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June 2025

Binary outcomes and anxiety
A lot of anxieties in life are to do with events which take a continuous "input" and result in a discrete output
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Demand and supply of advertising
LLMs might mean that the usage of Google goes down, but what does this mean to the advertising industry? Where will the "intent-based advertising" go?
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Veg substitutes for nonveg food
Vegetarian / vegan substitutes for meat / animal based food is based much more on texture / feels than nutrition, and that makes them a poor choice
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On LLMs Reasoning
Everyone and their uncle seems to have an opinion on the recent paper by Apple researchers on whether LLMs can reason. So here is mine. It involves…
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San Francisco 2.0
Mid-trip review of San Francisco, after all the walking
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Coffee Darshini
One coffee shop in San Francisco operates just like the "darshini" restaurants of Bangalore
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Snowflake Summit Notes
I'm in San Francisco, attending the Snowflake and Databricks summits. Here are some random notes (primarily to myself) after the Snowflake event
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May 2025

Trees of Bangalore
Three kinds of trees in Bangalore. Those in parks are doing fine. On the roadsides, they are declining but still doing okay. However, steep drop in…
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Billy and Manja: An alignment story
A lot of science-fiction driven theories on human-AI interaction have AIs troubling humans. But what if it were the other way around?
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Vibe Coding 101
I downloaded Cursor two weeks ago, and the first thing I used it was for a non-work project. Some notes from that exercise
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