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[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

The DMK ecosystem is attacking me that the school issue I reported was a lie I concocted to help the TVK government. Let me state the facts.

We run two rural schools, both free NIOS schools under the Kalaivani Kalvi Maiyam umbrella, one in rural Tenkasi and the other in rural Theni.

The Theni school was originally started and run by a retired IPS officer, a honest and upright man. He built very nice facilities but had to shut down his CBSE school because the state government demanded too much money to issue the NOC. He told me that as a honest retired officer he did not have the money to pay and they would not issue the NOC otherwise.

He urged us to take over his trust so we could run our free NIOS school in the premises. That is how we started our NIOS school in Theni.

Unlike in Tenkasi, where I live, the Theni school faced occasional harassment from the DMK government because we did not have a state government registration, so we tried getting state government approval again (this time for the state board) and that of course would also cost money. So it was in a limbo.

Meanwhile in Tenkasi we wanted to build new school facilities (we were operating in make-shift facilities, the ones that came in frequent photos) and we applied for DTCP approval to construct the new buildings. Everyone who knows DTCP in our state knows what kind of corruption happened there under the DMK.

We waited patiently for DTCP approval for the new school buildings but the approval never came as long as the DMK was in power. The approval came automatically once the government changed.

It is this DTCP approval that I posted about in X. I want to once again appreciate the refreshing change.

Not only did the approvals come, government people told us not to pay money to anyone for any approvals. I have to appreciate this in public, having endured what we had endured before.

This is the "lie" that DMK wants to attack me on.

I do not need their certificate on my character.
They can examine their conscience and ask why a technology nerd like me who is mostly immersed in code would post these.

If they think I would back down by their vile personal attacks because I am a Brahmin or TVK Stooge or Sanghi or whatever, I will tell them this: unlike you dynasts I grew up with nothing. I studied in Tamil medium schools. I know how to live on nothing. I have dedicated the remainder of my life to make Bharat self reliant in technology while reviving our rural areas, the soul of our eternal sanatana civilization.

I will not be intimidated by their attacks. I am unafraid of death, why would I be afraid of the mere DMK?

And if they had any conscience they can return the money they looted (they know there they keep it) and then they can attack my character.

I will now go back to optimizing the code of our compiler!

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

In terms of business use, what are the areas in which AI is useful today? I will list some (and please add others in comments):

1. Speech to text, text to speech, image recognition, authentication based on photos/videos/speech/..

2. Image to text (character recognition) and extracting meta data and data from images/PDFs etc

3. Spam detection, phishing detection and fraud detection

4. Security threat analysis

5. Identifying patterns in data in a variety of financial/business/legal/medical/engineering/scientific scenarios. There is a huge category of uses here.

6. Programmer assistance via code generation, particularly UI code generation, and help finding bugs.

7. Marketing content generation, design of brochures, websites, campaigns, emails and so on. If abused, this results in "AI slop" where humans know something is AI generated when they see it!

One thing to keep in mind is that many of these use cases predate LLMs. We used to call this field "machine learning" and those tools are in widespread use.

I am most excited about 4-5-6 categories, particularly 6. This is where AI can provide "actions" or "workflows" or more ambitiously autonomous "agents". That last part is the holy grail but vastly overhyped.

In that sense autonomous AI agents are like self-driving cars: don't get too taken by the hype but engineers in the trenches are making progress.

We are going to need a lot more R&D work, and that does not mean throwing a lot more money at it. When hype meets Wall Street, a lot of money gets thrown at it (be it the optical bubble or the real estate bubble and now the AI bubble) and then Wall Street gets tired and walks away. That is when the real engineers get excited (I have a optical fiber connection in my remote village!).

I prefer working down in the trenches. Will surface to share my findings once in a while! 🙏

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Amazing quote from RFK Jr: "We are not just in a health crisis, but we are in a spiritual crisis ...[the youth] are in a existential crisis, not only because their health is you know, seventy seven percent of our kids can't qualify for military service. There's a purposelessness in their lives and a and no sense of, of usefulness or effectiveness or connectedness to their communities."

That so many young people feel a purposeless void may be the defining feature of our age and it is happening in urban middle class India as well.

[Ashwin PS @ashwinps24]

Explainable AI https://t.co/kywzjTQF2m

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

AI models, even "open weight" models like Deepseek are black boxes.

There are two big unknowns: We do not know what kind of training data went into them and second, we do not know what kind of "reinforcement learning" was done to make them "behave well".

Here "behave well" includes innocuous things like making the model polite to human users and much more contentious issues like active censorship of ideas the model trainer wants to suppress.

The models reflect the values systems of those that train them.

US trained models show sensitivity in certain areas while Chinese trained models show in other areas.

To paraphrase, "all models are biased, some are useful".

In areas like generating code to playing chess, there are objective standards by which we can evaluate models (even here, to give an example, a model could prefer Javascript over C but that is a second order issue).

This is why I would trust these models only when there are other objective ways to evaluate their output. This is true for fields like programming, computer aided design etc.

I would not trust the AI to give economic development advice - given that I don't find most academic economics useful and these models have memorized the text books and the value-neutral economics they teach. But that is own my bias.

When we deeply reflect on this, we can see that the ultimate model is going to differ from person to person, and that personal model will train itself on the person's own system of values, acting as a faithful mirror of their thinking process.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Our first 100 units of Karuvi tools rolled off our assembly line in Tenkasi today! 😍

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

When a good man finds himself in bad company, we must feel empathy for his plight.

When that good man attacks you because of his own compulsion to prove his loyalty to that bad company, we must pray to Goddess Meenakshi for his well-being 🙏

[Ananthan Ayyasamy @AnanthAyyasamy]

தென்காசியில் தாமரையை மலரச் செய்வோம்!

As a humble and loyal soldier of @BJP4India and the leadership under our beloved Prime Minister, Vishwaguru Modi-ji @narendramodi and Shri.Annamalai avl @annamalai_k, I will work wholeheartedly to ensure the success of our alliance in Tenkasi. I want to thank Thalaivar Annamalai avl for his trust in me.🙏

I will also continue to work hard to bring technology-driven prosperity to our region.

@BJP4TamilNadu
@JPNadda
@AmitShah @blsanthosh @KesavaVinayakan

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

I know how hard Ananthan has worked for Tenkasi. Great to see his grace and humility, along with his discipline and loyalty to his cause. 🙏

We have been planning a semiconductor design project in Tenkasi. Ananthan's expertise in this field is unrivalled and we will work together to create advanced chip design know how in this rural region.

[Sadhguru @SadhguruJV]

We call ourselves a secular country but actually we are not one, because most of the Hindu Temples are in the hands of the government, run by government clerks, and being systematically ruined. There is no Sanctity to a Temple without the hands of Devotees upon them. One of the most important priorities of the new government should be to hand over the administration of Hindu Temples to the Hindus. This is a National scourge to be addressed. -Sg

#FreeHinduTemples #GeneralElections2024

[Yuvraj Singh @YUVSTRONG12]

It’s incredible what the human spirit can accomplish! Congratulations to #SheetalDevi on being conferred with the #ArjunAward. Your stellar debut at the Asian Para Games and winning gold & silver medals are moments of pride for the entire country 🇮🇳 your life is a true testament of not giving in to any limitation and achieving the impossible! I wish you the very best and hope you continue to defy all odds that come your way 👊🏻👍🏻

[Ashwin PS @ashwinps24]

"It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot

[K.Annamalai @annamalai_k]

Inspired by the dynamic leadership of our Hon PM Thiru @narendramodi avl, former Salem AIADMK MLA, Thiru Venkatachalam avl along with his supporters joined @BJP4TamilNadu today in the presence of @BJP4Tamilnadu State Vice Presidents Thiru @KPRamalingamMP avl, Thiru @KaruNagarajan avl, Thiru @DuraiswamyVpd avl and Salem Nagar District President Thiru Suresh Babu avl.

We wish him the best in the service to our Nation.

[Ashwin PS @ashwinps24]

@HathwayBrdband Already shared the account number in DM. Please check your DM

[Ashwin PS @ashwinps24]

@HathwayBrdband What the hell is happening ????????????????????? The technician is still not in my place!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can someone please prioritise it for ONCE

[Ashwin PS @ashwinps24]

@HathwayBrdband How many times should I keep asking,calling and meeting the useless head office with useless people in chennai to fix my issueeeeee????????????

[Ashwin PS @ashwinps24]

@HathwayBrdband 1360441547 account number

I've been attempting to contact someone to address my internet issues. Could you please expedite their assistance? My work is being impacted. I need it fixed right away please!!!!!!!!

[Ashwin PS @ashwinps24]

@HathwayBrdband Are you guys really nutssss??!??!!!
It's been 4 days and it is still not resolved. Are you guys even having brains ?????????????

[K.Annamalai @annamalai_k]

DMK MP Thiru MM Abdullah is given a reality check by the Chairman of Rajya Sabha that racial determination (which had a hidden secessionist agenda) will not be tolerated on the floor of the house.

Article 370 was temporary; DMK’s secessionist mindset is permanent.

[Ashwin PS @ashwinps24]

@HathwayBrdband Why are you guys sending the same reply ?????? Don't you see it is annoying us. Can you be more specific !!!!!!!!!

[Ashwin PS @ashwinps24]

@HathwayBrdband How long is it going to take?????????????????? What th hell is wrong with hathway