Tarun Upaday

Founder & CEO of Routespring. AI for airline crew ops. Earlier: Pine Labs, GlobalLogic, hCentive. Weekends: youth robotics and too much home automation.

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

I will take the ring, though, I do not know the way.
- Frodo in JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

At the sake of sounding repetitive, while it wasn’t clear at the outset, it’s pretty clear now. This is a race to own data that is valuable in fine tuning and RLHF. You should expect foundational models to be largely commoditized and largely free, largely soon.

Non obvious data sets of huge value in this end-state:

1) Tesla’s real world environment data
2) Meta’s real people preference and behavioral data
3) Google’s search intent, YT behavior and Gmail
4) Amazon’s purchasing behavior

Question is which companies are founder-led enough to beat back the lawyers so they can actually take advantage of it.

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

🌍🤖 Discover the power of AI in travel planning! WaPo recently put ChatGPT to the test to plan the perfect tour of D.C. 🗺️ Check out the amazing results and see how it all unfolded. 👉🏼 https://t.co/XALlVrYiDH #AITravelPlanning #ExploreDC #ChatGPT

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

Never have been so proud of playing legos.

[Sidwell Friends @SidwellFriends]

How Quaker values helped a group of Middle Schoolers shine at a robotics competition. Read more >> https://t.co/zPmDkFp9E4

[John W. Rich (Wealthy) @Cokedupoptions]

Inflation: 8.2%

US Dollar: +19%

We are actually beating inflation

[Ada Yeo @adayeoyh]

Interestingly, not drinking has become the new status signal for tech elites

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

Fastmail has a JMAP API https://t.co/PanIABsuYP
I moved from Google to Fastmail 7 years ago and never had a reason to look. Goes on to show how can a reasonably priced, full featured, competent customer support service can survive in a crowded field.

#fastmail #jmap

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

58 bytes of css to look great nearly everywhere. Everyone does it slightly differently but Joey has a good set of templates https://t.co/1bV3Ciupjo

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

An impressive solution to a common attack vector: Zero Trust SIM https://t.co/0g9yf2s5wv
Details seems to be slim but from what I can gather: this gets you device attestation AND filters / secures the traffic. Without adding any app / software to the device.
#ZeroTrust #esim

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

India's lattice buildings that cool without air con. Growing up in India, I am familiar with this “Jaali” design. It does cool in summers appreciably. The design magnifies the surface area to loose the heat faster.
https://t.co/wZ81BxCItQ

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

I didn't appreciate until recently that the calendar we live by today was personally designed by Julius Caesar.
Like not by some forgotten technocrats incidentally during his time, but Julius Caesar himself as a subject matter expert, as the decision maker.

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

Please @onemedical. Thanks for enabling weight and BP integration. The important thing is to get the vaccine records along with my blood work and lab tests. Can we do that, please?

[Amazon One Medical @onemedical]

@how_42 Hi Tarun - We actually have integrated our app with Apple Health. To determine if doing so is right for you and your health journey, please reach out to your primary care provider.

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

For the first time in six months, a civilian aircraft took off from Ukraine. Things are changing for good !!
(spoiler: its Wizz Air)
https://t.co/WgDX1HVEfi

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

Well, they do not ban stock owning employees working on stock regulations or those owing car working on vehicle regulations. https://t.co/wxRT7Z5gaa

US Officials Owning Crypto Banned From Working On Crypto Regulations.

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

@onemedical @mashable Alright. It’s been 8 years and still no #healthkit. Come on @onemedical its hard to justify that it’s been on the roadmap for 8 years and just not done.

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

What are the biggest scams or tourist traps you have seen while traveling? Reddit has a good list:
https://t.co/SQJkkSJlUQ

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

JPMorgan Is Building a Giant Travel Agency https://t.co/OFCU1SqyMU

It bought a booking system,a restaurant review company and a luxury travel agent. It is building its own airport lounges and a force of thousands of travel agents. A new website will launch in the coming months.

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

I tried out a double decker lay flat economy airplane seat. https://t.co/T4QUNaqlvP

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

How airlines are almost tricking people into upgrading to premium economy seats https://t.co/6Gy8fuKxar

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

Amex introduces a new product for its cardholders that allows them to cancel flights for any reason and get “up to” 75% back. Will charge “a percentage” of total price. https://t.co/mUycl5R1UA

[Tarun Upaday @how_42]

the airport 100ml rule is ending (one airport at a time) https://t.co/LjL4A0K3bT