Prashant Gour

I run the experiments as if no one is watching.

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

The unsung hero of our time ❤️👏

[Pakchikpak Raja Babu @HaramiParindey]

Why is no media house covering this right now. Horrible visuals coming out of Poonch

[Asra Nomani @AsraNomani]

“Bahawalpur.”

I still have chills in my heart from when I first heard that town’s name in late January 2002. For the 23 years since, I have reported on how Pakistani intelligence and military leaders have used that city — Bahawalpur — in the southern province of Punjab as a base for its homegrown domestic terrorists.

When I heard India bombed training camps in Pakistan this week in Operation Sindoor, in response to a Pakistani terrorist rampage in India’s Kashmir state, I had one city’s name on my lips: Bahawalpur.

Did India bomb Bahawalpur?

It did. I knew then India was striking actual hubs for Pakistan’s homegrown domestic terrorism.

Why do I know?

My friend, WSJ reporter Danny Pearl, went to Bahawalpur in December 2001 with a notebook and a pen. Gen. Pervez Musharraf had just promised he was shutting down Pakistan’s militant groups after a strike by Pakistan’s terrorists against the Parliament in India, and Danny reported on the militant offices in Bahawalpur.

He literally knocked on their doors. Dear Dr. @yudapearl, this story is a window into Danny’s reporting enterprise. And because people will wonder: Danny was no cowboy. This was a calculated low-risk reporting trip because no journalist had been targeted for kidnapping in Pakistan. Around that time, Danny sent me an email: “I’m anxious to go to Afghanistan, but I’m not anxious to die.”

What did Danny learn?

The militant training camps were open for business in Bahawalpur.

On Jan. 23, 2002, Danny left a home I had rented in Karachi, Pakistan, for an interview.

I learned Danny’s fixer, Asif Farooqi, had arranged an interview for Danny through a man named “Arif.” Danny didn’t know it but Arif was the PR man for a militant group, Harkutul Mujahadeen. What was Arif’s hometown? Bahawalpur.

The police launched a manhunt to find Arif in Bahawalpur. We learned Arif’s family faked a funeral for Arif. Police found him trying to board a bus in Muzaffarabad, across the country by Pakistan’s border with Kashmir.

It is another town India said it bombed terrorist training facilities.

Arif had handed Danny off to Omar Sheikh,a British-Pakistani dropout from the London School of Economics, radicalized in the 1990s in London mosques. He went to Pakistan to train in these militant training camps. Then he kidnapped tourists in India. He was caught and jailed but on Dec. 31, 1999, he was traded for hostages in the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814.

Omar Sheikh was freed with Pakistani terrorist leader Masood Azhar, whose family was allegedly killed this week by India’s air strike in Bahawalpur.

Did Pakistan jail Omar Sheikh and Masood Azhar when they returned to Pakistan with a third terrorist, freed from India’s jails?

No. Pakistan’s military and intelligence gave them safe passage. They used them as weapons against India. But in fact these domestic terrorists have waged war against innocents in Pakistan, like civil society activists, Benazir Bhutto, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, schoolchildren and countless others.

Their extremism has ruined Pakistan, and Pakistanis can’t blame America for creating the mujahideen to fight the Soviets in the 1980s.

Pakistan has had a duty to dismantle those terrorist bases — for even the safety of its own people. What India is doing is a strategic attack on terrorist bases Pakistani military and intelligence should have eliminated but never did in their obsession to take over Kashmir.

You will see parallels in the propaganda messages against India and Israel. Like Hamas, Pakistani terrorists crossed a border to kill. Now, Pakistani propagandists call themselves victims of their “fascist” “colonizer” neighbor.

It’s the Reverse Uno strategy of moral inversion, just like @stoolpresidente got from the Temple student who won’t take responsibility for promoting the “HATE THE JEWS” sign. Don’t fall for it. Nations, communities and people must own up to their extremism, from Bahawalpur to beyond.

[Prashant Gour @prashantgour89]

@newslaundry i follow you but why aren’t you tweeting about kashmir incident. That is sad.

[MANJUL @MANJULtoons]

#cartoon #kunalkamra #EknathShinde https://t.co/4KlzRjX9xK

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

Skill India
Make in India
Ease of doing business
Mother of Democracy

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

यह सब क्या है ? ये किस कानून व्यवस्था की परिभाषा में आता है ?

[Kunal Kamra @kunalkamra88]

The only way forward…

[Kunal Kamra @kunalkamra88]

My new comedy special is out now -
https://t.co/LPV3L39PF4

[Amock_ @Amockx2022]

This video of Kunal Kamra has hurt BJP and its allies a lot especially Shivsena

They are running after him, they are demanding FIR and arrest. The venue of this event is vandalized by goons.

NDA with 20 states govt and so much afraid of a comedian 😂😂

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. This advice will be seen as some of the worst career advice ever given. I disagree with the Turing Award and Nobel prize winner who wrote, “It is far more likely that the programming occupation will become extinct [...] than that it will become all-powerful. More and more, computers will program themselves.”​ Statements discouraging people from learning to code are harmful!

In the 1960s, when programming moved from punchcards (where a programmer had to laboriously make holes in physical cards to write code character by character) to keyboards with terminals, programming became easier. And that made it a better time than before to begin programming. Yet it was in this era that Nobel laureate Herb Simon wrote the words quoted in the first paragraph. Today’s arguments not to learn to code continue to echo his comment.

As coding becomes easier, more people should code, not fewer!

Over the past few decades, as programming has moved from assembly language to higher-level languages like C, from desktop to cloud, from raw text editors to IDEs to AI assisted coding where sometimes one barely even looks at the generated code (which some coders recently started to call vibe coding), it is getting easier with each step.

I wrote previously that I see tech-savvy people coordinating AI tools to move toward being 10x professionals — individuals who have 10 times the impact of the average person in their field. I am increasingly convinced that the best way for many people to accomplish this is not to be just consumers of AI applications, but to learn enough coding to use AI-assisted coding tools effectively.

One question I’m asked most often is what someone should do who is worried about job displacement by AI. My answer is: Learn about AI and take control of it, because one of the most important skills in the future will be the ability to tell a computer exactly what you want, so it can do that for you. Coding (or getting AI to code for you) is a great way to do that.

When I was working on the course Generative AI for Everyone and needed to generate AI artwork for the background images, I worked with a collaborator who had studied art history and knew the language of art. He prompted Midjourney with terminology based on the historical style, palette, artist inspiration and so on — using the language of art — to get the result he wanted. I didn’t know this language, and my paltry attempts at prompting could not deliver as effective a result.

Similarly, scientists, analysts, marketers, recruiters, and people of a wide range of professions who understand the language of software through their knowledge of coding can tell an LLM or an AI-enabled IDE what they want much more precisely, and get much better results. As these tools are continuing to make coding easier, this is the best time yet to learn to code, to learn the language of software, and learn to make computers do exactly what you want them to do.

[Original text: https://t.co/HdI3Jb9HmF ]

[News Algebra @NewsAlgebraIND]

WATCH -

There should be strict punishment against him.

[Telugu Vibe @TeluguVibe]

ఢిల్లీ రైల్వే స్టేషన్ తొక్కిసలాట లో 18 మంది మృతి.

రైల్వే శాఖ అధికారుల నిర్లక్ష్యమే ప్రధాన
కారణం.

మృతులకు,గాయపడిన వారికి ఎక్స్ గ్రేషియా ప్రకటించిన రైల్వే శాఖ.

#delhirailwaystation #Delhi

[Trendulkar @Trendulkar]

Bihar is one of the poorest states in India. Meanwhile, cash recovered from District Education Officer (DEO) in Bettiah, Bihar :

[Prashant Gour @prashantgour89]

@ESPNcricinfo @cricketcomau @AshrayManohar

[Prashant Gour @prashantgour89]

@iimcomic Mehnat karo aur paise kamao.

[Prashant Gour @prashantgour89]

@PriyankaJShukla My entire family works in Edu. dept and everyone hail praises about the work and the intiatives you took for the improvement of govt. education system. Kudos.

[Prashant Gour @prashantgour89]

@ChekrishnaCk @AshrayManohar baat chalun kya?

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

Another sad reminder why reservations matter. Such violence will stop only when Dalits rise to power in key positions of influence in society - IPS, law, medicine, politics etc. Institutions populated w/ savarnas will never get the sense or incentive to change their behaviour.

[Prashant Gour @prashantgour89]

@MANJULtoons @MANJULtoons जी मैं usa में रहता हूँ यहाँ अपने बातों को बोलने की स्वतंत्रता कहीं ज़्यादा है, जनता के पास अधिकार भी ज़्यादा है