Ajay

A Broken Plane. A Broken Dream. A Broken Heart. A Broken Team. No Word Said. A Silent Vow. We Loved You Then. We Love You Now.

[Somnath Mukherjee @somnath1978]

90bn gross FDI - if global confidence "low", are these suckers putting in such large amts of capital to play?

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

Here’s some unsolicited advice to the government on what to do to help boost India’s sovereign model story.

1. Mandate domestic models for all non-critical functions

Government needs to be a guaranteed buyer for homegrown models. There are tons of applications that don’t require SOTA performance. (To be clear, for mission-critical use-cases, using anything other than SOTA would be a shortsighted decision)

China got ahead because of their domestic demand (Anthropic and OpenAI models don’t work there).

2. Release massive distillations of chain-of-thought of SOTA Chinese models on diverse prompts (and post-process to remove China bias)

Inference is easy and cheap. So the government should simply create a national public repository of SOTA reasoning chains in order to prevent each model creator doing it separately. Centralize and absorb the cost.

Thinking Machines (US company) did finetuning on Kimi 2.5 to bootstrap reasoning. Indian model companies would do the same, and government can help by footing the bill.

3. Procure diverse RL environments and release them publicly

Modern frontier models train on 100k+ RL environments having 10s of tasks each. These RL environments are driving most of the progress. Model companies pay billions of dollars for procuring them. Government should simply centralize and absorb this cost.

4. Give full travel sponsorship to Indian authors with A* conference accepts

If an Indian gets into NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR main conference, simply sponsor them to attend the conference to present their paper. It’s rounding error in govt’s budget as ~100 Indian papers get into such conferences (0.3-0.5% of papers are Indian primary authors), but would go a long way in establishing a culture of basic R&D which is required to go beyond the frontier in next 5-10 years.

[Julien Chaumond @julien_c]

protesting efforts to ban open source is not the same as requiring everything to be open source, though, is it?

[Somnath Mukherjee @somnath1978]

Instead of multiple exams, there shd be 1 multi-facet exam (SAT, GAOKAO style). Fully computerised, conducted 3-4 times/yr. Unis can supplement the exam score w/normalised Class XII marks. Well within India's genius to get this done w/o failures...

[darpan @darpunn]

Ever since I was born it has been my dream to get margin called on amul gold pasteurised full cream milk derivatives

[Buggy Human @SridharanAnand]

YoYa articulates why I have zero sympathy or support for street violence. Unemployable malcontents who can't win a municipal poll have wet dreams of seizing power via this route, without the inconvenience of convincing plebs to vote for them. That should remain a dream.

[Bangalore Metro Updates @WF_Watcher]

The Sun is setting, and so are the hopes of the #PinkLine Metro opening in August. This shouldn’t be a surprise because delays have become all too familiar.

📍Jayadeva Hospital Metro station 🚉

[Anshu @anshuc]

extremely unprofessional. if kimi wants to make it as a frontier lab, they need to act like one: perhaps silently route people to worse models, and maybe write a blog post about the collapse of humanity

[ཊལབསརངཧ @David_Rudnick]

In that split second Enzo Fernandez has only one choice. Yes, he can lose his nation the World Cup. But then he would miss the chance to commit an amazing, amazing, incredible foul. And if you understand Enzo Fernandez, you would understand he never even had a choice to make

[Toni Kroos @ToniKroos]

Football won

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

what a privilege.

[Skyroot Aerospace @SkyrootA]

Hello space, we have arrived! Vikram-1's Test Flight-1 has completed it's mission.

The first ever Indian private sector launch has been successfully completed.

#Vikram1 #MissionAagaman #OpeningSpaceForAll

[Somnath Mukherjee @somnath1978]

Err, macro conditions are abt 180 degress frm 2013 - both fisc and CAD are at moderate levels, inflation hovers arnd RBI target levels. We have a pure lqdty issue, tools need to focus on that rather than a heavy hammer clamping down on demand...

[Richard Artoul @richardartoul]

OpenAI and Anthropic right now

[TCM Sundaram @tcmsundaram]

It is silly of Bengaluru Airport to force passengers taking private taxis only to walk 15 mins from exit till P4 parking, while allowing pvt cars, app based taxis near exit, just bcoz it had not planned a multi-level car parking across from exit, and built retail space instead.

[Sreemoy Talukdar @sreemoytalukdar]

Brits are seething. Brits (like Vaughan or Brook) who give lecture to the BCCI on including Pakistani players in IPL.

[Ram @ramprasad_c]

Free power. MSP. No income tax. Low interest loans. Subsidised seeds and fertilisers. Annadata is the most ridiculous term to be used for Indian farmers.

[Deepak Shenoy @deepakshenoy]

Amazing, India has a current account surplus for May also!

And we were hit mostly because of 12 bn usd going out from fpis.

Massive 29bn came from remittances and 34 bn net exports.

Not trade, it's flows. This is reassuring

[Da7em @Da7_Tech]

I criticize OpenAI more than most people, but credit where it’s due.

I hit my usage limit about 2 hours into a task. Codex kept going and finished the whole thing after more than 9 hours total.

That’s over 7 hours of work after my limit was already gone.

Anthropic would never.

[ChristinMathewPhilip @ChristinMP_]

Karnataka Transport Minister @byrathi_suresh should answer when NCMC will be rolled out in BMTC for cashless travel & when 4,500 e-buses sanctioned under PM E-DRIVE scheme will be launched. If state government does not want to induct these buses, what are the alternative plans? @CMofKarnataka