Rishi Raj Singh

I am a collector of pop culture, I am a gatherer of lost memories, I am a purveyor of useless information, I am a wanderer lost in time...

[Rishi Raj Singh @rishirs85]

A reminder! #CAA_NRC_Protests

[Rishi Raj Singh @rishirs85]

@airindia Can you please confirm when flight AI 2018 will land in New Delhi today?

[Rishi Raj Singh @rishirs85]

@airindia can you please share details of the AI 2018 from Heathrow to Delhi on the 28th. My parents are on the flight and it seems like it was diverted to Istanbul. When will it reach? Is everything ok on the flight?

[Rishi Raj Singh @rishirs85]

@airindia Also can you please share why the flight was diverted?

[Rishi Raj Singh @rishirs85]

@airindia Will it depart from Istanbul at 1612 or land in Delhi then?

[Rishi Raj Singh @rishirs85]

तुम बिल्कुल हम जैसे निकले
अब तक कहाँ छुपे थे भाई
वो मूरखता वो घामड़-पन
जिस में हम ने सदी गँवाई
आख़िर पहुँची द्वार तुहारे
अरे बधाई बहुत बधाई
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फ़हमीदा रियाज़

[Rishi Raj Singh @rishirs85]

@arunabh010 I think these are my favourite historical fiction novels. Also the tv series with Mark Rylance brings Cromwell to life! Thanks for sharing 🙂

[Rishi Raj Singh @rishirs85]

@ishankashi When irony goes mainstream!

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use!

This is going to change the landscape of the LLM market.
Llama-v2 is available on Microsoft Azure and will be available on AWS, Hugging Face and other providers

Pretrained and fine-tuned models are available with 7B, 13B and 70B parameters.

Llama-2 website: https://t.co/PKrrXgHdem
Llama-2 paper: https://t.co/aINNrXNhMb

A number of personalities from industry and academia have endorsed our open source approach: https://t.co/N7HwgW9Suh

[meghnad (Nerds ka Parivaar) @Memeghnad]

The only press conference question PM Modi has faced in 9 years, and the answer he gave

This is worth documenting

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QUESTION
What steps is the Indian government planning to take to improve the rights of Muslims, and other religious minorities, in India and to uphold free speech?

ANSWER
I am actually really surprised. India is indeed a democracy. And, as President Biden also mentioned, for both India and America, democracy is in our DNA, democracy is our spirit. Democracy runs in our veins. We live democracy. And, our ancestors have actually put words to this concept, and that is in the form of our constitution.

Our government has taken the basic principles of democracy, and on that basis, our constitution is made, and the entire country runs on that.

Our constitution and our government have always proved that democracy can deliver. And when I say deliver, it is regardless of caste, creed, religion and gender. There’s no...absolutely no space for discrimination. And, when you talk of democracy, if there are no human values, and there’s no humanity, there’s no human rights, then, it’s not a democracy.

When we have accepted democracy, there’s absolutely no space for discrimination. That’s why India believes in moving ahead with everybody we trust, and everybody’s efforts. These are the foundational principles, which are the basis for how we operate and how we live our lives.

In India, the benefits that are provided by the government are accessible to all, whoever deserves those, it is available to everyone. That’s why in India’s democratic values, there’s absolutely no discrimination; not on the basis of caste, creed, age or any kind of geographic location.

SOURCE: https://t.co/ZHaUMaT2L5

[Rishi Raj Singh @rishirs85]

@ishankashi Diamonds on a ring of gold?

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

AVERAGE PRIVATE RENT IN LONDON: An eye-watering £2,500 a month.

AVERAGE PRICE TERRACE HOUSE IN LONDON: A near-unattainable £850,000.

It’s a grave injustice that young Londoners are struggling to live in the city that raised them.

[Dr Dutee Chand Olympian @DuteeChand]

“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.”

[Arunabh 🗯 अरुणाभ @arunabh010]

This Week's assignment @rishirs85 @neilhimself

[Rishi Raj Singh @rishirs85]

@ishankashi What parts of the internet do you inhabit to find such things!

[Michael Walker @michaeljswalker]

A Treasury minister this morning said live on air, explicitly, that *every* worker in UK should accept a real term pay cut. That should provoke a govt crisis. What could possibly be less popular? Yet silence from Labour. So it will pass, with few aware of Tories’ true intentions.

[Rishi Raj Singh @rishirs85]

@arunabh010 @TorontoStar @cityoftoronto That’s no moon - its a space station!

[parktheplastic @parktheplastic1]

It’s our 1st (of many I hope!) clothes swap today! See poster for details - adult clothes but kids gear happily accepted too! 💚🥳#parktheplastic #plasticfreewesthampstead #clothesswap #nw6

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

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[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

This situation is intolerable; where those of us listening to the science are struggling to sleep, struggling with our mental health, whilst most people are blissfully in denial because 99% of the media doesn’t understand the full implications of what is happening. #DontLookUp

[Leonardo DiCaprio @LeoDiCaprio]

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