Happy birthday Sachin Tendulkar. Nothing can truly capture the immense burden he has borne for over two decades & the unbelievable following he has around the world. But this prize winning picture by Atul Kamble of him walking out at the Wankhede for his last test innings comes pretty close!
Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code): "The one technical book I would recommend to everyone that has had the greatest impact on me as an engineer is functional programming in Scala.
You're probably never going to use Scala day today, but the way it teaches you to think about coding problems is just such a change from the way that most people were in coding, either practically or in school. It's just. It's incredible. It's going to completely change the way that you code now.
I think in types, when I code, the thing that matters in your code the most is the type signatures. This is more important than the code itself." @bcherny
Leslie Lamport (Creator of LaTex): "If you think you know something but don't write it down. You only think you know something.
It reveals what you haven't said. And that there's steps in there. You may think they're obvious, but you haven't written them down.
And that's where errors come in. That's where that one third of the paper's errors come in, because it really makes you honest."
Sachin Tendulkar was being compared even before he became a household name - that’s how extraordinary his rise was.
• At 15, likened to Sunil Gavaskar by the Mumbai circuit
• In 1992, Imran Khan compared him with Inzamam-ul-Haq
• At 88, Don Bradman saw his own reflection in Tendulkar
• Strokeplay drew parallels with Viv Richards
• ODI batting comparisons with Saeed Anwar and Mark Waugh, in the race to surpass Desmond Haynes’ ODI hundreds record.
• Then came comparisons with Brian Lara
• Followed by Ricky Ponting
• And alongside Jacques Kallis
After retirement, the benchmark shifted to Virat Kohli, Alastair Cook, Steve Smith & Joe Root
And now, even teenagers like Vaibhav Suryavanshi are being measured against him.
That’s the thing - Tendulkar wasn’t just compared across generations. He became the standard every generation gets compared to.
Winning the World Cup twice in a row, the first time any team has done so in the T20 format. Totally deserving and rightful winners of the trophy.
What a fantastic performance by our team and a special brand of cricket on display.
Well done, Team India. Jai Hind! 🇮🇳🏆
A symbol alone is a label; a symbol plus a position is an engine. Most of us spend our lives memorizing digits without ever seeing the Exponential Architecture hidden beneath them. To read more click below:
https://t.co/89a0jwU8fP
New art project.
Train and inference GPT in 243 lines of pure, dependency-free Python. This is the *full* algorithmic content of what is needed. Everything else is just for efficiency. I cannot simplify this any further.
https://t.co/HmiRrQugnP
Hugo Duminil-Copin, French mathematician and 2022 Field Medalist told me he never participated in math competition and was very bad at it.
Innovative mathematics requires creativity, intuition, intense concentration, and long reflections, sometimes spread over several years.
Good performance at a math olympiad merely tests fast problem solving abilities. AI can do that nowadays.
One of the big activities of a researcher, in mathematics and elsewhere, is not to answer questions but to ask the right questions.