Rohit Lamba: ” India has long grappled with GDP expansion that fails to generate commensurate employment. The US experience suggests this is not merely a developing-country affliction — it may be the structural reality of capital-intensive, technology-driven growth everywhere. If India’s demographic dividend is to yield returns, growth must be labour-absorbing. GDP targeting alone is insufficient. If a productivity boom is indeed underway, the challenge is institutional: Ensuring its gains translate into shared prosperity.”
Animesh Koratana: “Context Graphs Are Organizational World Models. There’s a concept worth taking seriously because it reframes what context graphs actually are: world models. A world model is a learned, compressed representation of how an environment works. It encodes dynamics, ie. what happens when you take actions suspended in a specific state. It captures structure: what entities exist and how they relate. And it enables prediction: given a current state and a proposed action, what happens next?”
Manu Joseph: “There is an assumption in India that high standards are not appropriate in a country with poverty. That only keeps us poor. There is a lesson in this. Individuals, especially the poor, should think big, be grand and look much above their station.”
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FT: “The mining company De Beers declared almost 80 years ago that “a diamond is forever” — and now the marketing slogan has a twist for the quantum age. The durability that made the stone sought-after in jewellery for millennia is being exploited to turn it one day into a state-of-the-art sensor allowing us to read brainwaves, navigate without satellites and diagnose diseases faster and more effectively. This dawning era for diamonds relies on an inversion of the qualities of regularity that have long made it prized for its beauty. By introducing tiny imperfections into its highly ordered crystalline structure, scientists can make it an extraordinarily sensitive detector of subatomic quantum phenomena.”
