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Pradeep Gowda retweeted
To paraphrase Letorneau, inventor of diesel construction machinery, AI is not to make small jobs easy, it's to make large jobs small.
网景创始人 、硅谷顶级投资人Marc Andreessen 在访谈里坦言，他看到了科技史上最可怕的一道认知鸿沟，
传统巨头以为 AI 只是个降本增效的插件，而新一代 AI 原生团队，正在用完全非人的组织效率掀翻整个商业版图。
当年写出网景浏览器、见证了整个互联网三十年兴衰的 Marc Andreessen，坐在 Ben Horowitz 面前直接发出了感慨，
如果 1994 年我们做 Netscape 的时候就有今天这种 AI 工具，那简直不可想象。
现在绝大多数传统巨头和现有企业，依然在用改良软件的旧思维去看待大模型。
在他们的组织逻辑里，AI 只是一个高级功能，用来给现有业务做个插件、在钉钉里加个智能助手、或者把客服团队砍掉 20% 省点成本。
他们以为自己在拥抱变革，其实只是在给老旧的蒸汽机打补丁。
但真正恐怖的事情，正在那些刚成立的 AI 原生团队里发生。
那些创始人对 AI 能力的理解，跟大厂完全不在同一个平行宇宙。
他们每周都在看着底层技术飞速进化，而且他们压根不会把自己定义成一家软件公司、硬件公司、甚至是一家 AI 公司。
以前创办一家公司，你的组织架构是按人类的协同瓶颈搭出来的：
招产品经理写文档、招工程师写代码、招法务改合同、招运营做投放。
因为人类的脑力带宽有限，所以必须靠庞大的部门和管理层级来支撑业务。
而真正的 AI 原生物种，是用机器智能作为最底层的骨架。
两个人加上一整套自动化 Agent，可以直接把从市场洞察、软件工程、全栈设计到商业销售的链路全部跑通。
他们不是在效率上快了 30%，他们是在组织形态上彻底跨越了一个物种。
大厂的盲区，从来不是买不起算力，而是他们无法理解组织本身才是最大的负债。
当现有企业还在开会讨论如何把 AI 塞进现有的业务流程时，新一代的野蛮人正在用完全超越行业界限的方式，把传统的业务流程连根拔起。
未来拉开人与人、公司与公司之间差距的，根本不是你用了哪个模型，而是你到底是在用新工具维持旧世界的体面，还是用新世界的底层逻辑，重新定义了自己能做的事情。
Pradeep Gowda retweeted
Never seen a more flagrant and violent breach of privacy in my life, and probably never will. Doubtful that a privacy violation will ever even be able to compare to the scale of this evil and deliberate attack.
Samsung should be eviscerated for this. Criminal charges please
Pradeep Gowda retweeted
We finally have an explanation for “Facebook is listening to me through my phone”. They’d never do that (and it’s not really possible).
Turns out literally everyone else was — and then selling that to ad data brokers.
WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners.
Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads.
Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was.
Got a root shell.
then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems.
This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
Pradeep Gowda retweeted
folks are not able to understand what democratization of intelligence means
cannot wait for servicenow to publish their groundbreaking work on their melanoma vaccine candidates using 1000 Astra 7 agent swarm in a bid to attract pharma clients
we’re very pleased to announce that Primitive Research has identified 49 exoplanet candidates and counting (yes, seriously)
we searched TESS light curves from more than 19 million stars to get here
so as not to overwhelm the incredible TESS TOI Vetting Team, we’ve submitted one candidate and are holding the rest at their request
the submission was via email, of course ;)
we’ve been automating much of the painstaking work astronomers do: searching TESS data, cross-checking other sources, and vetting signals through to detailed candidate dossiers. the 49 passed our initial screening against published vetting thresholds and are ready to be considered for telescope follow-up, which we’re actively pursuing
we strongly believe this approach is novel, and we’re authoring a paper with astrophysicists on the methodology
we plan to release the data and analyses in the coming weeks
these candidates are phase 1. next, we want to find a nearby transiting habitable-zone planet candidate whose atmosphere could be studied. much more on that later
we had some amazing partners on this that we will shout out soon
if you’re interested in working with us, our DMs are open
Pradeep Gowda retweeted
Heaven is where the compile speed is from Go, the safety from Rust, the performance from C++, the libraries from Python, the macros from Lisp, the stability from Java, the types from Haskell, the ubiquity from JavaScript, and the error handling from Elm.
Hell is where the compile speed is from Rust, the safety from C++, the performance from Python, the libraries from Lisp, the macros from Java, the stability from Haskell, the types from JavaScript, the ubiquity from Elm, and the error handling from Go.
Pradeep Gowda retweeted
Forget 15 minute cities, here is everything that is on Wikipedia located within a 30 minute walk of where you are:
neil-scott.com/localwiki/
Pradeep Gowda retweeted
To show how malignant the quoted post is I’ll recount a real story. This acct is blocked, because I don’t want to besmirch the memory of an ancestor by way of association with a random a***hole on the internet. But using this to allow readers to understand Kashmir’s Hindu culture
Pradeep Gowda retweeted
Those who can't find happiness, enthusiasm, and curiosity where they live, it is pointless to travel somewhere else to find them - Purna Chandra Tejaswi.
Pradeep Gowda retweeted
Reading a history of the bond market recently, and the author noted that Britain defeated Napoleon mostly because their consol bond market left the British military much better funded than France’s weak post-revolutionary capital markets.
One Alexander Hamilton studied the British bond market, and then consolidated American revolutionary debt into one tradable market, which gave birth to what became the New York stock exchange, Liberty bonds, and the world’s largest capital markets.
An army might march on its stomach, but it’s borrowed money that pays for the food and ammunition, and the one who can borrow the most generally wins.
Pradeep Gowda retweeted
A matchstick igniting by the friction surface of the box.
#microscope #sicence #fire #asmr #micro #macro #zoom #macrofying
Pradeep Gowda retweeted
The USA’s bottomless appetite for financial innovation and skill at maintaining deep, liquid, versatile capital markets is possibly our most critical strategic asset.
Pradeep Gowda retweeted
This reminds me of my own post-PhD experience. It was after the 2008 crash, and research oriented industry jobs in the US were scarce.
I applied to triple-digit jobs online and didn't get a single interview call. By the standards prevalent at the time, I had an extremely good CV with all the right credentials. But I made two big mistakes. First, of graduating in a tough job market, of which I couldn't do anything about. Two, not reaching out to potential employers via my network. Part of it was pride. But a large part was also driven by my extremely high opinion of my own capabilities -- I thought that if someone wanted me, they should come to me (the former is still very true, btw).
Eventually, I realized my mistake, and reached out to my network and I ended up getting 5-6 interviews. Those translated to 3 offers, one of which I eventually ended up taking.
The whole experience taught me two very important lessons:
1. Network effects matter, irrespective of how good your CV is.
2. If you want something you need to go to people; they won't come to you, irrespective of your capabilities.
Pradeep Gowda retweeted
There are two reasons we did this in Sanskrit. One, because it can be done. 😎
Two, because it opens up some interesting shastric perspectives on the topic beyond regular points of discussion.
Pradeep Gowda retweeted
We hugely underestimate the utter fragility of modernity.
Many times in history, we've turned the clock back to a much tougher & rougher past.
For centuries after Rome fell, Europeans couldn't even dream of things like hot piped water, luxurious baths & central heating.
We think that the real is rational, that the "system" will deliver the goods. The truth is that modern systems are like spiderwebs: break one part & the edifice gets exponentially weaker. Romans who lived through the fall must have been shocked at how quickly things fell apart.
Another period when we turned back the clock was when globalization was reversed right after an assassination in Sarajevo sparked WW1.
Keynes writes about this period eloquently. Things were hunky dory & considered permanently so, and then suddenly everything went wrong.
When we blithely mock our own systems with tribal glee, when we knock down institutions, when we take political pleasure in zero-sum fights, when we take war less than seriously, just remember that the cave, starvation & the tribal club are never too far away from modern life.
Even the most cynical, jaded and corrupt Romans of Nero's era must have been horrified at what they had unleashed once it was clear they were going way back in time. And once they went back, the only way forward was centuries of deprivation & painfully slow invention.
It's hard to correlate these events with our own era but just remember that Rome saw itself & its progress as eternal, ditto pre war Europe.
Modernity is God's greatest gift to us. Cherish it, cultivate it, protect it. Don't let systems get vandalized, institutions get wrecked.
Protecting modernity means protecting systems, institutions & norms of civilization. This is not some idle musing: these things stand between you & your family & chaos. Without truth, systems & objective laws, you don't get science. Without science, you don't get antibiotics.
As Rome fell, it's interesting to note that truth & facts became subordinated to pleasure, corruption, luxury & belief in magic.
It's worth thinking about that as you look at our civilization.
Modernity, technology, civilization are all very fragile things.
