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[Arindam Paul @arindam___paul]

Been exactly a year since we launched water purifiers

We now have TDS data from tens of thousands of Atomberg water purifiers installed across the country

And we combined that with publicly available data from different government sources like central pollution control board, jal jeevan mission and central ground water board

And built a free tool where you can enter your pincode and check your water quality- TDS levels, TDS variance, chemicals present etc

[Ananth Narayan @ananthng]

In my latest @bsindia piece, following an Indianomics discussion with @latha_venkatesh and Mridul Saggar, I argue that while sharpening and articulating India’s growth story is critical, policy and market distortions may also have amplified negative sentiment around the INR and deterred capital flows.

Key points:

• No cause for panic: INR weakness warrants attention, but India’s external deficits remain manageable and RBI's buffers are substantial.

• The deeper issue: India’s prolonged struggle to attract sustained net foreign capital amid persistent negative sentiment on the rupee.

• Policy silos: Interest rates, liquidity, taxation, capital flows, and currency markets are deeply interconnected, though policy debates often treat them in silos.

• Unintended consequences: Interventions to suppress interest rates, alongside tax frictions, may have unintentionally weakened capital inflows and lowered the cost of speculative positioning against the rupee.

• Distorted savings: Distortions in taxation and markets have also stunted debt market development, pushing discretionary savings disproportionately into equities.

• Navigating the Trinity: The answer is not avoiding intervention, but engaging more holistically with the “impossible trinity” linking interest rates, exchange rates, and capital flows.

• The structural fix: Rather than introducing capital controls or fresh distortions, responses should aim for deeper debt markets, balanced taxation, and a globally competitive framework for foreign capital.

The piece argues against both panic and rigid orthodoxy, in favour of a more integrated approach to monetary, currency, and fiscal policy.

https://t.co/ud4pLWvj2Q

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. I wanted to quickly share a few tips for using Claude Code, sourced directly from the Claude Code team. The way the team uses Claude is different than how I use it. Remember: there is no one right way to use Claude Code -- everyones' setup is different. You should experiment to see what works for you!

[Mustafa @oprydai]

this is a must read for every programmer.

[Shyam Rangeela @ShyamRangeela]

वाराणसी से नहीं लड़ने देंगे ये तय था, अब साफ़ हो गया
दिल ज़रूर टूट गया है, हौंसला नहीं टूटा है ।
आप सबके सहयोग के लिए शुक्रिया ।
मीडिया और शुभचिंतकों से निवेदन है कृपया अभी कॉल ना करें, जो भी सूचना होगी यहाँ देता रहूँगा, शायद अब थोड़ी देर बातचीत करने की इच्छा नहीं है

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

My generation benefitted immeasurably from the liberalisation programmes that Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh led. Those benefits transformed confidence levels and led to this brilliant, confident younger generation that is taking India beyond what we could have dreamt of. As in cricket, where you give a guard of honour to a rival on retirement, it is time for everyone to say thank you to Manmohan Singh for the transformation that the mid 90s brought about.

[SUDHIR @seriousfunnyguy]

When you are from a big Sangeet Gharana but are appointed as a nursery school teacher

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 India and Switzerland finally agreed on FTA after 16 years of negotiations. 🇮🇳🇨🇭

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Naval Ravikant speaks about the importance of hiring self-motivated problem solvers

[Amit Schandillia @Schandillia]

[THE STORY OF PALESTINE]
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What came first—Palestine or Israel?
Who owns the Temple Mount?
Why is West Bank called West Bank?
Why were Jews forbidden on Temple Mount?
Why did the Ottomans invite Spain’s Jews?
Are there any Palestinians left today?
How come no Jewish refugees?
Who inherited the Mandate in 1948?
Why did Jordan, Syria, and Kuwait expel Palestinians?
Why does Israel keep bombing Lebanon?
Why did Egypt blockade Gaza?
Was Hamas elected fair and square?
Why did Palestinian Authority endorse Gaza blockade?
Why no peace in Palestine despite two Peace Nobels?

There is an endless list of questions around Palestine and this very long thread is an attempt to answer most of them.

This is the story of Palestine, going back not decades or centuries but to the very beginning of recorded history. My very strong personal biases notwithstanding, this thread only covers demonstrable truths backed by established evidence, from sources as contemporary as practically possible.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

"Peter Thiel used to insist at PayPal that every single person could only do exactly one thing.

Every single person at the company rebelled because it's so unnatural. At every other company, people want to do multiple things--especially as you get more senior... you feel like it's insulting to be asked to do just one thing.

But Peter would enforce this pretty strictly. He'd basically say: 'I will not talk to you about anything else except for this one thing that I've assigned to you. I don't want to hear about how great you're doing in this other area. Just focus until you conquer this one problem.'...

The insight behind this is that most people will solve problems that they understand how to solve. Roughly speaking, they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems.

A+ problems are high-impact problems for your company but they're difficult--you don't wake up in the morning with a solution to them, so you tend to procrastinate...

If you have a company that's always solving B+ problems, you'll grow and add value, but you'll never create the breakthrough idea because no one is spending 100% of their time banging their head against the wall every day until they solve it"

-- Keith Rabois

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We've just launched fine-tuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo! Fine-tuning lets you train the model on your company's data and run it at scale. Early tests have shown that fine-tuned GPT-3.5 Turbo can match or exceed GPT-4 on narrow tasks: https://t.co/VaageW9Kaw

[Amit Schandillia @Schandillia]

A quick history primer for @sudhirchaudhary. And for his critics.

On May 10, 1940, Churchill took oath as PM. About 6 weeks later, France fell to Germany leaving Britain standing alone to face the formidable Nazi war machine. America was still neutral to the affairs of Europe.

[CERN @CERN]

Exciting times for the #astrophysics community, as evidence of a new class of #GravitationalWaves is revealed.

Scientists suggest they are caused by pairs of supermassive black holes merging and generating ripples in space-time.

@STFC_matters explains. 👇

[Nirmalya Kajuri @Kaju_Nut]

Many experts on gravity were confused if gravitational waves were real.

A clever argument from Richard Feynman helped decisively settle the issue. 🧵

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

@SnoopDogg 6. Leaked Internal Google Document

An anonymously shared Google document has been leaked in a Discord server.

Identity of the Google researcher who authored the document has been verified.

However, it’s worth noting it represents personal opinion, not the entire company’s.

[LangChain @LangChain]

PlugnplAI is a database of all ChatGPT plugins by @edreisMD

https://t.co/oFoLbPd61r

These plugins aren't just usable from inside ChatGPT - you can also use them inside LangChain agents! Here's an example using them all at once (via retrieval)

Docs: https://t.co/9aikVrYdvs

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

Today is a huge day for developers. 🤯

- ChatGPT API released (10x cheaper)
- Whisper available in the API
- Overhauled data usage policy
- Focus on stability

And more!

Here’s a quick thread on everything we shipped today @OpenAI 🧵

[Amit Schandillia @Schandillia]

[QQT: STORY OF GOD]
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More than 5,000 years ago when civilization was born in Sumer, there was only water ruled by the primeval ocean god. They called her Nammu and built her temples all over the place. Her cult center was in Eridu, likely the first Sumerian city.

[Sam Altman @sama]

i failed pretty hard at my first startup--it sucked!--and am doing pretty well on my second.

the thing i wish someone told me during the first one is that no one else thinks about your failures as much as you do, and that as long as don't psych yourself out you can try again.