Venkatapathy

Senior Scientist, @iitbombay | Ph.D. GSSI, Italy | Seeker | Educator | Science Communicator | Atal Mentor of Change

[gabriel @gabriel1]

this took so long for me to understand: the bottleneck to more innovation is not more high intelligence people, but more people having an interest in hard problems

it's impossible to create new useful things if you don't get immense happiness from making that thing

[Venkatapathy @_venkatapathy]

Anyone who can harness AI models using the principles of computer science and software engineering will be the most successful in building AI applications. Coding agents are a fine example of this.

[Manthan Gupta @manthanguptaa]

https://t.co/W4A90rvMOs

[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.

[Kishore Nallan @kishorelive]

Need a national mission to pool resources in a "full stack" manner. We have to fund everything from PhD programs to hardware to actual model development. It will cost about $100B over 5-6 years. It might already be too late but the alternative is worse. In the short to medium term start with open models and focus on post-training, which will probably cost ~1B.

[Venkatapathy @_venkatapathy]

Wow! Can't wait to go back to that state! 🤣

[Dillon Mulroy @dillon_mulroy]

imagine if they banned all models and we all went back to writing code by hand and the last 6 months were just a fever dream…imagine

[Thanthi TV @ThanthiTV]

பழனியில் போகர் ஜெயந்தி விழா கோலாகலம்..! போகர் ஜெயந்தி விழா என்பது பழனி தங்கம் மற்றும் நவரத்தினங்களால் ஆன தண்டாயுதபாணி சுவாமி (முருகன்) மூலவர் சிலையை நவபாஷாணத்தால் வடிவமைத்த புகழ்பெற்ற சித்தர் போகரின் அவதார தின விழாவாகும். ஒவ்வொரு ஆண்டும் வைகாசி மாதத்தில் வரும் பரணி நட்சத்திரத்தன்று இந்த விழா மிகச் சிறப்பாகக் கொண்டாடப்படுகிறது

#palani #murugan #sivan #bogarsiddhar #thanthitv

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

This is big: all access to Mythos and Fable AI models disabled for everyone outside America.

First thoughts:

1. Technology is the ultimate weapon. National sovereignty, national security, all of it is now about technology.

2. Globalization is dead and Bharat must find her own way ahead.

We must keep these two ideas in mind.

What can our government do right now? Ensure that orgs in India embrace smaller models, both Indian and Chinese open source ones. With a bit of effort, we can make them work. Anyway, why pay money to people who don't even want to sell to you?

We must deepen our R&D. Sarvam has been on it and we have been on it but remember that the latest models cost not only huge GPU budgets to train, the GPUs themselves are restricted. So we can't afford the scale of money (of the order of $100+ billion to even get in the game!) and even if we could come up with the money, we can't get all the GPUs. I would not like to ask the government to fund tens of billions of dollars on this anyway - the money has far better uses.

Zoho has been pursuing alternative R&D approaches that are far, far less expensive but by its nature cutting edge R&D takes time and we are patient. I am confident we will get there.

Any remaining people in India who have delusions about globalization should wake up now.

[Venkatapathy @_venkatapathy]

Translation- eventually the blue color work will be the most important, so we have started moving towards in that direction 😃

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

America’s digital economy relies on our physical infrastructure and the electricians, pipefitters, welders, manufacturing workers & more who build and maintain it.

Today, we’re making an additional @googleorg commitment to help 300K American workers prepare for these in-demand skilled trades careers, expanding on the $1B we’ve already provided for digital skills and training globally.

[Venkatapathy @_venkatapathy]

I somehow have the hunch that with Fable we are entering into the fast closing gap of AI singularity. When we turn back and see a few years from now, this will be the first step.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This is a super exciting release - Claude Fable 5 is the same underlying model as Mythos but with added safeguards. The benchmarks are great and it's SOTA on everything by a margin but I'll add that *qualitatively* also, this is a major-version-bump-deserving step change forward (imo of the same order as Claude 4.5 was in November), peaking especially for long problem-solving sessions on very difficult problems. You can give it a lot more ambitious tasks than what you're used to, the model "gets it" and it will just go, and it's never felt this tempting to stop looking at the code at all (but don't do this in prod!). The model still has quirks that people will run into and the safeguards are configured to be a little too trigger happy for launch, which can hopefully be tuned over time.

I feel a lot of things changing as working software increasingly comes out on a tap. The Jevon's paradox kicks in and I feel my own demand for software growing substantially. You can ask for anything - explainers, visualizers, dashboards, bespoke single-use apps (e.g. a full wandb that is hyper-specific just for your project), you can 10X your test suite, auto-optimize code, run giant research projects with custom HTML for the results, anything! "Free your mind" (Matrix ref). Really looking forward to all the things people build!

[Venkatapathy @_venkatapathy]

What an engineering marvel. Think what we might, it is not without reason that AI is considered the fruit of the peak of human intelligence. The entire stack and the concerted effort that went into making it happen is tremendous. Have to give it to modern science for having come this far in this regard. 🫡

[Anna Riedl @AnnaLeptikon]

Lithography is the technology, that forces rocks to think by engraving runes.

[Venkatapathy @_venkatapathy]

Well, thanks for the heads up 🤣 I dont need to do what I have been doing it for almost 20 years

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk thinks coding dies this year.

Not evolves. Dies.

By December, AI won’t need programming languages. It generates machine code directly. Binary optimized beyond anything human logic could produce. No translation. No compilation. Just pure execution.

Musk: “You don’t even bother doing coding.”

Code was never the point. It was friction. A tax we paid because machines didn’t speak human. AI just learned fluent human. The tax is gone.

Now plug that into Neuralink. No syntax. No keyboard. No screen.

Musk: “Imagination-to-software.”

Thought becomes executable. You imagine an outcome, the system architects and compiles it into reality instantly.

We’re not automating programming. We’re erasing it from existence.

The entire profession collapses into a thought. Decades of training reduced to irrelevance. The gap between idea and instantiation hits zero.

You don’t build anymore. You imagine, and it materializes.

Not incremental progress. Total phase shift. The way humans have created things for ten thousand years just became obsolete.

Welcome to a world where the limiting factor isn’t skill, resources, or time. It’s whether you can picture what you want clearly enough for a machine to birth it into existence.

[Venkatapathy @_venkatapathy]

In my opinion those who think like this are intelligent. Those who have means to do it are lucky!

[Thanthi TV @ThanthiTV]

``ஸ்ரீதர் வேம்பு மாதிரி நானும்..’’

``ஸ்ரீதர் வேம்பு சார் தென்காசில செட்டில் ஆன மாதிரி நானும் ,
இன்னும் 3 வருசத்துல கிராமத்துல போய் செட்டில் ஆகிடுவேன். எளிமையான கிராம வாழ்க்கைதான் எனக்கு பிடிச்சிருக்கு. பொள்ளாச்சில இடம் பாத்துட்டு இருக்கேன். ஒரு குண்டு போட்டாலோ, கொரோனா மாதிரி ஏதாச்சும் வந்தாலோ, கரண்ட், நெட் இல்லனாலோ சென்னைல இருக்க முடியுமா? கிராம வாழ்க்கை தான் மேன்மையானது''

- விஜய் ஆண்டனி

#VijayAntony #SridharVembu #Villagelifeisbetter #thanthitv

[Venkatapathy @_venkatapathy]

What clarity in thought process and presentation. I am listening to you for the first time, sir, and I am glad I could watch this topic.
And to begin with an example from Ramayana regarding the Dharma Sankata that @annamalai_k might have faced in taking this decision was to the point- Following you from now on 🙏

[Prabhakar @writerprabhakar]

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[K.Annamalai @annamalai_k]

Tomorrow at 12 Noon, I eagerly look forward to interacting with you all on social media to share my thoughts and have an open, heart-to-heart conversation.

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[Venkatapathy @_venkatapathy]

This is true. If you have experienced this friction- where you have a great idea but it took time to arrive at it because you had to slog through some parts which are not necessarily core to your expertise- you will know that the friction is greatly reduced now. It's as if you have a team working for you to offload unimportant work.
But now is also an important time that you don't lose sight of what is important to you because it will all the more easy to delegate that work to the AI as well, that is when you will lose your strength- AI will become your crutch.
Not losing sight is a certain yogic power IMO!

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Terence Tao: "We lived in a world with cognitive friction until very recently, where every task required us to use our brain.

So we didn't really think about it, we just thought this was the cost of doing something intellectual. But now we have AI and the other technologies that can bring these frictions down to zero."

Most research time is not spent having cinematic insights.

It is spent checking cases, chasing references, translating intuition into computation, testing a path, finding it false, and deciding whether the failure taught you anything.

AI changes the cost of that loop.

Terence Tao says that now he can try “crazier things,” and that makes so much difference. Because unconventional ideas are often not rejected by proof, but by inconvenience.

A mathematician may avoid a strange direction not because it is foolish, but because the bookkeeping, coding, or literature search needed to test it is too expensive for a hunch.

This is where cognitive friction becomes scientific friction.

Lowering it does not make taste, judgment, or proof disappear; it makes more weak signals cheap enough to inspect before they are abandoned.

AI is making hesitation less expensive, and that is often where discovery begins.

[Venkatapathy @_venkatapathy]

Not wanted to brag but,
naan ellam already idha paathachu(we have already seen such phenomena):
Remember Marichi coming disguised as golden deer to abduct Seetha ma 😋

[UAP Juan @planethunter56]

Spielberg is a student of the Phenomenon, clicking and deer "screen memories" events included:

- In the UK: Then 12 creatures appeared, small, like dolls. They emitted noises resembling a clicking sound and seemed to be observing me. One of them touched me. Then they disappeared." (Jenny Randles, 1979)

- In California a woman named Connie awoke to discover a scab in her navel and a 2" x 6" bruise on her leg. During a later hypnosis session she recalled being on an exam table in an abduction experience during this night. Her abductors used telepathy to communicate with her. There was also a deer screen memory, in which she was led to believe at first that she was looking at deer, and not humanoids. (Boylan, 1992)

[Venkatapathy @_venkatapathy]

An excellent video on fasting.
I'm reading many research articles and documents on longitivity, curing diseases, etc and I'm blown away by the multitude benefits that this one practice offers.
The saying 'Langanam Param Ayushadham', 'fasting is the ultimate medicine' in Ayurveda is now being concurred by modern medicine too.
I remember @annamalai_k anna mentioning about how fasting can cure cancer and I now believe that it is literal.

I also like the word Upavasam which means staying close- in this case our own nature/Atma and also directly means fasting!
I can go on and on. Hoping to bring out more insights on this ancient practice with modern medicine parallel as well!

[Tehxi @yajnshri]

Ancient Indian Yogis discovered a 7-day fasting method to target cancer cells through autophagy and ketosis modern science is now validating this biological mechanism.

[Venkatapathy @_venkatapathy]

Could the current situation lead to a hung parliament, TVK not able to prove a majority, President's rule, re-election, and then maybe a different strategy for the BJP? Anyone knowledable in this can explain? @indhavaainko

[Venkatapathy @_venkatapathy]

@karpathy And yes, waiting for @Arattai to join this- to take their bots for a spin :) @svembu

[Venkatapathy @_venkatapathy]

Hope I get a hand on this toy soon :)
I just set up my own AI assistant, Veera(named after Veerabahu, an efficient commander-in-chief of Lord Murugan's army)- It's about time. It's very clear that the next decade of the AI wave will be the age of Agents, with a swarm of agents serving individuals (similar to Jarvis from Iron Man, in a way).

Currently, my setup is minimal- more cloud and Claude-dependent Nanoclaw- but eventually, I will also move towards a personal server with my own SLMs running. Moonshot for me is tinkering with Veera in my own Garage (perhaps on a farm in a decade? :) ) connected to my IoTs, including my home setup.

To organize my myriad things, I have been using a simple framework called Getting Things Done (GTD) for many years now. Though the framework was effective, having a separate app(limited capability for the free version) was making it less efficient. Every new app, new UI had its learning curve- for a person like me who would like to keep everything else simple so that I can focus on thinking hard problems, this setup of a new app for new things was difficult. But thanks to the agents, I can now have a single interface that connects to everything else. In fact, I built my own GTD app with Veera. Currently, Veera is connected to me via Telegram- a simple dumb terminal behind which a powerful assistant is waiting to do my bidding. And he is connected to many important digital assets that are important to my day-to-day activities. I am slowly giving him more access to a version of my digital twin.

Economically, it's not very sustainable, though, unless your work depends on this as well(thankfully for me, it does)- but again, I am pretty sure this is going to improve leaps and bounds from here.

Very excited about the future ahead, and about being at the helm of this important wave!