Thoughts...
A couple of weeks ago, on a boring Saturday evening, I was exploring Google Play Store. I wasn't looking for a particular app, I was simply exploring. I first came across a "Daily Micro Learning" app which looked neat. So I installed it and after carefully answering a few screens of onboarding questions, I realized that it is a paid app. I immediately uninstalled it, and continued my exploration.…
Discovery It's wild what's happening right now. I first saw "clawd bot" show up as a search suggestion when I was searching for Claude related subreddits on reddit. I thought it was strange that too many people made the same typo for Claude. The next morning I saw that Dreams of Code on YouTube posted a video about Clawdbot. Then I saw Matthew Berman's video . I wondered if it was a coordinated…
It was in October-November of 2020 that I decided to quit social media. I was an active user back then - bunch of stories everyday, a new post every once in a while, comments, tagging, and all of what was usual at that time. Why I quit There was enough content on the internet warning about the dangers of social media and I was always aware of it. I was spending hours circling through the apps and…
I am undecided on how I feel about LLMs (especially reasoning models). I have always been careful about my thoughts and decision making. I like to do things most people label as "boring" work, like DYOR (Doing Your Own Research) and RTFM (Reading the Fucking Manual). My personal experience has been that doing the "boring" work is essential to think clearly. It is what solidifies the concepts &…
For me, the best part about the show Adolescence is the final episode. Especially, how the family "gets the day back" twice after going through two terrible experiences. Even though it is a fictional story, the family's resilience got me emotional. If only such things happened to me, I'm not sure if I'll even be able to get the "week" back. There's something incredibly inspiring about seeing…