Vivek Wadhwa: “Instead of trying to catch up on yesterday’s models, India can leapfrog into tomorrow’s platforms — and build the same types of trillion-dollar monopolies that Silicon Valley has. Remember that Apple and Microsoft didn’t build any foundational systems, they simply built great solutions on top of what already existed — and they are amongst the most valuable companies in the world. Moreover, the AI landscape is evolving so rapidly that today’s leaders can be eclipsed in months. LLMs will soon be yesterday’s news and AI agents may dominate the next wave — but something even more disruptive will follow. Innovation is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, and those who build adaptable platforms — rather than static models — will be best positioned to ride these exponential curves. By focusing on building the platforms and applications that others rely on, India could not only leapfrog the current wave but rise above the turbulence of constant disruption.”
Dean W. Ball: “Simply put and in at least the near term, agents will be LLMs configured in such a way that they can plan, reason, and execute intellectual labor. They will be able to use, modify, and build software tools, obtain information from the internet, and communicate with both humans (using email, messaging apps, and chatbot interfaces) and with other agents. These abstract tasks do not constitute everything a knowledge worker does, but they constitute a very large fraction of what the average knowledge worker spends their day doing.”
Aeon: “With roughly 35 million people, Kerala, which sits along India’s southwestern tip on the Indian Ocean, is among the smaller Indian states, though it is densely populated. In the 1970s, Kerala’s average income was about two-thirds of the Indian average, making it among the poorest states in India. This difference persisted through the 1980s. In the coming decades, a miracle occurred. Kerala, one of the poorest regions in India, became one of the richest. In 2022, Kerala’s per-capita income was 50-60 per cent higher than the national average. What happened?”
NYTimes: “Many people use a smartwatch to monitor their cardiovascular health, often by counting the number of steps they take over the course of their day, or recording their average daily heart rate. Now, researchers are proposing an enhanced metric, which combines the two using basic math: Divide your average daily resting heart rate by your daily average number of steps. The resulting ratio — the daily heart rate per step, or DHRPS — provides insight into how efficiently the heart is working…The higher the ratio, the stronger the signaling of cardiac risk.”
WSJ: ““Tune Out the Noise” is the story of radical ideas that became powerful enough to move trillions of dollars, and the main characters are renegade investors and unlikely titans who created the revolutionary financial products that we have come to depend on…[It] a nerdy and genuinely engrossing documentary about investment strategy.”
