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Interests - #Pune #India #Technology #AI #AutonomousVehicles

[Ajeet Bharti | Point Blank @AjeetBhartii]

परीक्षाओं की असुविधा में तले जाते विद्यार्थी

[Ajeet Bharti | Point Blank @AjeetBhartii]

100% Ethanol Coming Soon!

[Ajeet Bharti YouTube @NijiSachiv]

भारत इतना गरीब है और PM 2 लाख की कलम रखता है! मेरा उत्तर:

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

"Watch Kanhaiya Lal's beheading. You will receive the same fate. It is your turn now. Even Modi won't be able to save you."

Scary threats to Hindu seer @drsumanandgiri because of his views. This cannot be normalised anymore. @HMOIndia should immediately provide him security.

[nitin @nitindamame]

Idiotic move, it was just medium to share. Who comes up with these ideas. Will hurt govt more than help.

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

🚨 HUGE BREAKING

Modi Government BANS Telegram until June 22, 2026 for NEET UG 2026 re-exams.

[Rakesh Krishnan Simha @ByRakeshSimha]

On the left is Nikhil Ravishankar. He went to school in New Zealand, worked all his life in NZ. Yet in 2025 when he was appointed CEO of Air New Zealand, the wave of online racism directed at him became such a tsunami that the country's 3 leading media outlets, the New Zealand Herald, 1News and Radio New Zealand, had to shut down their comments section. The sheer volume of racist comments made it impossible for moderators to do their job. It was like half the population of New Zealand had decided to be racist on Ravishankar.

On the right is Air India’s current CEO - New Zealander Campbell Wilson whose appointment in 2022 attracted no such backlash in India. Wilson hails from Christchurch, arguably the most racist city in New Zealand.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Dr @swapan55 inherits a Bengal wrecked by financial ruin (₹8 lac crore debt), anti-corporate policies (7,000 companies have taken flight), and insane mismanagement (₹5,800 crore for Minority Affairs versus ₹80 crore for Science & Tech).

But if anyone can, he can. Best wishes.

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

Here's the full report by KPMG -

https://t.co/m58tFpUDiC

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

🚨 Just IN 🚨

Two Army personnel lost their lives in an accidental explosion near the LoC in Uri, Baramulla district of Jammu & Kashmir.

Om Shanti 🙏

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

गडकरी जी के शौक! पेट्रोल टंकी के छेद से डीजल टंकी के बिल तक…

[Major Surendra Poonia @MajorPoonia]

Meet Braveheart Lt Cdr Suraj Parashar of MARCOS 🔱🇮🇳
In a daring joint operation with the Indian Army in Kashmir, he neutralized 2 Jihadi terrorists and displayed extraordinary courage under fire.
Honoured with the Shaurya Chakra by the Hon’ble President of India, he exemplifies the spirit of our Armed Forces.
Congratulations, Suraj 🙌 We are proud of you. 💪 Jai Hind 🇮🇳

[Major Surendra Poonia @MajorPoonia]

Meet the Gallant Hero - Lance Naik Meenatchi Sundaram A 🇮🇳
In an Op against Jihadi terrorist,he took bullets to his face & shoulder, yet refused to stop. Despite pain, bleeding and grave danger, he continued fighting with unmatched courage and eliminated the jihadi terrorist, ensuring the success of the operation.For his extraordinary bravery, fighting spirit
and courage in the face of the enemy, the President of India honoured him with the Kirti Chakra, India’s second-highest peacetime gallantry award.
Jai Hind 🇮🇳
Salute to Lance Naik Meenatchi Sundaram A ❤️🙌🇮🇳

[Meghna Girish 🇮🇳 @megirish2001]

#BalidanDiwas #KargilHeroes
First born child of Smt Usha and Shri Satpal Kalia, Amol was a brilliant student selected to NDA from hometown Nangal and was commissioned into 12 JAK LI

In the Kargil War, on 8th June 1999, Capt Amol Kalia led his brave team to assault & evict the enemy from Pt 5203 a treacherous peak at 17000 ft.

Despite the heavily fortified enemy firing down at him and his men, he led using advanced mountaineering techniques, got to the enemy, took control of an LMG, killed 3 Pakistani s and injured many more before making the supreme sacrifice, fighting for glory of our Tiranga 🇮🇳

This day in that war, along with Braveheart Capt Amol Kalia VrC, 10 Amar Balidani gave their all defending our motherland 🙏🇮🇳

Pt 5203 was is today known as Kalia Hill in the young Lion's honour. Capt Amol Kalia's younger brother serves in the Indian Air Force 🫡

On this Balidan Diwas, please keep the parents and families of our forever young Bravehearts in your prayers 🙏

Never forget #FreedomIsNotFree 🇮🇳

[Indic Collective @indiccollective]

We thank the Maharashtra Government for withdrawing the Devasthan Inam Bill, which was in direct violation of Article 26(d) of the constitution. This wise and respectful decision makes people truly believe in democratic governance by showing that voices of masses are always heard.

However, this injustice continues on temples of other states like Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha etc, where temple lands have been taken over by respective governments. Hence, we urge the Central Government to take necessary steps to either reinstate inam lands taken from temples, or pay fair rent at current market rates, not archaic rates fixed decades ago.

For example: The Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple's 12,600 acres of Sree Pandaravaka lands in Kerala fetch less than ₹5 acre/year as compensation. This is neither just nor respectful towards this country's devotional heritage.

Hence, we request immediate action from the centre to reinstate the temple lands where possible, pay market rent where not. No more delays.

https://t.co/3rCsYWnBQX

[Keshav. Dixit 🇮🇳 @keshda]

Karad Flyover to Open by June 20, Big Relief Coming for Pune-Kolhapur Highway Traffic https://t.co/DDdmUztMxv

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

MP - BJP
MLA - BJP
Parshad - BJP
Govt in Power - BJP

State of Affairs in Capital of Rajasthan, Jaipur

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[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

6 जून का संभावित घटनाक्रम:

१. जंतर मंतर पर धरने का प्रयास
२. अनुमति ना होने के कारण पुलिस द्वारा रोकना
३. पुलिस से 'संवैधानिक अधिकार के हनन' को ले कर धक्का-मुक्की
४. सोशल मीडिया पर शोर: हमें देश में प्रदर्शन का भी अधिकार नहीं
५. कुछ तिलचट्टों को डिटेन किया जाएगा, वांगचुक घसीटा जाएगा, नहीं तो ख़ुद घिसट लेगा कवरेज के लिए
६. वहाँ से कुछ वीडियो आएगी कि देखो हमें कैसे घटिया स्थिति में रख रहे हैं
७. विदेशी मीडिया में कवरेज, GenZ और युवाओं को मोदी ने जेल में डाला
८. ट्विटर पर तगड़ी गालियाँ, इंस्टा पर जयजयकार, यूट्यूबर्स को कंटेंट ही कंटेंट

[nitin @nitindamame]

@aparanjape Did you notice dangerous narrow segment on flyovers that appear suddenly. Consistent between Karad to Satara.

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

One of the new, buzzy jobs in Silicon Valley is the AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), an engineer who is embedded within a client organization to help customize solutions, such as building and tuning agentic workflows that suit the client’s particular needs. I’ve heard from people who are wondering anew about the FDE career path since OpenAI and Anthropic started building new teams to place FDEs within client organizations.

The rise of FDEs for AI workloads is one way AI is creating new jobs (and why the jobpolcalypse narrative of upcoming job market collapse is false -- there will be many AI and non-AI jobs). However, I believe there will be far more AI Engineer jobs than FDEs, as I explain below.

The FDE role was pioneered about two decades ago by Palantir, which sent engineers to government locations to work on secure, air-gapped networks. In addition to having good technical skills, FDEs need communication skills and sometimes business skills. For example, they may need to speak with clients to understand their needs, formulate a strategy to prioritize projects, explain complex technology, and respectfully push back if a client asks for something unrealistic. They’re enjoying a resurgence because of the amount of work involved in taking an off-the-shelf LLM and building it into a custom agentic workflow that fits particular business needs.

However, I believe the number of AI Engineer jobs will be far larger. A company might accept a few FDEs to be embedded within its organization. But most companies will want far more of their own employees working on their projects. While my organizations do hire FDEs, we hire far more AI Engineers! Also, a common client concern is that it is hard to find vendor-neutral FDEs — they are, after all, there to deeply integrate a particular vendor’s product into a company. In this moment when it’s hard to predict which AI service will be the best one in a year’s time, optionality (the ability to pick whatever vendor turns out to fit best in the future) is very valuable. In contrast, letting FDEs tightly bind a company’s processes significantly reduces optionality.

Right now, I see surging demand for AI Engineers who can build software applications using AI software components (like LLM prompting, agentic frameworks, evals, etc.) and effectively use AI coding agents (like Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity CLI, and OpenCode). As the AI Engineer role matures, I expect it to fragment into more specialized roles, like the generic Software Engineer role from decades ago fragmented into frontend, backend, mobile, data engineering, devops, and so on.

What will be the future, specialized AI engineering roles? I don’t know. Perhaps there will be AI FDEs, LLMOps Engineers, Evals Engineers, AI Data Engineers, Harness Engineers, and other roles we don’t have names for yet. But for now, I see a lot of AI engineers who are generalists create a lot of value. Skilled AI Engineers are in very high demand! As our field continues to mature over the coming decade, I look forward to new specializations within AI Engineering that create even more job opportunities.

[Original text: The Batch newsletter]

[Shefali Vaidya. 🇮🇳 @ShefVaidya]

#longread #sliceoflife #shefsays #dharmamusings

The Cleanest Car in the City

The Uber sedan pulled up and I got in, expecting the usual, slightly grubby seats, air freshener trying too hard to mask the smell of stale sweat, the faint smell left behind by other passengers, a half empty plastic bottle of water.

What I got was a spotless car. Not clean in the way a new car is. But a car that was cleaned by someone who cared for the vehicle. The kind of clean that takes daily effort and a certain pride in one’s work.

The driver was a thirty something man who wore a red teeka. On the dashboard, a small Shiv ji picture was covered with a red cloth. On the rear-view mirror, in careful, deliberate Devnagri lettering were written the words, Samb Sadashiv. Most importantly, hanging from the headrest in front of me was a laminated sign.

Welcome, it said at the top, in green. Then, in red; No Smoking. No Drinking. No Garbage. No Vaping. Below that, in Hindi, there was a sentence that made me smile. Roughly translated, it meant, ‘don’t price your stupidity through your garbage.’

I told the driver I loved the sign. He smiled the smile of a man who has made peace with the world but still holds it to a standard.

‘ Kya Kare, Ma’am. If I tell it verbally, they argue. You won’t believe the trash some passengers leave behind, chips crumbs on the seat, empty plastic packets, cigarette ash. People treat an Uber car like a dustbin’.

I asked if he wrote the sign himself. I had loved the handwriting. It had the confident strokes of someone who enjoys writing. He beamed with pride. ‘My daughter’, he said. ‘She wrote it. She is in grade 8.’ There is a particular kind of pride a father has when his daughter’s work is praised that is lovely to see.

I happened to have in my bag some Rudraksha beads that I had received as
prasad from Pashupatinath, given to me by the priest there when I was taking Darshan. I took one out and offered it to him. He accepted it with folded hands. Then he did something that stayed with me. He touched the Rudraksha to both his eyes, then to his forehead, and placed it gently beside the Shiv ji on his dashboard. Not casually. Reverently.

When we reached my destination, the fare had come to some 250 INR. He refused to accept the fare. ‘Mat dena aap kuch bhi, Ma’am.’ He said my gift to him was worth a 100 free rides. I paid, of course. But as I walked away, I thought about what had just passed between two strangers in a clean car on an ordinary morning. A Rudraksha bead offered as prasad. A daughter’s handwriting. A man who tends to his car with more care than most people bring to anything in their life. This is Bharat. There is a whole civilisation in simple gestures like these, it is a pity that only negativity makes the news!

Shefali Vaidya