Apurva Chandarana

Computer science graduate. I enjoy reading fantasy, crime and mystery books.

[Rozy @bolymach]

لاحظت أن من يبدأ في تعديل جسمه بالرياضة
مايكتفي فيها ابد
تلقاه فجأه يبدأ في تعديل حياته كلها كأن الجسد يستعيد توازنه و يرسل إشارة للعقل بأن التغيير ممكن فيبدأ وقتها الإنسان بالاهتمام بنومه وأكله ووقته وابسط تصرفاته في الالتزام والانضباط

الرياضه حرفيا إعادة بناء نمط حياة جديد

[𝜗℘ @lacedli]

The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

Jeff Bezos: "It's generally human nature to overestimate risk and underestimate opportunity."

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

All the countries that have won the World Cup fall into this triangle

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

I have seen people purchase many books, bookmark endless links, and save a ton of papers, and yet end up feeling stuck and doing nothing.

Many are confused and completely unsure of what to choose first, and this stems from the fear of leaving something important behind. Here's what I would recommend...

You just need to start with one. Have a strong bias for action and simply begin. Which one to prioritize is a personal choice, but it should align with what matters most to you right now:

- something that helps with your current work,
- something that supports your future plans, or
- something you are simply curious about.

When you feel overwhelmed, pause and ask yourself: "Why should I spend time on this right now?" If you do not have a clear, strong answer, the default is no. Only move forward if you can truly convince yourself it's worth it at this moment.

Remember, clarity is in saying no.

Hope this helps.

[Apurva Chandarana @apurva0211]

Greatest ever to grace a circuit 🏎️

[Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton]

REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE

[Apurva Chandarana @apurva0211]

The challenges analysed in this paper could become a good domain to invest into. Not only money but worth taking a bet in terms of work as well

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Google DeepMind published a 60-page paper mapping the road from AGI to superintelligence, written by Hutter, Legg, and Genewein. No hype, just a sober analysis

The paper uses three levels. AGI = roughly average human performance across most cognitive tasks. ASI = a system that beats large, well-coordinated groups of human experts across virtually everything (their bar: tens of thousands of experts working ten years on one problem). Universal AI / AIXI = the theoretical ceiling, uncomputable, only approachable from below.

Then they explore the question of how this could be achieved:

Scaling compute, models, and data, the continuation of the trend that drove the breakthrough so far. It is the only path with historical data available for extrapolation. The core question: Does quantity transform into quality? Even if individual models plateau, the sheer act of running millions of faster AGI instances could trigger the leap. (A quick aside: that is a fascinating philosophical idea. It always reminds me of Hegel’s dialectic, the notion that quantity transforms into quality. We ought to start drawing on philosophical theories to make sense of the future.)

Algorithmic paradigm shifts: a genuine break from the transformer pretraining paradigm. New architectures, new learning methods. However, hard to predict by definition.

Recursive self-improvement: AI accelerates AI research, which produces better AI, which accelerates research further.

Multi-agent coordination: superintelligence emerges from large collectives of AGI agents working together, like automated corporations or AI economies. Collective intelligence potentially far exceeding any individual model.

The authors naturally point to what I repeatedly describe as the biggest bottleneck: energy. I recently linked to a few graphs showing, on the one hand, the extent to which energy is already becoming a problem and, on the other, how China dominates the expansion of both nuclear and solar energy in the global race. But the authors also address a profound shift in the world of work in a post-AGI era. I would say this is a reality we must face.

So, it is not just about scaling, but also about whether the underlying conditions - such as energy and hardware - can be effectively established.

Six things that could slow or stop all of this:

The data wall. Quality training data runs out, possibly before the end of this decade.

Resource demand grows too fast. Energy, chips, rare earths, investment. The physical infrastructure can't scale arbitrarily.

The neural paradigm hits a ceiling. Pretrained transformers plus fine-tuning may not be enough to reach AGI, let alone go beyond it.

Research gets harder. Keeping Moore's law going already needs 18x more researchers than in the 1970s. Ideas are genuinely harder to find as fields mature.

The abstraction barrier. Models trained on human concepts may never invent new ones from scratch. Saturating GPQA or SWE-bench shows mastery of what humans already worked out, not the ability to go beyond it. Train only on pre-Newtonian physics and you won't reason your way to relativity.

Deliberate slowdown. Regulation, accidents, public backlash. Real, but likely countered by the competitive pressure between companies and nations.

I think it’s great that Google is addressing questions such as which paths they believe lead to AGI, what the road to ASI might look like, what challenges will arise, and much more. Overall, however, it sounds to me like all of this could actually succeed, making it, in that sense, a call to discuss and reflect on the consequences.

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

i believe in re-reading and re-watching your favourite books & movies at different stages of your life. the plot never changes, but your perspective does.

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

Your fitness and enthusiasm for life is a better indicator of your age than the number of revolutions around the sun.

[Rajvi @rajvishah30]

today someone in office said that “worrying is the worst way to use your imagination” and that’s easily the best thing Ive heard all week

[Apurva Chandarana @apurva0211]

Beautifully written

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Noam Brown @polynoamial]

After AlphaGo, the skill of human Go players noticeably improved. I suspect we will see a similar pattern in math.

[Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee]

Whose f*cking permission are you waiting for?

Go do your thing. You're going to die.

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

"you can outsource your thinking, but you can’t outsource your understanding"

easy to forget in todays AI era, worth remembering everyday as we all wield more intelligence!

[Apurva Chandarana @apurva0211]

The traveller will meet his luck

[du @thedulab]

I'm a firm believer that everything always works out as long as you stay in motion. You don't even have to know what you're doing. You often won't. Just avoid spending the majority of your time in your head

Go out and talk to people. Tinker with shiny objects that stoke your curiosity. Follow excitement without judgement. Collect a story to tell. Don't label and categorize activities or wonder if you're being productive or not. Simply do things because you can and be engaged with whatever you're doing

If you can end each day having gained a bit more interestingness, absorbed a bit more inspiration, or experienced a bit more life, all is well. Embodying this feeling is all that's required for you to rest easy knowing you got ahead, because forward progress is measured by the energy you radiate rather than the outcomes you see

Now it's merely a simple matter of continuing to get ahead. Light on your feet, surrendering to the flow of reality. The path will appear in front of you. Lucky breaks, unpredictable blessings, lightbulb moments abound. Not a matter of if, but when. Trust yourself. Enjoy the journey. God will never lead you astray

[du @thedulab]

I'm a firm believer that everything always works out as long as you stay in motion. You don't even have to know what you're doing. You often won't. Just avoid spending the majority of your time in your head

Go out and talk to people. Tinker with shiny objects that stoke your curiosity. Follow excitement without judgement. Collect a story to tell. Don't label and categorize activities or wonder if you're being productive or not. Simply do things because you can and be engaged with whatever you're doing

If you can end each day having gained a bit more interestingness, absorbed a bit more inspiration, or experienced a bit more life, all is well. Embodying this feeling is all that's required for you to rest easy knowing you got ahead, because forward progress is measured by the energy you radiate rather than the outcomes you see

Now it's merely a simple matter of continuing to get ahead. Light on your feet, surrendering to the flow of reality. The path will appear in front of you. Lucky breaks, unpredictable blessings, lightbulb moments abound. Not a matter of if, but when. Trust yourself. Enjoy the journey. God will never lead you astray

[Naval @naval]

What you really want is a challenge at the edge of your capability.

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

a failure mode i am seeing lately.

with llms, it's easy to get an illusion of understanding by substituting precise low-level details (that matter) with coarse high-level analogies.

it's an illusion because such understanding falls apart when you try to use or apply it.

[Mubbu @wizofecom]

Had a wealthy friend tell me that the ability to decrease time to any outcome is the one skill behind every successful person he knows.

A few I apply constantly:

- Decreasing the time it takes you to get out of a bad state will make you emotionally resilient

- Decreasing the time it takes you to go from idea to executive will make you wealthy

- Decreasing the time it takes you to turn a failure into a lesson will thicken your skin faster than anything else

[Apurva Chandarana @apurva0211]

Maybe this is the fountain of youth we've been looking for

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is it.
Everything learned spending millions on longevity.

From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie.
To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews.

0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
1. Be in your bed for 8 hours
2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight
3. Don’t eat right before bed
4. Calm foods for dinner
5. No screens 1 hour before bed
6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything)
7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store
8. Avoid fried foods
9. Shoes off at the door
10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries
11. Walk a little after meals or air squats
12. Get your heart rate high routinely
13. Lift heavy things
14. Stretch daily
15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night
16. Make an effort to drink water
17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low)
18. Protect skin in midday sun
19. Stand up straight
20. See at least one friend once a week
21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things)
22. Circulate air in rooms
23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body
24. Go to the dentist
25. Avoid sitting for long times
26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud
27. Alcohol is bad for you
28. Finish coffee before noon
29. Avoid bright lights after sunset
30. If obese, look into a GLP
31. Sleep in a cold room
32. Texting while driving is dangerous
33. Turn off all notifications
34. Limit social media use
35. Don’t smoke anything
36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed
37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music
38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule.
39. Avoid long distance travel where you can
40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly
41. Do less… most things don’t work.

Bonus points if you get your blood checked.

Start here, it will change your life.