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just to confirm i'm understanding the FTX collapse: over a million people put $1 billion in assets into a crypto company, founded in the bahamas, by a 28 year old. am I understanding this right.
Realized that I wrote the earlier book review in haste. The same post has a better review of the book : Microbes from Hell by Patrick Forterre
apivois.com/book-review-micr…
Join now if you are interested in discussing alternative political models for the Indian union, hosted by the inimitable @puram_politics nitter.gq/i/spaces/1ypKddRpwOLKW
TIL, fundamentalist brahmins are called nooliban (நூலிபான்) in Tamil twitter. Nool is the Tamil word for thread.
Very creative.
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An incomplete list of British crimes across the world under the reign of Elizabeth II
In 1952 Churchill argued Kenyas fertile highlands should only be for white ppl and and approved the forcible removal of the local pop. Hundreds of thousands of Kenyans were forced into camps.
Blackholes now are similar to the superhero genre a decade back. Folks are like, 'I knew blackholes before they were cool'.
Everett's multiverse fans come a close second. Not to mention both ideas are highly misunderstood in pop culture.
All those who feel dispossessed of nerdy coolness, I predict emergent gravity(Erik Verlinde)&Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics to be the next cool things.
Following up on a post from 2019 : youtube.com/watch?v=GQnwzoih…
Some lovely dope on Bohmian Mechanics
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In linguistics, Escher sentences are sentences which initially seem acceptable but upon further reflection have no well-formed meaning.
I finally understand why intelligence is 'embodied' and why general intelligence with AI will be very different from our current models.
youtu.be/Z0TNfysTazc
Whattay phenomenal episode
Surprisingly nobody brought up Lynn Margilus
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1134…
@TOEwithCurt
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The day is finally here, iThink Biology is online! Use this link to access the e-book: ithinkbiology.in/ @azimpremjiuniv @BioTicks @electricbook @ipsawonders @shashwatdc #ithinkbiology
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The weak force is the only known force in the Universe that distinguishes between left and right. W bosons completely ignore right-handed particles, similar to how electromagnetism only affects charged particles.
But are there any macroscopic consequences of this property? 🧵
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Meet Market’s First AI-Powered Cloud Customer Engagement Platform!
We just acquired @CognoAI, a conversational AI platform, to add intelligence to Exotel.
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WTF is wrong with Indian tech? 😳😳 This is neither necessary nor advisable. All it'll do is cause delivery people India more misery than they already face. And make customers even more obnoxious.
Dunzo says it will deliver essentials in 19 minutes in Bengaluru
Grofers yday unveiled their 10 min delivery ambition while Swiggy s Instamart is delivering in 15-30 minutes.
moneycontrol.com/news/busine…
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Didn’t believe me? Here is an insider saying it like it is.
Edtech has serious regulatory needs and they must be addressed now.
Education of any sort cannot be just a business model to create wealth for investors.
Ethics, social impact, are not just “the story” on a pitch deck.
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