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Sharjeel Imam Is Not Asking for Rights. He Is Asking for Pakistan’s Foundations.
The good Raghavan S Rao with two bangers this week. This one analysing Sharjeel Imam and another on Jean Dreze. Two fantastic pieces. swarajyamag.com/politics/sha…
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Announcing three major scientific discoveries, one each in mathematics (harmonic analysis), computer science (complexity theory), and physics (quantum field theory).
AI starting to help us improve our understanding of the universe! openai.com/index/building-sc…
Every morning that same feeling of emptiness. It sucks sometimes, to be human. Missing Maa a bit too much today.
Not anyone who says "I'm going to be
careful and smart in the matters of love,"
who says, "I'm going to choose slowly,"
but only those lovers who didn't choose at all
but were, as it were, chosen
by something invisible
and powerful and uncontrollable
and beautiful and possibly even
unsuitable
only those know what I'm talking about
in this talking about love.
~ Mary Oliver
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The Lonely Funeral: Dutch Poets Who Mourn the Unmourned full story here:
theverifiedpost.com/article/…
It comes in spurts,
Oh, how it hurts.
Was it wishful thinking,
Or just the drink talking?
Too good to be true,
Perhaps I always knew.
Then why does it hurt,
When it comes in spurts?
Was I the only one dreaming?
Was I the only one believing?
It comes in spurts,
Oh, how it hurts.
In Spurts by Gopal
Time to reread Klara and the Sun before the movie comes out. Sunday plans: me, a book, and zero socialising. 📚
मैं खड़ा बीच मझधार किनारे क्या कर लेंगे
मैंने छोड़ी पतवार सहारे क्या कर लेंगे
तुम क़िस्मत-क़िस्मत करो जियो याचक बन कर
मैं चला क्षितिज के पार सितारे क्या कर लेंगे
तुम दिखलाते हो राह मुझे मंजिल की,
मैं आँखों से लाचार इशारे क्या कर लेंगे
हम ने जो कुछ भी कहा वही कर बैठे
जो सोचें सौ-सौ बार बेचारे क्या कर लेंगे
ना समझ कहोगे तुम मुझको मालूम है
ये फ़तवे हैं बेकार तुम्हारे क्या कर लेंगे
~ अमिताभ त्रिपाठी ‘अमित’
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Hi all, I have a new result I'm excited to share. It turns out that *all existing implementations* of softmax and cross-entropy (that's JAX, PyTorch, textbooks, etc) have a subtle bug --- two bugs, actually. A simple rewrite fixes both, and eliminates "slingshots" when grokking:
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Dr VAN spends a lot of time thinking and studying about AI - this below is a good intervention/discussion by him at the 63rd Per Jacobsson Foundation Lecture
swarajyamag.com/economy/five…
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🚨 Indian physicist Ashoke Sen has become the first Indian to win the 2026 Oskar Klein Medal for his pioneering contributions to string theory, black-hole physics and quantum gravity.
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Wake up.
Every profession deemed white-collar, the middle class dream, is about to be decimated by AI, at a much faster pace than anticipated, with monstrous social consequences.
