Why AI Will Continue to Be Good at Bad Strategy
Good strategy requires a diagnosis and a choice. AI prefers a plausible list.
Shibaprasad Bhattacharya
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The Price of Outsourcing Chores
Is househelp cheap in India? What do the numbers across 20 countries say? It isn't, for most Indians.
Cursorbench Evals: The Effect of Family & Cost
Running some statistical analyses for Cursor Bench evals
The New Tap-In, Tap-Out
Many companies have started doing something unusual. They have started publishing weekly snapshots of how employees use AI. It often comes as a leaderboard where the employees are ranked. Or a personal email telling you how you used AI last week. There is something very familiar about this whole exercise. Like a cover song you can’t quite remember. For a long time, the standard unit of employee…
West Bengal Data Series: Four Pieces Before the Election
A four-part data series on West Bengal — cities, economy, health, and human development — timed to the state elections.
GenAI in Product : Means & Ends
The productivity debate has a blind spot. Not all gains are the same.
Reading the Numbers: How India Reads
Utility, trade books, and what the numbers actually say about Indian reading habits.
The Tale of Two Contes
Antonio Conte has just finished his 2025/26 Champions League run with Napoli, and yet again, the “Scudetto King” looked like a “European Novice.” For those who follow football, it’s well known that he has an illustrious record when it comes to league matches, but falls short when it comes to Europe. Or at least there is a strong belief among many that he falls short. As an Analytics professional,…
From 75% to 99.6%: The Math of LLM Ensembles
The last project I worked on involved a lot of LLM API calls. One subtask seemed simple: count elements from a specific list. Straightforward, right? Not quite. This needed production-level accuracy. But the simple API approach wasn’t cutting it. After testing 50 cases, I was only hitting around ~75% accuracy (37 out of 50). For production, that’s a non-starter. The Problem with Single API Calls…
The Curious Case of West Bengal’s Disappearing Class 12 Students
Recently, I came across some surprising statistics. In West Bengal, for the final exam of Class 12, this year (2025) almost 3 lakhs fewer students appeared compared to previous years. The figure sounded mind-bogglingly shocking to me. The board secretary highlighted that this happened because they brought in a rule in 2017 - that mandated students need to be 10 years old in Class 5. Still, the 3…