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.
There's a lot that engineers can learn from life forms that have evolved in nature. Here is an excellent introduction to biomimicry: https://t.co/d67CAG0MuG
The best gift for any kid you know !
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@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.
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 ) https://t.co/k2kSkwpUB4
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
Any alternatives to Slack that you are using for daily business? How can a messenger be that expensive in 2024 fml
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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. https://t.co/oLXBUaujai
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 https://t.co/fNvJ6fomur
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)
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⤵️ https://t.co/juNwfRgA5h
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
@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
Religion is the first and the last resort for fascists. https://t.co/8OVWmhtxaQ
How English has changed over the years https://t.co/dE3TMZ7CnK
What are your biggest problems with living in India?
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 https://t.co/GcNKEZKSRd
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 https://t.co/mqhVJJM3p8 https://t.co/hDY7oj0z7d
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. https://t.co/0PHeezJJB8
Build a Web Scrapping AI agent with Llama-3 running locally on your computer (100% free and without internet):
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.…
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.
https://t.co/dSAGIwQuMO
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. 🧵 👇 https://t.co/VsGdMfOEqd
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? https://t.co/vzvOTx0DYc
Modi during an interview: What has Congress done to Muslim community. People from Muslim community should introspect. Muslims are in this condition only because of Congress.
Modi in rallies : All your property will be snatched by Congress and be given to Muslims community. https://t.co/DlEjvvDvKR
If you're a senior software engineer, here is an incomplete list of engineering practices you must know:
🔹 Source control / GIT
🔹 Tests (check Test Pyramid)
🔹 Clean code
🔹 Pair / Mob programming
🔹 Design Patterns
🔹 Refactoring
🔹 TDD / BDD
🔹 YAGNI, DRY, KISS, SOLID
🔹… https://t.co/CKgOtmuNQg
@jjude @_zenman @PaddleHQ @siteaudittools Actually the waitlist is already live. Scroll to the bottom of this page :)
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"The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated." https://t.co/KfFpouh7Dm
We have started using OKRs for Screener development.
This is how we are doing it: https://t.co/hu2o534YfP
Has anyone used OKRs before? Anything we should improve or change?
This might help. My bookmarks of things for kids 😀:
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What has been the most valuable AI tool for you outside of ChatGPT/Claude?
Can include a tool that you built yourself as well. Let us know in the replies.
6 famous software engineering books to help you master system design:
1. Designing Data Intensive Systems by Martin Kleppman https://t.co/dXmLn4ShlW
Today, Uber is a $140B company with more than 6 million drivers.
But in the early days, we had to overcome the same chicken and egg problem many startups face:
Without drivers ➡️ riders couldn’t get a car
And without riders ➡️drivers couldn’t make $
Here’s how we solved it:
Short on time but want to eat healthy?
Here are 10 easy to make vegetarian and eggetarian meal ideas, which take less than 15 mins of prep time and come with approx. 20 g of protein
Ollamac is a cool little open-source desktop app for mac os to have persistent chats with locally running LLMs! 👏
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Number of tax-paying businesspeople is unexpectedly close to salaried people in India
Salaries are surprisingly 2x higher than incomes in business, though I am sure there may be undisclosed business income
India is the land of solo entrepreneurs who are not able to scale https://t.co/RUnwhWFhL1
AI and real world : The two shall converge..some day. https://t.co/HX3LSO0T9K
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.
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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… https://t.co/vJZT63qlIY
We all should read some good literature.📚
I will be listing a few books that I have read, along with a brief introduction/excerpt and a short video (~5-10 mins) about each book.
There are several such literary classics, feel free to add your favorites here.🧵#BookTwitter
@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
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!
The ability to test data eng code with a local DuckDB is such a game changer.