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Ayush Agrawal retweeted
There were a lot of things that only worked because there's a limit to the rate at which humans can operate. We're about to find out what all of them are, as they break.
Ayush Agrawal retweeted
This is a good oped in Sunday Times.
India has already created 12 million gig jobs without a government jobs guarantee, giant factories or taxpayer-funded payrolls. That is something to build on not something to be ashamed of. And for many, platform work is not exploitation but a dignified escape from low-productivity, low-paying alternatives.
Wage dynamics are revealing. A garment worker in a formal factory earns roughly ₹12,800 to ₹15,700 a month across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat and Haryana. OTOH,a platform driver can gross around ₹27,000, or roughly ₹19,000 after operating costs while retaining something a conventional factory job cannot offer.+ flexibility and the ability to enter the labour market almost immediately.
And the oped also points to the ideological contradiction of whose who have disdain only for 'gig jobs
These are same folks who celebrate MNREGA as dignified employment somehow regard a person freely choosing to deliver food, drive a cab or take platform work as being “exploited”.
MNREGA can pay as little as ₹252–₹336 a day in the states Yet the same people who defend guaranteed state-funded manual labour often want to regulate away flexible market-based work that workers themselves choose.
Protect workers with accident insurance, portable social security and transparent algorithms. And fight mindset regulating an imperfect but rapidly expanding source of opportunity out of existence.
Ayush Agrawal retweeted
For generations, we've pushed the limits of what flight can do.
Yet moving goods still comes with a compromise. The sea takes weeks and flying costs too much. Somewhere along the way, the world got comfortable with waiting.
Today, we announce Eureka, our first aircraft. It takes off and lands on water, and it's designed to turn "in a few weeks" into "on the evening flight."
Break the surface.
Ayush Agrawal retweeted
India's rigid capital controls are now engendering a vicious cycle - risk-averse capital allocation, sub-optimal mass wealth creation and India's R&D spends remain shockingly low.
We need looser capital controls to cut thru thia Gordian knot
My piece in @livemint
Ayush Agrawal retweeted
“That imperfection is less dangerous than continued dependence on China.
The strategic objective is not an aligned India. It is an India large enough to make dependence on China optional.” 12/12
Ayush Agrawal retweeted
With the Maestro. TRL-5 attained. Our air-breathing rotating detonation engine (with aerospike nozzle integrated) spit fire and how at a government test facility. 5 kN achieved even with reduced air mass flow. More soon.
Ayush Agrawal retweeted
Colour revolutions till 10 yrs ago depended on strength of CIA penetration into local elite ranks. Today, SM app algos obviate the need for human "agents". 100% of Indian SM apps have their algos sitting outside India. If RAW/NTRO/DIA are not looking at it, high time they did..
"The curse of intelligence is restlessness, the curse of lacking intelligence is envy. The curse of courage is isolation, the curse of lacking courage is regret." ~@MohapatraHemant
Ayush Agrawal retweeted
Let me explain the Kashmir conflict using a direct American parallel:
Imagine if, after the Civil War, the US permanently split into 2 nations: the progressive, secular Union in the North (India), and a regressive, hostile society of slave owners in the South (Pakistan). (1/8)
Ayush Agrawal retweeted
अदनान सामी कमाल के सुरीले कलाकार हैं। ऊंगलियां ऐसे चल रही हैं जैसे एक के पीछे एक चलते ट्रेन के डिब्बे। साथ में तबले पर दूसरे दिग्गज कलाकार- उस्ताद फ़ज़ल क़ुरैशी। इस बेमिसाल जुगलबंदी का मज़ा लीजिए। इसमें एक रवानी है।
सौ - @Sony
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Ayush Agrawal retweeted
A 15-year-old dream has come true today. I started a PhD with the dream of creating a system that chants any Sanskrit shloka perfectly.
And here I am opening sourcing 𝐕𝐚𝐠𝐝𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐮 - 𝐀 𝐯ṛ𝐭𝐭𝐚 (𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫) 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 ś𝐥𝐨𝐤𝐚-𝐭𝐨-𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 (TTS) 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐤𝐫𝐢𝐭. This is the world's first vrutta-aware, open-source TTS for Sanskrit Chanting.
The woke left in a nutshell. Always note that they get rich while pulling down the wealth creators always.
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favour of some good cause is to promise people that they will have a chance of maltreating someone. Men must be bribed to build up and do good by the offer of an opportunity to hurt and pull down. To be able to destroy with a good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’—this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”
Aldous Huxley. Introduction to Erewhon, by Samuel Butler, 1934
Ayush Agrawal retweeted
This is very impressive!
A model was trained to predict probability of death from ECG, which can be used to flag patients with high risk of sudden cardiac death.
it was combined with a generative model for explainability, leading to the discovery of a new biomarker that cardiologists were not aware of before!
AI can help us *do* useful things in medicine – great!
Below - one such thing, from our @nature paper:
- AI can flag people at high risk of dropping dead
- and help us decide who gets implanted defibrillators
But what can we *learn* from AI?
xitter.cf/oziadias/status/207047…
