Kumar Abhishek

Pretending to be smart

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

Started reading popular non-fiction after a while. WTF is going. Pages upon pages of examples trying to drive home a solitary point which itself is painfully simple. Most of these could have been a 1000-word essay.

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

@R_o_M @ChrisHaymes1 Oooh one of those “high standards” folks. Haven’t seen one of those in the wild for some time.

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

@murty_mvr

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

🎯

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

MBA degrees

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

Maybe in another life I will be half as good an interviewer as Tyler Cowen. Amazing.

[tylercowen @tylercowen]

My contentious Conversation with @JonHaidt, https://t.co/AVWmwbukeA, #socialmedia

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

@AlecStapp A still of Kariko walking out of there.

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

Brave new world.

[Hume AI @hume_ai]

Meet Hume’s Empathic Voice Interface (EVI), the first conversational AI with emotional intelligence.

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

Also, wouldn’t it be great to have debates of this caliber on other interesting questions of note.

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

My kind of superhero.

[Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu]

Random obscure SSC commenter volunteers for COVID origins debate, turns out to be autistic debating genius:

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

Bastogne.

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

What is the best episode of television you’ve ever watched?

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

There are some TV episodes that, even as you watch them, you know are going to be hall of famers. The Constant was one such episode.

[LOST @TheLOSTworld_]

“I won’t call for 8 years,
December 24th, 2004.
Christmas Eve.”

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

@GenreFilmAddict Hartnett in Penny Dreadful was when I first realised that the man is a genuine force.

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

Just absolute perfection.

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

It’s been a while since I was blown away by back-to-back home runs like I was with Fishes and Forks in The Bear.

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

Holy moly.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

OpenAI announces leadership transition https://t.co/fFYDLwGXQz

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

“A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasy's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.” I watch this movie once a year.

[Brendan Hodges @metaplexmovies]

Can't believe I waited so long to watch MAN ON FIRE, Tony Scott's blood soaked parable of spiritual renewal and old-testament vengeance, where every other shot of maximalist, contrast-pushed, stunningly saturated beauty could be in the Louvre. Denzel is just incredible.

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

Does Ten Hag want to just get out of here?

[No Question About That @nqatpod]

Totally open midfield protecting the slowest centre backs in the league. Ok. 😱

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

Please give number for some good jyotish.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

ℹ️ @Casemiro has been ruled out for several weeks.

#MUFC

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

@dieworkwear

[Kumar Abhishek @professorkaka]

Ah, explaining probability to people. This should be fun.

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

I suspect it is time to explain "Umpire's Call" again. After the ball strikes the pad, what you see is a projection of where the ball might have been, it isn't the actual ball because that has met an obstruction. If more than 50% of the ball is projected to hit the stumps, you can be 100% sure it will. But if less than 50% of the ball is projected to hit the stumps, the current accuracy levels cannot state with 100% certainty that the ball would have hit the stumps. Hence, you go back to the Umpire's original decision because you cannot be certain enough to overturn his call. It is a very good and fair method. As cameras get better and the projected path more certain, we could reach a day when you can be certain that even if the projected path shows a ball merely clipping the stumps, it would in reality have hit them.