Rohit Mahla

SDE by Profession

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

We cannot understand the true nature of the Universe, unless we question deeply.

I want to know what is real, even if the answer is total obliteration of my consciousness.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Game-changer for Indian academia and for youth empowerment!

The Cabinet has approved ‘One Nation One Subscription’, which will strengthen our efforts to become a hub for research, learning and knowledge. It will also encourage interdisciplinary studies.

https://t.co/qbBoT71vON

[🦁 @AndColorPockeT]

Bihar and East UP used to have this and then the 'arkestra' happened..

[yajnadevam @yajnadevam]

You are the first people to read these words in 4000 years.

[Amazing Video @amazingvideo01]

@Rothmus That man deserves heaven on earth. ❤️💕

The happiness of the dogs when they saw the man who set up a shelter for paralyzed dogs.

[Rohit Mahla @mahla29]

@engineers_feed Waiting for events of 3 body problem to come true

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

"Operation Triangulation"
https://t.co/DUBBQWPqTS

A newly discovered spyware campaign targeting Apple iPhone using a zero-click remote code execution via an attack chain of 4 zero-days, including highly mysterious, completely undocumented MMIO registers and hardware features that are not even ever used by the firmware.
TLDR the attack begins with an iMessage to an arbitrary phone that, without any user action and invisibly, gets it to collect and upload tons of private data (and much more, e.g. microphone recordings) from there on, and actively takes steps to hide all of this activity from the user and aspiring forensic researchers. Apple has patched the core vulnerability on Oct 25, 2023.

"This is definitely the most sophisticated attack chain we have ever seen"

The talk itself, a lot more wild information there:
https://t.co/eTEeltBMpD

The author of this attack is unknown, as is the method by which they gained knowledge of these unused, undocumented hardware features. Russia's intelligence service accused Apple of providing the NSA with a backdoor.

For a more general audience intro to this underworld I usually recommend the book "Countdown to Zero Day".

[Balaji @balajis]

INVESTING IN INDIA IS IMPROVING INDIA

If you see a startup growing, does that mean it doesn't have any flaws? That it's the best in the world? That you're going to use it for everything right away?

No, of course not. But you might start using it, and putting money into it, and talking about it to your friends. And that's how I think about India — an ancient civilization that's simultaneously like a startup country, as you can see from the graph below.

That's why I'm investing in India and Indians: because I see the growth potential, because it helps build up Bharat, and because a strong and self-sufficient India is good for the world. Now, let me address a few common arguments.

1) Civilizational Reincarnation. First, note that I used the phrase "ancient civilization" above. Of course I'm well aware that the Indus Valley civilization is one of the oldest in human history. But India is still analogous to a tech startup, because the country experienced a civilizational rebirth in 1991 after liberalization, just as China did in 1978. Whenever we use the term "leapfrogging" we acknowledge this. Why could India jump straight over landlines straight to mobile, or from cash to UPI? Because it was reborn recently, after centuries of colonialism and occupation. And reincarnation is something we are familiar with.

2) Underdog Millionaire. Second, observing that something is improving doesn't mean saying that it's already number one. In fact, one of the most important things about India is that Indians think of themselves as underdogs. Not starving "slumdogs" like the regrettable epithet, nor overconfident overdogs, but underrated underdogs — with a chance to win but certainly no guarantee.

That's the message of movies like Super 30 (https://t.co/N6U5UfNZ2H), which couldn't be more different than Black Mirror. Indians know they aren't #1, or even #2, because they aren't. But the diaspora helps show that Indians can be world class, and that India itself could become world class, which is part of why India is now rising to the occasion.

3) Decentralized Diaspora. Third, that brings us to one of India's greatest strengths: its diaspora. In this century China may end up playing the world's best home game, but India is on track to play the world's best away game. So India's development will look different than China's.

For one thing, Indians are willing and able to move anywhere. Westerners mostly aren't willing to move, because they still think their societies are the only places that are "First World". And the Chinese increasingly aren't able to move, because they're restricted from any countries where the Chinese state lacks hard power.

That leaves Indians to fill the gap. As Chinese emigration drops off, Indian emigration picks up to fill the holes in tech talent. As individual Indians become wealthier, more are financially able to emigrate. And as India as a whole becomes stronger, the passport improves, and more people are diplomatically able to emigrate. All this means the age of Indian emigration is just beginning. If China is the centralized state, India is the decentralized diaspora.

4) Special Economic Zones. Putting that all together, that means (a) India is reborn, (b) Indians know they are rising-yet-underdogs, and (c) Indian development is going to be quite different from Chinese development, with much more focus on the diaspora.

So, that's one of the reasons I think so much about special economic zones. Indians thrived in Dubai and Delaware, in Singapore and the Anglosphere — once they got out into a different economic system. And they're now starting to thrive in India itself — once India itself changed its economic system in 1991.

So, it's all about changes to the economic system. And with every investment we make in India or Indians, we build up a feature list of things to change.

Because there are a series of conceptually simple things India can do to be as good a place to do business as Dubai or Singapore. For example, you need to be able to send money into and out of the country for investment without hassle. You need to get a better passport so Indians can attend conferences. You need to rank higher on the economic freedom index (https://t.co/bRMsIKRX6P). And so on.

At India's current rate of improvement, I think much of that will eventually be possible in a place like GIFT City, as a kind of special economic zone, even if not for all of India at once.

Put another way: India's internet connectivity, digital payments, and basic infrastructure has dramatically and visibly improved in the last 10 years. But while it's improving, it doesn't yet have certain "power user" features for international business that Singapore, Dubai, and Delaware do.

Once it does, it'll get even more of my business — and more importantly the world's. But it's already investable, and improving — which is why I'm writing about India, putting money into Indians, and regularly meeting founders on the ground.

5) Investor, not cheerleader. In summary, that's what the quoted tweet gets wrong.

It's not about being a "cheerleader" who has to "stay" in a place to invest in it — imagine if every business had to be funded solely by neighbors down the street.

Instead, it's about being an international investor looking for the best talent around the world — and finding quite a lot of it in India.

Maybe I'll find one of you at the next meetup!

[Bilgin Ibryam @bibryam]

16 Must-Know System Design Concepts

1. Domain Name System (DNS)
2. Load Balancer
3. API Gateway
4. CDN
5. Forward Proxy vs. Reverse Proxy
6. Caching
7. Data Partitioning
8. Database Replication
9. Distributed Messaging Systems
10. Microservices
11. NoSQL Databases
12. Database Index
13. Distributed File Systems
14. Notification System
15. Full-text Search
16. Distributed Coordination Services

https://t.co/QR5d3ymcfB

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

With many 🧩 dropping recently, a more complete picture is emerging of LLMs not as a chatbot, but the kernel process of a new Operating System. E.g. today it orchestrates:

- Input & Output across modalities (text, audio, vision)
- Code interpreter, ability to write & run programs
- Browser / internet access
- Embeddings database for files and internal memory storage & retrieval

A lot of computing concepts carry over. Currently we have single-threaded execution running at ~10Hz (tok/s) and enjoy looking at the assembly-level execution traces stream by. Concepts from computer security carry over, with attacks, defenses and emerging vulnerabilities.

I also like the nearest neighbor analogy of "Operating System" because the industry is starting to shape up similar:
Windows, OS X, and Linux <-> GPT, PaLM, Claude, and Llama/Mistral(?:)).
An OS comes with default apps but has an app store.
Most apps can be adapted to multiple platforms.

TLDR looking at LLMs as chatbots is the same as looking at early computers as calculators. We're seeing an emergence of a whole new computing paradigm, and it is very early.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

• Study hard.
• What others think of you is none of your business.
• It's OK not to have all the answers.
• Experiment, Fail, Learn and Repeat.
• Knowledge comes from experience.
• Imagination is important.
• Do what interests you the most.
• Stay curious

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention. 🧠

[Rohit Mahla @mahla29]

@pcaversaccio 😂😂

[Rohit Mahla @mahla29]

@SahilAujla15 Ya it happens on old laptop.Sometimes graphic card also create problem. If it happens again install manjaro

[Ram Singh🇮🇳 @Ramsingh197551]

Truly inspiring 🙏

[Vinod Kapri @vinodkapri]

This is PURE GOLD❤️❤️

नोएडा की सड़क पर कल रात 12 बजे मुझे ये लड़का कंधे पर बैग टांगें बहुत तेज़ दौड़ता नज़र आया

मैंने सोचा
किसी परेशानी में होगा , लिफ़्ट देनी चाहिए

बार बार लिफ़्ट का ऑफ़र किया पर इसने मना कर दिया

वजह सुनेंगे तो आपको इस बच्चे से प्यार हो जाएगा ❤️😊

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Five types of people you want to surround yourself with:
the inspired, the passionate, the motivated, the grateful and the open minded.

[MyGovIndia @mygovindia]

Can't get over this video of @indiannavy’s Republic Day parade rehearsal at Vijay Chowk, New Delhi. 🔥

Credits: @ARUNSHARMAJI

[Dr David Frawley @davidfrawleyved]

India with Sanskrit has the largest, oldest, and most unbroken literary record in the world, the most profound study of mantra and cosmic sound, and without quoting any earlier civilization it borrowed from. Long overdue to recognize the independent roots of its Vedic traditions.