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21. Polymath. Founder. Biographies. Poker.

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4/ More broadly, India needs to get better at respecting personal space and boundaries. Far too often, you see grown adults (especially in public spaces) pushing, crowding and behaving with little regard for the people around them.

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1/ Indian 🇮🇳 airports have some of the WORST passenger experiences I’ve encountered anywhere in the world (Traveled over 10+ countries FYI.) The infrastructure has improved, but the experience on the ground often feels stuck in the past from the 1800s.

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3/ And one question I can never understand about Indian airports: if they have advanced scanning machines, why are passengers still expected to pull out every electronic device from their bags? It feels unnecessarily inefficient and outdated.

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I’m seeing too many posts about “Xbox CEO” and “Asha Sharma” lately. Is this all a paid marketing gimmick that she’s doing to promote her image?

[Pubity @pubity]

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma believes gaming is becoming "unaffordable" for the average consumer.

She's trying to find ways to make things cheaper but claims it's a "really hard formula" to get right.

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The @BCCI needs to start posting @IPL clips, compilations and videos on YouTube much like the NFL and NBA to fix its viewership problem.

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 The Indian Premier League (IPL) TV ratings have dropped by 18.8% in 2026.

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Love this format of learning. This is what the future of learning should be!

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

Did a very different format with @reinerpope – a blackboard lecture where he walks through how frontier LLMs are trained and served.

It's shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are doing from a handful of equations, public API prices, and some chalk.

It’s a bit technical, but I encourage you to hang in there - it’s really worth it.

There are less than a handful of people who understand the full stack of AI, from chip design to model architecture, as well as Reiner. It was a real delight to learn from him.

Recommend watching this one on YouTube so you can see the chalkboard.

0:00:00 – How batch size affects token cost and speed
0:31:59 – How MoE models are laid out across GPU racks
0:47:02 – How pipeline parallelism spreads model layers across racks
1:03:27 – Why Ilya said, “As we now know, pipelining is not wise.”
1:18:49 – Because of RL, models may be 100x over-trained beyond Chinchilla-optimal
1:32:52 – Deducing long context memory costs from API pricing
2:03:52 – Convergent evolution between neural nets and cryptography

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@cognition @DevinAI @dabit3 @mattbergland

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Our team (@arhaan10sm @Weakthypluto and I) built a project, turned it into a company and onboarded a customer all within 24 hours.

PulseOps AI is an enterprise AI co-pilot for urban transport operators. We built this during the @unicorn_mafia and @theresidency hackathon and we're trying to get to SF!

We used @cognition, @mubitcompany and @pydantic during the hack to build this project.

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@shedrinkswater It’s interesting how people who are very active on social media often shape narratives about relationships. Sometimes that can make others feel insecure, even though real relationships are usually much more nuanced.

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@suhasasumukh @localhosthq Who edited this?

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I LOVE SNOW

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@JesseTinsley Interesting.