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Amit Singh Sethi retweeted
If Your Flight Attendant is Posh Your Country is Poor
Manu Joseph
I GET a spam call from a girl who asks which bank has issued my credit card, and I say, “Sperm Bank.” She asks if it is a foreign bank, then for the spelling. Listening to her, I am delighted at the progress the nation has made. I am not being sarcastic, partly because sarcasm is the second lowest form of humour, but chiefly because her response is a good omen.
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Amit Singh Sethi retweeted
Amongst my friends, Spotify is the lowest quality consumer app we still pay for. It certainly hasnt gotten noticeably better in the last couple years (arguably worse). So, this is not the positive look Ant and Spotify are spinning here.
Bigger picture, this is the problem with a lot of AI reporting. It reports completely meaningless metrics like deploys per day or LoC. Why don’t we start reporting consumer satisfaction reports? Actually end state research results.
All the no nuance AI people always come out and think that this is anti AI. Again, I think AI is great and Claude is great. But this is bad marketing and makes both look like clowns.
Amit Singh Sethi retweeted
Software engineers shouldn't fear being replaced by AI. They should fear being asked to maintain the sprawling mess of AI-generated legacy code their employer's systems will soon run on.
Because that one will actually happen.
Amit Singh Sethi retweeted
Day 1 with Devin:
ALT (Anakin Padme meme) I have dropped the database, but don't worry I made a screenshot you mean snaphot ... snapshot, right?
Amit Singh Sethi retweeted
Current LLMs are trained on text data that would take 20,000 years for a human to read.
And still, they haven't learned that if A is the same as B, then B is the same as A.
Humans get a lot smarter than that with comparatively little training data.
Even corvids, parrots, dogs, and octopuses get smarter than that very, very quickly, with only 2 billion neurons and a few trillion "parameters."
Amit Singh Sethi retweeted
computer science is about how computers work
software engineering is about how people work with computers, most especially how people work *with each other* while working with computers
Amit Singh Sethi retweeted
"This is the best time to startup. So much $ is available."
"X raised y $ at v valuation"
I hear this a lot, sometimes in a worrying tone and sometimes in determination or condescension.
Here’s an Ode to the failed entrepreneurs and their attempts 🧵
Amit Singh Sethi retweeted
Indian scientist Felix Bast discovers a new species of algae off the coast of the Andaman archipelago. And it’s already threatened because of habitat destruction.
It belongs to the genus “Acetabularia” and so it is single-celled. Yup, each umbrella is one ginormous cell.
Amit Singh Sethi retweeted
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प्लीज़ खिलाड़ियों को बेटियाँ मत कहिए. हम सब भावनाओं में बहकर ऐसे प्रयोग करते हैं. बहू, बेटी, माँ… इन रिश्तों के बिना भी उनका अस्तित्व है. एक स्वतंत्र व्यक्तित्व है जैसे पुरुष खिलाड़ी बेटे नहीं पुरुष हैं. वे भारत की महिला खिलाड़ी हैं टीम इंडिया हैं ❤️
@Sujata1978 🌻
Amit Singh Sethi retweeted
Celebrate the joy of 2 hockey teams in Olympic S-F, remember to send a humble thank-you note to Odisha and its CM @Naveen_Odisha ....For 6 years now, the not-so-rich state has sponsored & nursed both men and women's hockey teams. If only more states were to spend on sport..
Amit Singh Sethi retweeted
On Taiwan's gold: Posting because it's important for everyone to see when a flag but not 🇹🇼 is raised, and a song but not the anthem is played. This indignity is reserved for Russia, who doped, and Taiwan, whose crime is being a self-governing democracy.
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In a letter to the Chief Minister Shri. Uddhav Thackeray, we demand that those Mumbaikars who have taken both the doses of vaccine should be allowed to use the local train services. This will reduce their ongoing struggle to reach the workplace.
@CMOMaharashtra
