@jsensarma “this will not lead to a casteless society - in fact in my experience - it forces those who don't want to have anything to do with caste - to become conscious of it.” - beautiful 🫡
While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.
@_svs_@pratiknagariya Sir ye thoda jyada ho gaya.
It’s a tough problem to solve, but reservation isn’t the solution. Reservation right now seems to be the privilege to fight against the privileged. It’s ironic.
When I watched the Ecuador coach celebrate so passionately after his team's victory over Germany yesterday, I was reminded of a profound truth often associated with Napoleon Hill:
"The most powerful mastermind alliance a man will ever form is in his marriage. A woman, rightly chosen, aligned in vision, and honored in spirit, can make a man unbreakable. But a woman wrongly chosen or unaligned in purpose will drain him of vision, strip him of confidence, and sentence him to spiritual poverty.
Many men fall not because of failure in business, but because of conflict in the home. They rise with vision only to have it mocked. They speak with clarity only to have it questioned. They act with courage only to be met with resistance. This is not partnership. This is war. And a man at war with his household cannot build peace outside of it.
But when a woman supports a man's purpose, when she believes in his destiny, when she reflects his greatness before the world sees it, that woman becomes the mastermind in motion. Her energy fuels him. Her intuition sharpens him. Her peace steadies him. Her presence becomes a sanctuary. And the man with that kind of partner is dangerous to every limitation.
You must choose this alliance with wisdom. And if you are already in one, you must train it, not ignore it. Share your aim. Speak your plan. Invite her insight. Draw strength from her spirit. This is not weakness. This is wisdom. This is law."
Don’t let your life 'narrow'.
I’ve been an orthopedic surgeon for 30 years. The thing I watch happen to people — more than any injury or surgery — is what I call the narrowing.
Most of my patients have no idea it’s happening. They think it’s just aging. It’s not...
It is easy to pick on lack of hard-tech because it's so glaring.
But consequences of abundant intelligence will make freedom to innovate, to build business, to take things to market and move money easily, for the need for infra (whether roads or judges) - much much more important - in ways that are not glaring right now.
Consider an analog:
- Before invention of motorized transport - human movement over land was limited by speed and capacity of horses/bullocks.
- That meant some parity across nations in moving people/goods. horses just needed dirt tracks. everyone had dirt tracks (except rain-forests).
- Once motorized transport came in - we suddenly needed asphalt and rails. cross country highways.
These were largely public works. Those who built them were able to take true advantage of motorized transport.
Something similar will happen with AI
- Earlier the bottleneck in 'production' of many things was the intelligence and human time required to build it.
A business plan, designers/architects, hiring, putting an office/factory together, coding/executing, marketing etc. etc.
- What super-abundant intelligence will do is compress some of these steps to near zero. (and we haven't even entered the era of abundant robots).
- When some stages get compressed - the bottleneck will shift to remaining stages.
The overhead of GST/MCA filings, commuting, tax audits etc may have been 1/10th of an earlier execution path length. As path length shorten - maybe they become 1/5th. (see Amdahl's Law)
Countries where regulatory burdens are minimal and who can provide smooth infrastructure businesses need, will prosper - as new products/services are launched with breathtaking speed.
Countries who are stuck in bureaucratic past, with poor infrastructure - will find that their economic gap from more business friendly countries - is increasing. Because their overheads are becoming even more of a bottleneck than before.
All this is not visible and in the news. What is in the news is the LLM, the GPU. These are the Steam Engine, the Mercedes, the Ford of our era.
But what will matter equally eventually, or perhaps even more, is the Rail and the Asphalt.
@krishashok Krish. Question - are you saying no benefit of fish oil if the baseline is good enough (for things that omega helps in) or is this a blanket statement ?
@Codie_Sanchez That ratio doesn’t work in India - even for the most sensible people. Ofcourse, part of the reason is that it’s an emotional thing in India.
@MrinaliniArora Bad intent marketing is always about playing with the negative / weak emotions. One justifies it saying “human behaviour”. What’s new ??
@MrinaliniArora The theory is - “the child is bright and doesn’t need to work hard / everyday”. The indexing is on smartness not career (that’s just outcome).
I must confess that until recently I had never heard of Phool Dei, a spring festival that was celebrated yesterday in the villages of Uttarakhand.
Children gather fresh flowers from the hills and go from house to house placing them on doorsteps, offering a blessing for the household:
“Phool Dei, Chhamma Dei,
Deni Dwar, Bhar Bhakar…” roughly wishing the home prosperity.
In return they receive sweets.
It reminded me a little of Halloween in the U.S., where children go door to door saying “trick or treat.” But what a lovely contrast. Here the children arrive not threatening a prank, or asking first, but giving first. Flowers.
In an age when we speak so much about environmental consciousness, this graceful celebration of spring and nature deserves to be far more widely known.
Just as Holi travelled across India and the world, perhaps Phool Dei should too.
For me, the children of Uttarakhand are my #MondayMotivation
I will never understand Indian fitness influencers who live in Mumbai and Bangalore who wear hoodies. It’s not even close enough to be cold to wear one.