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Over the weekend, built a RAG system to have conversations with Krishna and get personalised advice from the Bhagavad Gita.

@Paimaamu youtube.com/watch?v=26kqiM… Beautiful talk on what it means to be a Saraswat. "Rasata poorvaka Jnana", which comes with the anugraha of Saraswati.

Vibe politics in Tamilnadu.

Why

Spinoza was Dutch. Erasmus was Dutch. Huygens was Dutch. Lippershey was Dutch. Van Leeuwenhoek was Dutch. There is tremendous Dutch literature though it is rarely read outside the country because of the difficulty of translation. Half the world's best painters were Dutch.

@therandomseed @tszzl @romanhelmetguy What does intersubjective mean? How does an intersubjective system work?

@Paimaamu @tszzl @romanhelmetguy True, but "objective" doesn't mean a view from nowhere. ;) It means an intersubjective protocol: a cultural network of embodied self-reporters recognizing one another as conscious. LLM reports don't yet have that same grounding.

dawkins at 85 is more lucid than anyone commenting on this piece. they try to make it some hamfisted victory in their culture war without reflecting on the referent at all

Idealer (i·deal·er /aɪˈdiː.lər/) n. informal, derogatory A person who generates ideas prolifically but consistently fails to act on them; one who mistakes the conception of a plan for its execution. “He’s been ‘working on a startup’ for three years — classic idealer.” Often characterized by an extensive collection of unused Notion workspaces, half-filled notebooks, and an uncanny ability to be simultaneously unemployed and too busy to begin. See also: vaporpreneur, thinkfluencer. Cf. doer.

@_CreatingWealth It’s not the fault of the Baniya businessman. It’s just, there are no incentives for taking huge bets in India. The system doesn’t incentivise this.

@Paimaamu Needs new breed of entreprenuers who are successful. The old bania industrialists are bloody cucks.

At this point, it is more than obvious that India as a modern nation is not a country which rewards high innovation. There are incentives to building traditional businesses which are moderate-to-low-risk with high-reward. But the high-risk, high-reward regime is not welcome.

Been wondering lately that given everyone has a consultant with all the world’s knowledge in their pockets, we should be seeing efficiency rise across the board everywhere. Literally everyone can now get personalised advise on how to serve their customers better, improve quality of their outputs, cut inefficiencies and increase revenue. .. yet, this is nowhere to be seen (especially for small local businesses). Why aren’t we seeing the rate of change accelerate in the world? One possible explanation is inertia, and there’s some truth to that. But perhaps a better explanation is that perhaps advice was never a bottleneck. Maybe implementation was? Or perhaps most businesses are already in their local optima and any change is too risky for them to bear? This, of course, is theory of constraints and it explains a lot: when outputs are a result of many factors, when one factor is made efficient, what holds back output is the slowest changing factor.

The thing about AI is that almost nothing about it is the algorithm development. It’s the infra, it’s the data and it’s the domain expertise. It’s more so today when you’re a prompt away from building a state of the art model. Domain expertise will create wealth. x.com/anantgoenka/st…

Mhāḷsā Nārāyaṇī Temple, Mhāḍḍol, Goa in 1910 C.E.

@waghweb @ycombinator Good luck

i mean we just posted about us filling up the application for @ycombinator and we got this much traction on what we are trying to solve Imagine if we get it, off to the moon !!!!!

you need to be modifying your speech to piss off the nonbelievers: - DON’T say “unrelated”, DO say “orthogonal” - “random” -> “stochastic” - “this is fine ig” -> “local minima” - “sorta like” -> “isomorphic”

@Konkanist @hamsanandi @bhaangarbhuin Woah!

My article in today's Konkani daily @bhaangarbhuin on the history of the Nandinagari script.

@tszzl @romanhelmetguy This is also true. There is no objective way to state that LLMs are not conscious. Consciousness is self-reported.

@romanhelmetguy no but I also don’t think it’s an indefensible idea

Recently @yacineMTB made a funny post: “You can outsource thinking but you cannot outsource understanding.” Humans have outsourced a part of their thinking to others almost since the dawn of civilisation. We read books written by others which influences our thought process. But my understanding of other people’s perspectives is my own.

.@RichardDawkins computational chain of logic which generates knowledge is different from the self-aware consciousness. Intelligence is very well computable and it has been held so for thousands of years. सर्वव्यवहारहेतुर्गुणो बुद्धिर्ज्ञानम्। (Tarka Sangraha ३.१६) The Witness, in whom the intelligent cognition gets integrated as knowledge is consciousness. This is not computable. This is also not fallible. सुखादिविषयं स्वरूपभूतं चैतन्येन्द्रियं हि साक्षीत्युच्यते (Nyāya Sudhā).

@aravind @luthiraabeykoon @karpathy Anyone seriously working in AI already knows that this is the future of this tech. No prediction is necessary.

@luthiraabeykoon @karpathy Good to see this happening. x.com/aravind/status…

We implemented @karpathy 's MicroGPT fully on FPGA fabric. No GPU. No PyTorch. No CPU inference loop. Just a transformer burned into hardware, generating 50,000+ tokens/sec. The model is small, but the idea is not: inference does not have to live only in software 👇