Hari Ramani

@captgouda24 Haahahahhaahhahahahha

Why You Should Write Your Own Essays Writing is thinking. That sentence is so short and plain that it barely seems worth saying, but it may be the most important claim in this essay. When you sit down to write—actually write, from the blank page, with no assistance beyond your own mind—you are not merely transcribing thoughts you already have. You are generating them. The resistance of the page, the demand that one sentence follow another in some defensible order, the necessity of making vague intuitions precise enough to survive contact with words: this is cognition of a kind that cannot be replaced. We are now several years into a period in which artificial intelligence can produce, on command, parsing and polished prose on virtually any topic. The output looks good. It is fluent, grammatical, and organized. It arrives with headers and transitions and topic sentences in all the right places. It has the aesthetic properties of competent writing. And this is precisely what makes it dangerous—not because AI-generated text is always wrong, but because the gap between looking right and being right is where intellectual life actually happens, and AI closes that gap from the wrong direction. Consider what a large language model actually does. It produces sequences of words that are, in a statistical sense, plausible given the words that preceded them. It is an extraordinarily sophisticated pattern-matching engine. When it writes an essay about, say, the causes of the First World War, it generates sentences that resemble what a knowledgeable person might write on the topic—but it arrives at those sentences through a process that has nothing to do with understanding the First World War. It has no model of the world. It has a model of text about the world, which is a very different thing. The result is prose that is often correct, sometimes subtly wrong, and occasionally complete nonsense delivered in the confident register of an encyclopedia entry. This creates an asymmetry that should trouble anyone who cares about the quality of their own thought. Generating plausible-sounding prose is cheap. Verifying that plausible-sounding prose is actually correct is expensive. If I hand you a well-formatted five-paragraph essay on monetary policy, you cannot assess its accuracy without already knowing a fair amount about monetary policy—at which point you scarcely needed the essay. The whole exercise collapses into a peculiar loop: the people best positioned to verify AI output are the people who least need it, and the people who most need it are least equipped to catch its errors. This is not a minor inconvenience. It is a structural problem that degrades the epistemic environment for everyone. And people do catch on. Not immediately, and not consciously, but they catch on. When a colleague, a student, or a writer begins producing text that is always fluent and never quite has a point—when every paragraph reads like a reasonable thing to say but the whole never accumulates into an argument that surprises or challenges or teaches—readers develop a kind of immune response. They begin to skim. They stop expecting to learn anything. The text begins to function as bureaucratic filler, something that exists to satisfy a formal requirement rather than to communicate. We have all experienced this with corporate communications and boilerplate legalese, and AI-generated prose is rapidly joining that category. It is writing that is optimized for the appearance of competence, and the more of it that floods the world, the less anyone trusts that any given piece of writing is worth their sustained attention. You should care about this even if you are not a professional writer. The ability to construct an argument on paper is the ability to construct an argument in your mind. When you outsource the writing, you outsource the thinking, and what you get back is not your thinking—it is a statistical average of how people have discussed similar topics in the past. It will not be wrong in interesting ways. It will not lead you somewhere you did not expect to go. It will not force you to confront the part of your argument that does not actually hold together. All the productive discomfort of real intellectual work is smoothed away, and you are left with a product that teaches you nothing about what you actually believe. There is a particular danger for students, but the problem extends well beyond education. Anyone who uses writing as a tool for reasoning—which should be everyone—faces the same temptation and the same cost. The executive who lets AI draft a strategic memo never discovers the contradiction between two of her stated priorities. The researcher who lets AI write the literature review never notices the gap in the existing work that could have become a paper. The citizen who lets AI compose a letter to a representative sends something that sounds like every other letter and vanishes into the noise. Writing badly, writing slowly, writing with effort and frustration and deleted paragraphs—this is not a flaw in the process. It is the process. The difficulty is where the value lives. A first draft that comes easily and reads smoothly has almost certainly skipped the hard part, which is the part where you figure out what you actually think and whether it survives scrutiny. If you are not struggling, you are probably not learning, and if you are not learning, then what, exactly, is the essay for? I am not making a Luddite argument. Tools are good. Spell-checkers are good. Access to information is good. But there is a difference between a tool that augments your capacity to think and a tool that substitutes for it. A calculator helps a mathematician work faster. A machine that generates proofs the mathematician cannot follow does not make the mathematician better—it makes the mathematician irrelevant. The question you should ask about any writing tool is: does this make my thinking sharper, or does it make my thinking unnecessary? If the answer is the latter, you should be alarmed, not grateful. Write your own essays. Write them poorly if you must. Write them slowly. Let them be difficult and frustrating and full of sentences you will later cut. What you produce will be yours—not in the sentimental sense, but in the epistemically meaningful sense that it will represent what you actually believe, tested against the rigorous and unforgiving demands of the written word. In a world filling rapidly with fluent, confident, empty text, that is worth more than you might think.

@olalatech1 @TheNavroopSingh It would be interesting to analyse the largest number of phd candidates in the US - particularly in robotics and advanced Engineering. And then relook at this statement.

@thekaipullai Thambi…. Avarasarthula usual flourish ending la kaanum…. “ should be forgiven because they make good alcohol - the very same alcohol that led to said murder and to twist a sordid knife through the episode created a brand image that eerily looks like the murder victim? “

What you are basically saying is that a person can kill someone in cold blood over a glass of alcohol, then use political influence to bribe and threaten witnesses, get acquitted, then get re arrested because of a spontaneous nationwide campaign, go to jail, use political contacts to get out on parole more often than Rahul Gandhi goes out of the country, party in night clubs during your parole, then get transferred to an open prison and then ensure you get released early and then they should be forgiven because they make good whiskey???

@TheOfficialSBI with a retail login website that never works or is so unreliable that you put defective Chinese manufacturing stereotypes in heavenly light, you should stop pretending to be decent modern bank!!!!!

@PrinceArihan @DrPramodPSawant @RohanKhaunte @MichaelLobo76 It is already cheaper and safer to go to Vietnam than Goa…. At this rate, Goa will struggle very soon!

Enough of this menace @DrPramodPSawant @RohanKhaunte and @MichaelLobo76 now taxi drivers are harassing tourists for booking taxis in Goa on an Taxi App. This needs to stop. Everyone outside of Goa has only one complaint about Goa - the taxi drivers and their menace. If we cannot deal with them, we might as well as stop wasting money promoting tourism because people will not come to Goa and those who come go back with bad experience and never come back.

@hyderabaddoctor But muscle mass gain is slow for 40+ 😭😭😭

✅There are only two ways of gaining muscle mass: 1. Consume optimum proteins (as per your body weight and physical activity levels) 2. Engage in strength training on a regular basis. And there are two ways of losing muscle mass too😀: 1. Do excess cardio (For example- running 15 km/day, as I did in 2021) 2. Consume less protein than what you need.

@forward2kiran @DaleSteyn62 Hahahah… I blame his team mates for that 🤣🤣🤣

@ramani_hari @DaleSteyn62 But he could not win an ipl or ICC trophies.

Unpopular/Popular opinion. Ab is still better than half the internationals at IPL. Maybe even more.

India’s biggest win isn’t beating Pakistan, it’s beating China Not on the battlefield, but in every nation buying arms from China The Crazy Part? In just 9 yrs, India’s defence exports have jumped by 1453% THREAD: How this conflict could turn India into a defence superpower🧵

Dear @PiyushGoyal @PiyushGoyalOffc I run a 100 people software company from #Burhanpur MP, I bring M$+ / yr to Bpur economy & I am the largest white collar employer in #Burhanpur. Since you've been talking about how Indian #startups are not innovating enough, I'd like to ask

@siva_jayaraman @labstamil Thanks… if you haven’t been to… some more recent additions (relatively speaking) - thiruvidaimarudhur, Thirubhuvanam and theperumanallur temples

@labstamil @ramani_hari Bookmarked.. Thanks..

Our driver at Kumbakonam was so accustomed to the standardized astrologer-prescribed temple lists, that he couldn't fathom me crafting my own itinerary—one rooted in history and literature, not just parigaaram. Despite being a localite, he was unaware of Siththa Natheswarar Temple, a Paadal Petra Sthalam hailed as the birthplace of Mahalakshmi that has Chola period inscriptions. Remedies are short-term, blessings are long-term.

@labstamil I consider the region my karma bhoomi and I have visited several times. And each time I find something new and of historical significance.

My name is Prasanna, who previously founded Rippling (worth $10B); I'm going through a divorce. I'm now on the run from the Chennai police hiding outside of Tamil Nadu. This is my story.

@theliverdoc If Ayurveda and Homeopathy get the treatment they get…. What will happen to pranic healers 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I think Instagram will be the end of me.

EPFO should consider shutting down and allowing us to transfer our accumulated EPF corpus to NPS. It's taken 6 months to merge my old EPF because a DA clerk was transferred, and the new one started "only 2 months" ago so My 'file' is still in the queue 🫠. Now, imagine an elderly person from a small town needing their money after decades of contributions, only to face such delays because someone, somewhere, isn't available or lazy. Why harrass us with linking Aadhaar and PAN if simple tasks like these can't be automated and instead rely on random, inefficient individuals? It's absurd that this unproductive group is guaranteed an assured & indexed pension! Sigh.

@thekaipullai 🤣

I like this guy.

@hyderabaddoctor @FitIndiaOff How is your HR so low, doc? Similar pace… mine is at 145 or so (healthy 43 yo running 40-45kms a week for marathon training)

Enjoyed a 45-minute run this morning. #running #fitness @FitIndiaOff

@hyderabaddoctor First u got me to rethink alcohol (staying away and my running stats improving tremendously). As distractio - doubled down on coffee (kinda replaced one beverage with another). Now, with this… again doubling down on coffee! If you ever say coffee is bad😭😭

Good news for coffee lovers Coffee consumption is associated with a lower risk of Parkinson's disease (PD) PD is a neuro-degenerative disease characterized by tremors, slowness of movements, postural imbalance and rigidity. The disease has no cure and symptoms tend to get worse over time. Therefore, preventing PD seems to be a better strategy. A recent research showed that regular coffee consumption can lower the risk of PD. In a study conducted on 1,84,024 people aged 35-70 years, who were followed up for a median duration of 13.1 years, highest coffee consumers had 37% lower risk of getting PD, as compared to nonconsumers. Those who consumed caffeinated coffee had 43% lower risk of suffering from PD, whereas there was no association with decaffeinated coffee. Neuroprotective effect leading to lower risk of PD was attributed to caffeine and metabolites such as theophylline and paraxanthine. Take home message Caffeinated coffee consumption over a long-term has the potential to lower the risk of Parkinson's disease. Limitation This study only shows an association and cause-effect can not be proved. Further randomized controlled trials are needed to prove the association. #Medtwitter #neurotwitter

@hyderabaddoctor Funny… figured this out last week. Running with early stage migraine (just before the flashes start) has led to migraine subsiding both times by km 4. Then went to finish the rest of run happily

Migraine and running 1. Running can work in both ways- it can reduce headache frequency, as well as trigger a migraine attack. 2. One needs to find the right dose of running that works in favour of reducing migraine, 3. For example, a person who gets headache after running for 7 km, can reduce the running distance to 5 km; 4. Pace also matters. If a runner gets headache with running at 6 min/Km, they can reduce the pace to 7:30 min/km, 5. Adequate hydration during and post-run is important, as dehydration can trigger migraine attacks, 6. Good sleep the previous night is also important, as running in a sleep-deprived state can trigger migraine attacks; 7. Isometric neck exercises and muscle strengthening exercises focusing on arm muscles such as deltoids, biceps and triceps have also shown to reduce migraine headache frequency; 8. A person with migraine should avoid running longer distances in fasted state; as proloned fasting and running can trigger headache episodes. #running #migraine