Utkarsh Simha

ML Eng @apple, Ex @microsoft, Ex @nutanix, UCSD alum, FOSS enthu, pun slinger. Thoughts aren't my own - they are from the voices in my head.

[Utkarsh Simha @utkarshsimha]

@basiclines Symlink other repos in a dir called other_repos and use add dir

[Utkarsh Simha @utkarshsimha]

Who knew tweet of the year will come so close to the end

[Oksana @fadednailpaint]

RIP Raja Rammohan Roy you would've loved Erika Kirk

[Utkarsh Simha @utkarshsimha]

@manuukenya Eye sand 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Utkarsh Simha @utkarshsimha]

Hi, how are you - SYN
I'm good! How are you? - SYN-ACK
Good! - ACK

Now you have a trust-based communication set up.

[Daniel @nearlydaniel]

My life got a lot better when I realized that small talk is just a TCP handshake for humans

Skipping either will result in bad data transfer

[Sayantan Ghosh @sayantansunnyg]

I can only see Bappi Lahiri

[Utkarsh Simha @utkarshsimha]

I think most of Bangalore's traffic problems can be solved by making sure everyone understands prisoners dilemma. If you come on the wrong side of the road and block oncoming traffic, you are part of the deadlock.

[Utkarsh Simha @utkarshsimha]

@the_gpc_ @LeeMumfordPhoto

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

# on shortification of "learning"

There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this content also enjoy it because fun has a much larger audience, fame and revenue. But as far as learning goes, this is a trap. This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those "Garden Veggie Straws", which feel like you're eating healthy vegetables until you look at the ingredients.

Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that "10 minute full body" workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym. You want the mental equivalent of sweating. It's not that the quickie doesn't do anything, it's just that it is wildly suboptimal if you actually care to learn.

I find it helpful to explicitly declare your intent up front as a sharp, binary variable in your mind. If you are consuming content: are you trying to be entertained or are you trying to learn? And if you are creating content: are you trying to entertain or are you trying to teach? You'll go down a different path in each case. Attempts to seek the stuff in between actually clamp to zero.

So for those who actually want to learn. Unless you are trying to learn something narrow and specific, close those tabs with quick blog posts. Close those tabs of "Learn XYZ in 10 minutes". Consider the opportunity cost of snacking and seek the meal - the textbooks, docs, papers, manuals, longform. Allocate a 4 hour window. Don't just read, take notes, re-read, re-phrase, process, manipulate, learn.

And for those actually trying to educate, please consider writing/recording longform, designed for someone to get "sweaty", especially in today's era of quantity over quality. Give someone a real workout. This is what I aspire to in my own educational work too. My audience will decrease. The ones that remain might not even like it. But at least we'll learn something.

[Utkarsh Simha @utkarshsimha]

@Kurz_Gesagt @duolingo @RushilNagda the crossover of your dreams

[Utkarsh Simha @utkarshsimha]

Another example that shows that Silicon Valley HBO is satire.

This is very similar to Gavin Belson buying Endframe and setting a valuation for Pied Piper.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

Elon's offer to purchase the OpenAI nonprofit for $97.4billion isn't going to happen, but it may seriously complicate OpenAI's efforts to claim the nonprofit is fairly valued at $40billion. If you won't sell it for $97.4billion, that means you think it's worth more than that.

[Utkarsh Simha @utkarshsimha]

@radhika_nataraj While you're at it, can you also get rid of the wedding hashtags? It belongs in r/ComedyCemetery

[Utkarsh Simha @utkarshsimha]

@RushilNagda Lol I was doing the same. Jet lag sux

[Utkarsh Simha @utkarshsimha]

@MaharajahOfMars @kausmickey Why do I feel like this response is written by a LLM..

[Utkarsh Simha @utkarshsimha]

Oh bouy!

Also, I disapprove of naming the bouys as "#5".

How about naming them like "Home Bouy", "Cow Bouy", "Proud --

Okay never mind, this thing was a bad idea.

[NWS Seattle @NWSSeattle]

We've got a buoy report pretty close to the storm center offshore. And it's about what was expected. Buoy 5 is 300 nautical miles west of Aberdeen - reporting sustained winds 56 mph gusting 74 mph. And pressure 950.5 millibars. #wawx

[Utkarsh Simha @utkarshsimha]

@WillManidis Almanack of Naval Ravikant (@naval): https://t.co/sb818dhgNm

[Utkarsh Simha @utkarshsimha]

Can George and Lorraine please kiss!!

[The AI Colony @TheAIColony]

8. Remove anyone from photo

[Utkarsh Simha @utkarshsimha]

Finding a random parking spot releases dopamine.
1. It is random reward. You think there's a good spot but then it's a loading zone or has a fire hydrant.
2. There is anticipation built up as you keep searching for a spot.

[Utkarsh Simha @utkarshsimha]

@RushilNagda It's most likely two people - Rama Govindaraju (seems like a Bangalorean / Andhra name) and Parthasarathy Ranganathan (Tamilian / Bangalore Tamilian name)

[Utkarsh Simha @utkarshsimha]

@radhika_nataraj @Shroffalopagus TIL there is a ground breaking opportunity to start a water purifier company and name it "Aro"