Mayuresh Phadke

Innovating Programmatic DOOH at Lemma |
Interests: Food, Cooking, Music, Movies, Poetry

[XUnfiltered @XUnfiltere69061]

A French moto vlogger "Frenchy" was traveling through India on his bike, He had a lump on his neck. Curious about the cost and process to remove it, he inquired locally and was quoted just $500 for the treatment.

Stunned by both the price and the short waiting time, he went ahead with the procedure. Within a week, the lump was removed. He documented the whole journey on camera.

He later shared that the same type of surgery in Australia after an accident had cost him $12,000.

If manufactured online hate and negative perceptions in the West didn’t exist, India could easily be earning hundreds of billions of dollars every year from medical tourism alone.

And this is why India needs to fight bad image/perception, that is being promoted by India's adversaries.

[Aditya Saigaonkar @adisaigaonkar]

As per #NEP crores of student's APAAR IDs have been generated in last 3 years. We see no further progress on it being used as educational credit, credentials and records storage. Ultra slow or no adaptation to any meaningful change is equal to NO CHANGE.
@PMOIndia
@narendramodi

[DOKI @doki_jerry]

2040년.

월스트리트의 한 신입 애널리스트가 노교수에게 물었다.

“교수님, 왜 사람들은 한때 Tesla와 SpaceX를 Apple, Google, Meta 같은 기업들과 같은 카테고리로 묶었던 건가요?”

노교수는 웃었다.

“그건 농부와 카지노를 같은 산업으로 분류한 것과 비슷한 실수였지.”

“무슨 뜻인가요?”

교수는 창밖을 가리켰다.

“저 밖을 봐.”

수천 대의 로보택시가 도시를 움직이고 있었다.

공장에서는 휴머노이드 로봇이 일하고 있었다.

머리 위에는 수만 기의 통신 위성이 지구를 감싸고 있었다.

달에는 광산이 있었고 화성에는 첫 번째 도시가 건설되고 있었다.

“저것들이 무엇으로 만들어졌는지 아니?”

“기술이요?”

“아니. 생산성이다.”

교수는 말을 이었다.

“20세기와 21세기 초반의 대부분의 빅테크는 사람들의 시간을 두고 경쟁했다.”

더 오래 보게 만들고,

더 오래 클릭하게 만들고,

더 오래 머물게 만들고,

그 시간을 광고주에게 팔았다.

사람들이 하루에 1시간을 쓰던 것을 2시간 쓰게 만들면 성공이었다.

하지만 Tesla와 SpaceX는 반대였다.

그들은 인간의 시간을 뺏으려 하지 않았다.

오히려 돌려주려 했다.

운전 2시간을 없애고,

단순 노동 8시간을 없애고,

비싼 물류비를 없애고,

비싼 발사 비용을 없애고,

에너지 부족을 없애려 했다.

“생각해 보게.”

교수는 종이에 두 줄을 적었다.

광고 기업:
인간의 시간을 소비 → 수익 창출

Tesla · SpaceX:
인간의 생산성 증가 → 수익 창출

“둘은 같은 기술 회사가 아니었어.”

“그럼 무엇이었나요?”

“문명을 확장하는 회사.”

교수는 잠시 침묵했다.

“Google이 하루 동안 멈추면 불편하다.”

“Meta가 하루 동안 멈추면 심심하다.”

“하지만 전기가 부족하면 공장이 멈추고, 물류가 멈추면 경제가 멈추고, 우주 발사가 멈추면 인류의 확장이 멈춘다.”

“차이가 보이나?”

신입 애널리스트는 고개를 끄덕였다.

교수는 마지막으로 말했다.

“많은 사람들은 Tesla를 자동차 회사로 봤고, SpaceX를 로켓 회사로 봤다.”

“하지만 시간이 지나고 보니 둘 다 같은 사업을 하고 있었어.”

“인류 문명의 생산성을 높이는 사업.”

“광고 회사들은 인간의 관심(attention)을 거래했다.”

“Tesla와 SpaceX는 인간의 능력(capability)을 확장했다.”

그리고 2040년이 되자 사람들은 깨달았다.

Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon은 훌륭한 기업이었다.

하지만 그들은 문명 위에서 사업을 했다.

반면 Tesla 와 SpaceX 는 문명 자체를 업그레이드하고 있었다.

그래서 어느 역사학자는 이렇게 기록했다.

“21세기 초 사람들은 광고 회사와 문명 회사의 차이를 이해하지 못했다.”

“그들은 모두를 빅테크라고 불렀지만, 사실은 전혀 다른 종(種)이었다.”

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

Today is the 26th Punyatithi of Purushottam Laxman ('Pu La') Deshpande - one of the most loved personalities of the #Marathi speaking world.

#PuLa was not just an author and a humorist; but also an actor, a musician, a composer, a film maker... and much more.

See link in the thread below, for a comprehensive set of articles, videos, news items and more about this legend. 🧵

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

Claude Fable 5 doesn’t truly understand. And here is a beautiful proof:

The Beninatto-Trombetti test is a translation test for professional translators. It measures the ability to infer context, revise the surface form, and generalize beyond literal mapping.

For example, the correct translation of:

“Solo 3 parole: non sei solo”

is not:

“Just 3 words: you are not alone”

but:

“Just 4 words: you are not alone.”

An LLM that understands the sentence must also update the meta-linguistic claim inside the sentence.

Claude Fable 5 is arguably the most advanced LLM currently available. And yet it still fails this simple test.

LLMs are extraordinary machines for recombining existing knowledge. But they don’t truly understand.

We are still far from AGI.

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

Nice talk by @kiranshaw yesterday at @IISERPune - her first visit here at this excellent, young institute.

I asked her about how academic & research institutions like IISER Pune should better connect and collaborate with the industry.

She highlighted three core areas (my summary) -

1. Academia (Faculty, Researchers) have to go out actively to the industry to present and pitch their R&D work. 'Industry is often lazy' and may not actively reach out.

2. Science & Engineering Institutions need to focus more on interdisciplinary work and solve a complete problem for the industry. Industry is usually looking for such a full solution (not piecemeal research).

3. Need a rich startup ecosystem around the institution (she again gave example of MIT). Faculty and Researchers need to start companies around their work. They may not be good at sales, managing companies - but they can find co-founders, CEOs from the industry to join them (VCs may help too), if they have great R&D ideas.

[Ganesh Sonawane @ganeshsonawane]

Unpopular opinion: We should not discourage Indian brands from trying to charge a premium for their products, or we will never build anything even remotely close to Herman Miller (₹75k+) or Zegna shoes (₹2.5 lakh+) anytime soon.

Too many brands are already playing the commodity pricing game. Let premium brands experiment, take risks, and build as well.

It would be amazing to see Indian premium brands in luxury outlets across London, Dubai, or Tokyo a decade from now.

(P.S. This opinion applies only to non-medical, non-essential categories.)

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

Advice to students: go to the highest-ranked college you can get into, ignore branch/passion, stay in a hostel, study abroad if you can afford it, and finally, don’t stress about getting into the right/wrong college: there will be lots of opportunities for course correction later

[Mayuresh Phadke @geeroo]

Well said - Only if we can get our political leaders and policy makers suspend their fascination for headline-grabbing big initiatives for a short time and focus on micro things that can drastically improve lives of citizens

[Shashikant Kore @kshashi]

Manu Joseph provides two reasons for rampant wrong side driving in India - Intentional latitude given to drivers and dehat-ification.

His swipe at the facade of swanky airports made me chuckle.

He argues the problem is fixable as Delhi Metro has shown.

Only if we can get our political leaders and policy makers suspend their fascination for headline-grabbing big initiatives for a short time and focus on micro things that can drastically improve lives of citizens.

[Mayuresh Phadke @geeroo]

@pankajkanal Cheers !

[Dr Uday S Kulkarni @MulaMutha]

What a historian has to say about Marathas and Bengal.

From Chhatrapati Shivaji to the end of the Maratha period in Indian history, there were no massacres conducted by the Marathas.

The narrative that goes around that began with British historians needs to be re-examined.

[AI Evolution @AiEvolutio58513]

At 22, Marc Andreessen invented the modern web browser now used by billions.

By 24, he was worth over $100M.

Then Bill Gates buried his company alive with ONE decision.

But what Andreessen did next triggered the bloodiest tech war in century... 🧵

[Dr Uday S Kulkarni @MulaMutha]

Time to travel 6 minutes.

How can you save 5 minutes by building this 300 cr road destroying precious hill slope land?

Who is pushing this project? Why?

[Mayuresh Phadke @geeroo]

Wow! This is so good!

Everyone working with AI should read this

[Max Leiter @maxleiter]

A complete version

https://t.co/QTgosmspQq

[Max Leiter @maxleiter]

A complete version

https://t.co/QTgosmspQq

[Sagar @Pixel_Stripes]

While the West loves lecturing Indians about “civility,” “manners,” and “respecting wildlife,” here’s what their own tourists are doing on a luxury safari.
A white guy casually hops out of his vehicle in the heart of Masai Mara, with a cheetah just 50 meters away and pees on the side of the vehicle itself like it’s a roadside pit stop. 😭🤦🏻‍♂️
Just pure entitlement.
This happened under the watch of a premium JW Marriott safari experience where guides apparently have no problem letting clients treat the African savannah like their personal bathroom.
Imagine the outrage if an Indian tourist had done this.
Africa’s wildlife isn’t your personal litter box or urinal. Respect the wild or at least stop lecturing the rest of the world while you break the rules.

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

@PMCPune Many people have complained about this earlier.

The footpath from Ajit Hotel to Chitale Store on the Deccan Gymkhana Club Lane is broken at many places (see photos below).

Has not been fixed for many months/years.

cc @SidShirole

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Dharmendra Pradhan should go.

Javadekar, and Nishank were removed from the Education Ministry for far less than what has unfolded under Pradhan's tenure.

The govt should not worry about whether Congress will portray his removal as a political victory. Let them. They are irrelevant. The govt is answerable to students and parents, and they are increasingly disillusioned by repeated paper leak controversies, CBSE evaluation discrepancies, contentious UGC regulations, and a series of avoidable crises. In recent years, there has rarely been this level of public anger directed at the Education Ministry.

Pradhan's removal should be followed by an independent probe to determine whether tender rules were altered or interpreted in a manner that favoured Coempt Edutech, and whether any conflict of interest exists between the company and anyone associated with the Education Ministry. Public confidence in the education system must be restored.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Congratulations to the Indian contingent at the 22nd Asian U20 Athletics Championships for winning 19 medals, including 10 Golds. This outstanding performance reflects the determination and excellence of India’s young athletes. May these achievements inspire many more young Indians to pursue sports in the years to come.