Shashank Shekhar

Helping to push the technology story forward ... one purchase at a time.

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

An Indian engineer in Bengaluru got tired of potholes destroying his car.

So he built an app with Codex that detects them, finds who is responsible, and files a complaint.

Here is how it works. He installed a dashcam with GPS and an accelerometer. The app records everything while he drives.

A vision model classifies every pothole by size. Small, medium, large.

But here is the clever part. Most Indian roads are under warranty.

The contractor who built them is legally responsible for fixing potholes for free.

His app searches through 2,900 government contracts, finds the exact tender number, identifies the officer responsible, attaches the photo and geolocation, and generates a ready-to-file complaint.

One drive to work. 12 potholes detected. 12 complaints ready.

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vc: @gkcs_

[Shaurya Sinha @shaurya_sinha7]

This Independence Day 🇮🇳, I asked, "What will the next century of young Indians look like?"

$0.01 Drone Deliveries. UAVs that never land. Groceries in under 10 minutes.

Meet The 22nd Century Indian. A Documentary on a New India.

[Shashank Shekhar @shashank212]

Write a script and give yourself the best part !

“I play rocky” is 🔥

https://t.co/Fg6Nu4kMdV

[Shashank Shekhar @shashank212]

@bchesky Use cases are wild.

- Cross border : Folks pooling funds to buy international properties and list on @Airbnb

- Instant transfer : you like an @Airbnb so much that you want to buy it. Send a message to owner and if the price is right n you never checkout.

[Abdullah Kassem @Abdullah089821]

@NYCMayor Please have the billboards at Times Square play game 5

[Shashank Shekhar @shashank212]

I would just mention “40% return” in the pitch deck and footnote the other details !

[Paul Graham @paulg]

I talked to a founder of an AI startup generating about a 40% annual return on the cost of the GPUs he was using. I.e. he could make $400 in annual revenue for every $1000 worth of hardware he used.

[a16z @a16z]

World Labs CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li: "The world is not made of words."

"Language models have given machines an extraordinary command of concepts, vocabulary, and reasoning, but the physical world, virtual or real, runs on a different substrate."

"Where language models learn the statistical structure of text, world models learn the statistical structure of space and time: how light falls on a surface, how a garden looks from an angle no camera has captured, how objects respond to force and follow the laws of physics."

"Language gave machines a way to talk about that world. World models are how machines will finally come to understand, imagine, reason and interact with it."

Full piece: https://t.co/C9qOJg5wuc

[Shashank Shekhar @shashank212]

Game on ! Redbull soccer !!

[Shashank Shekhar @shashank212]

Saw my train leave the platform
right in front of my eyes ! 👀

[Shashank Shekhar @shashank212]

@paulg @paulg - To make it real, what’s the one example of these founders being “relentlessly resourceful” ?

[Shashank Shekhar @shashank212]

You can tell a lot about a person based on the contingencies they carry around with themselves!

[Jeremy Singh @singhcredible]

“If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far. It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.”

John Bingham

[Yago @EdanYago]

Israel suffered the worst military outcome in its history yesterday.

How did this happen? How did the vaunted IDF fail so dramatically?

Eight factors are starting to emerge that explain what happened…👇

[Mordi Goldstein @MordiGoldstein]

@chamath This is one of the better explanations of context that I’ve found.

I know the area very well and I’m happy to chat it through with you if you want.

[George Mack @george__mack]

11 Thoughts on Money:

1. Money is the best video game ever created.

2. If you neglect your children to play video games, it’s a nationwide news story. If you neglect your children to play the money game, it’s a Tuesday.

3. Money is a multi-player game with a simple but infinite scoreboard.

4. Choose your character in the money video game: Positive sum, negative-sum, or zero-sum.

5. Money unlocked society's ability to track and measure value. What metrics do we not currently track that would change society if we could?

6. "If you can't be happy with a coffee, then you won't be happy on a yacht" - Naval

7. The sandwich problem: One man tried to make a chicken sandwich from scratch - It cost him $1500 and took him 6 months. Money creates mass coordination between strangers to solve the sandwich problem.

8. School gives most people PTSD to mathematics. If you use basic arithmetic, you're the one-eyed man in the world of the blind.

9. The meme of being a millionaire is like a 3-hour or 4-hour finish time in a marathon. It gives people a clear scoreboard to aim towards. What replaces the meme in a post-inflation world?

10. "A rich man is anyone who earns more than his wife's sister's husband." - Rory Sutherland

11. Mansa Musa is supposedly the richest man ever.

He was the emperor of Mali in the 14th century with an estimated $400 billion by today's standards.

Have you ever heard of him? Probably not.

All money scoreboards go back to 0.

[chris eberle @defiginger]

Last month, we ordered @FiveGuys for dinner via @DoorDash.

It never showed up, but DoorDash said it was delivered.

The "proof of delivery" photo from ~8pm was a screen cap from Zillow of the front of our house. In the daytime. With nothing at the front door.

A 🍔🍟 thread.

[Shashank Shekhar @shashank212]

For a change - spend time thinking about how you are going to spend your time !

[VISHAL DADLANI @VishalDadlani]

I want to say this to Indian Muslims on behalf of a majority of Indian Hindus. You are seen & heard, loved & treasured. Your pain is our pain. Your patriotism is not in question, your identity is not a threat to India or to anyone else's religion. We are one Nation, one family.

[Sam Altman @sama]

don't do the deferred life plan