Eknath Iyer

i just woke up my daughter (2yo) to tell her i'd just discovered a new agentic AI framework that will 10x my productivity rubbing her eyes, she said, “dad, you haven't shipped a single meaningful feature that supports our KPIs for FY26. i'm struggling to believe a new framework you haven't tested will deliver meaningful shareholder value” hugging her, i started crying. they grow up so fast.

*Sanju Samson*: " When people talk about my journey, they usually start with stadiums. *For me, it always begins with a bus.* I was eleven. My kit bag felt heavier than me. *I would leave home in Vizhinjam before the sun came up, change two buses, and reach the Medical College ground by 6 in the morning. Some days I was sleepy. Some days I was sore. But I don’t remember ever wanting to skip it* . After practice, I would bathe under a small tap at the corner of the ground. No dressing room. Just cold water, a towel in my bag, and a quick change into my school uniform. Then I’d walk to catch another bus to St Joseph’s. School, homework, and then back again for evening nets. That was my life. Every day I didn’t think of it as a sacrifice. I just thought — this is what it takes. *My grandfather was a fisherman. Watching him, I understood something early. You can’t control the sea. You can only control how prepared you are when you go out. Some days you come back with nothing. But you still wake up the next morning and go again. That stayed with me* . There were phases when I felt close to my dream. And phases when I felt very far from it. Being dropped. Sitting out. Hearing opinions. Smiling outside but questioning yourself inside. I won’t lie, it hurts. I’m human. *But every time I feel that doubt, I go back in my mind to that small tap at the ground. To the buses. To my parents adjusting their lives around my practice. I remind myself that this journey was never built on comfort. It was built on consistency* . When I play in Thiruvananthapuram and hear the crowd shout my name, it feels personal. They didn’t just see me succeed. They saw me grow. They saw the process. I am still that boy from Vizhinjam. I still love batting the same way. I still get nervous. I still want to prove myself. The only difference is the stage. *The fight hasn’t stopped. It probably never will* . *Because for me, cricket was never about fame* . *It was about a dream I chose , and keep choosing : every single day* . " *~ Sanju Samson*

“That’s out and thank you for a wonderful match.” Umpires are supposed to be neutral and Dickie Bird certainly was, but even he could not but smile as he raised his finger to give Michael Holding out leg before to Mohinder Amarnath, handing India the World Cup on 25 June, 1983. A distraught Joel Garner watches. India’s control of the game in the final session was a masterclass in strangulation. The West Indies had gone in to tea at 76-5 in 25 overs, needing another 108 to win. With Bacchus and Dujon at the crease and the very handy Marshall and Roberts still to come, they were still favourites to win as the asking rate was barely 3 an hour. Kapil Dev however marshalled the field and bowling brilliantly, so much so that not a single four was conceded in the 27 overs bowled after tea. Dujon did hit a six, but apart from that runs came in a trickle, and l towards the end, the asking rate actually became an issue. Binny did not open the bowling but came in late with a brilliant spell of 10-1-23-1, and then there was Mohinder with 7-0-12-3. When Holding was last out, West Indies needed 41 at almost five an over, so badly had the most attacking in the world been starved of runs that day at Lord’s. In his book “That’s out,” Dickie Bird remembers Kapil Dev telling him at the end of every over after tea, as the umpires changed ends “We have got them now.” They did indeed. #cricket #WorldCup #1983worldcup #India #KapilDev #Nostalgia @Raja_Sw @anandkumarn @VatsMusings @tds122 @Koushik_laribee

Created an agent skill called “Visual Explainer” + set of complementary slash commands aimed to reduce my cognitive debt so the agent can explain complex things as rich HTML pages. The skill includes reference templates and a CSS pattern library so output stays consistently well-designed. Much easier for me to digest than squinting at walls of terminal text. github.com/nicobailon/vis…

🇮🇳 Good morning India! A lot of you asked for full-length mock JEE Main tests in @GeminiApp at no cost - done! Good luck on your prep! Last week, SAT. This week, JEE. What other global exams would be most helpful?

This is ridiculously well done. visualrambling.space/dithering-part…

The *typeagent* project implements long-term memory for agents that's better than RAG. We extract "knowledge" using an LLM which gives better precision/recall. Find code and presentation at github.com/microsoft/type…

PMPP-Eval is live, together with pmpp env and dataset, Releasing "Programming Massively Parallel Processors" book turned into environment that lets your LLM practice over QA/Coding exercises. Touched the whole process of going from a book to a optimized CUDA env over on blog.

i'm really tired of ragebait on how advanced china's industrial base is. let's dispel this by diving into NIST's MIC report. note: do not read this if you're a gullible euro VC or western exec who would back down after a factory visit to china. we still need to act NOW.

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: wired.com/story/satellit…🧵👇

Ozzy Osbourne has passed away at the age of 76. Here he is performing “Crazy Train” for the last time ever, a few weeks ago in Villa Park, Birmingham

@apoorvaiyer @PTI_News Brother. I can teleport

@PTI_News @eknath Any comment on this @eknath ? Seems like you have fled the country and immigrated to USA.

VIDEO | Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde (@eknath) says, “I believe the Naxalism will be eliminated. Since the time the government changed in Chhattisgarh, the situation has also changed there. Naxalism is about to end completely.” (Full video available on PTI Videos - ptivideos.com)

Jayant Narlikar is no more. While his contribution to Astrophysics was extraordinary, his contribution to popularising science & improving scientific temper in our society was exemplary. Indian science is poorer.

Dhivya Sashidhar’s account of events has been verified by this newspaper. Prassanna has clearly lied to Twitter but everybody accepted his narrative of evil women. Rippling cofounder's wife tells all after bitter custody battle goes viral sfstandard.com/2025/04/04/rip…

Aatmnirbhar Bharat

@IndianTechGuide Since when did Ladakh become this big?

🚨 GDP of each state in India in 2024.

Forbes 30 under 30 has been doing this for years.

Great post on writing circuit breakers in Go to deal with service failures. rednafi.com/go/circuit_bre… #golang

@7etsuo I read that backwards and I was going to vote for myself