Uhhh… your memory is failing, my friend. And this was sent after the dinner, not before. Have the receipts. I don’t begrudge you in any way, but let’s be truthful.
Most of the responses are about how India is a such a backward, still a developing country and offers comparisons to how the USD or any other currency is superior, lives a lot better in Dubai or Singapore or the U.S.
Yes, there are problems in India. And you are born in this country. Do what’s right for you and don’t let your life aspirations and your elevated opinions in this subject stop the small section of folks who find their calling after reading what @svembu is saying here.
Open letter to Indians in America.
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Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat:
Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must remain grateful - gratitude is our Bharatiya way.
Yet today, a significant number of Americans, may be not the majority but not too far from it either, believe that Indians "take away" American jobs and our success in America was unfairly earned.
You may think the next election will fix this, but your choice would be between people who hate our Bharatiya civilisation and people who hate civilisation itself. That is the "hard right" vs "woke left" battle. You are mere bystanders to that conflict.
Meanwhile there is one thing that is true now and will be true in the future: the respect Indians command world-wide will substantially depend on the fortunes of India herself. If India remains poor, the woke left will give us moral lectures with pity and the hard right, different moral lectures with scorn ("hellhole") and we must not confuse either with respect.
Respect in today's world, along with prosperity and security, comes from one source: a nation's technological prowess. India produces sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess but alas we exported so much of that talent, particularly to America. As we develop that prowess in India, our civilisational strength will assert itself.
As difficult as it is for many of you to contemplate this, please come back home. Bharat Mata needs your talent. Our vast youthful population needs the technology leadership you gained over the years to guide them towards prosperity. Let's do it with a missionary zeal.
Respectfully
Sridhar Vembu
Asked someone from the industry whether foreign investors are still interested in allocating to India. The TLDR:
Interest has pretty much died out. India is seen as geopolitically exposed, especially to an oil shock. There are no real AI plays. Valuations are rich. And the rupee situation doesn't help.
On top of that, investors who were sitting on gains have taken money off the table and are now looking at markets like Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Europe etc instead.
He also pointed out that our LTCG/STCG structure and the increase in STT have made India less attractive compared to other markets that are seeing inflows.
If we need to attract FPIs back, and we do, fixing this feels like pretty low-hanging fruit.
The CMO of @UpToDate (a tool I use all the time in clinic) on the accuracy of their new Expert AI, now live for 250K clinicians:
"Pretty good."
Benchmarks?
"We don't have shareable benchmarks yet."
This is the state of clinical AI decision support evaluation.
https://t.co/GknveAL7Ve
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what happened to microsoft?
two years ago they looked unstoppable. copilot everywhere, github as the wedge, office + agents as the inevitable endgame. ppl (including me) were talking about a straight up runaway.
none of that ever really materialized.
copilot is still bad. usage is meh. office never became agentic. github copilot plateaued fast. also azure growth miss & ~50% of usage being all openai.
& now the openai split is clearly underway, which leaves microsoft without a real in house research lab.. unlike google. turns out renting the brain isn’t the same as owning it.
the Clawd hype is exposing something bigger...
the AI ecosystem runs on manufactured FOMO right now
every single day:
"wow this is insane"
"this changes everything"
"if you're not using this, you're falling behind"
and you're drowning in your own timeline, paralyzed by choice
here's how you should approach this:
first, stop implementing every shiny release... don't waste time setting up stuff that you don't even understand
start asking yourself: does this fundamentally change how i work?
Clawd is super promising, it'll change our lives... but probably too early to hand over credentials, runs fine on a $5 VPS instead of dropping $3k on hardware and eventually another tool will replace it a month
you have to filter ruthlessly and implement strategically
that being said... if you're unemployed and have a Mac Mini, you can have A LOT of fun