Manoj Awasthi

The smartest people are all self-taught, even if they went to school.

I just reread "How to Do Great Work." It's so long! But it also has less fat than most things I've written, which is a weird combination, because usually writing that's long on the macro scale is long on the micro scale too. paulgraham.com/greatwork.html

Andrej Karpathy just released microGPT: the entire GPT algorithm in 243 lines of pure Python with zero dependencies. You can read it in one sitting and actually understand how LLMs work instead of treating them as black boxes. When someone who led Tesla's Autopilot and helped found OpenAI says this is as simple as it gets, it means the field is maturing from research mystery to engineering clarity. This is the K&R of language models. x.com/karpathy/statu…

This drop from @SarvamAI is really just so good I keep going back to it! Some of these fonts are so wild, it's magical they can even be transcribed. What's next team @SarvamAI?

Vibe coding is the new product management. Training and tuning models is the new coding.

I first read the black swan 15 years back. Since the day i picked the book up, @nntaleb has been a hero of mine. I have encouraged all my friends to read his books. A truly great man. One of the things i learnt early in my life is, you will be known by the money you refuse. You will also be known by the company you refuse to keep. A true hero!

Why I keep coming to Twitter (X).

Karpathy Guidelines for coding agents github.com/forrestchang/a…

Self-directed learning through AIs is an autodidact’s paradise.

“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.” — Carl Jung

Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles by Martin Gardner PDF: abrarhashmi.wordpress.com/wp-content/upl…

a lot of people think aadhaar numbers are checked against some giant database just to see if they exist. that’s not how basic validation works. before any lookup, aadhaar uses a simple but clever math trick to catch typing mistakes. (1/6)

Get District List takes 20s and 40s — REALLY??

EPFO website is so slow that it is hard to believe. Each request including simple ones like Update Address takes so much time to process and then comes back with errors like these. #fail And don't miss the message on Best viewed at this resolution on this browser.

In the past, technology caused employment to move up on the sophistication scale. Technology provided the muscle, people did more and more of the thinking . Today, AI is forcing people to move down into low tech and perhaps menial jobs.

In 1983, Richard Feynman gave a 1-hour masterclass on imagination and physics. He broke down: • Fire • Atoms • Motion • Energy • Magnetism But underneath it, he revealed how to think like a scientist 12 lessons from Feynman’s masterclass: 1. Imagination beats knowledge

🚀 Our lab just open-sourced DeepTutor - AI-Powered Personalized Learning Assistant We're actively exploring how agentic AI can assist students and researchers throughout their learning process. DeepTutor brings together research, problem-solving, practice generation, and knowledge management into one system that actually understands your learning context. 🔗 Open Source: github.com/HKUDS/DeepTutor Core Features of DeepTutor: - 📚 Smart Document Q&A - Throw in your textbooks, papers, and technical docs. Get detailed answers with proper citations when you ask questions. - 🎨 Knowledge Visualization & Explanation - Turns complicated concepts into clear visuals and interactive pages that match your learning pace. - 🎯 Practice Question Generator - Creates quizzes based on your material, and can even mimic the style of real exams you upload. - 🔬 Deep Research & Idea Generation - Helps with academic research, report writing, and brainstorming. Can handle multiple research topics simultaneously.

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones. “There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. “If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice! “Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

Here's a list of places around Bengaluru which I'm sure people who go around the world to get their passport stamped, won't have seen. Markonahalli dam - 95 km Devarayana durga - 72 km Skandagiri hills - 56 km Manchanbele dam - 42 km Neligudde Kere - 53 km Gudibande and vatadahosahalli lake - 96 km Savandurge hills - 70 km Shettihalli church - 196 km Thattekere - 45 km Karighatta - 144km thippagondanahalli reservoir - 36 km To be visited- Blue lagoon, Mysuru - 160 km Ananthargange , kotilingheshwara..Kolar - 74 km Bheemeshwari Fishing & Nature Camp - 110 km Madugiri betta - 101 km Chikmadurai - 27 km Maklidurga - 52 km Kemmengundi - 250 km Kalathgiri - 252 km Horsley hills chitoor - 152 km Mulayangiri - 252 km Adichunchungiri - 106 km Kanva dam - 65 km Bilikal Rangaswamy Betta - 86 km Pearl Valley: Also known as Muthyalamaduvu - 49 km Siddarbetta - 95 km Avalabetta - 87 km Hesarghetta lake - 22 km thottikallu falls - 42 km Channarayana durga - 93 km Mekedatu - 203 km Nrithyagram - 25 km Kempegowda fort - 60 km Shivaganga hill - 49 km Ramanagara - 64 km Panchapalli dam - 106 km Vani vilas sagar (mari kanive) - 176 km Gayathri dam - 144 km Suvarnavathi reservoir/Chikkahole dam - 200 km Melukote - 150 km Lepakshi - 118 km Mandharagiri (basadi betta) - 58 km Krp dam krishnagiri - 110 km Sulikere - 27 km Ramadevara betta - 63 km harobele dam / arkavathi dam - 71 km Gunjur lake - 33 km Iynagudi lake - 84 km mettur dam - 203 km Triveni Sangam - Kunthibetta - 157 km Kunigal lake - 71 km Tonnur kere - 151 km Melukote - 145 km Shravanabelagola - 145 km Halebeedu - 206 km Belur - 217 km Pandavpura - 157 km Kabbal Durga - 94 km Bheemankuppe lake - 50 km Kolli hills - 266 km Dandiganahalli dam - 80 km Thally - 72 km Anchetty.. Anchetty stream - 96 km Krishnagiri dam - 112 km Kaivara - 73 km Jakkalamadagu dam - 53km Shoolagiri - 70 km Bettamugillalam dam-101km Hutridurga - 73 km Kelavarapalli dam - 56 km Pavagada fort - 174 km Jalamangala and Lakshminarayanaswamy Betta - 77 km Achallu betta - 100 km Irakasandra - 68 km Gummanayaka Fort - 121 km Thimmappana Swamy betta - 79 km Chunchanakatte falls - 200 km Nagalapuram - 280 km Mavathuru lake - 83 km Turahalli forest - 31 km Hoskote Lake - 31 km Muninagara Dam - 47 km Gulakamale Lake - 40 km Bhasmangi fort - 143 km Mahadevpura - 143 km Medigeshi fort - 121 km Madakasira fort - 134 km Ratnagiri Fort - 122 km Penukonda Fort - 137 km Nijagal Betta - 51 km Good places to visit near Bengaluru: 1. Omkar Hills and Turahalli Forest - 13 kms [Temple, Sight Seeing] 2. Art of Living International Center - 24 kms [Ashram] 3. Pyramid valley - 37 kms [Meditation Centre] 4. Savandurga Hill, - 50 kms [Trek] 5. Shivaganga Hill - 50 kms [Temple, Trek] 6. Nijagal Betta, Tumkur - 52 kms [Trek] 7. Makalidurga, Doddaballapura - 55 kms [Trek] 8. SRS Hills, Ramnagar - 60 kms [Temple, Trek] 9. Nandi Hills - 60kms [Sight Seeing] 10. Skandagiri Hills - 60 kms [Trek] 11. Devarayanadurga, Tumkur - 70 kms [Temple, Very short trek] 12. Muthathi, Karnataka - 100 kms [Forest, River, Sight Seeing] 13. Madhugiri Trek - 103 kms [Fort, Trek] 14. BR Hills - 183 kms [Temple, Sight Seeing] 15. Sakleshpur - 220 kms [Sight Seeing, Trek] 16. Chikmagaluru - 240 kms [Sight Seeing, Trek] 17. Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh - 252 kms [Temple] 18. Madikeri Trip - 270 kms [Sight Seeing] 19. Tadiandamol Hills 270 kms [Trek] 20. Coorg - 270 kms [Sight Seeing] 21. Kukke Sumbramanya - 270 kms [Temple] 22. Dudhsagar - 546 kms [Falls, Trek] From Bengaluru: 0 to 50kms: * T.G reservoir. * Manchinbele reservoir. * Kanva. * T.K falls. * Shanmukha temple. * N.G lake. * Ramnagar. * Revanasiddeshwara trek * Hesarghatta Grasslands 50 to 100kms: * Maddur. * Mekedatu. * Pearl Valley (Muthaylamaduvu). * Chunchi waterfalls. * Kabbaladurga Trek. * Maasti Malur. * Makalidurga Railway trek. * Mandharagiri Trek. #FB