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India's election has thrown up a curveball, esp for global investors bullish on India. We sent a note to our LPs yesterday on what this means – excerpts below 🧵

“Any institution with vast amount of interpretive powers can’t but be political.” 💯💯💯

Interesting update on India by world’s leading political scientist @ianbremmer : 1. BJP likely to win with 305 seats 2. PM Modi remains highly popular, seen as non-corrupt, and respected. 3. Economic challenges: inflation, unemployment, and K-shaped growth 4. Opposition parties…

In 1948, when the state of Israel was declared, it was an Arab-Israel crisis. Today, the Palestine question is a Palestine-Israel problem. Arab countries have declared solidarity with Palestinians, but none of them want to compromise their particular interests over Palestine.

There's a lot that engineers can learn from life forms that have evolved in nature. Here is an excellent introduction to biomimicry:

@petergyang I go for cucumber cut in side filled with hummus or just plain carrots. My idea is to go with Fiber, they are good fillers and get flushed out the next morning without staying back or adding too much calories.

Books about Gandhi 1. Gandhi and Stalin" (1947) by Louis Fischer 2. Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence" (1969) by Erik Erikson. (won the Pulitzer Prize) 3. The Life of Mahatma Gandhi" (1950) by Louis Fischer.

@glcst Prior art from @nayafia @left_pad (in case you haven't seen it): . Good luck! :-)

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For the last few days social media timelines are filled with updates on food safety raids happening across #Hyderabad. Some popular names have featured in the list of violators. As someone who loves food and eats out often, sharing 8 takeaways in a thread below. #Thread

No travel agency will take you to this route but here's how we travelled Switzerland with 25+ cities in 11 Days including 4 Boat Cruises for total price of Rs. 90k for family of 2 Adults and 2 Kids using Swiss Travel System A thread ( 1/n )

Any alternatives to Slack that you are using for daily business? How can a messenger be that expensive in 2024 fml

Dalit girl from Sagar, MP, who accused a local BJP leader of sexual assault, got killed in a mysterious road accident an interview with me, she said that the accused had threatened to kill her. Her brother was killed last year. @TribalArmy

So, the India that Nehru inherited was one with practically no industries, social fabric torn by partition, & a beggar economy left in tatters. India ws 85% an agricultural economy. Every nation, begins as an agricultural economy. Since this is not enough, it industrializes.(8/n)

Reminds me of Rev. James Long (1814-1887) of Bengal stood on the side Bengali labourers on Indigo plantations, and was even imprisoned for going against the interests of his own countrymen.

I recorded a video on how you can build a complete RAG application without writing any code. I used Langflow, an open-source project that sits on top of Langchain. Langflow hides all the complexity and makes the process 10x easier. This is a step-by-step tutorial.

For a family of 4, we require Rented House: 24 lac annually Own House: 34 lac annually to survive in a metro. Not added luxuries Read below breakdown⤵️

100s of people work at my companies. I haven’t replaced a single human with AI, but everyone here is helped by AI. I asked my team what AI tools improve their work, they said:

Is there any X or tiktok or reels for edtech? Parents pay a subscription fee to use. Creators upload short videos to teach concepts. Creators paid based on popularity. Someone build this for kids as target audience

Religion is the first and the last resort for fascists.

What are your biggest problems with living in India?

@Nachiket1977 @thesatbir Bizarre ways people died in Mumbai: - fell in manhole - dog bite - hoarding collapse - tree collapse - garbage truck hit - stampede at railway station - passing by under-construction building

How English has changed over the years

My father had a little bit of a medical emergency towards the tail end of last yr I was completely clueless about all the paperwork, files & medical history After taking an active interest and cajoling them to reveal things, I'm very happy to have all important docs in 1 place

Ballmer was likely the first employee turned billionaire. This passage about him borrowing money to buy more Microsoft shares is illuminating. On the arrangement that led to him getting as much as 8% in Microsoft stock - read

What are some words you associate with the idea of Home?

What would you advice to a hard working person who’s willing to do anything to increase their income by 10x?

Unite against Minority appeasement.

Build a Web Scrapping AI agent with Llama-3 running locally on your computer (100% free and without internet):

Brilliant explanation of ontology vs epistemology from @CosmicSkeptic at yesterday’s @UnHerd event. Watch to the end!

Who’s building cool AI applications in India. Comment below with some brief description. (Serious replies only)

Can I change the world? A debate with Ms Eva Biaudet, Member of Parliament, Finland.

GPT4o is of course amazing. One application everyone is jumping on is customer service automation. While it will happen and there will be meaningful impact, it's not going to be overnight and definitely not easy. 1. Disparate systems of records at the enterprise end.…

24 quotes that cut to the core of the human experience: 1. “The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must.” — Thucydides 2. “Civilization expands by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking about them.” — Alfred North Whitehead…

Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram. I want to talk about this a bit. 1/

Nothing like a good hook to reel in the reader! A Thread of the 50 Best Opening Lines in Classic Literature. 🧵 👇

you get rewarded in proportion to the size of the problems that you are able to solve - but how do you get better at solving problems?

May be only 1% of investors dive to this detail. Discover the power of cash flow analysis with real examples and ratios in my latest blog. Uncover insights into financial performance and management strategy. Check blog for complete details

Looking for an open source OCR solution, try Surya! Surya is a document OCR toolkit that does: - OCR in 90+ languages - Line-level text detection in any language - Reading order detection - Layout analysis (table, image, header, etc detection) Pretty much everything you need…

@natfriedman Personal data scientist for my finances. Ingest all my accounts (mortgage, checking, saving, brokerage). Let me ask it question . Suggest tax savings strategies. Nice plots of my asset allocations

Jinnah's grandson Nusli Wadia funded the Jan Sangh and later the BJP. What do you have to tell the country, @BJP4India? You survived on cash given by the immediate family of Jinnah who split India and created Pakistan, which you 'act like hating' the most? Remarkable indeed.

A 2024 Golang Developer RoadMap by @javinpaul #golang

What AI product – that can be built today but for some strange reason doesn't exist yet – would you pay for right now? Preference for B2B answers!

What's one online service you gladly pay for every month? Why is it that good?

Most companies often focus on the product as the center of the users universe. But for users it’s the entire funnel that drives their experience and perception. Oftentimes product managers get swept by a singular focus on the aesthetics and experience of the core product…

Over the past 10 years, I have read over 600 business books. 99% were 1 idea stretched across 300 pages. They should have been blog posts. Save yourself the time and just read these 10 (on marketing, growth, negotiation, and more):

What is geometry? And why is it used so extensively in Islamic Art? Let's explore. Geometry is not just what we learned in school. There are 4 levels to it. 👇

Most of the great minds of history were wage slaves and bureaucrats: Cervantes was a tax collector, Machiavelli was a bureaucrat, Leonard da Vinci was a shape rotator for the Duke of Milan, Melville was a customs inspector.