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Off to Buckingham Palace to be the “hostage” ensuring HM The King’s safe return when he opens Parliament - a tradition dating back to Charles I. Not sure I’m looking forward to it, but glad to play my part!

@madhyamakist @deliprao Can you share their details?

@deliprao 1 year ago, everybody including Apple's official centre told me my M1 motherboard was fried and I would lose my data. And then I found my GOAT repair guy in Pune.This dude had macs filled to the brim in his 100 sqft shop. He fixed my boot up and my audio for 6k. Works till today

I am traveling in India and my MacBook M4 Pro fried. It was working perfectly fine, and I let it run to zero battery. Then it refused to boot up regardless of charging. Apparently it was in DFU mode and has failed a DFU revive attempt at Bangalore’s Apple store. Now they want to replace the “logic board” and it will apparently cause a complete data loss (my last back was a month ago; shame on me I know). Has anyone experienced this and recovered their data? Apple M4 laptops are great until they aren’t.

a moving man will meet his luck 🥀

I truly believe this.

and today published a report on how it boosted freight volumes without any headcount increase. And boom trucking, railroads, and airlines stocks drop by 5%. WSJ report: wsj.com/livecoverage/s…

A company that up until 6 months back was selling karaoke machines is behind today's 5% crash of transport stocks. How? It sold its karaoke business, bought an AI company that optimised truck loads, renamed itself from Singing Machine Co to Algorhythm, and.. 1/2

My philosophical argument against ozempic: I don't want to eat dosa. But i want to *want to* eat dosa. I don't want to dull my desire. I want to master it. Ascetic, not zombie.

This is a feature, not a bug. Foolproof security.

On behalf of all Malayalees in North India, I declare the start of Winter 2025. The coconut oil has frozen.

@NGKabra It's strange that sometimes math got invented first and we later realised it can describe the physical world so well. It's part of what Wigner explains in his classic essay on maths in natural sciences.

Of course, as multiple people have pointed out, the uncertainty principle existed first, and the mathematics is just an after-the-fact method to model/explain the behaviour. This is trivially true. And yet, the reverse is a reasonable shortcut to use when talking about human discovery/understanding, especially in Quantum Mechanics and Relativity. In these fields, maths was used to model some initial observations, and then that same maths was further extended, resulting in predictions of behaviour that we hadn't yet observed—predictions purely based on the maths. This is true of things like black holes, gravitational waves, and much more. In fact, in many such cases, some people refused to believe the maths and assumed that the maths was wrong. But others believed the maths and tried to construct experiments that would prove the maths correct (and were proven true, sometimes decades later) Combine this with the fact that much of the maths in Quantum Mechanics is so counterintuitive and difficult for humans to visualise/model in their heads. As a result, experienced QM scientists will tell juniors to "Shut up and calculate" (a phrase coined by David Mermin but falsely attributed to Richard Feynman) when they get confused trying to understand QM using analogical thinking. The basic idea being, "Do the maths and look at what it predicts/results in, and don't even bother trying to visualise it in terms humans can understand." As a result, it is not uncommon for physicists to talk in terms of "XYZ equation causes ABC behaviour" when in reality the behaviour came first and the maths came later. This is because, for humans, the maths came first and predicted ("resulted in") the behaviour. This is, of course, technically wrong, but in practice turns out to be a surprisingly useful thing, specifically in QM and Relativity. I'm not a physicist, so @Kaju_Nut please correct me if I'm wrong... cc: @Keshavatearth @finkrishna x.com/finkrishna/sta…

"The fact that a times b is not equal to b times a for matrices is the reason the uncertainty principle exists." This is a striking statement!! I'm surprised that I had never heard this before. I now expect to spend much time with ChatGPT to understand this.

@NGKabra Brought back so many memories.

How do Indians feel when they go back to live in India after living in US for 5+ years? 13 years ago, I wrote this long answer on Quora. I'm surprised that after all this time, almost all of it is still true: qr.ae/pCvbtF

Just a reminder -Today is the last Day for Advance Tax

“when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”

No wonder there are a lot of similarities between how a developer and a lawyer think. Whether you are writing code or drafting an agreement, 90% of the code or agreement is protection against the 1% possibility of edge-case scenarios.

Can any unsubscribe experience beat this one from @AxisBank marketing email?

Grok's new image generation model is totally unhinged. No guard rails. Scary and dangerous.

Claude saving the day out here. Themed personalized games within seconds. That means next time you're waiting in line to order food…you can literally invent an entire world and play in it IN LINE. Tomorrow, I’ll share my #1 use case with Artifacts. Thank you @AnthropicAI 👏

Please opt out of Figma training data if your designs are bad

@NGKabra Did GPT/Claude not give you the results you expected?

Because I didn't want to use ilovepdf, I spent the afternoon writing a python program to convert HDFC Bank credit card statements from PDF to CSV

LLM's are plateauing It's been almost a week since we had real progress