https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-05/us-won-t-allow-india-to-become-rival-like-china-official-says

From imposing some of the highest tariffs, calling you a “dead economy,” suggesting a resolution to the Kashmir conflict, shrinking your guest’s ship (and killing them) in your backyard, controlling your oil imports, and much more.

And all this when your prime minister goes to campaign for him during elections.

Trump really played Modi like a clown.
And Modi played entire India like a clown.

In order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work. One must feel beauty and be moved by it.

You should ignore misleading evidence. But if you know that p, you know that evidence against p is misleading. So if you know that p, you should ignore evidence against p. But that’s dogmatic. (Kripke’s Dogmatism Paradox)

Kids prompt llm, I prompt real people (and realized that I am pretty good at it)

https://youtu.be/bnovfzkKlxs?si=IMaYxQy3IvU0TwYi
really nice interview, will read book soon
"people today see every day like a problem, people like MS Swaminathan looked every day like a solution"

I am a good programmer
According to the Curry-Howard correspondence, programs are isomorphic to mathematical proofs
Therefore I am isomorphic to a good mathematician

Source: @phimulambda

Actions do not cling to me because I am not attached to their results
—Shri Krishna, Bhagavad Gita

The only jobs that AI will be able to do, but won't ever get automated, are those of a politician, a priest, and a prostitute.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nMa3p3qw1w)

"I don't like that man, I must get to know him better"

(Think it is attributed to Lincoln although I am not sure)

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Um.. I don't know how to feel about this one. My first language was BASIC (or QBASIC, I don't remember honestly) since that's what they used to teach in school back in my days. I don't think I took anything of significance from it other than finding the discipline of computer science cool

Edit: found this in an 8-year old lobster discussion of this article 🤣

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

-- Alan Kay

It's hard to win an argument against an intelligent person. It's impossible to win an argument against a stupid person.