Mala Reddy

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[Mala Reddy @lmreddy]

Let’s not put all blame on the kids. The current situation overseas is not easy. Extended absense is reason for firing. The companies are more and more rigid about availability. Once fired it’s hard to find jobs, re-entering the country is a risk even with green cards. Also the final rituals can be performed in a different country: one doesn’t need to be in India to do so.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

If you're wading in the swamp of churn prevention, it's already too late. The product sucks and you're just trying to move a few percentage points.

The faster path to a high retention low churn is actually having a real awesome product. Everything else is a small side effect.

[Ali Ghodsi @alighodsi]

At 11k employees, our AI costs are going up. Which model & harness should we use to lower cost but also retain great quality?

We didn't want to blindly trust public benchmarks. So we ran a comprehensive evaluation on our tasks, code base, infra. It's been produced by more than 3,000 software engineers, spans 3 hyperscalar clouds and many languages and tasks.

The results are surprising. We find that for the SAME mdoel, the choice of harness can significantly save costs (~2x). We also find that GLM 5.2 performs extremely well. We run Omnigent in front of these and can easily multiplex different harnesses and models for different tasks.

Check it out:
https://t.co/hiLtLZn1cK

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Yet we still don't have level-5 self-driving cars, and certainly not self-serving cars that can learn to drive in a few hours of practice like any teenager.
We don't even have domestic robots that can do what 10-year olds can do the first time we ask them.
We don't even have robots that are nearly as smart as a house cat.
The G in AGI is nonsense.

[Rakesh Krishnan Simha @ByRakeshSimha]

Israeli soldier says 20% of IDF personnel visit India to recover from PTSD. "You can't grow up in Israel without hearing about India. It's part of Israeli society. Every fifth soldier finishing combat now goes to India."

[Mala Reddy @lmreddy]

@GergelyOrosz this is true for many in enterprises. Not all work is AI related, so if you want to switch, sometimes its outside the company.

[Mala Reddy @lmreddy]

On the contrary, Indians wash their hands and feet when coming from outside, wash their hands before eating. Its in the west, where people eat without washing hands. And it is in our culture to bathe everyday and pray before eating unlike west, where people dont bathe for days at a stretch.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Claude Fable 5 will be available again globally tomorrow.

After a series of productive conversations with the US government, we're redeploying the model with a new set of classifiers to target and block more cybersecurity tasks. In the near term, some routine tasks like coding and debugging will fall back to Opus 4.8. We’ll continue to refine these classifiers over the coming weeks to reduce false positives and better distinguish genuine misuse from legitimate requests.

We’ve also begun drafting a consensus framework—with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and other Glasswing partners—for assessing the severity of AI jailbreaks and how AI developers should respond to them. We invite other industry partners and model providers to join us in this effort.

Finally, we’re scaling up our collaboration with the US government on model testing and safeguards. This will include pre-release access to models and safeguards for evaluation, information sharing on jailbreaks and misuse, and dedicated resources for joint research.

Thank you to our users for your patience, and to our partners across the government, industry, and the research community who worked alongside us to make Fable 5 available again.

Read our full blog: https://t.co/VHyum831ri

[Mala Reddy @lmreddy]

@AlixNewsPulse @MarioNawfal Was she drinking off those lakes and rivers? Indians dont drink off them either. Did she not follow basic hygiene protocols? Pork tapeworms exist in many other parts of the world.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A guy who was the number one ranked machine learning competitor on Earth, twice, looked at how universities teach AI and decided they had the entire thing backwards.

So he built a free course that has turned more people into working AI practitioners than most graduate programs.

Jeremy Howard was the guy who made the course and it is called Practical Deep Learning for Coders.

Here is the argument that drives the whole thing.

Universities teach AI top-down. First you sit through linear algebra. Then calculus. Then probability. Then, maybe, a year later, you are finally allowed to touch a model. Howard watched this approach destroy motivated people. Most never made it to the part where it gets interesting. The math wall killed them first.

He thinks that is exactly wrong. His view is that you do not teach someone baseball by drilling the physics of a curveball for a year before letting them hold a bat. You let them play, then explain the physics once they care.

So his course inverts it. In the very first lesson, before any heavy theory, you train a working image classifier that actually runs. You build something real on day one. The theory comes later, pulled in piece by piece, exactly when you finally need it to go deeper.

Harvard Business Review said fast AI can take motivated students all the way to building industrial-grade AI systems.

The whole course is free. No paywall, no signup tricks.

It assumes you can code a little and remember some high school math. That's the bar.

The people who actually break into AI almost never start with the equations.

https://t.co/ea9S8yk1Cl

[prathosh A P @prathoshap]

A 15-year-old dream has come true today. I started a PhD with the dream of creating a system that chants any Sanskrit shloka perfectly.

And here I am opening sourcing 𝐕𝐚𝐠𝐝𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐮 - 𝐀 𝐯ṛ𝐭𝐭𝐚 (𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫) 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 ś𝐥𝐨𝐤𝐚-𝐭𝐨-𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 (TTS) 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐤𝐫𝐢𝐭. This is the world's first vrutta-aware, open-source TTS for Sanskrit Chanting.

[Taylor @taycaldwell]

Announcing the 𝕏 MCP. 🖤

Use the 𝕏 API with any MCP-compatible AI tool using your own account’s permissions.

[Mala Reddy @lmreddy]

@VigilantFox We should let kids be kids.. all kids are unique in their own way. Unless they are causing harm to themselves or others, we should let them be as they are. They will grow up fine.

[Prakash Dadlani @prakdadlani]

If lack of money is stopping you from starting a factory...

Read this.

The Government of India offers manufacturing loans from ₹50,000 to ₹20 Crore.

Many are collateral-free.

Some include capital subsidies.

5 schemes every founder should know:

• PMEGP: Up to ₹50L + subsidy up to 35%
• MUDRA: Up to ₹20L
• Stand-Up India: ₹10L-₹1Cr
• CGTMSE: Up to ₹5Cr without collateral
• Startup India (CGSS): Up to ₹20Cr for DPIIT startups

Have you used any of these schemes?

What was your experience?

[Mala Reddy @lmreddy]

@MarioNawfal Murderers, who killed innocents just coz they.. they have the blood of innocent Indians on their hands, which will come back to haunt.

[Mala Reddy @lmreddy]

@nikitabier May her soul rest in peace

[Mala Reddy @lmreddy]

@VittoStack Interested

[Mala Reddy @lmreddy]

@Iyervval It is not April 1st today

[Mala Reddy @lmreddy]

@AmericaLiveX_ And we will see the full Epstein files leaked