Hari S

All things tech, sports, dad

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Muthu ji, your political views are your own - but please do speed up the returns on my investments. 😃

[Mountain Rats @mountain_rats]

This board is displayed at Gemini Circle opposite US Consulate in Chennai ! 😂

[CFC Central @CFCCentral3]

Sackable offences have been committed season upon season without any repercussions. Nepotism hires are thriving, press access is being revoked if you write against their wonderful vision. An echo chamber where the dumb lead the dumb on a path to self-destruction.

[CFC Central @CFCCentral3]

How do you spend 1.5 billion on a side that still looks like it needs reinforcement in attack, midfield, defence and at GK? Whose wonderful idea was it to parachute an inexperienced manager straight into the war zone, to take on a side severely lacking depth and discipline?

[CFC Central @CFCCentral3]

Rosenior is an easy scapegoat but it's easy to see past him once you realize how out of his depth he is. Direct your anger towards the woefully incompetent Sporting Directors who have taken 4 years to build a side that PSG built in half the time and with less expenditure.

[Ramki @ramkid]

Wry humour was never sadder than this. I don't know whether to admire the craft or despair for the content.

[Hari S @smokestorm23]

This is brilliant, a trip down the memory lane of good old days

[Ramki @ramkid]

Colony life, despite its not so subtle classification of quarters from Type 1 to Type 5, was extremely social. We visited other families often. Where Dads discussed office politics and impending transfers, Moms exchanged recipes, and kids waited for the snacks to come out. +

[𝐁𝐈𝐆 𝐅𝐔𝐁𝐙 💙 @tarifubara]

I believe some people analyze this football with black magic, cause how do you predict something like a red card? 😂

[N. Ram @nramind]

Today -- September 20 -- is Founders’ Day for The Hindu, India’s most trustworthy and respected newspaper. It was founded on September 20, 1878 as an integral part of India’s freedom struggle. The messages attached to this post speak to what The Hindu is essentially about.

[Footy Humour @FootyHumour]

Eden Hazard meets up with the ball boy he kicked 11 years ago 😂🤣

[NS Ramnath @rmnth]

Listened to a superb speech by @svembu on AI at #Zoholics.

Here are four things I found super useful.

1. Use the "Socratic Method" for AI Research.
Don't accept the first AI answer. Engage it in debate. Sridhar's technique: ask an AI to generate information, then start a new session and ask it to critique its own work. For even better results, pit two different AIs against each other—take one response and ask the other to criticize it. He calls this a "very productive way to learn about a topic."

2. Identify High-Risk "No-Go" Zones for AI.
Understand where AI needs intense human oversight. Sridhar's "big no" examples: never let AI generate code and push it directly to production; don't use AI for legal or regulatory documents. AI invents facts and non-existent case law, which has gotten lawyers into serious trouble.

3. Find Truth in Regulatory Filings, Not Marketing.
Want the real story about a competitor? Study their SEC or SEBI filings. Sridhar says this is the "one place they have to control the marketing bullshit." A great strategy for accurate business intelligence.

4. Verification is the Real Bottleneck.
AI can generate 10,000 lines of code in minutes, but "no human can ever go through it to verify" it in comparable time. Sridhar notes the programming principle that "reading code is known to be much tougher than writing code in the first place." This understanding helps set realistic expectations for AI productivity and tells us why it needs human oversight.

[Hari S @smokestorm23]

Too good to believe !

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

The slow motion version of Cole Palmer’s fake pass and hesitation is pure art

[𝐄𝐑 @ErlingRoIe]

Playing against Chelsea in a final when they’re underdogs is one of the most terrifying things in football

[Hari S @smokestorm23]

Why not us? #ChelseaFC

[dravida sishu @dravidasishu]

I head a department in the US, am triple board-certified, with numerous publications, citations and invited lectures to my name. And yet, I won’t dismiss alternate systems of medicine as quackery just because they don’t fit a Western clinical trial model. Many chronic conditions defy modern medicine’s toolbox but respond to holistic approaches. That’s precisely why integrative care is gaining ground even in med school curricula.

As for allied health professionals such as optometrists, physical therapists, psychologists, pharmacists, they are not secondary. They are vital. They undergo rigorous training and licensure and are the backbone of modern healthcare delivery.

So please get off your ivory tower, quit the condescension, and embrace a more respectful, inclusive view of healthcare.

[Dr Palaniappan Manickam @drpal_manickam]

Indian hospitality is sooo overfeeding-in-the-name-of-love that it can land you in the hospital.

[Shashank Ravi @Chingakutty]

Baradwaj Ramsey

[Kate Rouch 🛡️ @kate_rouch]

Weeks into my new dream job as the CMO of OpenAI, I was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. I'm sharing my story to try to help other women. We can't control what happens to us--but we can choose how we face it. My biggest lesson: no one fights alone. 🧵

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

In India, You can Have an ideology, support a political party, believe in policies and ideas, favour a sporting team.

But never ever be a fan. Especially of individuals, be it politicians, sportspersons, actors and Govt servants.

Because Most don't care about you.

Many don't believe in what they say to you. Most don't practice what they preach to you.

For them, You are nothing but a means to an end. And their end is very different from your end.

In that regard

One person will ask you to live, breathe and fight for Kannada. Will ask you to object to milk packets because of Kannada. But will send his kids to Canadian International School and Canada for higher education.

Another one will ask you to die for Tamil. But will send his son to a convent and get him educated in English.

Then there are people who will implore you to get your kids educated in Marathi medium, because you know Marathi Pride and all that. But will send their own to a Scottish school, where the fees is more than your annual salary.

Some will go out of the way to prevent the growth of industries in their state. But will send their daughter to the neighboring state for starting a company.

Some push their state into bankruptcy and starvation, but will send their kids to London where I kid you not, they become Connoisseurs in foods so esoteric that you need a language degree to pronounce their names.

Your transport secretary does not pay the toll he / she levies on you.

Your health secretary goes to London to get himself treated not the local govt hospital.

Your cricket captain doesn't use any of the products he endorses.

Your Head / Tail / Feet / Hand actor asks you to drink Coke and eat Lays, but doesn't have sugar and runs away from chips faster than he runs away from you.

Most ask you to be patriotic and stay back in India. But send most of their kids abroad.

So Never idolize individual people.

Don't listen to them without applying your own brain.

Most will say you are the most important person in their life, but will not hesitate to unleash the police / bodyguards on you.

They will make you wait endlessly in traffic jams so that they travel comfortably. But then they will tell your happiness is their main concern.

They want you to follow what they tell you. But they will never take responsibility for the outcome.

Because They don't make the choices they ask you to make. They don't deal with the fallout like you do.

You are nothing to them as an individual.

For them you just another non playing character in an ocean of non playing characters. Their interest in you is only to the extent of how much they can extract from you.

They don't care you live or die, as long as they keep benefitting off your stupidity.

For the people you blindly follow, they don't even want to know you.

For them You are nothing but a movie extra.

A nicely worded ghostwritten social media post, which they don't even read, forget mean.

And if you die in your attempt to validate your fandom, you become a name on a sheet, whose family has to be given ex-gratia payment to. And most probably they would have to pay a bribe to receive it.

So be smart. Support people by all means. But draw a line.

Don't be a fanatic of anything. It isn't worth it.

You gain nothing from it. But will lose everything because of it.

The only people who love you and care for you are your family. They will be the only ones who will miss you when you die.

They will be the only ones who remember you when you are gone.

Don't believe me, ask the families of people who were killed in Bangalore and Hyderabad.