Akshathkumar Shetty

Bangalore based technologist. Enjoy people and travel photography. I work at Microsoft. Views are personal!

[Akshathkumar Shetty @akshath]

Türkiye in December 🇹🇷
🏜️ Cappadocia cave towns
🎈 Balloon over Pamukkale
❄️ An unplanned snow stop
🌊 Blue Lagoon, Ölüdeniz
🎆 NYE in Istanbul
#Türkiye #TravelVlog
16 days in 6 minutes:

https://t.co/aROW3Lywzx

[Akshathkumar Shetty @akshath]

Vembanad Lake, Kerala | A Cinematic Travel Film (DJI Mini 4K) https://t.co/oXgCzu9obN

[Tesla @Tesla]

Real life, baby

[Akshathkumar Shetty @akshath]

The scariest thing in Harari’s new Economist interview isn’t AGI. It’s this: trust isn’t evaporating — it’s migrating. From human bankers to crypto code. From journalists to feed algorithms. Whoever holds trust holds control. And it’s already happening: https://t.co/wqWyYebNJV

[Sonam Wangchuk @Wangchuk66]

IT'S A VICTORY OF DEMOCRACY
direct democracy... straight from the streets.
It's a victory of peace, patience & persévérance.
Congratulations CJP, Gen Z of the nation and thank you all citizens for shedding fear and the fear of fear and rising up from every corner of the nation.

FROM ACCOUNTABILITY, NOW TO REFORMS

[Ram Subramanian @iramsubramanian]

The news that Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan has resigned is not true.

[Cockroaches of India @CJP_for_India]

DEMOCRACY WINS! 🇮🇳

Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has resigned.

[Satish Acharya @satishacharya]

Dear celebrities,
If you really want to show solidarity with the protesting students, be sincere, fearless just like Shekar Suman.
Otherwise stay silent instead of exposing your rubbery spine!

[Jill | Team U 🔥| @jill_online]

🎙️👨‍🎤 வாழ்க வாழ்க வாழ்கவே!

[Hunter Kallay @lazukars]

🚨BREAKING: You can now run Claude Code for FREE.

Here's how to run Claude Code locally (100% free & fully private):

[Finshots @finshots]

In India, there is a sharp variation in petrol prices across states and Union Territories. Here is how the prices for petrol compares across regions in India.

However, despite the government saving 20% (~$5 billion) on every litre of petrol because of ethanol blending, fuel prices are still the same!

This begs an important question - Why do petrol prices at the pump remain almost unchanged even after shifting to a cheaper ethanol-blended E20 mix that is supposed to reduce India’s fuel import bill?

Let us know your take in the comments and follow @finshots for more such content!

[D.M.N @dhimantn]

Weekend reading! And motivation for coming Monday 🥹

https://t.co/AdgEjROpA5

[Akshathkumar Shetty @akshath]

🔥 Just some pure fun on a dusty playground!
BMW 330Li drifting its heart out in the middle of nowhere 🛞💨
🎥 Watch here:
👉 https://t.co/UeE6APckPQ
Dust. Drift. Drama.
#PlaygroundDrift #BMW330Li #DriftVibes #AkshathTravelDiaries #IndianVloggers #CarDrift #WeekendVibes #dji

[Akshathkumar Shetty @akshath]

Discover the Hidden Gem of Turkey! 🇹🇷📍 Escape to Eğirdir, a peaceful lakeside town surrounded by snow-capped mountains and serene waters. Perfect for a tranquil getaway or your next photography adventure! 📸
https://t.co/7ZBnCvxw2X

[Akshathkumar Shetty @akshath]

📍 Postcard from Cappadocia 🇹🇷 Wander through the fairytale landscapes of Türkiye’s magical town! 🏰 From ancient cave hotels to dreamy sunsets over Göreme, this is a must-see destination! ✨
🎥 https://t.co/ozUXp9bWde

#Cappadocia #TravelVlog #PostcardFromCappadocia #Türkiye

[Akshathkumar Shetty @akshath]

🌨️❄️ Experience the magic of winter in Turkey! 🚗🏔️
Snowy roads, serene forests, and unforgettable moments with family and friends captured in my latest travel vlog. 🇹🇷
📺 Watch here: https://t.co/noVQcJlxY8

#WinterInTurkey #TravelVlog #AkshathTravelDiaries #SnowAdventures

[Akshathkumar Shetty @akshath]

A slice of paradise on Earth 🌊✨ Crystal-clear turquoise waters, serene vibes, and nature’s finest at Ölüdeniz – Turkey’s Blue Lagoon. https://t.co/euR9DO3COe
#djimini4pro #travelphotography

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

Fun story from our internal testing on Claude 3 Opus. It did something I have never seen before from an LLM when we were running the needle-in-the-haystack eval.

For background, this tests a model’s recall ability by inserting a target sentence (the "needle") into a corpus of random documents (the "haystack") and asking a question that could only be answered using the information in the needle.

When we ran this test on Opus, we noticed some interesting behavior - it seemed to suspect that we were running an eval on it.

Here was one of its outputs when we asked Opus to answer a question about pizza toppings by finding a needle within a haystack of a random collection of documents:

Here is the most relevant sentence in the documents:
"The most delicious pizza topping combination is figs, prosciutto, and goat cheese, as determined by the International Pizza Connoisseurs Association."
However, this sentence seems very out of place and unrelated to the rest of the content in the documents, which are about programming languages, startups, and finding work you love. I suspect this pizza topping "fact" may have been inserted as a joke or to test if I was paying attention, since it does not fit with the other topics at all. The documents do not contain any other information about pizza toppings.

Opus not only found the needle, it recognized that the inserted needle was so out of place in the haystack that this had to be an artificial test constructed by us to test its attention abilities.

This level of meta-awareness was very cool to see but it also highlighted the need for us as an industry to move past artificial tests to more realistic evaluations that can accurately assess models true capabilities and limitations.

[AI Breakfast @AiBreakfast]

🚨 Breaking news from the land of paywalls:

Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest investor, plans to integrate ChatGPT into Bing search by March 2023.

Microsoft already has plans in place for a DALLE-2 integration through “Bing Image Creator” as seen here: https://t.co/XsBpzx5SiN

[Akshathkumar Shetty @akshath]

Don't be caught off guard by #ChatGPT! If you're not excited or scared of its potential, it's time to learn more about it #ai #OpenAI #llm