This case shows mockery of corporate governance and security market regulation. Will shake investors' confidence when it is already quite low. To add insult to injury, this company was recipient of PLI subsidies!
Against Money by Mason and Jayadev is simply terrific, probably the best book I've read this year. From capital, to the interest rate, to GDP, they examine the ways in which the money form governs our lives and can observe social relations. Definitely recommend.
Apropos OpenAI's claimed proof of Erdős planar unit-distance problem.
Unix v1 was written by one or two men in a month. MS-DOS 1.0 was literally three files. The whole operating system fit in your palm.
Windows 11 is 80 million lines of code and thousands of engineers.
The same arc is visible in AI-assisted mathematics. Right now it's a handful of lone wolves producing miraculous results from almost nothing. The kind of work where one brilliant person and a good idea changes everything.
Give it a decade. Venture-backed theorem proving companies will exist. Formal verification will be an enterprise product with a sales team. Proofs will be assigned to engineers in quarterly sprints and nobody will truly understand what they're shipping.
Every elegant system, left to the market, eventually becomes Windows. The math will still work. It just won't be beautiful anymore.
Breakdown of rule based, liberal world order and emergence of hyper-nationalism led to more conflict and scarcity around the globe. Who could have imagined? Now wait for the breakdown of NPT and the consequences that follow.
🚨 BIG STATEMENT
🇮🇳 PM Modi warns over the global energy crisis: “This is becoming a decade of crisis for the world.”
“If things don’t CHANGE, the achievements of the last few decades could be ERASED and MASSIVE poverty may return.”
Congratulations to @arjun_jaya35005 and WV Mason on their new book published by The University of Chicago Press.
Countering the deeply held view of money being a veil hiding economic reality, they argue that "World of money has never been an impartial representation of the world....Sometimes money enables new forms of cooperation; more often facilitates domination."
Came across a letter written by Jawaharlal Nehru to Rajaji on June 26, 1947. In the most turbulent month in modern Indian history--Indian independence was announced in the same month--JLN was thinking about recruiting German scientists in Indian institutions. JC Ghosh and SS Bhatnagar were identified for conducting interviews. For JLN, S&T was not an afterthought, but a core component of nation building.
Chitto Jetha Bhayshunyo is not merely a poem, but a philosophical worldview. "Mind without fear" is the poetic transcreation of "Sapere Aude" that Immanuel Kant believed to be the defining feature of European Enlightenment.
Range and depth of Tagore's vision-- rooted cosmopolitanism and contextual modernity--need to be articulated afresh today, as he risks being slotted as a regional icon.
Politics is the art of the possible. There are about 2000 possible coalitions that can theoretically cross majority mark in Tamil Nadu. Ranked by external and internal stability, top 37 coalitions are led by TVK. DMK + AIDMK + INC + PMK + CPI + IUML ranks 38th. Coalitions that exclude both TVK and INC are extremely brittle.