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Earlier this week #MuchCurious dropped in with a suggestion - Alchemy. Over the millennia the word itself is full to the brim with mysticism, mystery, magic, and disproportionate rewards. The last one is something every human secretly strives for. To be sure, The Alchemist made Paulo Coelho the legend in pop culture, with quotes from that book such as - “when you want something, all the

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"Who is the greatest Bollywood singer of all times?" I typed into chat.krutrim.comIt listed seven, but missed Mohammad Rafi. Horrified, I followed up, "Why is Mohammad Rafi not in this list?" And it missed the context, replying, "Mohammad Rafi is not in the list because the list you are referring to is not provided."With a deep sigh, it reminded me of Altman's India visit June last year

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Clone thyself as the next unicorn startup idea. Imagine you have the superpower to clone yourself. You can send this clone to as many places as you like. These clone presense will be present 24x7 for you. Serving you. As you. Like the various hats that you like to adorn, so do the clones. A clone for every Avatar of you that you’d like to personify. A clone for a situation, a clone for every need

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NVIDIA had their earnings call yesterday for the quarter ending Dec'23. Markets were muted in anticipation. As expected, the S&P 500 rose by 2.5% on the back of a strong performance and pipeline.The day after, NVIDIA stock rallied to all time high of $800. This gave the company a market cap of USD 2 Tn, surpassing Alphabet, Inc., and becoming the fourth largest listed company in the world by

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Sam Altman was the CEO and Greg Brockman was the chairman of the board at OpenAI.org, the parent company that is listed as a not-for-profit organization in the US u/s 501(C)(3). On 17 Nov 2023 both of them were fired by the Independent Directors of the board. This post talks about the 4-day drama that ensued at the back of these events, focusing on the role of Independent

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The Election season is upon us again, and it is only fitting that The Supreme Court of India has taken up a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutionality of Electoral Bonds that were introduced in 2017 as a means of donations to political parties. The capital involved is expectedly huge. After all, India is the world’s fifth largest economy and the most populous nation that goes

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A tribute to Clayton Christensen, the Harvard professor who introduced "disruption" in his 1997 book The Innovator's Dilemma, which, in turn, led The Economist to term him "the most influential management thinker of his time." Even more influential for some would be his 2012 co-authored book How Will You Measure Your Life?. [try here].Christensen passed away in

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If you haven't taken the Stanford's Machine Learning MOOC by Prof Andrew Ng on Coursera, you are less likely to be taken seriously in the AI community. Or so they say. Somewhere in 2008 Andrew Ng started the Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) program that placed a number of Stanford courses online, for free. Andrew himself was responsible for teaching one of these courses, Machine

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JEFF BEZOS SPENT AN EVENTFUL TIME with his larger Amazon.com engineering team in India recently. The "events", so to speak, involved no less than a typical decorated delivery truck on one hand (The event where, apparently, his amazon.in CEO called out Jeff as his 'Baap' [try here]). And, on the other hand, there was him meeting with the Indian Prime Minister in Delhi and talking about things (

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Cheers to Life!

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There are two kinds of self-fulfilling prophecies. They are broadly defined by wiki as follows: The Pygmalion effect, or Rosenthal effect, is the phenomenon in which the greater the expectation placed upon people, the better they perform. On the other hand is the Golem effect, in which low expectations lead to a decrease in performance. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with

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YOU CAN CONSIDER GOOGLE your friend only if the two of you play games with each other -- especially with Google the search box. I call our little game Bubble-game. The rule is simple. You need to come up with a vaguely familiar term that you know from somewhere -- desirably from within the Google Apps ecosystem that you personally use on various gadgets. Again, the only rule is that the term

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IN THE INTRODUCTORY paragraph of this legendary paper for Harvard Business Review, Peter Drucker writes: We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you've got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.  But with opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren't managing their employees' careers; knowledge

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(My junior) Noble: I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom, for me and you And I think to myself What a wonderful world  I see skies of blue, and clouds of white The bright blessed day, dark sacred night And I think to myself What a wonderful world  The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces, of people going by I see friends shaking hands

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