Prabal Singh

building | ex-Stripe infra, IIT Delhi → building full-time, still figuring out exactly what. current obsession: why agents fail in production.

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Source: https://t.co/WpYWHXotvw

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Now this is the DLSS5 I can get behind

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@VaraadDurgaay I keep it an plastic folder in a freezer, don't have an AC

Only when I'm running tests on docker

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@samyakjain963 @arsh_goyal Working hard on x huh?

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your favorite anime underdog is a nepo baby.

naruto. luffy. ichigo. tanjiro. usagi. rising impact.
the training arc is the cover. the win was a bloodline.

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@waiting4_asi For games, it's certainly a big deal, I just disagree on the further implications

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Why is it that when innovation accelerates, instead of fast tracking regulations and doing system-wide audits that solution is to slow down?

Also reverse engineering a binary is no where near as difficult as gaining malicious access into systems.

[Varun Mayya @waiting4_asi]

I've done a complete U-turn on my opinion on open source AI. We should be careful (and probably disallow release) of models on par with current open source Astra/Opus level models.

AI is now reverse engineering games from binaries and remaking them. Reverse engineering games is a very hard problem. If this is possible then reverse engineering banking software, ID systems (Aadhaar), flights, etc is possible too. A game ships its binary to every player. Bank and Aadhaar backends are protected by servers, but it's unlikely the security teams at these are smarter than advanced AI that can do this to games.

We are protected rn because a Claude will refuse to tick "I'm not a robot" on websites. When OSS models don't respect that, we have a looming cybersecurity problem. Apologies I didn't see this earlier.

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To add, being able to reverse engineering a system does not mean the system is vulnerable.

Knowing how a lock works is not the same as the ability to unlock it.

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@vineetwts Who cares - not like people can afford memory anyways

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@0xNayan meditations 101

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Life changing discovery: cc supports emoji input

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want to name my claude zhu li so the only prompt is "do the thing"

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@dhanpraja231 Thanks a lot 🚀🚀

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@samyakjain963 Let's gooo

[Samyak Jain @samyakjain963]

today, we're launching flow

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More: https://t.co/Z08O95X4Rt

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Is the North-South gender gap in India actually about Rice vs. Wheat?

Mythologists often joke that rolling fresh rotis keeps Northern women in the kitchen, while boiling bulk rice frees up Southern women. But actual economic research shows the truth is rooted in historical agriculture.

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Centuries of these farming practices left a permanent cultural imprint. Even today, districts historically suited for rice farming see significantly higher female autonomy and workforce participation!

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The seminal 1984 research by economist Pranab Bardhan detailed further in studies like the IZA Institute of Labor Economics working paper reveals a fascinating structural reality:
- The Rice Dynamic (South/East): Wetland paddy cultivation is highly labor-intensive and historically relied heavily on female labor for transplantation and weeding. Because women were direct economic contributors, they were viewed as assets, loosening strict patriarchal norms.
- The Wheat Dynamic (North): Dryland wheat farming relied mostly on heavy plowing: historically a male-dominated task, which restricted women's economic leverage.

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The irony is real.
My copy of There Are Rivers in the Sky got caught in the rain, and now the pages are permanently wavy 🌊

It's dry now, but it literally looks like a river rippling through the book. Any book restoration experts know how to flatten this out? Help!