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How to select a good problem to work on:
The best career advice for young people is to just focus relentlessly on 3 things:
1. Get skilled. Technical skills, writing skills, people-orchestration skills, everything.
2. Get involved contributing to a mission you're aligned with. It doesn't have to be pure bliss and your contribution doesn't have to match your top strengths exactly. But at the end of the day you have to feel some pride in what you did or what you learned. If you can find something like that while becoming skilled in a number of different ways then you'll find ways to increasingly wrap your skill profile around it (and you'll find/develop strengths in your skill profile that you never expected).
3. Pick up momentum. If you do (1) and (2) right then you've got direction and potential and all that's left is to sprint forwards and achieve it. The more momentum you pick up, the better you get, the more real value you produce, the more opportunities you create, the more you get noticed, the more value you capture into your own life, the more effort you want to put in... you create a virtuous cycle with so much momentum behind it that it becomes an unstoppable virtuous cyclone.
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𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗹𝘆. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝟭𝟬 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸. 🐍
Choosing the right Python library can save 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀 of unnecessary work.
AI development is not only about building a model.
It is about selecting the 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹 for the data, problem, scale, and deployment environment.
Here are the 𝟭𝟬 Python AI libraries worth knowing:
↳ 𝗡𝘂𝗺𝗣𝘆 provides the numerical foundation for arrays, tensors, and vectorized operations.
↳ 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘀 handles data cleaning, exploration, transformation, and feature preparation.
↳ 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗸𝗶𝘁-𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 is ideal for classical machine learning, quick baselines, and tabular projects.
↳ 𝗧𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗙𝗹𝗼𝘄 supports large-scale deep learning, production deployment, and multi-GPU or TPU training.
↳ 𝗣𝘆𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗵 is widely used for research, experimentation, computer vision, NLP, and custom models.
↳ 𝗞𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘀 simplifies neural network development through a high-level API.
↳ 𝗫𝗚𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁 and 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗚𝗕𝗠 deliver strong results on structured data, boosting tasks, and tabular models.
↳ 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗖𝘆 supports production NLP pipelines, including tokenization, tagging, parsing, and information extraction.
↳ 𝗛𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 provides pretrained language and multimodal models for fine-tuning and inference.
𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁:
The best library is not always the most advanced one.
Use 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘀 and 𝗡𝘂𝗺𝗣𝘆 to understand the data.
Start with 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗸𝗶𝘁-𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 for a baseline.
Move to 𝗫𝗚𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁 or 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗚𝗕𝗠 for tabular performance.
Use 𝗣𝘆𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗵 or 𝗧𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗙𝗹𝗼𝘄 for complex deep-learning problems.
And turn to 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 when the task truly needs them.
𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁.
Which Python AI library do you rely on most in your projects? 👇
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Your inbox doesn’t need another summarizer.
A good Email Agent can turn incoming mail into a working queue of decisions:
› Triage new mail and surface what actually needs attention
› Draft replies in your voice for review
› Turn emails into tasks and actions
› Track threads you’re still waiting on
› Roll everything important into a daily digest
And this is where it gets personal:
› VIP contacts
› Bills and receipts
› Customer or vendor threads
› Work vs. personal mail
› Attachment handling
› Different approval rules for different types of messages
The blueprint below gives you a starting structure for what it handles, the routines it can run, what it needs and remembers, the tools and skills behind it, your rules, automations, and the outputs it should produce.
Build the structure once. Then shape the agent around how you actually use email.
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50 Sites That Show What Billionaires Buy and Read for Free👇
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🧾 13f.info → Making fund filings readable
📑 sec.gov/edgar → Companies' official reports
📬 berkshirehathaway.com → Buffett's letters since 1977
🎥 buffett.cnbc.com → Video archive of Buffett meetings
📝 oaktreecapital.com → Howard Marks' investor memos
🌊 bridgewater.com → Research from Ray Dalio's firm
🧭 principles.com → Dalio's principles for free
🌱 gmo.com → Jeremy Grantham's market notes
📈 aqr.com → Quantitative fund research
🏷️ pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamoda… → Damodaran's valuation data
✍️ aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com → Valuation professor's blog
🧠 collabfund.com/blog → Morgan Housel's money writings
🧩 fs.blog → Mental models for decision-making
🏦 am.jpmorgan.com → JPMorgan's free market guide
🚀 ark-invest.com/research → Innovation-focused fund research
💼 a16z.com → Venture capital essays
📚 csinvesting.org → Value investing lecture notes
🎓 gsb.columbia.edu/valueinvest… → Columbia's value investing archive
📉 fred.stlouisfed.org → Fed's economic data archive
🏛️ federalreserve.gov → Fed decisions and statements
🇪🇺 ecb.europa.eu → European Central Bank data
🌐 bis.org → Reports from the central bank of central banks
🌍 tradingeconomics.com → Countries' economic indicators
📆 macrotrends.net → Companies' long-term charts
🧮 stockanalysis.com → Company financials for free
🏢 companiesmarketcap.com → Companies' market cap rankings
🔥 finviz.com → Stock screener and heat map
🔁 portfoliovisualizer.com → Portfolio backtesting
📊 tradingview.com → Charts and market analysis
🖥️ koyfin.com → Professional market screener
🗂️ annualreports.com → Company activity reports archive
🛡️ investor.gov → SEC's investor education site
🧑🤝🧑 bogleheads.org/wiki → Passive investing encyclopedia
📖 investopedia.com → Financial terms dictionary
💰 corporatefinanceinstitute.co… → Free finance guides
🎖️ cfainstitute.org → CFA research publications
⭐ morningstar.com → Fund and stock evaluations
🧱 simplywall.st → Companies' visual analysis
🗃️ valueinvestorsclub.com → Archive of selected investment theses
🧺 etfdb.com → Seeing what's inside funds
🇪🇺 curvo.eu → European fund backtests
📐 ofdollarsanddata.com → Investment writings with data
🧠 awealthofcommonsense.com → Market history notes
🎭 theirrelevantinvestor.com → Investor psychology writings
🗺️ visualcapitalist.com → Explaining the economy with charts
🌎 ourfiniteworld.com → Analysis of energy and financial system limits
Save this. You’ll definitely need some of these later. 🔖
Follow @zakiraicoder for more useful websites, AI tools & tech resources.
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Where does money invested into the AI buildout actually go?
For every $100 flowing into the supply chain:
- $50 to chips
- $20 to power
- $15 to networking
- $15 to cooling, buildings, and land
More charts in State of Markets II: a16z.news/p/state-of-markets…
Introducing our State of Markets pt 2, along with a companion podcast where we unpack the data and discuss what comes next.
Tech is the everything cycle.
Supply: putting the buildout in context, just passed railroads as % of GDP. The wisdom of Elon is real: the factory (or the datacenter!) is the product.
Demand: diffusion is so, so early. Median AI vendor spending in the top 1% of companies is 8x that of the top 10%. Only about 30% of S&P 500 companies report a quantified AI impact, which means there’s a substantial opportunity in connecting models to a company's data and workflows. Diffusion into companies is one of the main themes of the next 5 years.
We’re entering the agent work period. Only a few million users today, but applicable to billions of internet users with massive surplus created. META/GOOG monetize US users at $200+ per year today. Agent opportunity is much higher.
Mega-trends the next 5 years: Consumer agents, Robotics, Autonomy, AI x bio, Personal health, Diffusion into enterprise, New era of American Dynamism.
Much more in our SoM report here - a16z.news/p/state-of-markets…
@a16z @sarahdingwang @aleximm @santiago__rdz
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Singapore's govt dating app runs on a Nobel Prize-winning game theory algorithm 👏
FirstDate uses Gale-Shapley, the 1962 stable marriage algorithm that won the 2012 Economics Nobel and still runs hospital residency matches and kidney exchanges today.
how it works:
1 | your preferences and dealbreakers build a ranked priority list
2 | proposers offer to their top pick. receivers hold their best offer and reject the rest. rejected proposers move down their list. rinse and repeat until locked
3 | the result is mathematically stable: no two people exist who would both prefer each other over their assigned matches. "the app never showed us each other" becomes impossible by design
the UX:
• one match per cycle, zero infinite scroll
• 72-hour decision window
• contact info revealed only on mutual yes
• Singpass-verified, so everyone is exactly who they claim (told my husband I'm annoyed I can't test it. his response: most people sneak onto dating apps, and here you are openly filing a product research request 🤣 )
commercial apps need you to keep swiping but this app is designed to get you off the platform. Singapore built the first dating app whose success metric is deleting its own users 💀
(fun game theory note: Gale-Shapley yields proposer-optimal outcomes - meaning proposers get their best possible stable match, receivers their worst 👀)
public servants aged 21-35 only for now. interesting to see if state-sponsored game theory beats the free market (or rather, all the tinders and hinges out there) 🍿
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Adults with ADHD release melatonin about 90 minutes later than everyone else. In kids it's 45 minutes. Up to 80% report insomnia or disturbed sleep. Two Canadian doctors just published a paper arguing psychiatry has been staring at the wrong clock.
The mechanism is simple and brutal. Your brain flips a melatonin switch roughly two hours before your natural bedtime, and in a big subgroup of people with ADHD that switch flips late every single night. Bedtime arrives before the body is chemically ready, school and work start on everyone else's schedule anyway, and the next day's brain runs on a sleep deficit that looks exactly like inattention.
What convinced me this runs deeper than "night owl" is the tissue evidence. People with ADHD show blunted morning cortisol, smaller pineal glands, and dampened clock genes (BMAL1 and PER2) in cells far outside the brain. The delay is written into the body itself.
And the clock moves. Bright light in the morning plus low-dose melatonin advanced the sleep signal in both children and adults with ADHD, and emerging data ties that phase shift to symptom improvement. Sleep programs alone improved symptoms in kids.
So the treatment pathway the authors propose costs almost nothing. A fixed wake time, sunlight within the first hour of waking, dim screens at night, and melatonin only for confirmed delays.
Stimulants still work and nobody in the paper argues otherwise. But if a chunk of what we diagnose as an attention disorder is a body running 90 minutes behind the sun, the cheapest intervention in medicine has been sitting outside the window the whole time.
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𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗 𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗜𝗡 𝟭𝟬 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗨𝗧𝗘𝗦
You don't need to be a developer to start building useful AI agents.
You need the right structure.
Here’s a simple 6-step Claude Code workflow:
01 — 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗗𝗘
Use it through:
• Terminal
• Desktop app
• VS Code
Choose the setup that fits your workflow.
02 — 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗫𝗧
Create a `CLAUDE.md` file with your role, preferences, rules, voice and defaults.
This gives Claude context every time you start a session.
03 — 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗 𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗬
Turn corrections and feedback into reusable `.md` files.
Your agent can learn from previous decisions instead of repeating the same mistakes.
04 — 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗 𝗦𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗦
Turn repeated workflows into reusable skills.
Connect tools like Notion, Gmail or Google Drive and trigger the workflow with a simple command.
05 — 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗 𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦
Give each agent a specific role and task.
You can separate:
→ Strategy
→ Execution
→ Quality control
Add a quality gate so poor outputs don't move forward.
06 — 𝗥𝗨𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗨𝗧𝗢𝗣𝗜𝗟𝗢𝗧
Use scheduled routines to run agents or skills automatically.
Daily, weekly or whenever your workflow requires it.
𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗚 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔:
Don't just ask AI to complete individual tasks.
Build a system where:
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 → 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 → 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 → 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 → 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
work together.
Save this as a roadmap for building your first AI agent.
Follow @AamirAnsar94694 for more AI, automation, tools & tech insights.
#AI #AIAgents #ClaudeCode #AIautomation #AITools #Automation #Tech
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sigan a este tipo si quieren aprender cosas realmente útiles relacionadas con la IA
no falla una
A Google Cloud engineer just showed how to build a complete app with Claude from scratch.
26 minutes, live on stage, doing what most teams take weeks to ship.
Worth more than any $500 vibe-coding course. No team, no setup, just Claude and a goal.
The people learning what Claude can actually do are shipping what everyone else outsources to a team.
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Every Trading Strategy Explained in 6 Minutes
0:00 - Fibonacci Retracements
0:27 - Chart Patterns
1:01 - Elliot Wave
1:51 - FVG
3:06 - Support & Resistance
5:01 - Volume
5:22 - Supply and Demand
5:50 - Break of Structure
5:58 - Change of Character
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Since people on social media are saying it is not difficult to create wealth of ₹50 crore, ₹100 crore, or even ₹1,000 crore, I thought of sharing a post I wrote a few months ago.
Aspire high. Understand the reality too.
Here is the post:
In general, even among high income earners, let me tell you when someone reach a wealth of say ₹3 crores.
Age in late forties to early fifties. Designated as Vertical Head or Senior Director or similar titles. CTC anywhere between ₹60 lakhs to ₹1 crore per annum.
Own a 3 BHK flat. Would have repaid home loan. Say 2 children in high school or college. A decent car mostly under company (employer) lease.
Mutual funds, shares, money in bank and Provident Fund - roughly around ₹3 crores. In exceptional cases, close to ₹5 crores.
This is general standard among high income earners in our country.
So don't fall for finfluencers trap of creating wealth of ₹50 or ₹100 crores is easy.
Except for extremely lucky or corrupt, making every single crore is difficult.
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🚨 New Course Announcement!
This Fall @Diyi_Yang @jyangballin and I are teaching a BRAND NEW Stanford course on how to build AI Agents from scratch!
Millions of users interact with AI Agents every day. Come join us and learn how to build them!
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This fall @michaelryan207 @jyangballin and I are teaching a new course CS329Z "Engineering AI Agents" on how to build AI Agents from scratch. Come join us and learn how to build them 🤖
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PAID VERSION → FREE ALTERNATIVE
1. ChatGPT Plus → Google Gemini
2. Netflix Premium → Tubi
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12. Notion AI → Obsidian
13. Claude Pro → Google Gemini
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AI + CREATOR TOOLS
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MARKETING + BUSINESS
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DEVELOPER + TECH
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172. Claude API → Gemini API
173. WebStorm → VS Code
174. PyCharm Professional → VS Code
175. DataGrip → DBeaver
176. IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate → Eclipse
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DATA + ENGINEERING + PROFESSIONAL
191. MATLAB → GNU Octave
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193. SPSS → PSPP
194. Stata → Gretl
195. Tableau → Apache Superset
196. Power BI Pro → Looker Studio
197. Qlik Sense → Metabase
198. Alteryx → KNIME
199. Minitab → Jamovi
200. ArcGIS → QGIS
201. SolidWorks → FreeCAD
202. SketchUp Pro → Blender
203. Revit → FreeCAD
204. Fusion 360 → FreeCAD
205. Rhino 3D → Blender
206. MATLAB Simulink → Scilab Xcos
207. LabVIEW → GNU Radio
208. COMSOL → OpenFOAM
209. ANSYS → OpenFOAM
210. Wolfram Alpha Pro → GeoGebra
211. QuarkXPress → Scribus
212. Microsoft Project → ProjectLibre
213. Microsoft Visio → diagrams net
214. Tableau → Metabase
215. Power BI Pro → Apache Superset
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216. Adobe Premiere Pro → Kdenlive
217. After Effects → Natron
218. Final Cut Pro → Kdenlive
219. Adobe Acrobat Pro → PDF24
220. Adobe Express Premium → VistaCreate
221. Canva Pro → VistaCreate
222. Figma Pro → Lunacy
223. Sketch → Lunacy
224. Photoshop → Photopea
225. Lightroom → RawTherapee
226. Illustrator → Vectr
227. InDesign → Scribus
228. Pro Tools → Cakewalk
229. Ableton Live → Cakewalk
230. ScreenFlow → OBS Studio
231. Loom Business → ScreenPal
232. Slack Pro → Mattermost
233. Zoom Pro → Jitsi Meet
234. Discord Nitro → Telegram
235. 1Password → KeePassXC
236. LastPass Premium → KeePassXC
237. Evernote → Standard Notes
238. Todoist Pro → Super Productivity
239. Notion → Anytype
240. Airtable → NocoDB
241. Jira → OpenProject
242. Monday com → OpenProject
243. Calendly → ZCal
244. Typeform → Tally
245. Mailchimp → MailerLite
246. Hootsuite → Publer
247. Sprout Social → Buffer
248. HubSpot → Bitrix24
249. Adobe Stock → Pixabay
250. Shutterstock → Pexels
251. Envato Elements → Pixabay
252. Freepik Premium → Pixabay
253. Epidemic Sound → Free Music Archive
254. Artlist → Pixabay Music
255. Dropbox → Proton Drive
256. Google Drive Storage → MEGA
257. NordVPN → Windscribe
258. ExpressVPN → Proton VPN
259. TeamViewer → RustDesk
260. AnyDesk → Chrome Remote Desktop
261. AutoCAD → LibreCAD
262. SolidWorks → SolveSpace
263. MATLAB → Scilab
264. SPSS → Jamovi
265. Tableau → Metabase
266. Power BI Pro → Metabase
267. ArcGIS → QGIS
268. WebStorm → VSCodium
269. PyCharm Professional → VSCodium
270. DataGrip → Beekeeper Studio
271. Postman Pro → Bruno
272. Docker Desktop Pro → Rancher Desktop
273. Datadog → Prometheus
274. New Relic → OpenTelemetry
275. Sentry → Highlight io
276. Firebase → Appwrite
277. MongoDB Atlas → Neon
278. Vercel Pro → GitHub Pages
279. Netlify Pro → GitHub Pages
280. Algolia → Typesense
281. Pinecone → Weaviate
282. Elasticsearch Cloud → OpenSearch
283. GitHub Copilot → Continue
284. Cursor Pro → VS Code + Continue
285. Zapier → n8n
286. Miro → Excalidraw
287. Trello Premium → Taiga
288. Asana Premium → Taiga
289. Adobe XD → Penpot
290. ProtoPie → Penpot
291. Zeplin → Storybook
292. Adobe Audition → Ocenaudio
293. Camtasia → ShareX + OBS Studio
294. Microsoft 365 → ONLYOFFICE
295. Google Workspace → ONLYOFFICE
296. Adobe Acrobat Pro → Stirling PDF
297. Microsoft Visio → yEd
298. Microsoft Project → GanttProject
299. QuickBooks → GnuCash
300. Xero → GnuCash
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आज मैंने 13 वर्षों की अविस्मरणीय यात्रा को अपनी इच्छा से विराम देते हुए IAS से त्यागपत्र दे दिया है।
साधारण परिवेश में पलते हुए मैंने एक अच्छे, सफल जीवन का सपना देखा था। दिन-रात एक कर IIT दिल्ली और IIM बैंगलोर से पढ़ने के बाद, लंदन में नौकरी लग गयी। पर 'सब कुछ' पा लेने पर भी कुछ अधूरा था। अपने देश में न होना खलता था। मेरी पढ़ाई, आत्मविश्वास, दुनिया में कहीं भी सिर उठाकर चलने की ताक़त, सब इस मिट्टी का कर्ज़ था मुझ पर। वो कर्ज़ चुकाना था। चाहती थी जिस भारत का सपना देखा था, उसे बनाने वाली ईंटों पर मेरे भी हाथों के निशान हों। सो लौट आई, और IAS अधिकारी बनने का सौभाग्य मिला।
बहुत कुछ करने का मौका मिला और बहुत सीखा। देवरिया ने सिखाया कि सही के साथ खड़ा होना विकल्प नहीं, कर्तव्य है। मीरजापुर ने सिखाया कि 'असंभव' कोई तथ्य नहीं, बस एक राय है। और माँ विंध्यवासिनी के चरणों में बैठकर सीखा कि शक्ति किसी पद से नहीं, उनकी कृपा और लोगों के विश्वास से आती है। सबसे बड़ी सीख यह थी कि अपने लिए देखे सपने तो पूरे हो चुके थे, अब अपने लोगों के लिए देखे सपनों को जीना था। इस जीवन का असली सुकून उन आँखों में दिखा, जिस परिवार को पहली बार ज़मीन का हक़ मिला, जिस दिव्यांग को सम्मान से जीने का अवसर मिला, और जिस किसान के खेत को पानी मिला। उनके संघर्षों में साथ चलते हुए मैंने सीखा कि हर सरकारी फ़ाइल के पीछे एक व्यक्ति है, और उसकी गरिमा बनाये रखना ही न्याय है।
मूर्ख थी जो सोचा था कि कुछ देने आयी हूँ। सच यह है कि सबसे ज़्यादा मैंने ही पाया, और वो कर्ज़ और भी बढ़ता गया। लोग मेरी ख़ुशी में मुझसे ज़्यादा ख़ुश हुए। उन्होंने मुझे तब भी उसी विश्वास से देखा, जब मैं खुद ही थकी या टूटी थी। और इसी ने आगे बढ़ते रहने की हिम्मत दी। इतना प्यार, इतना सम्मान, इतना अपनापन मिला, कि मेरी झोली पूरी भर गयी। और इसमें उन साथियों, अधिकारियों और कर्मचारियों का भी बहुत बड़ा श्रेय है जिन्होंने मेरे कंधे से कंधा मिलाकर काम किया और साथ डटे रहे।
आज आभार से आँखें नम हैं। बस एक दृश्य इनमें बसा है। लहुरिया दह की पहाड़ी की वो वृद्ध माँ, जो अपने गाँव में पहली बार पानी पहुँचता देख कुछ नहीं बोली, बस काँपते हाथों से मेरा सिर छूकर आशीर्वाद दे गई। पद तो आज छूट गया, पर वह स्पर्श जीवन भर नहीं छूटेगा। और वह सपना भी नहीं छूटेगा, जो देश की इस मिट्टी ने मुझे दिया है।
आपकी अपनी,
दिव्या मित्तल
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How have software engineering fundamentals changed with agentic coding? Here is our AI Engineering Skills map for software engineering fundamentals.
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The CIA released a "Reading Improvement Course" that had been hidden from the public since 1955.
I read all 117 pages so you don't have to.
Here are the 10 most interesting quotes from it:
1) "Good reading is not necessarily rapid reading. The rate must be adjusted to comprehension requirements."
2) "To read well you must concentrate. No activity except perhaps writing or thinking makes more rigorous demands upon the whole mind than reading."
3) "Suggestions to develop your ability to concentrate: Be interested. There is no spur to concentration like honest interest."
4) "Some readers have found certain devices useful in keeping their minds on the subject. One device is to jot down key thoughts as one reads. These words act as a fence to confine our wandering thoughts. The practice of underlining key ideas and making notes at the end of each section serves the same purpose.
5) "Concentration is a habit and must be formed. Habits require, at first, a conscious effort of the will. Force yourself to let nothing come between your mind and the matter on the page before you."
6) "When our attention wanders, words slip by us and leave no trace of meaning. Under such conditions we cannot expect a harvest of logical thought. We go through the motions of study or reading, but do not get results. We waste time that could be used far more pleasantly and profitably."
7) "Drawing conclusions is the final step of the reading process and should be based on sound judgment of the author's qualifications, facts presented, methods of presentation, validity of arguments, or style of presentation."
8) There are 3 types of reading:
Intensive reading: when the purpose is to master new subject material, the skills required are translation, integration, analysis and evaluation. The best procedure is (a) rapid preliminary survey of the material, (b) formulation of questions prior to the reading, (c) careful reading, and (d) review and recitation of important points.
Extensive reading: with the purpose of acquiring a broader frame of reference and widening the range of knowledge. The skills required are integration, analysis, and evaluation. The best procedure is rapid and thorough reading of the material. The extensive reading rate should be as fast as the thinking process permits.
Scanning: for (a) the main idea, (b) specific information and (c) a preview of the material. To read effectively the reader must first review the material and the specific purpose for the reading.
9) The SQAR3 Reading Strategy:
"Scan: Quickly scan the introductory paragraph, subtitles, key sentences, key words, summary. Decide on the author's plan.
Question: Turn the title or key sentences into questions.
Anticipate: Before reading, try to answer these questions mentally.
Read: Read the entire selection and look for the author's ideas to answer your questions.
Recite: Close the book or magazine. Tell yourself in your own words what you have learned. Write notes on material that must be remembered.
Review: Later, to make your knowledge stick, review the gist of the article or chapter, again in your own words."
10) How to read with purpose:
-"Have definite questions which you wish answered through reading a given selection.
-While reading, make a mental note of the main points in the paragraph or article.
-From time to time stop to think over the material just read in preceding section.
-Notice the illustrations and examples that are used.
-Develop the habit of criticizing what you read."
My favorite quote from the report:
"Reading is a pleasure, a source of information, and the basis for most decisions that are made today. It deserves the liveliest interest and the best techniques we can master."
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Muscle loss is hitting Indians in the 40s
✅Optimum protein intake as part of a balanced diet and strength training play a vital role in maintaining muscle mass and strength.
An important and timely article published in the Times of India.
@TOIIndiaNews @TOIHyderabad
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Andrew Ng just released a 1-hour course on building agentic knowledge Graphs from scratch:
• 00:00 - Introduction to agentic knowledge Graphs
• 03:07 - Construction of agentic Graphs
• 14:00 - Architecture of multi-agent systems
• 23:00 - Building agentic graphs with Google ADK
• 01:06:03 - Why Graphsare the future of agentic AI
Worth more than 10 articles on loop engineering.
Watch it today, then read how to become a graph engineer in the article below.
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100 YouTube Channels That’ll Actually Make You Smarter 🎯
If you’re serious about learning faster (without boring textbooks), this list is gold.
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