Writer, Open-Source Investigator, and AI Policy Researcher | MSc Machine Learning/Data Science | prev: @cen4infores and @altnews
New Delhi, India
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Hello all,
I’m excited to share my latest piece for the AI Policy Perspective blog, a publication by the brilliant team at DeepMind working at the frontier of AI policy, governance and the future with AGI.
Would love for you all to read, comment and share. As always, the link is in the thread.
One of the truth is frontier models - via api or sub - are still not affordable, except for a handful of Chinese open source ones. Yes, even 20 dollar subscriptions is a lot.
Passport, UPI, yada yada
₹1.5 lakh for Air India business class, Delhi to Goa. The airline sends you to @EncalmIndia. Chaotic, barely a seat in sight.
Encalm is a lovely name. Ambitious, though. Perhaps call it Endure?
As for @airindia, is the premium experience delayed, diverted or cancelled?
Spent some time in the heart of northern India. There’s just so much disparity that the reality of all the human development indices begin to manifest the moment you enter the peripheries. I don’t think we are doing enough for our fellow countrymen. Accelerate, accelerate, accelerate.
Prediction: As use of AI — especially Claude — becomes mainstream for video editing, there’s some influencer or organisation out there that’ll eventually get cancelled because the AI will end up using the wrong map of India. An experienced editor anticipates such backlashes :)
Asli sanatani toh owaisi saab h 💪🏽
Namit Malhotra planning a #Hanuman film with #SumnyDeol after #Ramayana 🤯🔥
“Hanuman is one of the most important characters in the Ramayana, and there is a lot more to his story than what can be explored within the central narrative. The idea is to make every film its own story but still connected to the bigger universe. Hanuman has the scale and emotional appeal to carry a film on his own. With Nitesh Tiwari-directed Ramayana: Part 2 now expected to release during Diwali 2028, the makers have time to develop the next chapter of the franchise"- Source (midday)
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Looks like Apple did release a support document about compromised eMudhra certificates as well
About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs - Apple Support support.apple.com/en-us/1495…
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In one of Delhi-NCR's top schools, parents are planning to pool-in funds to buy Dyson/Honeywell/Sharp Purifiers for their children's Nursery classrooms, for the upcoming bad-AQI season.
Some parents logically asked, "Why doesn't the school buy these air purifiers?" The school said that their AC systems have HEPA filters, to take care of dust to some extent. Unconvincing. Parents decided to go ahead with their own safety systems.
Next, they asked- "What happened to the Air Purifiers that the classroom had last year? The previous batch too had purifiers with AQI monitors."
School's response: "The air purifiers travel with the batch of children. As the students move up a year, the Air Purifiers do too. So the Purifiers that were in first grade last year, are in second grade now."
Welcome to the incredibly complex world of public-health moving into private hands.
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SCOOP: The Censor Board has had a data breach exposing hundreds of documents from the e-Cinepramaan portal. Application dockets were uploaded in bulk on the Internet Archive by a user with a display ID that of Prasoon Joshi's name in Russian.thehindu.com/sci-tech/techno…
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This has been the trademark experience of this Gov't. Start a new rule. Face severe backlash. Then release a verbal statement via paid media that the rule has been modified or removed. But as there's no written Gov't circular, the authorities follow the original rule.
The EDF (Export Declaration Form) rules are now in effect, and it seems like RBI and banks have conspired to create a new hell. Or actually 5 hells.
I consult for an American company. Raised October invoice. Received the Inward remittance. And bang! Mail from @HDFC_Bank detailing everything needed before the payment can be processed.
Let me tell you what the 5 hells are:
1. The hell of confusion – RBI clarified last month that the EDF rules do not apply to individuals. But looks like they haven’t told the banks. And CAs also don’t seem to know. There’s no official communication on who is exempt. Last I checked, I was an individual. No company, no LLP. But HDFC still wants me to file the EDF to credit my payment.
2. The hell of complexity – See the attached pic of the form the bank has sent in excel. It has 5 sheets. To be filled and submitted. Some abstruse acronyms like “AD” - no clue what it means. Some fields are mandatory. Some fields are to be filled by the bank. No idea which is what. And it needs a physical signature. Which leads to...
3. The hell of paperwork - They also sent a pdf with a bunch of request letters. I’m supposed to choose the right letter, print, sign, scan and submit. Creating more paper today is incredibly silly. And, I suppose, someone in the bank will have to upload all this somewhere. Reminds me of those hand-filled immigration forms. Pointless.
4. The hell of repetition – At least for me, most of the details are constant. One client, one payment. If it’s a one-time exercise, fine. I’ll grit my teeth and get it done. But no. These details have to be given month after month. Else… no payment will be credited.
5. The hell of unpreparedness – It would have been simple enough for RBI or HDFC to create an online portal for this. With dropdowns, saved formats, contextual help, etc. to at least make this easy. But that would be too convenient, no? So, they’ve chosen to dump the entire burden on the taxpayer.
I have no opinion or understanding of why this is needed. Maybe it is critical information. Okay! But why make the process so confusing and painful?
And poor communication has meant that the banks have just passed on the pain to the exporter, and even CAs can’t help.
Basically RBI & HDFC feel I should consult less, and comply more. Maybe my client will also agree :)
