@NsNitinsinha @crostipunctus no EV's anytime soon, but another to reason to buy vs rent..
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Arjun
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Arjun
@arjun_builds
Juggling building software and raising kids.
Goa Beigetreten Kasım 2008
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No charging! That’s a ₹20 lakh+ car… parked like a normal car…bought 3 months ago.
But the society has refused to allow him to install a charger… because he lives on rent.
Now imagine this.
Instead of simply plugging in at home, he has to search for a public charger. What should have been the biggest advantage of owning an EV… home charging… is completely gone.
And this is not a one-off story.
Even auto creator Gaurav Yadav recently highlighted similar issues in Gurgaon where societies are denying EV charging access in basements, often citing safety concerns or vague rules.
The irony is that India’s own EV guidelines actually encourage installation of private chargers in residential parking spaces to promote adoption.
So on one side, the government is pushing EVs.
On the other side, societies are quietly blocking them.
And the worst part? Renters suffer the most.
If you own the flat, you can fight it. If you’re on rent, you’re stuck between landlord, RWA and rules that keep changing.
This is the hidden cost of EV ownership in India. Until this mindset changes, EV adoption in cities will always hit a wall.
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Seen a few posts about how Claude's performance gets worse over time. Wonder if its a result of overfitting? The model gets it's insights from the memory (wikis, .md files) instead of looking at the code to see and understand the underlying patterns.
Does overfitting happen here?
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@chamath @karpathy I have something similar. Perspectivai.com
Generate mainstream and alternative viewpoints on any topic and 'refute' each one at the press of a button.
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Product idea:
An app that takes today’s top headlines, run @karpathy’s iterative argument/counter argument loop, summarize both sides and send it to me so I can read both sides and come to my ow conclusion.
Andrej Karpathy@karpathy
- Drafted a blog post - Used an LLM to meticulously improve the argument over 4 hours. - Wow, feeling great, it’s so convincing! - Fun idea let’s ask it to argue the opposite. - LLM demolishes the entire argument and convinces me that the opposite is in fact true. - lol The LLMs may elicit an opinion when asked but are extremely competent in arguing almost any direction. This is actually super useful as a tool for forming your own opinions, just make sure to ask different directions and be careful with the sycophancy.
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These guys are building in public. Buying old driving ranges and converting them to a new audience. Nice follow!
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you probably know this. He stole my video, shared it on his account, and it exploded to MILLIONS of views
He pocketed thousands of dollars off my hard work, pure theft
But after months of reports? Justice finally hit. His creator payout has been paused
Stealing content never pays. Karma always wins @TheBTCTherapist 😉
Against Wall Street@aganstwallst
This thief account stole my video, downloaded it and shared it like it was their own creation. Just because they’ve got 200k followers doesn’t give them the right to rip off creators like me I’ve already filed a copyright claim on X. I’m not backing down. I’ll fight this until their account gets shut down for good You need to take action against content thieves @elonmusk @nikitabier
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this is actually insane
> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”
one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.
we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get
Séb Krier@sebkrier
This is wild. theaustralian.com.au/business/techn…
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You can't flee a war zone with gold, so you're forced to sell at a discount (if you're lucky enough to find a buyer)
Then figure out how to get that fiat abroad
Meanwhile you can cross a border with millions worth of Bitcoin in your head by memorizing 12 words
Bitcoin price aside, that is a true innovation
Tracy Shuchart (𝒞𝒽𝒾 )@chigrl
Gold Stuck in Dubai Is Being Sold at a Discount as War Widens Gold is being offered at a steep discount in Dubai, as the war in the Middle East grounds flights and hampers suppliers’ ability to move bullion out of the key trading hub. Many buyers have stepped back from new orders, unwilling to pay exceptionally high shipping and insurance costs with no guarantee of prompt delivery. As a result, rather than paying indefinitely for storage and funding, traders are offering discounts of as much as $30 an ounce to the global benchmark in London, according to people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be named discussing market information. Many shipments remained stranded on Friday, the people said, although some bullion had been loaded onto flights leaving Dubai from the middle of this week. (Bloomberg)
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Gold Stuck in Dubai Is Being Sold at a Discount as War Widens
Gold is being offered at a steep discount in Dubai, as the war in the Middle East grounds flights and hampers suppliers’ ability to move bullion out of the key trading hub.
Many buyers have stepped back from new orders, unwilling to pay exceptionally high shipping and insurance costs with no guarantee of prompt delivery. As a result, rather than paying indefinitely for storage and funding, traders are offering discounts of as much as $30 an ounce to the global benchmark in London, according to people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be named discussing market information.
Many shipments remained stranded on Friday, the people said, although some bullion had been loaded onto flights leaving Dubai from the middle of this week. (Bloomberg)
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Quick viz on agent teams vs. subagents...
In Agent Teams, teammates share a task list, self-claim work, communicate with each other and share their findings. Like a real team!
Subagents only report results back to the main agent. It's one-way, they never talk to each other
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🚨 NEW: Anthropic will be taking jabs at OpenAI putting ads in ChatGPT in their new Super Bowl ad 💀
“How do I communicate better with my mom?”
“Start by listening…if that doesn’t work find emotional connection with other older women on Golden Encounters, the mature dating site that connects sensitive cubs with roaring cougars. Would you like me to create your profile?” 😂
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i have a lot to say about these ads but holy fucking shit… this might be the most tasteful & brutal takedown of a category leader i’ve ever seen. & during the fucking super bowl? insane.
usually these things almost always fall flat (see: slack “welcoming” microsoft teams with a fucking newspaper ad & how cringe that was), but this one lands dead center.
even normies will clock the subtlety. the capturing of chatgpt’s drift in personality, tone, & vibes is absolutely unreal. almost surgical. normal ppl i know make fun of how chatgpt talks.
imo openai made themselves vulnerable here by simply trying to do so much (enterprise, codex, consumer, etc) & lacking a singular cohesive narrative other than they have 800m users. like even google is taking shots about openai being forced to run ads.
anyway i’ll post more but this was an absolute master class (i have posted about how openai competitors should handle their ads play, & this is a great start). also i would not count anthropic out of the consumer race yet (they have a lot of room to grow & even potentially acquire small startups).
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