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Twitter: @pavanyara_
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yarapavan··on Display and control your Android device graphically with scrcpy
repo: https://github.com/viarotel-org/escrcpy
yarapavan··on Su-śrotā – Scholar-grade Sanskrit ASR
Github repo: https://github.com/prathoshap/sushrota-sanskrit-asr
yarapavan··on Seven Ways to Avoid Losing Your Job to AI
Archive copy: https://archive.ph/SY91j
yarapavan··on How the diamond industry lost its sparkle
archive copy: https://archive.ph/qMI4O
yarapavan··on Systems Correctness Practices at AWS: Leveraging Formal and Semi-Formal Methods
If you are wondering "why do formal methods at all?" or "how is AWS using P to gain confidence in correctness of their services?", the following re:Invent 2023 talk answers this question, provides an overview of P, and its impact inside AWS: (Re:Invent 2023 Talk) Gain confidence in system correctness & resilience with Formal Methods (Finding Critical Bugs Early!!) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdXZXnkMDxs

Github: https://github.com/p-org/P

yarapavan··on Why it's so hard to align our work with our values,and how we justify not trying
"What are your actual priorities? … This question can help you determine the place you want to live, the kind of house or apartment you want to live in, your family’s essential needs (food, electricity, healthcare), and the cost of the activities that add pleasure and meaning to your life – traveling, hobbies, etc. It also allows you to consider what your priorities are from an impact perspective – involvement in your community, being there for your friends, reducing your waste – at the same time as you’re thinking about your material needs. Rather than cordoning off your value-oriented priorities into a less urgent category, to be pursued when you’ve reached financial satisfaction, you are making them of equal importance.”

This recalibration challenges the false dichotomy that keeps us stuck:

“The scarcity mindset keeps you thinking you have to choose between a good life and a life that benefits the collective good. And, it is partly the vacuous, limitless promise of consumerism that keeps you thinking you have to choose between your values and your financial needs.”

yarapavan··on Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels
Aechive copy: https://archive.is/7O00b
yarapavan··on Sam Altman on ChatGPT's First Two Years, Elon Musk and AI Under Trump
Text: https://archive.is/yw8Kh
yarapavan··on Edward Thorp: How a Pioneering Blackjack Master Beats the Odds of Aging
https://archive.is/JcOAo
yarapavan··on Facebook's Little Red Book for Employees in 20212 Remastered [pdf]
OG post: https://spaccapeli.com/i-remastered-facebooks-little-red-boo...
yarapavan··on What Do Hackers Know About Your AWS Account?
website: https://awseye.com/
yarapavan··on [dead]
http://archive.today/zr9zF
yarapavan··on How Libra Was Killed
Direct x.com link: https://x.com/davidmarcus/status/1862654506774810641
yarapavan··on Ask HN: Any good Black Friday deals on software?
1. unclutter has a bundle offer including cleanshot x, bartender, keyboard maestro, text sniper. Worth looking at.

https://unclutterapp.com/bundle/?coupon=DD-BLACKFRIDAY-2024&...

2. Here's a good collection by typingmind founder - https://github.com/trungdq88/Awesome-Black-Friday-Cyber-Mond...

3. Another infosec focused collection - https://github.com/0x90n/InfoSec-Black-Friday

yarapavan··on I Stopped Using Kubernetes. Our DevOps Team Is Happier Than Ever
https://archive.ph/2024.11.26-114301/https://blog.stackademi...
yarapavan··on How Tech Created a ‘Recipe for Loneliness’
https://archive.is/20241120124922/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
yarapavan··on Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids
Related resources:

X thread: https://x.com/itsarnavb/status/1856382430715724019

yarapavan··on Wall Street frenzy creates $11B debt market for AI groups buying Nvidia chips
CoreWeave now claims to be the largest private operator of Nvidia GPUs in North America, with more than 45,000 chips. It has raised more than $10bn in debt in the past 12 months from lenders including Blackstone, Carlyle and Illinois-based hedge fund Magnetar Capital.

The debts are secured against CoreWeave’s stock of Nvidia GPUs and the capital is used to buy thousands more.

yarapavan··on Wall Street frenzy creates $11B debt market for AI groups buying Nvidia chips
Archive copy: http://archive.today/OUyar
yarapavan··on David Patterson: Life Lessons from the First Half-Century of My Career
Sharing what resonated with me:

1. Family first! Don’t sacrifice your family’s happiness on the altar of success

4. The cost of praise is small. The value to others is inestimable.

11. “There are no losers on a winning team, and no winners on a losing team.”

12. Lead by example

yarapavan··on Strategies to Beat the AI Bots
http://archive.today/4Z0wl
yarapavan··on The Man Who Made Nike Uncool
http://archive.today/sgUZN
yarapavan··on LinkedIn is training AI models on your data
Notes:

1. Revoke link for your profile: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-a...

2. To opt your data out of being used to train other ml models, you’ll have to also fill out the LinkedIn Data Processing Objection Form at https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TS-DPRO

yarapavan··on How Netflix won the streaming wars
http://archive.today/2024.09.23-131845/https://www.ft.com/co...
yarapavan··on Startup Mortality Rates
1/3 are good investments

1/3 turn into something but you wish you hadn't made the investment

1/3 are zeros

yarapavan··on How Machines Learned to Discover Drugs
http://archive.today/9XpGU
yarapavan··on The Home as a Place of Production
> Our meditation apps might become redundant if we spend half an hour a day actually making something.
yarapavan··on How Costco Hacked the American Shopping Psyche
Archive copy: http://archive.today/6WyiZ
yarapavan··on What and How to Read
The golden rule is to read as few contemporary books as possible.

> Given our finite lives, and the centuries-deep canon of literature, what logic is there in reading something current? More than 120mn unique titles have been published since the dawn of the printing press. What are the odds that one written in 2024 deserves our limited time?

Archive: https://archive.is/wS0Jq

yarapavan··on Automatisch: Open-Source Zapier Alternative
Github: https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch

Docs: https://automatisch.io/docs

Integrations: https://automatisch.io/docs/guide/available-apps

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