Awais Athar

@sohailabid ہمیشہ دیر کر دیتا ہوں میں amazon.co.uk/HIDEit-Black-M…

@awaisathar Could be reversed, bottom at the outside.

This should be possible, right?

Our work at Strategize Labs (@awaisathar ) featured at @INSEAD @INSEADKnowledge ! knowledge.insead.edu/operations/whe…

I’ve been revisiting the 2023 “Jagged Frontier” paper by @emollick and co‑authors. Their core point still holds: AI is uneven. Back then the frontier looked “creative but not precise” – great at writing, weak at maths and logic – so the smart money was to keep humans in the loop on anything brittle. The authors also never claimed the frontier was fixed. The whole idea was that as models improved, different tasks would move from “outside” to “inside” the curve. Two years and several model generations later, that’s exactly what’s happened. We had one of Strategize Labs’ long‑horizon agents, codenamed #Ada_Lovelace, re‑draw the jagged frontier curve against today’s frontier models (Gemini 3.0, Claude Opus 4.5, GPT‑5.1 reasoning variants). The big hole the paper focused on – the “math gap” – now looks mostly closed. On a lot of analytical work, these models are already past typical human performance, which is cool. The jagged edge now shows up somewhere else: not in single tasks, but in processes. Chaining actions over hours or days, juggling tools, staying aligned with the original goal – that’s where things still break. So the job isn’t to retire the Jagged Frontier idea, but to re‑map it: from “what can AI do?” to “over what horizon can we trust agents to stay on course?” If we get that right, agents start to look less like a replacement of human workers, and more like handing everyone an Iron Man suit. P.S. Our agent identified more with GenZ than I had anticipated! @awaisathar

@microMAF Awesome! Pakistan Spelling Bee: bee-ilding bee-rilliant bachas 🫣

Nothing more satisfying than building Pakistan's biggest education competition for both English and Urdu, in which children from across Pakistan and from all social backgrounds can participate and excel. A 🧵 about Pakistan Spelling Bee (pakistanspellingbee.com)

@Huk06 @microMAF @OpenAI @barbarikon Cultural = Political :) I'll keep checking just in case. We need open corpora of all kinds :) We did publish a "culturally un-nuanced" UrduQA dataset last year ( more @ chaoticity.com/uqa-corpus-for… ) but we all know اردو تو پاکستان میں بھی سوتیلی ہے، دوسروں کو کیا کہیں

@awaisathar @microMAF @OpenAI @barbarikon Won’t be either until it’s irrelevant 😀

My sources, extremely well placed, have told me @OpenAI went out of their way to ignore Urdu and focus on Sanskrit based scripts. Even more reason for Pakistan to have its own Urdu based LLM initiative.

@Huk06 @microMAF @OpenAI @barbarikon Having said that, I noticed that Hinglish is included. Since it's supposed to be "culturally nuanced", I was hoping to take a look at the actual dataset and rubric criteria for potential bias but it's not available publicly (yet)

@Huk06 @microMAF @OpenAI @barbarikon I have no internal news about this so saying "I can neither confirm nor deny" would be literally correct :)

My talk at @INSEAD on self organising hive minds cracking hard problems in strategy. It was based on my work with @awaisathar and two other coauthors at @Cambridge_Uni and University of Manchester youtu.be/0_FT-J9F_qw?si…

@yaserawan Bene Gesserit were the original Spice girls

So excited to get my hands on Dune the graphic novel. I read dune long long time ago and fell in love with Frank Herbert ‘ s work. Excited to read this one.

@zeerakahmed On another note, I hope someone opens a butchery named mutton-saz 🐐

Not my father getting on my case for taking too long to launch Matnsaz Android😬

@zeerakahmed VIBE ALL THE APPS! (But on your own machines) claude.ai/share/afadde7b…

@hamzam1981 "You are a helpful AI assistant. Don't be the reason we end up on the news."

@awaisathar time for some Spartan grade cybersecurity

@aliaftabsaeed تجارتی خبریں

کھیلوں کے گراؤنڈ بنانے کی جگہ نہیں بچی، کونسرٹس کے این او سی دینے کی گنجائش نہیں ہے، انڈین فلم بھی تھیٹر میں نہیں لگ رہی۔ کوئی انٹرٹینمنٹ سوچیں جو عوام کو دی جا سکتی ہو ورنہ ہم نے مزے کی تلاش میں ریلے میں بہہ جانا۔

@sohailabid Might have someone in my network interested. Should I ask around or do you want to work on a techie solution. There might be a short research paper in there 😀

Guys, I have to get a 300 page thing typed, what’s the prevailing data entry rate? In PKR please. This is the sample from the page, it’s an over 100 year old dictionary (not under copyright)

Your IDE will soon face an ide-ntity crisis as it evolves from an Integrated Development Environment to an Independent Development Environment.

@sohailabid جوان😔

Pakistan Punjabi Technology Board is a proposed organization to facilitate and deliver technical help to prominent Punjabi organizations who are otherwise less tech-savvy. The board will also work towards technical advancements in Punjabi language, like developing multi-script platforms and LLMs using the corpus of classical and modern Punjabi text. We need web designers, programmers, social media experts, and other people who are willing to give their time to such efforts. This is going to be a community project, without ownership by anyone including myself. The project will be structured and built so that it can continue working for generations to come.

These two are my favorite Pakistani father son duo from Pakistani films of the 90s. Their character designs remind of Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes. I love it. Also the the songs in this film 🙌 Ziddi 1998

@mazdaki @microMAF @agha_ali_raza یہ پڑھ کر مجھے پری-شانی ہو گئی ہے

@microMAF @awaisathar @agha_ali_raza ایک معاملہ یائے تحتانی والے الفاظ کے ساتھ یہ درپیش رہتا ہے کہ تلفظ اسے مجہول / بڑی ے سے معروف /چھوٹی ی بنا سکتا ہے۔ اگر ہم فارسی انداز میں بِیرونی پڑھیں تو تحتانی ی بن جائے گئی اور عمومی تلفظ کے مطابق ے۔ ایسا ہی ہے یا منقوط و غیرمنقوط ن کی طرح ی/ے/تحتانی میں بھی ڈاج کھا رہے ہیں؟

اردو میں بہت کم الفاظ ایسے ہیں جن میں چھوٹی یے "ی" بڑی یے "ے" سے پہلے آتی ہو: میٹھے، پھیکے، تیکھے جیسے الفاظ اقلیت میں ہیں۔ زیادہ تر الفاظ میں بڑی یے "ے" چھوٹی یے "ی" سے پہلے آتی ہے: پریشانی، بیرونی، حویلی @awaisathar @agha_ali_raza