It's been 7 days since 2024 started and in those 7 days I was reflecting back on 2023.
It was quite a roller coaster ride and I learnt a lot in the process.
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(A thread)
Google which is cash surplus, just announced an additional capital raise of $80 bn.
Google annual profit is $160 bn, last quarter $62 bn, and market cap $4.5 trillion. That is close to total profits and market cap of all Indian listed companies put together.
It’s a wake up call to all companies to invest into the future, whatever the present maybe.
Now that IPL is done and dusted, time for India to focus on business of business.
New fastest shortest-path algorithm in 41 years!
Tsinghua researchers broke Dijkstra’s 1984 “sorting barrier,” achieving O(m log^(2/3) n) time. This means faster route planning, less traffic, cheaper deliveries, and more efficient networks - and a CS curriculum revamp =)
I only met him once, but the memory of that meeting is indelibly printed in my mind.
What struck me most about him was his air of supreme self-confidence.
It never spilled over into arrogance.
I suppose because that confidence came from having worked tirelessly to build his company as a legitimate competitor to the behemoths of Japan, and then to sustain its value proposition.
Humility comes from always being conscious of the fragility of success.
I pay tribute to a gentleman who was instrumental in the democratisation of passenger cars in India…
Om Shanti 🙏🏽
Bought my new personal laptop. My younger self would be so happy.
I’ve always admired the MacBook, personally I think that right now Apple’s best products are its laptops.
I miss that Touch Bar though.
Highly creative people are usually absent-minded, as their brains spend most of the time connecting dots that seem to have no connection.
This also makes them wildly curious about a wide range of topics that seem to have no real-life outcome or connection to their work.
With so much unpleasant news and shocking revelations around an incident involving an IIT educated Chief Minister, his official residence and a female member of his own party, I wish to share my experience with another IIT educated Chief Minister, his official residence and a female relative of his own staff (1/10).