Topology is so underrated.

I used to think it's just a corner of abstract mathematics, but now I see EVERY question in terms of what the space of possible answers is and what the properties of its shape are because they inform approaches for design, search & optimization.

#mathematics

Annoyed that while there's a word for "computing" - which led to "computer" when we managed to automate this skill, there's no single word for "thinking + doing". And so, we have to use the boring "agent".

I asked my #ChatGPT and it came up with a new one, that's quite funny if you speak Hindi. 😂

#AI #llm

Tested #Anthropic #Claude computer use capability. Worked really well for a couple of tasks: performing web research, installing packages in terminal etc.

Making it VNC-based is quite powerful because it gives AI access to all the apps (GUI as well as terminal) as well as the filesystem. Though visual operation becomes very expensive if tasks require scrolling a lot (for eg: investigating logs in the terminal) or screen content changes too often (eg: games).

#AI #Automation

"A Coder considers the waning days of the craft"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft

#ai #programming

I don't understand what people are smoking when they argue that "India shouldn't be spending $$ on space missions because there's widespread poverty".

At less than 5 Rs (6 cents) per citizen spent, #Chandrayaan3 is the best bang for buck ever, in terms of cultural inspiration alone! 😁💪