Tushar

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Food, software, travel in that order. Occasionally political.

[Tushar @ditsuke]

To celebrate the new edition of DDIA, revive my writing discipline and my resolve to read the whole damn thing this time, I share my first blog in years: LSM Trees from First Principles.

https://t.co/ya79LTJgZa

[Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct]

there’s a new edition of @intensivedata which is one of the most pivotal technical books written in the last decade, and almost no chatter on this app about the new edition or the new content it covers.

Are there no serious engineers and practitioners on this app anymore? 😢

[Tushar @ditsuke]

@kellabyte I like how this reads!

[Tushar @ditsuke]

@idlyupma Where are you?

[Tushar @ditsuke]

@Wangchuk66 Wont be surprised if they import voters to turn the election, too

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

How pathetic and shameless it is to use a fake educational certificate while holding one of the highest constitutional positions.

[Tushar @ditsuke]

@HelleLyngSvends Petty of MHA, then again 🤏 🐒 for a reason

[Tushar @ditsuke]

@ManikMkr Yes the one you're getting me soon

[Tushar @ditsuke]

Cool TIL: engineered edible fats!

[parthi loganathan @parthi_logan]

The ingredient is EPG, listed as "modified plant-based oil."

I think it's one of the most important food technologies of the decade. GLP-1s make you want less food. EPG lets chocolate, candy and chips keep their taste with a fraction of the fat calories.

[Tushar @ditsuke]

Church Street Traders' Association must lobby for this

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Oxford Street has seen a 28% spending increase since it was pedestrianised two weeks ago

[Tushar @ditsuke]

heads up @garminconnect

[Tushar @ditsuke]

@alve_om Yeah apparently they didn't think security through

[Tushar @ditsuke]

should be rolled back

[Pavel Durov @durov]

Any Telegram message can now become an app.

⚡ Downloads instantly (less than 4 KB)
🎨 Interactive and natively rendered
💸 Payments and viral mechanics built in

🛠️ Build your own. More info and docs for devs: https://t.co/v6hbiQErCB

[Tushar @ditsuke]

@krishnabgowda exciting! cannot wait to see how this line changes the city

[Tushar @ditsuke]

@Yaaaaaashhh deadline meets prompt addiction

[Tushar @ditsuke]

16 hour workday achieved

[Tushar @ditsuke]

race to the bottom yall

[Kun Chen @kunchenguid]

overheard from friends talking about AI in China, and it’s very alarming

- AI short films went massive in China market because of how good the video models are now

- the first wave of people who mastered using AI to generate short films and comics made quite some money because they could produce a lot more content than traditional workflows

- but within just a few months, everybody and their mom could make equally good short films because all the expertise could be written in a markdown file

- when everyone’s more productive, no one actually has an advantage and it’s a race to the bottom. very quickly it became impossible to make money, and everyone’s busier than they were without AI

- the only one making money now is companies like bytedance who owns user demand and distribution. they sell ads to creators who pay to get traffic, and eventually ad spend became 80% of those creators’ operating expense, while AI tokens is less than 5%

so what are the problems here?

1. there’s no moat if you are creating anything with AI

if a human is really good at something, and it’s hard to find more humans who can do the same, they can leverage the scarcity of their skill to get paid very well

but if AI is good at something, it will be infinitely replicated, so there’s no scarcity hence you can’t really expect a sustainable business by creating anything with AI

2. more creators created more content people actually liked. that’s a good thing

but the economical benefit of that all got absorbed by the distribution platforms

there’s a famous chinese poem 遍身罗绮者，不是养蚕人 - it basically says people who dress well aren’t the people making dresses. that’s exactly what’s happening here

if our society doesn’t figure out a better way to distribute wealth, AI will help billionaires become trillionaires while average people become more exhausted than ever

[Tushar @ditsuke]

@theliverdoc I kind of liked that guy but yikes, this is a below the belt response from him. Disgusting

[Tushar @ditsuke]

embrace doing the needful

[Grant Slatton @GrantSlatton]

"do the needful" is such an incredibly useful phrase for dealing with AI agents

[shreyansh deep @shreyanshdee]

Delhi its done bro!
3000 aqi

[Rohan Bali @RohanBali18]

i cannot stress enough how important it will be to wear a mask when going out from tomorrow, avoid walking outside as much as possible and buying an air purifier for your room.

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

इस जगह का वीडियो बना कर लौटा ही था कि थोड़ी देर बाद किसी ने बताया कि ऊपर की मंज़िल पर एक फ़्लैट में आग लगी है। आग पर क़ाबू पा लिया गया है। मगर आप लोग AQI की चिंता मत कीजिए। जितना मन करे उतना पटाखा फोड़िए। जिस देश में वोट चोरी से भी किसी का ईमान नहीं हिला उस देश में हवा बचा कर क्या करना।