hariprasad

Learning Analyst @AlphaSchoolATX. prev. cofounder @

[hariprasad @HSoragaon]

Been going down a real rabbit hole of biographies and old classics. And it has been very enabling using Perplexity to find and compare translations from different authors to find the one that serves my purpose.

[hariprasad @HSoragaon]

@AmenCornerBoy @Austen @swells_ The high test scores are results of identifying skill gaps and antipatterns early through learning data analysis and intervening with the scaffolding lessons and coaching. Always making sure student proceeds to next lesson after mastery in current lesson.

[hariprasad @HSoragaon]

ಈ ಸಲ ಕಪ್ ನಮ್ಮದೇ!! 🏆

[carmen @carmguti]

Netflix explicitly tells its writers to have characters narrate everything they do so that people can play the film/show in the background of other activities.

the alternative to Netflix is not Hulu or HBO. it's silence.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[hariprasad @HSoragaon]

@amankrai28 Maybe because if something happens to Ed, the backlash on the police would be massive—far more than for the homeless guy. And let’s be real, we, the public, wouldn’t hesitate to trample Ed in pursuit of a shitty selfie.

[hariprasad @HSoragaon]

What have we that which is not either a continuation or a contradiction of all the things from childhood?

[hariprasad @HSoragaon]

Imagine India appoints a white foreigner to a top government role. If we accept it, do we reveal a lingering colonial mindset? If we reject it, are we inconsistent in supporting Indian-origin appointees abroad despite US nationalist critiques?

[hariprasad @HSoragaon]

@pacificleo @YouTube I'm at this very moment watching Reacher S01. Blind Blake - Police Dog Blues is what brought him to Margrave.

[hariprasad @HSoragaon]

@jk_rowling 'No words left' you mean?

[Tejasvi Surya @Tejasvi_Surya]

To our friends who are yet to learn Kannada, here’s an amazing opportunity to get started and explore this beautiful language.

Kannada Prasaara Parishat is offering online classes from October to December to learn Kannada.

Make use of this opportunity, and also pass it on to your non Kannadiga friends.

[hariprasad @HSoragaon]

@sathwikAkuncham There's no question this is a dumb, half-baked and even immoral idea. I think we'll have better results by rewarding people who are found following traffic rules.

[hariprasad @HSoragaon]

@RaoSumukh But migrants do want AC cabins, fancy designation & minimal work. They deserve it but can't get it here because ‘more people’. But in one's own city built anew, with fewer people, there's a chance of higher standards of living. And automate blue collar work. Nobody should do it.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes.

I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs. She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others.

I don’t believe a woman is more or less of a woman for having sex with men, women, both or not wanting sex at all. I don’t think a woman is more or less of a woman for having a buzz cut and liking suits and ties, or wearing stilettos and mini dresses, for being black, white or brown, for being six feet tall or a little person, for being kind or cruel, angry or sad, loud or retiring. She isn't more of a woman for featuring in Playboy or being a surrendered wife, nor less of a woman for designing space rockets or taking up boxing. What makes her a woman is the fact of being born in a body that, assuming nothing has gone wrong in her physical development (which, as stated above, still doesn't stop her being a woman), is geared towards producing eggs as opposed to sperm, towards bearing as opposed to begetting children, and irrespective of whether she's done either of those things, or ever wants to.

Womanhood isn't a mystical state of being, nor is it measured by how well one apes sex stereotypes. We are not the creatures either porn or the Bible tell you we are. Femaleness is not, as trans woman Andrea Chu Long wrote, ‘an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,’ nor are we God’s afterthought, sprung from Adam’s rib.

Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say 'I thought you didn't want to be defined by your biology,' it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don't want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology. It's one material fact about us, like having freckles or disliking beetroot, neither of which are representative of our entire beings, either. Women have billions of different personalities and life stories, which have nothing to do with our bodies, although we are likely to have had experiences men don't and can't, because we belong to our sex class.

Some people feel strongly that they should have been, or wish to be seen as, the sex class into which they weren't born. Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety. I do not, however, believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones literally turn a person into the opposite sex, nor do I believe in the idea that each of us has a nebulous ‘gender identity’ that may or might not match our sexed bodies. I believe the ideology that preaches those tenets has caused, and continues to cause, very real harm to vulnerable people.

I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that no study has ever demonstrated that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same pattern of criminality as other men, and because, however they identify, men retain their advantages of speed and strength. In other words, I think the safety and rights of girls and women are more important than those men's desire for validation.

I sincerely hope that answers your questions. You may still disagree, but as I hope this shows, I’m more than happy to have this debate.

[hariprasad @HSoragaon]

Cup namde 🏆🔥
#RCB

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@arjunpacha They sent you an ESTIMATE, not a BILL. 🙄

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@willdepue Incerto by NNTaleb. Pretty surprised I didn't find it mentioned in the replies.

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@FreyaHolmer Name's Nami

[hariprasad @HSoragaon]

Still installing elevator steps and sign posts at Baiyappanahalli metro station. Whoever (me including) thought it will open today or tomorrow because CMRS gave green signal has to wait for few more days. #bengalurumetro #purpleline #baiyappanahallikrpurammetro

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@sathwikAkuncham @BJP4India @narendramodi You called it!