शून्यम्

A nobody. Pouring nulls, nothings, blanks and zeroes from the empty into the void.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

This is big: all access to Mythos and Fable AI models disabled for everyone outside America.

First thoughts:

1. Technology is the ultimate weapon. National sovereignty, national security, all of it is now about technology.

2. Globalization is dead and Bharat must find her own way ahead.

We must keep these two ideas in mind.

What can our government do right now? Ensure that orgs in India embrace smaller models, both Indian and Chinese open source ones. With a bit of effort, we can make them work. Anyway, why pay money to people who don't even want to sell to you?

We must deepen our R&D. Sarvam has been on it and we have been on it but remember that the latest models cost not only huge GPU budgets to train, the GPUs themselves are restricted. So we can't afford the scale of money (of the order of $100+ billion to even get in the game!) and even if we could come up with the money, we can't get all the GPUs. I would not like to ask the government to fund tens of billions of dollars on this anyway - the money has far better uses.

Zoho has been pursuing alternative R&D approaches that are far, far less expensive but by its nature cutting edge R&D takes time and we are patient. I am confident we will get there.

Any remaining people in India who have delusions about globalization should wake up now.

[Sandeep Mall @SandeepMall]

Another reminder. Tools we depend on can be switched off overnight, by a government we have no vote in.
We have seen this before. In manufacturing, we depend on imported machines, strait of Hormuz, imported technology licenses. In AI, we depend on imported models. Different industry, same pattern. We build on someone else’s foundation, and someone else decides when we can stand on it. Stop building services on top of these models. Start building the models. We have the engineers. We have the capital. Why are we so interested in 10 min deliveries.?
Where are our deep tech founders. Where is the capital willing to wait for long gestation?

[Mohan Sinha 🇮🇳 @Mohansinha]

This guy is the best!

[शून्यम् @sinezero]

@solioonensius @GurdjieffStudy Quotes from the Work are so valuable I feel a bit reluctant to read them alongside other tweets in the same superfluous state of scrolling

[शून्यम् @sinezero]

@Ektashah27 being*

[शून्यम् @sinezero]

@Ektashah27 Trouble is both, while be g independent, are also connected by a loose thread but not so much, and one can overpower the other anytime only to later prove that the other also relented.

[शून्यम् @sinezero]

@unclebobmartin What do you think of golang, Bob?

[शून्यम् @sinezero]

I yearn for the days when programking by hand was both required and valued. 16 hours a day would go by in pure bliss.

[Mandy Lu @mandylu]

i know a lot of people dont want to do it anymore but writing code is actually fun

[शून्यम् @sinezero]

@SirJambavan I still don’t understand calculus of complex numbers though. Not sure why they had added that to our engineering curriculum

[शून्यम् @sinezero]

@SirJambavan It is partly a teacher problem. I had a teacher who made understanding changes very intuitive, starting with the idea of “limit” and going on to differentiate and integrate. Later it was fascinating how you easy it was to calculate volumes and areas of irregular objects.

[शून्यम् @sinezero]

@SirJambavan Steven Strogatz’s Infinite Powers is written exclusively on the beauty of calculus. I have gifted it to so many school kids.
@stevenstrogatz

[शून्यम् @sinezero]

@tathvamasi6 @K_Oswal what is the song playing in the background? Info pls

[शून्यम् @sinezero]

I read a good sounding article on twitter and somewhere in the middle I see the “It isn’t this, it is that” and that puts me off. Tha sickening AI-generated negaative contrast framing that every article has!

[शून्यम् @sinezero]

@ShriramKMurthi Smart guesses by neural networks versus actual computation.

[masha @masha_slp]

I still don’t get the concept behind life. What exactly are we here for.???

[शून्यम् @sinezero]

Learn geology, watercolor painting and drawing caricatures

[James 𝕏ond @james_xond]

Be honest for a second… what’s one thing you wish you had started doing much earlier in life?

[शून्यम् @sinezero]

🤣

[Sunderdeep - Volklub @volklub]

@kushika_twt It takes a screenshot of rear passengers

[शून्यम् @sinezero]

@PhysInHistory You might find if you view time from the archimedian point

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

one of the great advantages of working with agents is that they actually understand git.