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Paramendra Kumar Bhagat retweeted
btw you should come to this if you a) want to go very deep on deployments and also b) if you want to see me in a giant witch hat
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Paramendra Kumar Bhagat retweeted
Amitabh Bachchan’s arrival, gravely wounded, at Vinod Khanna and Raakhee’s wedding in Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978), after his deadly fight with Amjad Khan, is nothing short of extraordinary. The pain in his eyes, every facial expression, every movement of his body it all feels painfully real. A performance so raw and powerful, it transcends cinema itself.
I recently told Amitabh ji that this may well be one of the greatest performances ever witnessed in Indian cinema or world cinema. Truly, a once-in-a-generation talent and, in my eyes, the greatest actor in the world. 🙏👏 @SrBachchan
#48YearsOfMuqaddarKaSikandar #AmitabhBachchan
Paramendra Kumar Bhagat retweeted
Any attempts to exclude Russia from the gas market will raise costs for consumers, said Russian President Vladimir Putin adding that Russia and the United States are exploring the possibility of cooperation in the Arctic reut.rs/4zna8Y7
Paramendra Kumar Bhagat retweeted
Jamie Dimon to a country that pulled its gold out of New York: you have three armies within 400 miles, while gold in America is protected by two oceans and the US military
“If we have the strongest military in the world and the strongest economy in the world, we will be the preeminent reserve currency. It is those two things.”
“I was in a country somewhere in the Middle East, and also in Europe, and the people said, we took our gold out of the vaults in New York City and moved it to our country. You know what I said to him? I said, you have three armies within 400 miles who can come take your gold.”
“That’s the real world. You’re not thinking clearly about safety. That gold is protected by the Atlantic, the Pacific, the United States military, the rule of law.”
“But if we are not the preeminent military and economy, you will see our reserve status come down.”
Paramendra Kumar Bhagat retweeted
ELON MUSK WAS BEATEN WITH SCHOOL BAGS AFTER CLASS AND HIS FATHER ERROL SAW NOTHING WRONG WITH IT... A CRAZY STORY. ELON SPENT 2 WEEKS IN THE HOSPITAL
the interviewer says it straight: "Elon has always talked about being badly bullied at school"
Errol doesn't even pause
"no he wasn't. he wasn't bullied at school"
"so he's lying when he says that?"
and then Errol explains his idea of normal
"if you do well, you get beat. they wait for you after school, they hit you with their satchels. that's standard. I don't call that bullying"
bullying, in his words, is only when a big kid picks on a small kid who can't defend himself
then he tells the story himself
a boy in Elon's grade had just lost his father. suicide. the boy was the one who found him
Elon, in grade 8, said to that boy: "your father was stupid"
Errol's comment on it is the line I can't stop thinking about:
"Elon had a tendency to say that. he still does"
the boy was much smaller than Elon. he pushed him down two flights of stairs, from the second floor to the ground floor. then ran down after him, found a piece of wood and kept hitting him
2 weeks in the hospital
Errol says he went to the police. the police came to the school, the headmaster explained what Elon had said, and they refused to open a case
"what Elon said was sufficient cause"
that's the father's version, told calmly, decades later
Elon's version is different. in his biography the beating is worse, and when he came home his father took the other boy's side and made him stand there while he was called an idiot. Kimbal has said Elon was beaten so badly he was unrecognizable
so we have two stories about the same staircase
in one, a kid nearly gets killed and nobody protects him
in the other, a kid says something cruel and gets what was coming
and here's the uncomfortable part: Errol might be right about one thing
"he still does"
look at grown-up Elon. "go f*** yourself" to advertisers live on stage. calling people idiots on X in front of 200M+ followers. he never lost the habit of saying the one thing you're not supposed to say
the difference is that at 14 it cost him two weeks in a hospital bed
at 55 it costs him almost nothing. sometimes it even moves the stock
the boy who got thrown down the stairs for his mouth grew up and bought the biggest megaphone on earth
Paramendra Kumar Bhagat retweeted
This is an incredible moment in this history of mathematics, computer science, physics & science with some of the hardest problems in human history being solved by AI over a period of weeks. Depending on your perspective, it's either a crisis, a triumph, or both. I don't think anyone knows for sure. We're all trying to make sense of it. I oscillate between fear/dread and optimism/excitement on a daily basis. The rate of progress is insane, including today's announcement from OpenAI of more problems solved.
To help make sense of all of it, here's my conversation with three mathematicians about this moment. Each of them is an expert in the field of each of the biggest problems solved: Navier-Stokes, quasi-Riemann hypothesis, the unique games conjecture and complexity theory more generally.
Ankur Moitra is a mathematician and theoretical computer scientist at MIT, visiting the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Steven Brunton (@eigensteve) is a mathematician and fluid dynamics expert at UW. Alex Kontorovich (@AlexKontorovich) is a mathematician at Rutgers specializing in number theory.
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In 2008 the Winklevoss twins lost Facebook to Mark Zuckerberg and took $65 million to go away. In 2012 they put it into Bitcoin, buying about 1% of every coin in existence at under $10 each.
In the video below, 2013, they say Bitcoin should be worth a hundred times more than it is — and the host tells them Fed presidents are writing the whole thing off.
Their own lawyers told them to take the $65 million in cash.
They took Facebook stock instead.
"The lawyers thought we were crazy."
By Facebook's IPO in 2012 that stock was worth around $300 million.
Then they did it again.
In late 2012 they started buying Bitcoin, when a coin cost less than ten dollars. Over a few months they bought about 1% of every Bitcoin then in existence. Roughly 120,000 coins.
By April 2013 it was worth about $11 million.
For years they were the punchline. The guys who lost Facebook. The twins from the movie.
"We've turned that laughter and ridicule into oxygen and wind at our back."
On television in 2013 they said the bull case for Bitcoin was a market cap of $400 billion. At the time it was $4 billion.
Today it is about $1.3 trillion.
Did they see something nobody else did, or did they just get lucky twice?
Paramendra Kumar Bhagat retweeted
Sam Altman asked ChatGPT why his baby keeps throwing pizza on the floor and laughing.
Scientists at Johns Hopkins answered that 11 years ago, and honestly the answer is a little embarrassing for the guy who runs ChatGPT.
If your kid ever did this to you at dinner, you were watching a physics experiment.
Two researchers, Aimee Stahl and Lisa Feigenson, brought 110 babies into their lab, all around 11 months old, and showed them toys doing impossible stuff. Some of the babies watched a ball roll right through what looked like a solid wall. Others watched a toy car roll off a ledge and just hang there in the air.
Then they handed the babies the toy.
The wall babies grabbed it and banged it on the table, like they were checking whether it was actually solid. The floating-car babies kept dropping theirs on the floor. Each group went for whichever test matched the rule they'd just seen broken, and the babies who watched the toy act normal barely did either one.
None of these kids could talk yet, and nobody had ever explained gravity to them. They still showed up with a pretty good idea of how stuff is supposed to behave, and the moment the world didn't match it, they went and got more data.
So a baby dropping the same slice of pizza over and over is basically rerunning the experiment to make sure food still falls. Around that age they also start watching your face to figure out how they should feel about what just happened, which means your reaction is part of the experiment too.
Here's where it gets uncomfortable for AI. Yann LeCun, one of the godfathers of modern AI, did the math on this. A 4-year-old has been awake for about 16,000 hours, and just through their eyes they've taken in roughly as much raw data as the biggest AI models get trained on. The kid's data comes as live video, with hands to poke things and a parent reacting to every move. LeCun thinks that's what today's AI is missing, and it's a big part of why he left Meta to build something different.
So the guy running OpenAI asked a chatbot to explain the one learning machine nobody in AI knows how to build, and it's been sitting in a high chair in his kitchen this whole time.
Jimmy Fallon asks Sam Altman if he uses ChatGPT to raise the baby he has with his husband, and his answer is hilarious
Jimmy Fallon: “You, you and your husband just had a baby. Congratulations, yeah. How old? How old is the baby?”
Sam Altman: “Eight month old?”
Jimmy Fallon: “Are you loving him?”
Sam Altman: “So much. I have no non-cliched thing to say, but it is by far so much better than anything anyone tells you. I just so incredibly happy.”
Jimmy Fallon: “And do you use ChatGPT when, when raising your baby?”
Sam Altman: “I do. I mean I feel kind of bad about it because I, we have this like genius level at everything, intelligence sitting there like waiting to unravel the mysteries of humanity.”
“And I'm like, why my kid stop dropping his pizza on the floor and laughing?”
“So I feel like I'm not asking a good enough question.”
“But it is, I don't know. I cannot imagine having gone through like figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT. Clearly people did it for a long time, no problem.”
Paramendra Kumar Bhagat retweeted
if you’re branded, you can raise $100M+ for your seed round in a single week
if you’re unbranded, you may struggle to raise even $2M
why?
80% of VCs add negative value, and 80% of VCs are lazy. they ask claudette to pull a list of who’s on your team, then sit in IC enumerating your wunderkammer of IOIs and Ivy Leagues and ex-lab folks, and everyone gets starry-eyed, enchanted by the billions branded teams surely guarantee. enchanted by the thrill of throwing massive checks whilst doing hardly any DD, because, certainly, that’s irrelevant, and these people will figure it out, right? right.
and so you run wild with the money. you store it in a grotto and show up at the doorstep of the neoclouds, the governments, the enterprises, with an unlimited rope of credit tied to an origin no one can quite explain
some of the branded people will make it & rule the world. some of them are thrilling, brilliant, hilarious people, and for that, I’m happy to support and stand in awe of their success.
but they shouldn’t be the only ones allowed to make it. many of the most talented & ethical visionaries I know are stuck in dead ends despite wanting to found, because they are illegible to capital.
the unbranded genius has depressingly jagged societal intelligence. she is more awake to the rules of people games than the branded cadre, and yet she is never given a seat to play
the unbranded genius is an opsec purist who only chats on signal
the unbranded genius is invited to more exclusive parties in her field than many of the branded people, and yet VCs underwrite her network as irrelevant
the unbranded genius is told to curate a public persona to seem smart to the salesmen of money. but she has an aversion to being perceived, so she operates almost entirely offline, where no one can ever know who she is or what she’s up to
in the valley of automation, she is alone in the unquiet darkness. I extend a branch to pull her up, but every time, without fail, it snaps, and I’m forced to watch her fall into the valley’s maw. she gets chewed up and spat out, but she’s a genius and she’s strong, so she reassembles the bits of herself. but every time she does, it’s groundhog day yet again.
and so i'm left asking: how do we brand people without logo stacking? I can’t keep watching unbranded geniuses fall. it’s becoming too much for the soul.
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Elon Musk fired Parag Agrawal from Twitter without paying him a single penny.
People thought his career was over.
But the real game began after that.
Parag revealed that even during that entire storm, he would still check his sleep score, and his sleep remained excellent.
He said the reason was simple: when you know what you need to do, you don't feel pressured.
After losing his job, he didn't go to the beach to relax. Instead, he started writing code again while sitting in a coffee shop.
Today, Parag Agrawal's... 1/2
Paramendra Kumar Bhagat retweeted
Minister Piyush Goyal may say it jokingly, but there’s a serious point here. In much of Europe, the week’s last meeting is over by Friday 4 pm. When work demands it, Indians will work late into the night and through weekends. It’s a work ethic that gives India an edge.
Paramendra Kumar Bhagat retweeted
Dear Indian brothers and sisters, CONGRATULATE ME! 😭🙏❤️
I’m officially the first Hindu in my African bloodline!
Today, I told my aunt about my journey to Sanatana Dharma, and she respected it. We even discussed avoiding beef.
I’m still worried how my entire family might though.
Jai Shri Ram! 🙏 🕉️
Paramendra Kumar Bhagat retweeted
A polar bear grabbed a researcher by his hood outside an Arctic station and dragged him through the snow. Then she turned toward the frozen sea and waited for him to follow.
Paramendra Kumar Bhagat retweeted
Yess mom. I’m coming. I thought it was a ball and then started playing with it.
I love balls to play 😌🐘
Paramendra Kumar Bhagat retweeted
THE CEASEFIRE HAS COMMENCED
The ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia took effect at 4:00am Moscow time on October 27, 2026.
Timing was accelerated two days ahead of schedule to protect the safety of civilians and to facilitate the delivery of critical humanitarian aid. The ceasefire’s geographic area has expanded beyond Oleshky, within the Kherson Region, to provide safe passage for the humanitarian convoys.
General Valery Gerasimov, Joint Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has confirmed.
Paramendra Kumar Bhagat retweeted
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THE CEASEFIRE HAS COMMENCED
The ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia took effect at 4:00am Moscow time on October 27, 2026.
Timing was accelerated two days ahead of schedule to protect the safety of civilians and to facilitate the delivery of critical humanitarian aid. The ceasefire’s geographic area has expanded beyond Oleshky, within the Kherson Region, to provide safe passage for the humanitarian convoys.
General Valery Gerasimov, Joint Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has confirmed.