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@BabajiSutar3 Sandeep Patil

She didn’t lie at all 😂

The Great Sultanate of Maharashtra Half way between Pune and the Ajanta caves lies one of the most neglected centres of Marathi culture.

@erling Who is the future Goat 🐐 let settle it here 🤝

@avataram "One should not believe too strongly in a lie which can easily vanish" - what James Salter would have said 😀

@thekaipullai Interesting, the social aspects of development are covered crisply and logically...what about their corruption, their legal systems and dispute resolution mechanisms, and the public ownership of most assets, land acquisition etc? Would they not have played a role in this?

Sergey Brin rarely speaks publicly. He sat down for an unscripted Q&A on Frontier AI. He admits even the people building these models do not fully understand what they have created: 1. All the specialized AI models are converging into one. Google used to need separate models for different scientific problems. Now the main Gemini models are becoming state-of-the-art for math and other scientific questions at the same time. Brin says he would not have predicted this convergence at the outset, and watching it happen has been incredible. 2. Training an AI on one skill mysteriously improves unrelated skills. This is the concept of transfer. Train a model on coding, and its math reasoning gets better, and vice versa. Teaching it to process images can improve its ability to think through geometric word problems. The capabilities bleed into each other in ways nobody fully engineered. 3. Even Sergey Brin does not know how to prompt these models. He says he is genuinely confused about what level to prompt at. Do you tell it to debug a specific chunk of code, or ask it to write a better neural net training algorithm, or just say, " What should I do today. He admits that even at Google, they do not know exactly where the edges of Gemini's capabilities are. 4. One of the biggest leaps in AI came from the dumbest sounding trick. Chain-of-thought prompting is just telling the model to think step by step before giving your problem. Brin says it seemed like the dumbest thing ever, and there was no obvious reason it should work. But it did, and it spurred a significant increase in AI capability. Some of the most straightforward requests turn out to unlock the most. 5. Brin would not modify his own biology for today's AI. Asked how humans can keep up with the accelerating bandwidth of models, he acknowledged neural links and direct brain connections are being pursued. But he said he would personally wait for the technology to mature a lot before doing anything to change his biology. Today's models do not justify it. 6. Super intelligence does not mean solving the impossible. An audience member argued that true super intelligence would mean solving NP complete problems like the travelling salesman. Brin pushed back. Most computer scientists believe P is not equal to NP, which means no algorithm can reliably solve those problems optimally, and it does not matter how smart the AI is. Impossible stays impossible. Super intelligence just means being smarter than humans. 7. Computers mastering a skill has never stopped humans from pursuing it. Deep Blue beat Kasparov at chess in the 1990s, and people kept playing chess. After AlphaGo, the human game of Go advanced dramatically, and the players who lost to it became vastly better. Brin's point: AI does not retire human ambition in an area; it often pushes the state of the art and pulls people up with it. 8. Brin thinks something close to transformers could get us to AGI. Asked directly if transformers are sufficient, he said his guess is yes, largely because they have proven weirdly flexible, working for image and video far beyond their original text purpose. But he was careful to note they have quietly changed a lot along the way and are not the same architecture as the original transformer paper. 9. AGI means two different things, and one requires understanding the physical world. Brin personally thinks of AGI as AI that can improve itself. But he concedes others define it as AI that can do anything a person can, and he thinks they are probably more correct. To do everything a person can, the AI must understand and interact with the physical world, which is why world models, and robotics, become essential. 10. Inside Google, they now use the AI to build the AI. Brin says the team has shifted a lot of energy toward having the AI do things like monitor training runs and generate its own training data. You start to use the tool to build the tool. That is most of what he spends his time on now, what he calls the self-improvement game. 11. Brin is unusually candid about where Google trails its competitors. He admits Google was a little late to focus deeply on coding. He says Gemini 3.0 and 3.1 were on top across the board six months ago, but other labs have since made strides, particularly in coding. He gives a competitor's model the edge now on deep coding and overnight tasks, while pitching Gemini's flash model as far faster for rapid interactive iteration. hindsight, he says, is that they should have focused on code earlier. 12. He sees his own role as a rabble-rouser, not a manager. Brin is honest that delivering Gemini is Corey and Demis's responsibility, not his. he describes his job as poking and prodding the team, asking, are you really doing that, reminding them of priorities they might be missing and ideas they are not paying enough attention to. He admits this is sometimes a little disruptive. 13. Confidence comes from ignoring the monthly temperature. Brin says if he judged Google's position every month by which competitor just shipped a model, he would lose his confidence very quickly. Instead, he watches the longer arc. Things shift around constantly; one lab leads on one thing, another pulls ahead somewhere else, and he feels good about where Gemini actually is despite the day-to-day noise.

A disaster waiting to happen...opposite Lenskart,Whitefield Main Road @WFRising

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I don't know who else to tell this to, so I am going to tell my story here. Every day is a struggle for a young business, but the last few months have been harder than usual. We are a small Indian company. For more than ten years we have been building a homegrown brand in a product category dominated by big foreign players. There are almost no Indian names in this space. We set out to be one. We started in 2014. Over the years we began making parts in India instead of just importing, and we started selling in the US, Dubai, Nepal, Malaysia and South Africa. We showed up at global trade fairs to represent an Indian brand on the world stage. In 2023 we changed the import code we use for our product. We did not do this quietly. Every shipment was declared. Nothing was hidden. We didn't invent our approach. We followed written professional advice and the way this product is treated in markets around the world. And now we are facing a government demand running into tens of crores in duty recovery and penalties, plus personal penalties on the founders and even on an employee. For a company our size, this is not a fine we can pay and move on from. This ends us. We have not run from any of this. I am not built like that. It is not how I was raised. We have written to the authorities, met officials in person, and we have now filed a writ in the High Court. All we are asking for is a fair treatment. I set out to build in India and sell to the world. I am asking only that the system back honest founders trying to compete globally, instead of breaking them. The process is the process, and it exists for a reason. But process should not feel like punishment. From where I am standing today, it does. I am not giving up. I have worked too hard for this. If you have read this far, please share it. If you know someone who can help, point them my way. Help me get the word out.

@bookworm_Kris Krishna ji, I have known you from your journey and multiple locations around MG Brigade (though you won't remember me!). This is a setback but for someone as resilient as you have been, sure that you will bounce back. The loss is heart rending as you and your family value books

@narendramodi @dpradhanbjp @AshwiniVaishnaw @smritiirani I am sure there are many other disciplines which are similarly struggling for lack of space/resources which this University seems to have in plenty.Can alternate and supporting courses be taught, along with Archeology, in this campus?

Rs 289 crore, 25 acres, 15 students: Inside India’s ‘ghost campus’ - India Today @narendramodi @dpradhanbjp @AshwiniVaishnaw @smritiirani ,,,when my daughter was applying for postgraduate courses in films at FTII, we realised that there are only about 11 seats per specialisation

@DOCTORATLARGE Boomerotic?

They said printing had reached its peak. He proved them wrong. A self-taught engineer from India outran London’s finest minds & changed how the world consumed information. Meet Shankar Abaji Bhise (1867-1935), the Edison India almost forgot. Hailing from Bombay, Bhise was a child prodigy who designed a coal-gas generator at age 14 to light his house. By 20, he was designing tamper-proof bottles & a Station Indicator for the Bombay suburban railways, a precursor to the digital displays we see today. In the late 1890s, a British publication, Inventors’ Review, announced a global competition to design an automatic weighing machine for groceries. Bhise entered from Bombay. He was not a professional engineer, yet his design beat every single British contestant. This win gave him the momentum to go to London. Before he left, he made a classic vow to his friends: "I will not return unless I make it/I run out of money." In the early 1900s, the Linotype & Monotype machines were the kings of the printing world, but they were massive, expensive, & relatively slow. Bhise developed the Bhisotype (initially called the Spasotype). While the best European machines were struggling to cast & assemble a few 100 characters, Bhise’s machine could handle 1200 characters/min. British engineers at the Caxton Type Foundry publicly doubted him. Bhise took the challenge, set up his own foundry (Bhiso-Type Ltd) in 1908, & proved that his machine could use 32 different metal types simultaneously to print books at lightning speed. By the time he moved to America, the New York American & other major publications were calling him the Indian Edison. In 1930, he finally met his childhood inspiration, Thomas Edison, in New Jersey. Edison was reportedly stunned by the sheer variety of Bhisey’s 200+ inventions: ranging from the Spirit Typewriter (a mechanical Ouija board) to early models of the push-up bra & automatic toilet flushers. During WWI, he invented Atomidine (originally Baseline), an iodine-based formulation to treat malaria & purify water. It was so effective that it was endorsed by the famous psychic Edgar Cayce & is still sold in modified forms today. He also formed a partnership with Sir Ratanji Tata to manufacture the Bhisotype. However, a lack of belief from colonial banks meant the project was delayed. He died in New York in 1935. He held 40+ patents, but because he did not have a Marketing team/the backing of a sovereign nation, his revolutionary printing press was never mass-produced. He solved a global bottleneck, but the world was not ready for an Indian to hold the key.

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@SHEKARSUSHEEL @grok is that you, grok??

@vfsglobalcare Hi, I am unable to register my email for applying for a china visa from India! Please help

Let's see if social media does its magic ✨ I was reporting from Buenos Aires in 2019, and bought an anthology of the writings of Jorge Luis Borges from a 2nd-hand shop. I found that book recently, and this photo popped out. 🧵