Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः

columnist (rediff, open, firstpost, ex swarajya, dna, pioneer). interests: tech, biz, health. travancore/silicon valley. IITM/Stanford. Original Internet Hindu

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

Fireside chat by Hon’ble FM Smt @nsitharaman with @RajeevSrinivasa at @IITMadras #Sangam2026 on Sep 26th (full video) https://t.co/rzERA9t6Zu

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

*THIS* is what I'd call "#StrategicAutonomy". #sarcasm

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

@Iyervval Bhushan joined @iitmadras in my batch. Fortunately for all, he quit soon, see(k)ing greener pastures in being what Yanks call a 'shyster'.

[Tamil Labs 2.0 @labstamil]

Death Penalty overturned for our brother Anojan Sivarasa. Thanks to everyone who voiced out. And never forget the deafening silence of those pretentious hypocritical "Tamil" warriors.

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

@WSJopinion The hypocrisy would have been less naked if Trump bought diesel from India, as Europeans do. Of course Indian diesel may be refined from Russian oil, but that's just a detail. See, Europeans are so civilized!

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

Perfidious Albion. chapter 237.

[Pt. Satish K Sharma MBCS FRSA FRAS @thebritishhindu]

Whenever arrogance & ignorance, guided by the desire for obscene Profiteering, wearing the garments of 'peacemakers', have united under one flag, why is that flag too often British or European ? Why the planet-consuming hunger ? When will be enough ?

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

the turkey-pak security guarantee for saudi Arabia is working. oh wait.

[Daku Incel Singh @nightbeatsdrop]

A mother is crying and holding a placard to save her son’s life. Anojan is a young man from Sri Lanka facing execution for a Facebook post. Let’s raise our voice for him. #SaveAnojan

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

wonder how this compares to india's inflation record. anybody has medium-run data?

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

US #inflation in trump 2.0. India, in comparison, has done much better on petrol prices, but general inflation is inching up to 5%. data from FT

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

shining example of even handed ethics. ok, part of the bile is because she's of indian origin, but still navi pillay's track record is definitely patchy.
but then, it is par for the course for nobel peace prizes, including the ones for kissinger and obama.

[Daniel Schatz @drdanielschatz]

Navi Pillay’s record should raise far more than serious questions about the Nobel Committee’s judgment. It should disqualify her as a recipient of the peace prize.

🔴 When a car bomb struck Denmark’s embassy in Pakistan after Danish newspapers republished the Muhammad cartoons, former Danish foreign minister Per Stig Møller says Pillay’s advice was not to defend freedom of expression, but to introduce censorship.

🔴 Her response to Charlie Hebdo was no better. She called the magazine “doubly irresponsible” for publishing Muhammad cartoons, described them as “malicious and deliberately provocative,” and said she “fully understands why people wish to protest strongly.” In other words, when Islamists answer speech with threats and murder, Pillay’s instinct is to rebuke those exercising free speech rather than the extremists.

🔴 In 2022, Pillay defended fellow UN commissioner Miloon Kothari after he invoked the antisemitic trope of a “Jewish lobby” controlling social media and questioned Israel’s UN membership. Kothari later apologised. A planned event honouring Pillay at Berlin City Hall was cancelled after the mayor withdrew support.

🔴 In 2010, she declined to attend the Nobel ceremony for the imprisoned Chinese democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo, citing a low-level scheduling conflict in Geneva, as Beijing pressured foreign officials to boycott the event.

🔴 At the antisemitic Durban II conference in 2009, Pillay remained seated while Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered his tirade against Israel and Western delegations walked out. She condemned the speech afterwards—but later admitted that she had been “naive” about Ahmadinejad.

🔴 And a review of her first two years as UN human-rights chief found no public statements by Pillay on human rights abuses in dictatorships as Cuba, North Korea, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan or Belarus.

This is the track record on which the Nobel Committee—and a chorus of commentators around the world—now celebrate this activist as a champion of human rights, freedom and peace. Despicable.

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

@rkvweb there was onam then. now onam is 'secular' too. but to be honest, there are more people celebrating Ganesh chaturthi, more going to thiruvallam for karkitaka vavu, etc.

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

in kerala, there's hardly any deepavali, no navaratri, no holi, no hindu festival at all. project thessalonica has won.

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

@stellensatz insightful point that "LLMs are not the be-all of genAI". in other words, not just stochastic-parrot behavior, but genuinely new insights can be generated by machines. (but that's not what's happening with openAI and navier-stokes etc, is it? I think that's shakespeare monkeys).

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

prof @stellensatz, this google deep mind expert wants to build truly self-learning systems, rather than just hoover up human learning. https://t.co/JVijjVRzUD

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

@stellensatz i think of it as emergent collective intelligence exhibited eg. by a beehive or anthill which is much greater than what the individual elements normally exhibit. that is, the group behavior magically is higher-order intelligence. scary thought in relation to robots.

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

#nvidia acknowledges the #LLM war, and moves to come out on top whoever wins: 'open' (ie "Linux" model) or proprietary (ie "windows" model). smart move. hedging, exactly as I said India should do in my article: play in the white spaces whoever wins https://t.co/Drlw3oRSf2

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

#replug. india's best strategic bet in the #generativeAI hype: keep out of the #LLM wars, focus on applications and hardware. that way whether US Big Tech wins ("windows" model) or Chinese open-weight does ("linux" model) india occupies the #whitespaces https://t.co/JC9g2nrCGK

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

in kerala, there's hardly any deepavali, no navaratri, no holi, no hindu festival at all. project thessalonica has won.

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

@stellensatz emergent behavior is fascinating. I have heard of this in the context of simple entities (eg. ants) creating sophisticated cultures when en masse. or the murmuration of starlings. I guess the 'wisdom of crowds' too.

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

@stellensatz thank you, prof @stellensatz, for the detailed explanation of the techniques David Silver invented at Deep Mind. I wonder if machines can learn in truly different ways (I remember AlphaGo came up with tactics humans hadn't ever thought of).

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

@Fintech03 Thumba is in Trivandrum, a tier-2 town like Cochin. for some reason north indians think KERALA = cochin. a DEL exec wanted to attend a meeting in vizhinjam, Trivandrum's port. his staff flew him to Cochin: he realized his error, took vande bharat, missed meeting by 3 hours 🤦

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

the satire hits close to the truth: Bangladeshis illegals are one of the congress's best vote banks.

[The Baingan @TheBaingan_]

🚨#𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹��𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗚𝘆𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝗞𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗶 𝗩𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

just the latest regime-change operation. there will be more.

[The Emissary @TheEmissaryCo]

What this young policewoman did was breaking the shackles of slavery.

Priyanka & her family epitomize the feudalist, uncouth elite of India, no matter if worth billions in corruption money, who see Indians as slaves deserving only to be beaten.