Sabyasachi Basu

Math grad doing increasingly less math with every passing day.

[Sabyasachi Basu @shobboo]

We interrupt the regularly scheduled program to bring you snippets from my day job. (w/ @mihir1710 , Viraj, Ankit and Kiran).

[Sumit @_reachsumit]

Retrieval Needs Multivectors: An Exponential Separation

Microsoft formally proves that multi-vector embeddings can be exponentially more compact than single-vector ones for ranking documents.

📝 https://t.co/fiqz4dBR2B

[Sabyasachi Basu @shobboo]

Compare this to the Litany Against Fear from Dune. I would call the oath a bad copy but turns out it actually predates Dune by some six years.

[Sabyasachi Basu @shobboo]

I do not understand this Green Lantern obsession with renouncing fear. There is no bravery without fear, there is maybe ignorance/indifference. From what I can tell, this wasn't a thing till the first Hal Jordan comic came into being.

[Sabyasachi Basu @shobboo]

I could never have guessed who this was a reply to

[Jürgen Schmidhuber @SchmidhuberAI]

@Pontifex Really? 2008: "Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes" https://t.co/nfmjD4Ijul Tweet: https://t.co/2YMlXFx7Mc

[Sabyasachi Basu @shobboo]

Be Blur
Do nothing
Win

[Liam Gallagher @liamgallagher]

All this hatred directed at MAN CITY from other clubs should be directed at ARSENAL MAN UTD LIVERPOOL there the 1s who are corrupt and trying to stop other teams from winning things not MAN CITY were trying to help you all out were like Jesus prepared to die on the cross

[Sabyasachi Basu @shobboo]

It is also incredibly fitting that this story is being told by @zoeinthecities, whose grandfather Elia Kazan directed the celebrated 1955 adaptation. It almost feels like the tale of the Trasks across several generations has itself been passed down as an heirloom from Elia to Zoe

[Sabyasachi Basu @shobboo]

More on media: I am both extremely excited and slightly scared about the new Netflix miniseries based on East of Eden. East of Eden is one of my favourite books of all times and devastated me in a way few books ever have.

[Sabyasachi Basu @shobboo]

My favourite bit of Steinbeck, however, lives in Monterey: the Cannery Row monument. Many a time, I have spent an hour sitting at the base of the statue and staring at the ocean. You also get to see Ed Rickett's old lab, not far from the aquarium!

[Sabyasachi Basu @shobboo]

Min Jin Lee's new book is out, and I'm dying to read it. Pachinko was at times difficult to read, but it is an extraordinary book, and felt deeply personal in many ways even though it had nothing to do with me personally. I guess that is the sign of a good storyteller.

[Sabyasachi Basu @shobboo]

Just realized I could never be the head of state in Singapore bc I'm anemic.

[Sabyasachi Basu @shobboo]

Tweeting 114 like the average New Yorker knows or cares about City 😭

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

114

[Sabyasachi Basu @shobboo]

The banter has begun.

[David de Gea @D_DeGea]

So……

Let’s talk.

How many Premier League titles have I won then? 🤔

[Sabyasachi Basu @shobboo]

In my favourite city at my favourite restaurant

[Sabyasachi Basu @shobboo]

Shout out to Russ Hanneman and his RoI (Radio on Internet)

[Mohamed Komora @mohamedkomz]

They discovering the radio by first principles.

[Sabyasachi Basu @shobboo]

This is why I refuse to talk about work at work

[gaurang @gnaaruag]

how talking to people at work feels like these days