Himank Sharma

Feature not a bug.

[Himank Sharma @wolvhim]

@brahma_4u Americans have discovered cycle rickshaw

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

Here’s some unsolicited advice to the government on what to do to help boost India’s sovereign model story.

1. Mandate domestic models for all non-critical functions

Government needs to be a guaranteed buyer for homegrown models. There are tons of applications that don’t require SOTA performance. (To be clear, for mission-critical use-cases, using anything other than SOTA would be a shortsighted decision)

China got ahead because of their domestic demand (Anthropic and OpenAI models don’t work there).

2. Release massive distillations of chain-of-thought of SOTA Chinese models on diverse prompts (and post-process to remove China bias)

Inference is easy and cheap. So the government should simply create a national public repository of SOTA reasoning chains in order to prevent each model creator doing it separately. Centralize and absorb the cost.

Thinking Machines (US company) did finetuning on Kimi 2.5 to bootstrap reasoning. Indian model companies would do the same, and government can help by footing the bill.

3. Procure diverse RL environments and release them publicly

Modern frontier models train on 100k+ RL environments having 10s of tasks each. These RL environments are driving most of the progress. Model companies pay billions of dollars for procuring them. Government should simply centralize and absorb this cost.

4. Give full travel sponsorship to Indian authors with A* conference accepts

If an Indian gets into NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR main conference, simply sponsor them to attend the conference to present their paper. It’s rounding error in govt’s budget as ~100 Indian papers get into such conferences (0.3-0.5% of papers are Indian primary authors), but would go a long way in establishing a culture of basic R&D which is required to go beyond the frontier in next 5-10 years.

[Himank Sharma @wolvhim]

I always thought the revolution will not be televised, but tweeted. Sadly that old twitter is long gone and now I have to login to instagram to watch the revolution.

[Himank Sharma @wolvhim]

@sukalp4 @PrimeVideoIN You should also check out The Last Dance on Netflix.

[Himank Sharma @wolvhim]

@amitsomani No. 1 in theory, No. 3 in practice. Strategic value can be hard to define and even harder to align on. No. 3 acts as a forcing function and automatically defaults to strategic value.

[Nikhil Krishnan @nikillinit]

The big opportunity in healthcare is to get sound medical advice wherever you are to understand whether you ACTUALLY need to have a proper visit

Most people are trying to figure that out, and either spend $$ to be told "get rest" or avoid a needed visit in fear of that response

[Himank Sharma @wolvhim]

Facial recognition overkill: How deputies cracked a $12 shoplifting case https://t.co/ooVCiCNOdq via @CNET

[skabooshka @skabooshka]

Now that's what I call an SUV. Sedans are the best SUVs.

[Himank Sharma @wolvhim]

AI Safety, Leaking Abstractions and Boeing’s 737 Max 8 https://t.co/6IxI4rxET3

[Himank Sharma @wolvhim]

Tumblr traffic dropped by nearly 100M views the month after it banned porn https://t.co/X5RqTkkSgM via @thenextweb

[Himank Sharma @wolvhim]

@justinsink @ComfortablySmug You probably haven’t visited any offices in SF lately.

[Himank Sharma @wolvhim]

Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences https://t.co/j38AVMIEOo via @wordpressdotcom

[Aaron Levie @levie]

Some people question whether destiny is real or not. All I know is that the new President of Nintendo North America’s last name is “Bowser.”

[Allen Walton @allenwalton]

A brand called Luna is paying Amazon to get their product at the top of the search results. They only pay if someone clicks the product.

Once you click it, Amazon forces you to consider purchasing their own private label product.

This looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

[Tren Griffin @trengriffin]

1/ IBM’s OS/2 vs Microsoft's Windows was an important period in the history of PCs and computing. People who were not around then too often have a false view of what happened (e.g. MSFT head fake) and even people who were there can have different recollections (Rashomon effects).

[tyler hogge @thogge]

For some reason I’ve always been fascinated by Mike Tyson. it’s the combo of:

-otherworldly talent
-personality so extreme he’s like a movie character
-insanity

Anyways, this is my fav interview

DGAF🥊

https://t.co/ghUOhJVSWL

[Himank Sharma @wolvhim]

@paulg This should be a centralized platform for newsletters to hold conversations. Gated content with admin controls for the publisher. Readers are highly engaged and better informed. Already being done in a distributed way such as @stratechery forums.

[Amit Somani ♫ @amitsomani]

A simple framework to determine to evaluate if your startup (idea) is in the right place, at the right *time*.

-- My guest blog post on @YourStoryCo @Primevp_in

https://t.co/X6ad14qtLt