Sachi

Mother of two kids and life long learner.

[Sachi @sachibk]

@chheplo that creates demand on parental control for model selection!

[Sachi @sachibk]

Experimenting with some deep research across platforms. It’s a shame google deep research is free!

[Sachi @sachibk]

Proactive > Reactive

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[Pratik Desai @chheplo]

Grammarly is aligned

[Sachi @sachibk]

Someone took the assignment too seriously 😆

[Sachi @sachibk]

@chheplo Time to update your pinned tweet 😀

[Sachi @sachibk]

@chheplo Can you also post a news item where males keep ignoring the family chores and responsibilities and still manages to get away with cute smile? 😛

[Sachi @sachibk]

@chheplo 🤣🤣

[Sachi @sachibk]

@chheplo It was a great game though.

[Nat Friedman @natfriedman]

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000 years, we can finally read the scrolls:
This image was produced by @Youssef_M_Nader, @LukeFarritor, and @JuliSchillij, who have now won the Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize of $700,000. Congratulations!!

These fifteen columns come from the very end of the first scroll we have been able to read and contain new text from the ancient world that has never been seen before. The author – probably Epicurean philosopher Philodemus – writes here about music, food, and how to enjoy life's pleasures. In the closing section, he throws shade at unnamed ideological adversaries – perhaps the stoics? – who "have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular."

This year, the Vesuvius Challenge continues. The text that we revealed so far represents just 5% of one scroll.

In 2024, our goal is to from reading a few passages of text to entire scrolls, and we're announcing a new $100,000 grand prize for the first team that is able to read at least 90% of all four scrolls that we have scanned.

The scrolls stored in Naples that remain to be read represent more than 16 megabytes of ancient text. But the villa where the scrolls were found was only partially excavated, and scholars tell us that there may be thousands more scrolls underground. Our hope is that the success of the Vesuvius Challenge catalyzes the excavation of the villa, that the main library is discovered, and that whatever we find there rewrites history and inspires all of us.

It's been a great joy to work on this strange and amazing project. Thanks to Brent Seales for laying the foundation for this work over so many years, thanks to the friends and Twitter users whose donations powered our effort, and thanks to the many contestants whose contributions have made the Vesuvius Challenge successful!

Read more in our announcement: https://t.co/rUlrdGXBMs

[Sachi @sachibk]

Like increased WhatsApp traffic in IST mornings with all good morning messages, chatGPT seems to experience unusual load during Bay Area commute hours. 😆

[Sachi @sachibk]

Google brand may have hurt, but I am finding responses given by bard on Bard on technical topics are much detailed, structured and useful than on chatGPT.

[Sachi @sachibk]

@chheplo And there are people who watch shows almost halfway through and then read them on wikia 🙈

[Sachi @sachibk]

Also, why do we have so many frameworks for PMs?

[Sachi @sachibk]

What would gearbox look like if it was designed today? I’ll go first.. order would be D-P-N-R.. #randomcommutetoughts

[Sachi @sachibk]

As I transition my role to Product Management, I feel I am applying my life skills in the role, and taking my learnings at work in life skills, no wonder job satisfaction amongst PMs is so high 😊

[Sachi @sachibk]

Everyday I check the market size of Generative AI it explodes! Latest at 4.4 Trillion$$. Time to understand implications on each segment.

[Sachi @sachibk]

@jakerobinson So much for scarcity of compute! 🙁

[Sachi @sachibk]

@zillow should start putting focal length of the property pictures, #justsayin 🤷‍♀️