Suranga Chandratillake

1/ hearing about many tough bridge/other rounds situations this year due to VC reserve strategies coming unstuck in the rapid market shift. Building on @fredwilson's great post avc.com/2017/01/reserv… I wrote up some of the new dynamics I've seen/heard. link.medium.com/7KRYnDUEWsb

@LinkN01 Though paid for by pumping a *lot* of oil :)

So, in Norway 🇳🇴 97% of all cars sold in June were EV. Let that sink in.

@hkanji Not as late or as little as the US, others will retort.

Too little too late, some will say ft.com/content/8a82a5…

@Iainrhall you won't remember me; I was at PWHS from 1989-96. Thank you for all you did to make the school such an inspiring place. I've had the fortune to do & see so much in my life and none of it would've happened without the foundation you + your team gave me. All the best!

@martinvars Not hard to explain at all! Despite the Republican garb, Trump (like many current populists) is a protectionist. In that sense, v like old-school socialists. I hope you're not too exposed to Nasdaq/S&P - long way to go down to unwind all those companies' international exposure!

Since Trump started his second presidency European stocks are up and American stocks down. Hard to explain.

@NofilSakharkar @getblinkx sorry - different blinkx!

@surangac @getblinkx I'm writing 2 express disappointment wth d service. Despite initial enthusiasm, I've faced numerous issues: - Misrepresented MF charges - News section not updated - App errors - Delayed settlement times - Incorrect commitments - Unnecessary charges and More

@hkanji I've seen it change in the 40+ years I've been aware of it, but it's slow. The sad thing is, I think it's also taking hold of the US more and more. Reversing that would be a great achievement for the Democrats or the Republicans (both would claim to be against it, after all).

@surangac Not sure how (or even if) you can change that

The UK is all about more elitism and less meritocracy

@fhuszar yes but where is finboys and who/what are Hsn?

I just found this diagram in the notepad on my office desk. It looks like my hand writing, but I don't remember making this. It appears to be a 3-dimensional analogical embedding of Cambridge fish restaurants 🤷

@gdibner i kept coming across companies, 3-4 years ago that would say 'we use blockchain as the data structure/protocol to do x, y, z' and then we'd talk about x, y, z and end up realising that actually a regular relational database did the job just as well and usually more efficiently.

@surangac How so?

By far the best way to solve most of the real-world operational problems with LLMs/VectorDBs is with...wait for it....regular databases.

@ben_brown71 @theAliceRoberts So we're agreed on an educational utopia where science is taught but spirituality is recognised. Where all faiths (and none) are discussed as equal because being a true human is not exclusive to being Christian or Muslim? First step: stop 25% of primary schools being CofE, right?

@surangac @theAliceRoberts All schools need reform here. I think it is very variable. My point is that a spiritual viewpoint is precious, and would agree that this should be an arena where other faiths should also be taught, as well as scientific materialism.

There’s been some interesting discussion on faith schools here. It seems a lot of people don’t realise quite what a hold the CofE has over (taxpayer-funded) state faith schools - and how it’s investing millions to convert more young people…

@ben_brown71 @theAliceRoberts Hi Ben, a genuine offer of the different approaches to the world and life might recognise the existence of other religions and also none (the largest group in modern Britain). But CofE schools don't do that, do they?

@theAliceRoberts Hi Alice, Arguing for the validity of a spiritual view of reality should not be confused with conversion. A school can offer a wide range of approaches to the world and it is important that among these is a spiritual approach.

@iain4europe @theAliceRoberts That's great for your local Catholic school. Not relevant for the CofE schools in our city. I think you're struggling to understand that not everyone has the same experience as you do.

@surangac @theAliceRoberts Faith schools need a wider catchment area. Our local Catholic school, for example, has pupils from well beyond the traditional catchment area.

Some parents with children joining primary schools this Autumn might be surprised at just how much religion is peddled in schools. ALL schools are meant to have daily *worship* and a third of primaries are faith schools - that means prayers in the classroom, bible stories taught as fact and the Church keeping a close eye on the whole curriculum. In the 21st century! Time for the indoctrination to stop.

@iain4europe @theAliceRoberts Yes - and that exceptionalism is the problem. So because a minority of people think a church school is what they want for their children, everyone (the majority) has to suffer it? Much better to have a syllabus that represents the pluralism that is reality in modern Britain.

@surangac @theAliceRoberts The issues around faith schools were reported a few years back. The law needs tightening. But there is not just one "community", Suranga. Carholics, Muslims, Jews, sometimes want their children educated in a school of their own faith.

@iain4europe @theAliceRoberts Again, I think you may be generalising from your experience and are perhaps unaware of the true legislation around this area. I was too once (and was fairly relaxed about it all). Of course there are schools that choose to operate differently, but there's no guarantee of that.

@iain4europe @theAliceRoberts ... they live with substandard governance (which is potentially dangerous) in order to cling onto something that does not represent the community. The Christian governors they do have might be good folk but are not representative at all - whiter, older, etc.

@iain4europe @theAliceRoberts I think you're may be generalising your experience (which sounds similar to mine) to all schools. The current rules leave it open for faith schools (including Jewish, Muslim and other schools) to be much, much more indoctrinating.

@surangac @theAliceRoberts How does the school try to indoctrinate your children? We had hymns, prayers and RE at my non-faith school, but I doubt that anyone was converted as a result. I'm wondering what your kids' school is doing differently. I dont know what UPFs are.

@iain4europe @theAliceRoberts Perhaps the school should reflect (a) the general population, (b) the local community, (c) the wishes of the parents (who have no choice of school). Rather than reflecting the wishes of a small, random group of self-appointed individuals who have little to do with it?

@surangac @theAliceRoberts Perhaps this is how the school protects itself against entryism from people who want the school to go secular.

@iain4europe @theAliceRoberts Just one example of the madness: the CofE school rules demand a majority of governor positions go to active church-goers. So many schools miss out on local educational, financial, legal, technology, etc expertise because the person who has it happens to not be Christian.

@iain4europe @theAliceRoberts Yes, there's a persistent effort to indoctrinate. My kids also eat more at home than at school but I wouldn't put up with UPFs for lunch. I'd like the school to focus on education (including teaching *about* religions, faith, belief systems). Can I 'mostly' pay my taxes?