The life of Frank Herbert. youtu.be/I9rt0bxiB_c?si=nRNS…

Me and @_TheIndianRaj_ built a diagnostic evaluator for an @AIBoomi kochi hackathon recently. It’s a full duplex voice based evaluator that tests student’s knowledge assimilation through socratic Q&A method youtube.com/watch?v=tsAnUGd6… We used Qwen for ASR, Silero for VAD, turns3.2 for turn detection, GPT as reasoning LLM and Phonon as TTS. Entire thing was orchestrated with Pipecat. We were able to build a full duplex system that can scale within the timespan of a hackathon. Goes to show how easy it is becoming to build voice AI systems now.

The judge instead of apologising for the wrongdoing of his son behaved badly to the family of the deceased . Unfortunate. youtu.be/84qb1jCTLg0?si=8JnP…

Old books are bought in bulk, scanned and destroyed for training LLMs. Did not see that coming. youtu.be/-Q4Uzw8SG-0?si=nPRg…

India needs avg 9.84% nominal dollar gdp growth annually to reach 30 Trillion GDP mark that is considered as Viksit Bharat. I like the optimism, but we also need means to accelerate and sustain such growth levels for multiple decades. This means we need growth to come from multiple sectors that leads to this annual growth. I don’t understand what those sectors are going to be. But these are the necessary preconditions It has to come largely from export led growth. We need to use AI in every sector to improve efficiency and productivity. Next generation has to be skilled and productive to support this growth story. Infrastructure has to catchup significantly throughout the country, red tape and corruption has to come down. ‘hum karenge’ sounds nice. But i hope everyone knows how big the challenge realistically is.

Kerala hotels and restaurants association says they wouldn’t accept payment more than 2k in UPI going forward. This is how bad policy destroys years of progress.

CJP members getting arrested today reminded me of Navalny the Russian opposition leader getting arrested by Putin’s government youtu.be/9IsLrTlPCGw?si=F2Qy… Navalny at-least made it to the terminal before being arrested. CJP members were arrested in flight which shows how afraid this government is. I saw some really elitist comments from co passengers in the flight mocking CJP members. It takes a special kind of courage to take that flight knowing you are going to be arrested, these are bright young men who could have chosen to not bother with any of this stuff and pursue a peaceful life far removed from all of this. We might have difference of opinion on politics, but lets not doubt for a moment the courage of these young men who decided to pursue a path knowing fully the consequences. They knew they were in harm’s path and still decided to take it. India is not Russia, what happened to Navalny will not happen to these young men and their voices will not be silenced.

Kochi evening hues ♥️

Extreme projection for drop in knowledge workers is 13.5% . Definitely not the knowledge work apocalypse. Modest is 0.3% , substantial is 2.5%

This is the CPI weight for different category. I think Education Services, Accommodation (Rent) and Health should have significantly more weightage if this has to become more meaningful. A good idea would be to maintain an inflation index by collecting data from public. This will also lead to much granular data that can give a picture of different regions of the country.