Jaidev Deshpande
@jaidevd
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ML & AI @aftershootco | Signal processing, history, math. Libertarian.
New Delhi, India
Joined October 2010
After a three month long break in what was supposed to be a monthly newsletter, here's the latest edition of #beingbayesian, in which I examine what you'd have to give up in order to work ridiculously long hours, by analysing the #timeusesurvey microdata. https://t.co/qanS7lEaa1
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What would you have to give up to work longer hours? You could spend less time staring at your spouse. But data suggests that your spouse isn't exactly waiting around to be stared at.
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Ramin Djawadi's "The Winds of Winter" playing in the background as you read this. https://t.co/qeRiKpb6oA
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Investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel has significantly revamped his investment portfolio, as per his recent 13F filing. From Nvidia to Tesla, here are the stocks he moved up and down.
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Just because you can type words, they don't become true. This national press day, mute these people out. Unfollow them. Mute them. Remove them from your feed. Let their lies go to the void.
The flame of truth never dims. This National Press Day, we celebrate the courage to question and the freedom to report. #NationalPressDay #TimesNow
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Even before @mmitchell_ai recently raised this discussion, I've had conversation after conversation with students & new grads struggling with this exact dilemma. I want to help! Here's a live thread of AI-related opportunities for those looking to do good & make (enough) money:
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अब तक हंसी-ठिठौली हो रही थी। Now it's become dangerous.
Parents should take this analysis seriously. I believe there is increasing evidence that we are giving way too many vaccines to very young children. This is spreading in India too and we are seeing a rapid increase in autism in India.
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Vembu Uncle mansplaining medical science to a doctor. That too not just any doctor but a person renowned for being specialised on babies and vaccinations. 🤣
@amitguptabliss You are a hyper specialist in neo-natal care. You cannot possibly _scientifically_ know all the _long term_ effects of every shot we give young babies because you do not clinically see those neo-natal babies once they grow out of that stage. Please cultivate an open curious mind
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Dear Times of India, You enabled this
UP: Boy dies of #snakebite; family keeps body under neem leaves, cow dung for 3 days to revive him
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Yeah, how dare you be polite and start a conversation like a normal human? Normal, polite people don't make it to a million users.
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When fame meets sarkaari patronage, you can say stunningly stupid things and still dance like a peacock. For what it’s worth, this very "rooted" naacheez has read and cited Francesca Orsini in his book. (p. 14, ABV vol. I hardback ed).
I have no views on this scholar Francesca Orsini. Had never heard of her. But those of us from a rooted background, who speak Hindi at home, read Hindi books as well, can only roll our eyes at this rather bizarre claim that 'few have shaped our understanding' of Hindi literary
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What's your suggestion for the "official name" for something that the actual Ghibli studio produced? You see how everything that was once "normal" or "human", is slowly being eroded?
We need an official name for not-vibe-coding. My top candidates so far: · boomer coding · chewgy coding · trad coding · Coding with capital C Suggestions are welcome.
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A gig economy lender once asked me to review their loan flow. The PM wanted me to "innovatively" hide the loan breakdown. Interest, penalties, fees - bury it all. Her logic: it increases scroll length and it's only there because of regulation. BS. Fintech PMs who treat loan
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India has produced some outstanding writing in English but Chetan Bhagat & Amish Tripathi are all that bhakts know in the name of writers.
Ever seen an Englishman talk about how Chetan Bhagat and Amish Tripathi have shaped their understanding of the English language? But yes, an obscure Italian academic has shaped our understanding of our own language, apparently.
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If Oppenheimer, a master of Sanskrit, were to be denied an Indian visa, these people would embarrass even McCarthy.
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He thinks "a rooted background", whatever that means, reading Hindi and speaking Hindi at home is enough to stake a claim to Hindi and North Indian literary cultures.
I have no views on this scholar Francesca Orsini. Had never heard of her. But those of us from a rooted background, who speak Hindi at home, read Hindi books as well, can only roll our eyes at this rather bizarre claim that 'few have shaped our understanding' of Hindi literary
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For 50 years, the villages Kollukudipatti and Vettangudipatti have celebrated cracker-free Diwali once they noticed firecrackers noise cracking birds' eggs. This has now slowly spread to neighbouring ten more villages.
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@RoshanKrRaii Scabbers is probably missing more than a pinky this time 🥲
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"You're absolutely right!"
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We do need better peer review but... Brandolini's Law makes it impossible. The rate at which they keep spewing BS can't be matched.
At first, I thought GPT-5 had cracked those math problems on its own. Turns out (as Demis pointed out) GPT-5 just looked up the answers via web search. We really need better peer review for these “AI discovers science/math” claims.
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29 months into 6 months from AI taking your job Andrej K> "I feel like the industry [...] it's trying to pretend that this [Current AI] is amazing. And it's not—it's slop"
28 months in to 6 months from AI taking your jobs * 4 months into 24 months until cursor is obsolete * 6 months into 6 months until ai writes 90% of your code (part 2, the codening)
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