Kousik Nandy

A Rabbit, digging another hole of unknown depth.
On Life, Universe, and Everything.
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves.

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Among everything that aged well, this one is aging well the most. At the risk of ad nauseam repetition but will say again: marry your best friend.

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on completion of 14 years with @sumanap under the same roof, I have an advice for the world: marry your best friend.

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The plan B of creating AGI is to make the population dumb enough.

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@greatbong Reminds me of the Sayan Munshi in all of us you wrote, what like two decades ago?

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Bengalis are now like Schrodinger's cat. We'll only know if we're dead only when the EVM box opens. #WestBengalLegislativeAssemblyelection2026

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A movie so long that the parking charge exceeds the ticket of two and popcorn.

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@greatbong That's why I have a rubber duck on my desk.

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We already had infinite monkeys. Now with Claude we have given all of them typewriters. Soon we'll have infinite copies of the entire works of Shakespeare being republished.

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@after_ephemera @Mysten_Labs My best wishes Jk, I wonder what the future plan looks like (come back to us, if I may)

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On July 1st CloudFlare declared "Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!" returning 402 to the AI crawlers demanding they pay up.

Meanwhile RFC 9110 section 15.5.3 says the 402 payment required status code is reserved for future use.

The future has arrived.

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If someone took time to read my profile and cared to write a note, I want to write a reply irrespective of my interest, but most likely a bot will process it and send to /dev/null. So the trust is eroded. Even if you take the effort to write a note, you can't get over suspicion.

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AI slop: now LLMs read your LinkedIn profile and email you a very personalized bait like ohh your work on X at company Y is very aligned with us and we have the perfect opportunity for you at Z. You need to read twice to realize it's gpt generated. But this has a side effect 1/2

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@ButVai ButVai is raining quotes today

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@arvflycatcher What's up with large format?

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@GergelyOrosz @IchorousWings Most companies require you get permission if you moonlight and can deny, especially if you're contributing to a competition. That's awkward and breach contract.

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@ButVai ... jisne Temu banaya

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Sunny Deol can play Donald Trump in his biopic, where he can throw up his hands and shout Tariff! Tariff! Tariff pe Tariff!

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When cryptography is outlawed, only criminals will have privacy.

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Apple Removes Cloud Encryption Feature From UK After Backdoor Order https://t.co/McBz9hUWL1