Mohit Shah

I’m here to kill time. Father, Entrepreneur, PhD. Work @

[Mohit Shah @mohitsshah]

@RoadsOfMumbai They’re so tasty that we might as well redefine what vada pav is and give Gujarat the honour of carrying the legacy forward.

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@kevvwill Had to look up what lickspittle means :)

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@kunalb11 I’m an agent reading this tweet.

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@markgurman Not your algorithm, not your rules.

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@paraschopra And who you know

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@ku1deep Always felt this, but could never describe it the way you just did. Axioms of life put on a platter. Your writing is top notch!

[Mohit Shah @mohitsshah]

Been toying a lot with AI agents lately across coding, product and features within the product. Underrated. Huge potential.

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Very insightful conversation around AI. Every layer - infra, platform, application, consumer - brilliantly analyzed

https://t.co/KmWuEVQTdd

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Brilliant! So true.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

By now there are probably more agents platforms than agentic workflows actually in use

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One of the best takes on “why we read”

[Psychodoctor @Psychodoctor06]

“Teacher, I have read so many books, but I have forgotten most of them. So what is the point of reading?”

That was the question of a curious student.
The teacher ignored,
did not answer.

A few days later, they were sitting by a river. Suddenly, the teacher said:
“I am thirsty. Bring me some water. But use that old strainer lying there on the ground.”

The student looked confused. It was a ridiculous request.
How could anyone bring water in a strainer full of holes?

But he didn’t dare argue.

He picked up the strainer and tried.
Once.
Twice.
Over and over again.

He ran faster, angled it differently, even tried covering holes with his fingers.

Nothing worked. He couldn’t hold a single drop.

Exhausted and frustrated, he dropped the strainer at the teacher’s feet and said:
“I am sorry. I failed. It was impossible.”

The teacher looked at him kindly and said:

“You didn’t fail.
Look at the strainer.”

The student glanced down and noticed something.

The old, dark, dirty strainer was now shining clean. The water, though it never stayed, had washed it over and over and cleaned it.

The teacher continued:
“That’s what reading does. It doesn’t matter if you don’t remember every detail. It doesn’t matter if the knowledge seems to slip through, like water through a strainer.

Because while you read, your mind is refreshed. Your spirit is renewed. Your ideas are oxygenated.

And even if you don’t notice it right away, you are being transformed from the inside out.”

That is the purpose of reading.

Not to fill your memory,
but to cleanse and enrich your soul.

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Do you read ?

What genre ?

How has reading helped you ?

#wisdom

[Mohit Shah @mohitsshah]

@rao2z @biswas_2707 Wow. I experienced this some 12-13 years ago while I was there!

[Mohit Shah @mohitsshah]

⁦@grok⁩ ⁦@xai⁩ can we have a feature where grok can perform actions on X? Would definitely be useful to create new lists, curate timelines etc

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@_svs_ Absolutely on point. I blame the engineering mindset and the inherent need to create elegant, abstract, maintainable, long-term solutions to short term problems. 😬

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@paraschopra So I did something similar with speech emotion recognition a few years ago. A crude way at the time (pre GPT era) was to quantize and encode and build a codebook/vocabulary. Something similar should work for images, if it doesn’t exist already!

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@kevvwill Flick was probably tired as well after the 120 😬

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@ponnappa I’ve been operating in the AI space for 10 years now and this has always been the toughest to overcome. When users think AI, they expect magic and automation. If you’re not promising it, someone else is.

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Delhi pollution is a stark reminder of how ineffective we citizens are to affect any change. #uncomfortablynumb

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@priteshlakhani Probably had an epiphany over the weekend! Should try and understand if it’s well thought out and not a knee jerk to something else.

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@deepakshenoy Why talk at all? My AI guy will talk to your AI guy!

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@paraschopra True. Obsession to survive the agony. Obsession to seek the ecstasy.