Yes, and what was the response?

[Presenter: None.]

Exactly. We need a political perspective, and this is challenging because the two-state solution has been removed from the Israeli political and diplomatic program. Israel needs to understand that for a country with a territory of 20,000 square kilometers, a population of 9 million inhabitants, facing 1.5 billion people... Peoples have never forgotten that the Palestinian cause and the injustice done to the Palestinians was a significant source of mobilization. We must consider this situation, and I believe it is essential to help Israel, to guide... some say impose, but I think it's better to convince, to move in this direction. The challenge is that there is no interlocutor today, neither on the Israeli side nor the Palestinian side. We need to bring out interlocutors.

[Presenter: It's not for us to choose who will be the leaders of Palestine.]

The Israeli policy over recent years did not necessarily want to cultivate a Palestinian leadership... Many are in prison, and Israel's interest - because I repeat: it was not in their program or in Israel's interest at the time, or so they thought - was instead to divide the Palestinians and ensure that the Palestinian question fades. This Palestinian question will not fade. And so we must address it and find an answer. This is where we need courage. The use of force is a dead end. The moral condemnation of what Hamas did - and there's no "but" in my words regarding the moral condemnation of this horror - must not prevent us from moving forward politically and diplomatically in an enlightened manner. The law of retaliation is a never-ending cycle.

[Presenter: The "eye for an eye, tooth for tooth".]

Yes. That's why the political response must be defended by us. Israel has a right to self-defense, but this right cannot be indiscriminate vengeance. And there cannot be collective responsibility of the Palestinian people for the actions of a terrorist minority from Hamas.

When you get into this cycle of finding faults, one side's memories clash with the other's. Some will juxtapose Israel's memories with the memories of the Nakba, the 1948 catastrophe, which is a disaster that the Palestinians still experience every day. So you can't break these cycles. We must have the strength, of course, to understand and denounce what happened, and from this standpoint, there's no doubt about our position. But we must also have the courage, and that's what diplomacy is... diplomacy is about being able to believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel. And that's the cunning of history; when you're at the bottom, something can happen that gives hope. After the 1973 war, who would have thought that before the end of the decade, Egypt would sign a peace treaty with Israel?

The debate shouldn't be about rhetoric or word choice. The debate today is about action; we must act. And when you think about action, there are two options. Either it's war, war, war. Or it's about trying to move towards peace, and I'll say it again, it's in Israel's interest. It's in Israel's interest!"

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A Brief History of Kids Today Have Too Much Freedom

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[Susan Polgar @SusanPolgar]

This is insanely amazing! Out of the last 8 in the 2023 @FIDE_chess World Cup, 4 are from India 🇮🇳! @viditchess being the oldest is ONLY 28! @DGukesh @rpragchess @ArjunErigaisi are all TEENAGERS!

The US has 2 with Caruana & Dominguez, Carlsen, and host country hero Abasov. No Russian, Chinese, German, Ukrainian, French, Dutch, Armenia, Polish, and other top chess nations remain!

Photos by FIDE

[Bhooshan Shukla @docbhooshan]

#Parenting
In this 🧵 i am going to try and deconstruct one parental compulsion.

Why do parents quickly offer cognitive/logical solutions to difficult emotions and invalidate "feeling" of the child?

Pl read on -

[Bhooshan Shukla @docbhooshan]

Can there be ONE correct answer?
Of course NO !

Multiple different answers will serve equally well. They will be guided by child's verbal ability, emotional expression and pattern, past episodes and relationship with parent.

A correct method can help parents deal with various situations.
A 🧵-

[Alejandro Piad Morffis @alepiad]

Claiming ChatGPT 10x'd your productivity is not the flex you think it is.

As impressive as it is given its current capabilities, if you get 10x better performance from ChatGPT than a human on some task, that's gotta be either a damn boring task, or damn incapable human.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Complete bullshit.
Pardon my french.

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijit_MLab]

I generally avoid making non-academic comment on Twitter but being a queer person myself this topic is close to my heart (literally).
Let me list out what benefit a marriage gives to 0.1% (actually much more) of the citizen (that’s including me).
Contd.

[Varun C. MD, DM @drcheruvarun]

Short thread on what evidence means to us in medical field and why real doctors don't promote unproven and pseudoscientific Rx

Below is a classic example of a pseudoscience apologist who uses circular reasoning and appeals to ignorance to justify his stand against evidence 👇1/n