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Online storytelling session by @arunmeshtru. March 21st 9:30pm IST (9AM PST). Last time we had this with @arunmeshtru, the kids loved it. Not a surprise considering his narration on Katha Room is very popular. Register here if interested. #settings" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/forms/d/1EUwZt…

@deedydas Indian stories for kids in audio format for Indian languages is what we are working on. Happy to see if we can collaborate. apps.apple.com/us/app/bedtime…

Thank you everyone for the kind words and the feedback! Responding to some of the feedback: - Audio is by far #1. The tricky thing here is audio ends up costing $10/book which can get out of hand as you scale up number of books, so once I have some analytics on what people read, I can add audiobook features to the popular ones - Historical texts. Vedas, Upanishads, etc. I thought of this but skipped it in v1 because they’re just quite difficult to read and (old) translations exist, but I’ll give this a spin soon. Some things on my list, in no particular order: - Mobile app - Read in the native language - Children’s versions - Search (eventually) - More illustrations, maybe even title cover videos with Seedance 2 - Expanding the catalog: more non Indian texts, more language coverage

Today, I'm excited to launch my lifelong passion project, Grand Old Books!! 🚀 There are 1000s of beautiful novels of the past, not in English, locked up in old PDFs, with no physical copies left. We started with Indian texts and brought back 12 books in 6 languages with pictures and annotations. This is, and will always be, completely free. We can't let time wash away history. Please comment to let me know what book you'd like to see added.

Drop 13/14: The 30B and 105B models, benchmarks, and HF links will all come. But today it is a drop about people. About how our team of just 15 folks gave it their all to do what many doubted as not doable - ie train usefully large, globally competitive models from scratch in India. This team of 15 has now firmly launched @sarvam into its second innings. Yes, we can! @_mohit_singla @anand_404 @kediaharshit9 @AashaySachdeva @sumanthd17 @ArpitDwivedi100 @HarveenChadha @rkal4 @sushil_khyalia @ManavSinghal157 @sohampetkar missing in the pictuere - @selfawareatom @AnnaUpreti Anand @MeghMakwan33973 Utkarsh

@Pritvi_M Hehe was just joking saar...

@harishnkumar Mindry super rre saar eeglunu.. i was referring to the OG days - GSS,loosukoota and Hale Paathre hale kabbina reviews... with more collabs :)

This is very helpful. I have been doing a version of this playing the devil's advocate with AI as the thought partner. I can refine it using ideas from here. Thanks for this.

@asmartbear Yes not to generate strategies but to act as a thought partner to deliberately challenge your thinking. Do you think that's not good either?

@harishnkumar AIs generate averages, which isn't how to get unique strategies. And they don't know what "the market wants" any more than human experts do, which is to say, very little. 😄 But they can prod you for sure! And generate options for your consideration. Useful!

@asmartbear That's where the project context AI has will be very helpful I feel.

@harishnkumar Yeah I've tried that and it can work really well. Because you're not expecting the AI to have the right ideas, but rather just to sling questions at you. Would be nice to have a good prompt for it.

@Pritvi_M Hehe...en saar heeg hELbiTTri...Mindry great ilva Eega? 😛

@harishnkumar Saar, AI yella barathe hogathe.. Make Mindry Great Again :)

India AI summit and Anthropic opening office in Bangalore means there's nothing else to do on twitter. lesswrong.com/posts/p9SQLxyb…

Words fail me in this moment of pure bliss! 🌸🙏 The legendary Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh avaru has been conferred the prestigious Padma Bhushan for his unparalleled contributions to Art and Sanskrit scholarship. A true Saraswati-putra, master of avadhana, polyglot, poet, and guardian of our dharma—his recognition is a victory for Karnataka’s cultural heritage and Sanātana traditions. Heartiest congratulations, Sir! This is long overdue and immensely deserved.

Will we forget what pre-LLM era looked like? Was chatting with a friend yesterday and it hit us that pretty soon we will forget what it was to live without LLMs. It’ll be inconceivable to us that there was a time when if you had a question, you did not get an intelligent instant answer for it. Some more interesting predictions that came out from our conversation: - Maybe we will stop having multiple softwares; just one agent that spins up personalized software on demand - Maybe soon we will have so much automation that our AI agents will predict what we want to do next, leaving us to wonder what’s our role when we open up our work laptops - Maybe we will have ambient, proactive agents who will monitor our meetings and before they end, actually show us results of actionables To note - my friend is a CTO and just a few months back, his day job was writing code day in and day out. Now he barely opens the IDE! My friend obviously isn’t an exception; even Anthropic team is using Claude Code to write newer versions of Claude Code. How crazy our trajectory has been in our lifetimes - from waiting to get a landline phone to having a genius in our pocket! And it’ll only get wilder 🚀 /syndicated

My single point agenda in life is to make Bharat a technologically strong and self reliant nation, which I see as critical to our economic prosperity as well as our rural and civilisational revival. Our civilisation has to show the world through living example how to combine prosperity with humility and contentment, and show the sustainable path to harmonize humanity and the natural world. Our past 1000 year history has left us deep civilisational wounds and the defeatist, colonial mindset is one of them. Being world-class in technology is the key to restoring true pride in ourselves as a nation, and building that technology with rural talent spreads the wealth across society. We need people to do deep work in R&D. I have some skill in this area and that is the best use of my life for our nation. I view politics as public service and as a democratic duty in which citizens must be involved but given my overriding priority in life, I cannot be and will not be in active electoral politics. Bharat Mata ki Jai 🙏

I still don't understand why people use so many different agents when Claude Code can pretty much do a lot of it. From coding to processing audio files to refining copy to baug research to automating repetitive tasks, i have found so much value in this tool.

In my experience, AI has been very useful as a thought collaborator/ partner. And it definitely has been useful in all the other tasks like writing code, refining communication etc.

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I want to start a community dedicated to Claude Code. It’s become the gateway drug to coding and experiencing the power of AI for tons of people. This will be a space for people to share killer use cases, agentic workflows, proven prompts, and connect with other CC obsessives. Comment “Claude” if you want to join.

@harishnkumar love the katharoom app. Thank You. My kid loves to hear all the time. I have one request. Is there an offline way to listen to stories? Something like limited download with TTL to be usable when travelling

@kadekarHarsha Thanks a lot Harsha for your positive words. We have offline access in iPhones. We had some technical challenge ls in bringing it in Android. Will try to have that soon.

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Finally, after a long long time, a new episode of Vichitramanjari podcast by @mindryin . kELi..aanandisi...bereyavrigoo kELisi. :) @supersharma youtu.be/FHQIzb0XVjQ?si…