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Colgate…???!!

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Market research firms are cooked 😳 PyMC Labs + Colgate just published something wild. They got GPT-4o and Gemini to predict purchase intent at 90% reliability compared to actual human surveys. Zero focus groups. No survey panels. Just prompting. The method is called Semantic…

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PyMC Labs + Colgate just published something wild. They got GPT-4o and Gemini to predict purchase intent at 90% reliability compared to actual human surveys.

Zero focus groups. No survey panels. Just prompting.

The method is called Semantic…


lad is making algorithm more pointy (you, too, can post pics of Steve Jobs’ daughter and make money)

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(you, too, can post pics of Steve Jobs’ daughter and make money)

This is a concerning way to approach payouts

BecomingCritter's tweet image. This is a concerning way to approach payouts
BecomingCritter's tweet image. This is a concerning way to approach payouts
BecomingCritter's tweet image. This is a concerning way to approach payouts


markov chain supremacy

Introducing linear scaling of reasoning: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐫 Reformulate RL so thinking scales 𝐎(𝐧) 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞, not O(n^2), with O(1) 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲, architecture-agnostic. Train R1-1.5B into a markovian thinker with 96K thought budget, ~2X accuracy 🧵



democracy on the day of infra: >wow infra >lines up on the day of voting for said infra: >haha screw them >votes for hate infra party

1 Lakh commuters on Day 1 on the Aqua line of Mumbai Metro. I don’t even live in the city, yet feeling a sense of pride. Nothing dazzles a poor nation than world class infrastructure. We are the optimists. We are here. :)



they read this as Raghuram Rajan and spun up fan fiction about a16z opening an India office

Raghu Raghuram @RaghuRaghuram Nearly 30 years ago, I hired Raghu Raghuram to be a product manager at Netscape. While I do not remember much from those days, I keenly remember how smart he was. He was also eager to learn absolutely everything. The problem for me was that he was…



A good consultant (big 4) will likely cost >$100K in India Yes, with a billion+ people there are a thousand edge cases but overall it’s not cheap. It’s mid-range. It’s definitely not the 5 cents/hour people expect, which is why they end up disappointed.

>Most major tech companies have campuses in India, hiring Indians >well, thts because of cheap labor >why dont the companies go hire from somewhere else (in those numbers), surely India is not the cheapest? >well, thts because <insert rac!st remark>



feed me traffic

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Remote only works with people you already know. It’s hard to build trust from scratch online. Start in-office with the core team, then request remote once trust builds. Years ago I hired an IIT batchmate who farmed out his work to remote devs while being in the office all the…


Based Indian Middle Class wisdom

Gold is now outperforming the Nasdaq over the last 5 years. Yes… read that again. 5-Yr Performance: 🟠 GOLD +112% 🔵 NASDAQ +98%

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5-Yr Performance:
🟠 GOLD +112%
🔵 NASDAQ +98%


daily reminder to take your data backups locally

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the korean government lost all of its data, because it put all of its servers in one physical location with no backups

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while the west is just focused on yapping China will win just by building

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China will win just by building
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China will win just by building

Average US electricity price over the years, per Axios:

unusual_whales's tweet image. Average US electricity price over the years, per Axios:


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We used to play to win in this country. Do we still value teaching young ppl the lesson that life has winners and losers?

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Do we still value teaching young ppl the lesson that life has winners and losers?


It’s the Dubai chocolate playbook.

avocado is so ass



sphinx أعاد

Bookmarked this tweet then. 2nd para is going as 2025's best advice for me - saying this after trying it out (5 times and counting) in the last 2 months. Huge alpha, just gotta do more of it.

when i say build distribution i mean go and build your actual sales channels. direct or indirect. partnerships. cold outreach. customer demos. travel for face to face meetings as much as possible. offer to meet in person. be high effort. i started tweeting rants post covid…



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