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“Para mis amigos, todo; para mis enemigos, la ley”
For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law
This is the essence of National Champion Policy.
And India currently is 12 years into this fiasco.
Purely because this is so widely called as scam - I am tempted to put my hypothetical money on it.
Scams are seldom diagnosed early in its lifecycle. Experts generally can identify scams early enough - but they are ignored, laughed at or generally digitally lynched.
The most telling feature of scams are the story that goes into it. Wildly inspirational that even the most cynical fall for them.
Assessed by that metric, this is a grossly un-storied scam.
Either it will never catch on to be called a scam (likely to be remembered as fad) or...
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"Our children & we will be the first to fight if Mecca, to which we are spiritually bound, dares to attack India"
~ Former Kerala Chief Minister C. H. Mohammed Koya once declared in Loksabha
S&P 500 futures has turned positive as of the time of writing. Especially when the bulk of the results are in.
Tomorrow morning it will be a blood bath in NASDAQ. Some stocks may bleed red the way Reds have bled votes.
But the good news is Indian markets may benefit from the funds fleeing these AI boom markets in the coming months.
This is why I have been saying India needs to reduce the trading taxes a bit sooner. It will further incentivize the inflow.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is what centralization does.
Turns every man, woman and child into sycophants. It corrodes your soul and when the pall of tyranny fades you are unable to meet even your own gaze on the mirror.
“कहीं नहीं जाएंगे मोदी, कहीं नहीं जाएंगे मोदी...”
#ModiKahiNahiJayega
#SaveDemocracyRemoveAnarchy
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I like how a big part of leftist thought is basically declaring extremely complex logistical problems as “solved” by nationalization and price controls. A terribly incurious (and hence tragic) but also revealing mindset
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Imagine after years of blood, sweat and tears you pool money together with friends to buy a house and the government one day decides it will not let you sell you share and now you are stuck.
This is the fate of thousands of families living here.
Property rights of people are being violated by the state.
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You are wasting your time and money getting an LLM to grind out stats on absolute rubbish. Measuring ATR and ranges and breakouts is not an edge. If you really want to make it in quant trading you need to upskill in math and stats and get a job at a firm who will teach you what an edge is.
Anyone who knows how thermos has a layer of vacuum can attest.
Vacuum is indeed a great insulator.
My respect for Elon Musk has mostly vanished, but I still thought that at least he is a good engineer (Teslas are great cars). But that last bit also got a blow after hearing him say that it is easier to "cool things down" in space. The opposite is true. A vacuum is the best possible isolator. In space you can only dissipate heat through radiation. It is extremely unlikely these data centers in space will ever happen (and certainly not in our lifetimes).
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Look man, I’m not going to argue with someone who is in the deal/knows these folks personally, but what he describes in paragraph 7: "black body radiation ejects heat into space" - runs head first into Stefan-Boltzmann/thermodynamic challenges that you can't waive away.
The problem is that radiative cooling is 90% to 99% WORSE at dumping heat than convective or liquid cooling. Vacuum isn't cold; it's a giant thermos that refuses to accept heat. You can't just say, "please, heat, go away into the vast emptiness of space." It sticks around... for a very long time! And it leaves slowly!
NOW, I have watched SO MANY videos trying to understand why very smart folks think this isn't a showstopper (for example, this one: youtube.com/watch?v=FlQYU3m1…), because when this many people line up behind an idea, I have to assume I'm missing something.
Just from a basic physics perspective, to cool a single modern AI rack, you'd need a tennis court (not an exaggeration) of radiators in orbit, and a full football field of plumbing pumping fluid just to hit 2 megawatts (about two racks). Which can be done! But it seems VERY, VERY hard! And WILDLY inefficient!
PLEASE, I genuinely want to be smarter about this — SOMEONE point me to the math I'm missing!
The total difficulty of cooling in space is vastly harder than on the ground
But 99.9999% of that challenge is Starship
Once you have the ability to get huge amounts of mass into space cheaply, it is genuinely easier to cool things in space
Your cooling system is passive
Just a giant piece of metal that is a) light w/ b) high thermal conductivity
Aluminum is a good candidate
And then you have a working fluid that just circulates forever inside the metal structure
Ammonia is historical industry standard for radiators in space
You need a fluid where the critical point is optimized around the temperature of the chips
The working fluid goes from liquid phase to gas phase near the chips, and this change in density drives the hotter gas to pump heat through a loop
The high thermal conductivity of aluminum rips heat out of the fluid and black body radiation ejects heat into space
Black body radiation goes like temperature to the 4th power so the hotter you can run chips and hotter you can get the working fluid the better you can shed heat
It's honestly a way simpler system than on the ground
"The problem is that radiative cooling is 90% to 99% WORSE at dumping heat than convective or liquid cooling"
This is real problem. Radiation is in general worse than convection .
Look man, I’m not going to argue with someone who is in the deal/knows these folks personally, but what he describes in paragraph 7: "black body radiation ejects heat into space" - runs head first into Stefan-Boltzmann/thermodynamic challenges that you can't waive away.
The problem is that radiative cooling is 90% to 99% WORSE at dumping heat than convective or liquid cooling. Vacuum isn't cold; it's a giant thermos that refuses to accept heat. You can't just say, "please, heat, go away into the vast emptiness of space." It sticks around... for a very long time! And it leaves slowly!
NOW, I have watched SO MANY videos trying to understand why very smart folks think this isn't a showstopper (for example, this one: youtube.com/watch?v=FlQYU3m1…), because when this many people line up behind an idea, I have to assume I'm missing something.
Just from a basic physics perspective, to cool a single modern AI rack, you'd need a tennis court (not an exaggeration) of radiators in orbit, and a full football field of plumbing pumping fluid just to hit 2 megawatts (about two racks). Which can be done! But it seems VERY, VERY hard! And WILDLY inefficient!
PLEASE, I genuinely want to be smarter about this — SOMEONE point me to the math I'm missing!
"Black body radiation goes like temperature to the 4th power so the hotter you can run chips and hotter you can get the working fluid the better you can shed heat"
I had to really think slowly to fact-check this statement.
I would have it changed to faster not better.(1/2)
The total difficulty of cooling in space is vastly harder than on the ground
But 99.9999% of that challenge is Starship
Once you have the ability to get huge amounts of mass into space cheaply, it is genuinely easier to cool things in space
Your cooling system is passive
Just a giant piece of metal that is a) light w/ b) high thermal conductivity
Aluminum is a good candidate
And then you have a working fluid that just circulates forever inside the metal structure
Ammonia is historical industry standard for radiators in space
You need a fluid where the critical point is optimized around the temperature of the chips
The working fluid goes from liquid phase to gas phase near the chips, and this change in density drives the hotter gas to pump heat through a loop
The high thermal conductivity of aluminum rips heat out of the fluid and black body radiation ejects heat into space
Black body radiation goes like temperature to the 4th power so the hotter you can run chips and hotter you can get the working fluid the better you can shed heat
It's honestly a way simpler system than on the ground
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1/6 We find early signs that frontier LLMs are surprisingly good at *natively* reading, writing, and reasoning about neural network weights.
Instead of training, models may treat raw weights like readable, editable code: diagnosing failures and patching them directly.
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Property rights violations must be stopped in anyway possible. This is abhorrent what citizens are facing
ONE SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT. THOUSANDS OF PROPERTY OWNERS AFFECTED.
January 10, 2023: Supreme Court judgment on apartmentalisation in Phase I.
February 9, 2023: Chandigarh Administration issues its public notice.
February 10, 2023: Restrictions become effective across residential properties in Chandigarh.
February 20, 2025: Punjab and Haryana High Court upholds the notice.
Can the government protect a city's heritage without restricting an owner's ability to sell their property share?
Indian Express Hindi Channel is doing a yeoman service in translating complex ideas into well-explained pieces. Kudos.
Of course, having ideators like PB Mehta in the mix certainly helps.
If you are comfy with Hindi do watch this:
youtu.be/_TiLBvjE67M?si=Qn18…
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Prudent to assume that your counterparty wants you to succeed, even if you feel otherwise.
Assume best intentions, look out for your interests (but not too obsessively), generally be a giver - but if the other person misbehaves- tit for tat.
In a weird way, everybody is rooting for you. When you go to a job interview, the interviewer wants you to be amazing so they don’t have to look anymore. when you go on a date, the person wants to have an amazing date with you. If you make a piece of content, people want to see amazing pieces of content and they have no problem if it’s yours.
the instant you get into the mindset that people want you to do well, your entire world gets better. And you’ll be shocked to know this pattern keeps repeating in different areas of life.
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TIL:
GK, Hauz Khas, South-Ex, Kailash Colony, Rajouri Garden, Punjabi Bagh, Model Town
All were established by DLF
I think this is why elite delhi looks completely diff than govt-made jhuggi-full delhi
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classic lant pritchett, vindicated yet again.
India saw about 496 million people lifted out of poverty between 2011 and 2023 in one of the world’s fastest declines in this metric, the World Bank said, although the gains remain uneven. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
