Shruti Gupta
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Founder @ stealth. unraveling the human mind and body mystery, curious about society & culture. organ donation advocate. ex cofounder @Healthians. say hi here.
Singapore
Joined November 2009
I don't think most people - esp most normal people outside of Silicon Valley - are optimizing every little thing about their lives. But those who are building the systems and products that normal people use every day do have that "optimization" mindset. And that's part of the
Can't stop thinking about this Vogue piece. We're so obsessed with optimizing every little thing that we've forgotten how to just… live. Efficiency has literally become a nightmare personality trait (you’re picturing someone rn, aren’t you?) Totally optimize your admin, your
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We asked @davidstout (Co-Founder & CEO, webAI) about the advantages of running AI on devices. "There's no free lunch, but there are things cloud players can't do. It's RAM intensive, yes, but by distributing across devices, we can unlock more accuracy and context. But if you're
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"We still have a long way to go to address [monitoring in menstrual health]. It also enables you to look across the priority menstrual health domains, which enables comparability across countries and across over time, which is really important." #PeriodPossePresents @ColumbiaGATE
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We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.
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choosing sides, taking bets, standing ground. this stuff makes up a person, her mind and her spine. being an eternal option-ist is perhaps a synonym of being non-committal.. and that’s not a good way to live
americans treat optionality like a virtue when it’s actually a pathology. ppl optimize for keeping doors open indefinitely, never committing, never locking in, because they conflate flexibility with freedom. but optionality is not freedom, it’s just deferred responsibility.
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I think culture needs to normalize around the idea of slow texting: If I haven’t replied to you, it means I haven’t looked at my phone. And if I’m not looking at my phone, I’m in my good place. to expect instant responses from others is to hope for them to not be fully absorbed
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In my four decades of professional academic life I've observed that Robert Conquest's First Law holds. Most of my colleagues are left-leaning. More than a few are far left-leaning. Some, though, hold conservative views in one or a few areas. Almost invariably, those are areas in
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The eschewing of things like tobacco first, then alcohol, and finally caffeine is associated with the mass affluent very comfortable 21st century life. It’s an extremely ascetic existence. Like a desire for punishment or something. Almost masochistic. The final frontier is
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Interesting take on the status of young adults as I start preparing for the new university year. The counter-arguments at the end are also interesting. I now need to get back to my toy-box.
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“I think people are afraid that by going first and giving resources, giving time & attention, giving samples, and so on, they might just be losing that. They’re not cognizant of the fact that in every human culture you must not take without giving in return.”- Robert Cialdini
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Socio-emotional skills are a better predictor of life success than cognitive skills. High-quality #ECE can provide socio-emotional gains that last a lifetime, even if cognitive skills fade.
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This is unreal. We're legitimately getting to a point where intelligence might be too cheap to meter Gemini flash will soon cost ~$0.05/1m tokens For reference, ~2 years ago gpt-3.5 was $0.06$/1k tokens In time we got 100x cheaper models that are 10x smarter
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It’s imp for you to surface your rules to yourself, so you can evaluate them. Perhaps, this also feeds into ur streak of neuroticism- and helps you understand if you're more open minded or skeptic. Your icebergs can tell you if you're resilient pr persistent and so much more.
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Your core values and beliefs often operate outside of ur conscious awareness (hidden under water). But, as you go about your day, they get triggered. Eg- “If you want it done right, you’ve got to do it yourself” “Failure is a sign of weakness” “Strong people don’t ask for help”
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Today I learnt about 'Icebergs' (rules) from an article by @pauladavisSRI So, visualize an iceberg – there is a small piece that is visible above the water line, but the biggest part remains hidden under water...
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I think wokeness actually peaked in 2020 or 2021 and has been slowly contracting since then. If we're lucky this will be one of those things that dies, as Hemingway put it, "gradually, then suddenly."
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Calling marketers and whoever understands the value of developing “good taste”, pls opine how would you define it?
@orenmeetsworld I think we both know that “good taste” has intrinsic economic value, but that it is ever evolving and slippery and subject to environmental exposure and media and takes trained senses to recognize. There’s too much resistance by quants. So maybe we should try to quantify it?
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Your secret expectations are holding your team back 🎯
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Intelligence and Prejudice: Intelligent people are just as prejudiced as less intelligent people - but toward different groups
stevestewartwilliams.com
Intelligent people are just as prejudiced as less intelligent people - but toward different groups
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