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MVD - Min Valuable Documentation of Vision, Strategy, Objectives along with high level Execution plan + Key Priorities of any product effort is useful and necessary. Writing such documents helps Prod Mgrs be sharp & clear abt what they are planning & transparently communicate 1/3
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“You caused the problem”
Union Minister Piyush Goyal challenged Europe over its responsibility for climate change during remarks in Berlin, Germany
He said India represents 17% of the world’s population but accounts for less than 3% of historical carbon emissions, while Europe bears a far larger responsibility
He argued that India must meet the energy and food needs of 1.4 billion people while expanding clean energy, and questioned Europe’s much higher per capita emissions
@PiyushGoyal
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Use /requirements-reconcile before you read long AI PRDs
If you get a long AI-written PRD or business requirements document, do not start by reading every page.
In long AI documents, requirements often contradict each other. For example, one page says users can delete records. Another page says records are never deleted. Both pages read well on their own, but they cannot both be true.
To deal with this, run /requirements-reconcile before you review anything long.
It will:
- scan the document
- find contradictions and overlaps
- give you one clear list of requirements that are in, out, or changed
Send that list back instead of 90 pages of comments.
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If you want to understand GenAI properly, Andrew Ng's course is the one to take.
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SRF sannyasi Swami Satyananda Giri quotes Paramahansa Yogananda about how we can find true happiness. Recognizing that bliss-consciousness is the same as God-consciousness, we can actively cultivate that lasting happiness each day.
To watch this full talk, entitled “Experience the Perpetual Contentment of Your Soul,” please visit our website: yssi.org/OnlineSatsanga
#Yogananda #ParamahansaYogananda #Happiness #LifePurpose #YogodaSatsangaSocietyofIndia
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Bangkok turns into a sea of devotion! 🇹🇭❤️
Thai Hindu devotees pull the ornate golden chariot of the deities along Silom Road during Vijayadashami at Sri Maha Mariamman Temple.
Sanatana Dharma’s Shakti is not confined to Bharat, it lives and thrives across the world. 🔥🚩
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A man once ate nothing but potatoes for a full year and the results weren't what people expected.
His name is Andrew Taylor, and during that time, he dropped 115 lbs, got off his anti-depressants, and completely turned his bloodwork around.
He went from looking like a potato to eating them to get lean.
Potatoes are one of the best foods for weight loss because they help you feel fuller on fewer calories.
They have nutrients like potassium, magnesium, iron, and vitamins C and B.
They’re also a form of resistant starch, which makes them harder to digest and better for your gut and insulin sensitivity.
When he only ate potatoes he found that he largely eliminated his food addiction triggers.
Now, the idea is not to eat only potatoes to lose weight.
The key is that potatoes can be a highly effective tool if you’re trying to lose weight and avoid the constant hunger that comes with it.
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Why do South Asians get type 2 diabetes at much lower body weights? The answer is in their fat cells.
These are fat cells from two young men with the same BMI. The South Asian man's are on the left. The white man's are on the right.
At the same BMI as white Europeans, South Asians carry more body fat, bigger fat cells, more liver fat, and higher insulin. Here is what the studies show.
1. Same BMI, much bigger fat cells.
In 29 South Asian and 18 white men, average age 27, BMI was 24 vs 23. Body fat was 22% vs 15%. The average belly fat cell was 3,491 vs 1,648 µm² in cross section. Treating the cells as spheres, that is about 3 times the volume of fat per cell on average. The samples in the image show an even larger difference. The larger the fat cells, the worse the insulin resistance. Visceral fat was the same in both groups.
2. Matched for age and BMI, still more insulin.
Asian Indians matched to white adults had similar fasting glucose but higher fasting insulin, and they cleared glucose about 40% less well on a clamp test (4.7 vs 7.5 mg/kg/min).
3. Fat cell size explains much of the insulin gap.
After adjusting for age, sex and BMI, South Asians had larger fat cells, liver fat of 9.9% vs 2.5%, and higher fasting insulin. Adjusting for fat cell size cut the insulin difference in half.
4. Lean and young.
Among 482 lean young adults, insulin resistance was 2 to 3 times more common in Asian Indians than in any other group. The men had about twice the liver fat of white men.
5. It starts in childhood.
South Asian children aged 8 to 11 in Britain were not heavier than white children, but their fasting insulin was 53% higher, with similar blood glucose.
My view: fat cells can only store so much. When they are full, they become insulin resistant and release more fat into the blood, and that fat ends up in the liver and muscle. Insulin rises to compensate. South Asians appear to reach that limit at a lower body weight.
For a South Asian person, a normal BMI does not mean normal metabolism. Fasting insulin, waist size and liver fat say more than weight.
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Our open-weight voice models have officially crossed 500,000 downloads on Hugging Face!
Half a million downloads, and counting!
Huge thanks to everyone who's been using Veena and Maya-1. It's incredible to see our models reaching so many people around the world.
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You're Not Lazy, Your Environment Is Working Against You | Angela Duckworth @angeladuckw | Watch the Full Video Here youtu.be/am2P5x4L2o8
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Demis Hassabis: AI could become self-aware, even if that isn’t the goal.
“I don’t think any of today’s systems feel self-aware or conscious in any way.”
“Not explicitly, but it may happen implicitly.”
“These systems might acquire some feeling of self-awareness.”
“They don’t have curiosity. They’re probably lacking imagination and intuition.”
“But in the next five to 10 years, I think we’ll have systems capable of not only solving an important problem in science, but coming up with it in the first place.”
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Are small language models the future? Some AI leaders say “yes”.
"How to Build and Fine‐Tune a Small Language Model: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners, Researchers, and Non-Programmers"
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Most AI books explain what models are. This one teaches you to build them. You’ll go from zero to a working GPT-style model, then learn how to fine-tune, align, evaluate, and deploy it for real applications.
All chapters include ready-to-run Google Colab notebooks.
