Ninad Parab

Data Scientist- Banker- Anorak- Football fan- Language/Culture/History Enthusiast

[Ninad Parab @ninadparab]

LLMs are like rote learning approach (popular in India/Asia) and not independent thinking approach in the West. Rote learning produces remarkable results in reproducing existing knowledge, but independent thinking takes society forward, which AI currently lacks #JustThinking

[Aviral Bhatnagar @aviralbhat]

Civil engineering opening ranks from 2025 to 2026:

- IITB: 2666 → 385
- IITD: 3030 → 179

These ranks normally could get you CS at almost all the IITs

Fears of AI's impact on CS are making students prefer physical over digital

[Ninad Parab @ninadparab]

Interesting that country demonyms in Marathi usually use the English forms unlike Hindi. अमेरिकन or फ्रेंच in Marathi instead of अमरिकी or फ़्रांसीसी in Hindi. (जपानी and चिनी are exceptions) @ManishEarth @avtansa

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

On this day 150 years ago William Sealy Gosset was born. He spent his whole career as a brewer at Guinness, working on a problem the textbooks ignored: how to draw conclusions from tiny samples, like four plots of barley or a handful of hops. The statistics of the day assumed large samples so Gosset invented the statistics of small ones.

Guinness barred its employees from publishing after one of them leaked trade secrets, and did not want competitors knowing it used science to brew beer so when Gosset published his method in 1908 he signed it with a pseudonym: Student.

Every clinical trial, lab experiment and A/B test that runs a t-test today is using the work of Student. The most famous name in statistics is a fake one.

[Sid @siddocode]

Who names a fingerprint reading machine Eklavya??😭😭

[Ninad Parab @ninadparab]

@sidin Because ती in Marathi means she

[Ninad Parab @ninadparab]

@avzaagzonunaada One of them has an airport

[Paushali Sahu @PaushaliSahu]

"This generation will never know the joy of waiting for your favourite song to come on the radio"..
My mother tells me how they'd wait with their song books and pen to quickly scribble the lyrics as the song played. One couldn't just 'google' for lyrics.. imagine!

[Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm]

Love how some hotels embed a weather derivative into the booking.

GS used to trade a 'temperature in Central Park' contract.

Financialize all the things.

[Ninad Parab @ninadparab]

@avzaagzonunaada हस्तिदंत in Marathi

[Miles Cranmer @MilesCranmer]

This is an insane paper and I love it

https://t.co/DP8OR5NJf2

[Tanay Jaipuria @tanayj]

A Spanish La Liga club (likely Osasuna) facing potential relegation placed a bet against itself on Kalshi, hedging the financial hit of dropping down a tier.

They survived on the final day. Susquehanna was on the other side of that bet and pocketed over $1M.

[Ninad Parab @ninadparab]

@krishashok Makes sense. So should the genes be the dominant drivers of what one should eat rather than surroundings? Should I continue to eat rice and fish like my ancestors in Konkan did or switch to eating food more suited for the colder, damper climate I live in?

[roon @tszzl]

really tasteful and advanced sycophancy involves minorly disagreeing with you to win rapport

[Max Leiter @maxleiter]

"They're made out of weights."

"Weights?"

"Weights. Floating-point numbers. We checked the whole thing through. It's nothing but weights."

"Weights doing what? Where do the words come from?"

"The weights make the words. Are you understanding me?"

[Ninad Parab @ninadparab]

@batatalal and Pharaoh

[Ninad Parab @ninadparab]

Whenever I hear Dario, or even Sam Altman, it sounds like 'kabhi kabhi lagta hai apun hi bhagwan hai'

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

Bill Gurley: Anthropic Thinks It’s Building God

@Jason: It is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur to think you can create God.

@bgurley:

“Anthropic is a mystery to me. I've never, ever seen a company that is both leading their field and the most negatively outspoken commenter on what they do.

And my initial theory was the regulatory capture theory. Quite frankly, I think they're very close to achieving that.

But then they just got so loud that I've literally, in the past 30 days, read everything I can about Anthropic, and I've come up with a new theory.

I call it the Dr. Frankenstein theory.

The more I dig, I've met people who, I dare say, think it's their responsibility, and they're excited about, building a species that's superior to humans.

Dario wrote this blog post called ‘Machines of Loving Grace.’ It was based on a poem.

The last stanza of the poem says, ‘I like to think of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors, and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.’

Sounds like an overlord to me.

And then in Dario's post, he says, ‘It could be a capitalist economy of AI systems which then give out resources to humans based on some secondary economy of what the AI systems think makes sense to reward in humans…’

So I don't think they think they're writing software. I think they're midwifing a deity here.”

Jason:

“These are delusions of grandeur. Let's call it what it is.

They believe that they're so powerful, these individuals, that they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species.

It literally is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur to think you can create God.”

[Ritesh Banglani @banglani]

Continuing the theme from yesterday, it baffles me that our instinct to solve every overcrowding problem is to curtail demand rather than build capacity.

China has built 2000 km of railway in Tibet, of which 1000 km is above an unbelievable 13,000 feet (Joshimath is at less than half that altitude). Yet we are litigating a daily quota on tourists instead of demanding an expansion of transport infrastructure.

Instead of blaming the tourists for wanting to escape the intense heat of the Indian plains, we should be asking why our vast Himalaya cannot accommodate 10x the number of visitors than it does today.

[Abhishek Avtans अभिषेक अवतंस 🌐 Public Linguist @avtansa]

Never trust a doctor for academic advice such as claiming that all Indian students should achieve advanced English while learning their mother tongue only at a basic level.
It is akin to “Neem Hakeem Khatra-e-Jaan” (“A half-baked doctor is a danger to life.”) 1/2

[Ramdas Athawale @RamdasAthawale]

बातमी छापली तुम्ही एकदम भारी,
पण माझ्याकडे कुठे आहे लक्झरी गाडी?

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a file