this goes far beyond the individual candidates shashi tharoor and rajeev chandrasekhar.
it is a clash of metaphors. and it is a piquant choice: reward the fecklessness of the past, or look forward to development?
Monday, April 15, 2024
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Quick notes: AI Iceberg | Value of a degree...
- The AI Industry Is Steaming Toward A Legal Iceberg: Legal scholars, lawmakers and at least one Supreme Court justice agree that companies will be liable for the things their AIs say and do—and that the lawsuits are just beginning. Several legal experts say Section 230 will not protect firms from lawsuits over the outputs of generative AI, echoing SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch's 2023 statement.
- Overselling the AI hype: Copilot on Windows is no reason to buy a new PC. Just not useful
- Value of an Indian engineering degree: IIT-Bombay is yet to place almost 36% of its students in the ongoing placement season. Other IIT campuses in Delhi and Kanpur have reported similar problems in the last few years. This has raised questions about the condition of India's job market and the value of an engineering degree in these changing times. United Nations data suggests that India's graduate unemployment has reached almost 30%. Is it time for you to rethink your degree?
- India moved fewer people to non-agri jobs than neighbours: India has managed to move a smaller share of its working-age population away from farm-related work than Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka”.
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Enemy within: Building spree in the Himalayas is increasing the risk of disaster on the tense China border
'People for Himalaya' Issues 5-pt charter of demand for political parties: A complete ban on all mega infrastructure projects, such as those related to the railways, dams, hydro projects and four-lane highways in the Himalayas, and have urged for referendums and public consultations to be made compulsory for all development projects.
India: No country for a Green Party? Mainline political parties have maintained a deafening silence on environmental issues even as the 2024 Lok Sabha election campaign gains momentum and fury. - Politicians feasting off Hindu devotees' offerings: Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams has expedited the distribution of house site pattas and registration process for employees and workers. The TTD had sanctioned funds and allocated more than 1,000 acres of land for houses to as many as 14,500 employees.
- 'How to love in Sanskrit' (HarperCollins): A collection of Sanskrit love poetry, translated and edited by Anusha Rao and Suhas Mahesh.
- How China's BYD Overtook Tesla:
- China's sponge cities: Making cities 'spongy' could help fight flooding — by steering the water underground
- Climate change hypocrisy: Guyana President wrecks BBC reporter trying to lecture him on climate change.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Re: will development issues swing the thiruvananthapuram election?
Namaste Rajeev ji,
Thank You for this ground report. I am watching this contest keenly and am quite impressed by Rajeev C's approach and promises. Of course I don't vote here so that does not matter :)
My constituency is Gorakhpur, Ravi Kishen. He is average but we dont need him, Gorakhpur is developing by leaps and bounds because of Yogi ji!
I am so glad you mentioned the Travancore Royals. The fact that they are at the basis of Kerala's positive indices is blanked out by the Communists.
In conclusion, do you really have a soft spot for Tharoor ? I find I am allergic to him and switch channels when he is flicking his hair.
Happy Elections!
Sumedha
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Tuesday, April 09, 2024
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Quick notes: Billionaire Raj | BYD Seagull...
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Billionaire Raj: India's richest 1% earn 22.6% of total income — the highest share since data going back to the 1920s — and hold more than 40% of the wealth.
The inequality gap widened after the economy’s opening up in the early 1990s, but “between 2014-15 and 2022-23, the rise of top-end inequality has been particularly pronounced in terms of wealth concentration”. “The ‘Billionaire Raj’ headed by India’s modern bourgeoisie is now more unequal than the British Raj headed by the colonialist forces”. -
“Extinction-level event for the U.S. auto sector”: Why a small China-made EV has global auto execs and politicians on edge.
The China-built BYD Seagull, a small all-electric hatchback, starts at less than $10,000, and reportedly banks a profit for the Chinese automaker. That latter point — EV profits where U.S. automakers have mostly failed to turn any — combined with the expansion of Chinese automakers into Europe, Latin America and elsewhere has automotive executives and politicians, from Detroit and Texas to Germany and Japan, on edge.
The rise of BYD and other Chinese automakers led Tesla CEO Elon Musk to warn that Chinese automakers will “demolish” global rivals without trade barriers. - In One Key A.I. Metric, China Pulls Ahead of the U.S.: Talent: When it comes to the artificial intelligence that powers chatbots like ChatGPT, China lags behind the United States. But when it comes to producing the scientists behind a new generation of humanoid technologies, China is pulling ahead.
New research shows that China has by some metrics eclipsed the United States as the biggest producer of A.I. talent, with the country generating almost half the world’s top A.I. researchers. - Unlike India's toy design: Alibaba claims it will launch a server-grade RISC-V processor this year
- Domestic chips and operating system: China to pivot from AMD & Intel CPUs to domestic chips in government PCs. The transition to domestic processors will advance more swiftly for server processors than for client PCs, due to the less complex software ecosystem needing replacement. China will need to invest approximately $91 billion from 2023 to 2027 to overhaul the IT infrastructure in government and adjascent industries.
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Solar cooking - From sun to plate: Despite its advantages, solar cooking has some limitations, such as longer cooking time and the need to cook outdoors in the sun.
To overcome these challenges, Saswat Sourav Panda, a resident of Puri, Odisha, integrated three solar-based cooking systems at his house for different cooking processes. A solar box cooking system is used for slow cooking, a parabolic concentrator for heavy cooking and a solar glass tube-based system for cooking even without sunlight.
With a total investment of Rs. 31,000, Panda reduced his annual consumption of gas cylinders from twelve to four. “Once I started to appreciate the enhanced natural taste due to slow cooking in solar, we switched entirely”.
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Chas Freeman on Nuland, US, Ukraine, Gaza
Chas Freeman is a seasoned and sober former Washington official, now retired:
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Canada Ramping Up Information War Against India
Watch the latest new "exposé" "documentary" against India from Canada's state broadcaster, the CBC. They interview various Khalistanis, including Pannu and Nijjar's family, while portraying the Khalistan movement in a sympathetic light, and India as an oppressor. With such slanted propaganda, Canada seems to be positioning itself as a base of operations for the Khalistan movement, hoping to incite emotions among Khalistanis to a fever pitch, with the goal of putting India and Indians under attack.
Thursday, March 07, 2024
Quick notes: Semi-success | Cancer treatment...
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Semi-success: India approves three chip plants with over $15 billion in investments to realize semiconductor ambitions. Tata Electronics will partner Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp and will focus on 28-nanometer technology.
Tata Semiconductor Assembly and Test Pvt Ltd will set up the second plant in Morigaon, Assam with focus on packaging technologies.
CG Power, in partnership with Japan's Renesas Electronics Corporation and Thailand's Stars Microelectronics will set up the third factory in Sanand, Gujarat. All three factories will start construction within next 100 days. -
India makes progress with US$21bn chip proposals: The Indian government, after years of watching from the sidelines of the chips race, now has to evaluate US$21 billion of semiconductor proposals and divvy up taxpayer support between foreign chipmakers, local champions or some combination of the two.
Both Tower and Tata’s facilities would produce so-called mature chips — using 40-nanometer or older technology — that are very widely used in consumer electronics, automobiles, defense systems and aircrafts, the people said.
The Tata Group is also planning to build a 250-billion-rupee (US$3 billion) chip-packaging plant in eastern India that would assemble and export chips. - Masterclass: Ashwini Vaishnav's masterclass on India's semiconductor ecosystem
- Taiwan's PSMC says chip engineer shortage top challenge in Japan: Taiwan's PSMC and SBI are jointly investing $5.3B to build a new semiconductor fab, but PSMC's Japan head says the biggest problem is a lack of engineers. Recruiting engineers from countries like India or the U.S. could be in the cards.
- Toy design? India’s homebrew RISC-V CPU goes on sale in new development board. The CPU is 32-bit and operates at up to 100 MHz, using only 256 KB of SRAM. This doesn't come close to competing with modern Raspberry Pi solutions
- The Magic of R+Cu: Tata Institute Claims Success In Cancer Treatment - With "Rs 100 Tablet". The 'R+Cu' when taken orally, generate Oxygen radicals in the stomach which are quickly absorbed to enter blood circulation. The oxygen radicals destroy cfChPs released in circulation and prevent 'Metastases' - The movement of cancer cells from one part of the body to another. The researchers claimed that R+Cu prevents Chemotherapy toxicity.
- Indigenous CAR-T Therapy Cures Patient Of Cancer: In simple language, the therapy includes genetically reprogramming a patient's immune system to fight cancer.
- Magnificent 7 profits now exceed almost every country in the world: The meteoric rise in the profits and market capitalizations of the Magnificent 7 U.S. tech behemoths — Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla — outstrip those of all listed companies in almost every G20 country. Only China and Japan have greater profits when their listed companies are combined.
- America sees surge of Chinese illegal migrants: Chinese migrants often take special “VIP” routes across the jungle that are led by guides working for the Gulf Clan, Colombia’s largest drug cartel, and are quicker and less strenuous for higher prices than the most basic routes.
- #southtaxmovement: Why south Indian states have started a tax movement
Sunday, February 18, 2024
Quick notes: Capitulation on LAC | Thorium hope...
- ‘Abject capitulation’ by Indian govt: Military veterans fear that the creation of non-militarised “buffer zones" inside the India-claimed lines at multiple transgression points in eastern Ladakh may help the Chinese Army to force India to agree to its reinterpretation of the LAC.
- Pradip Shivaji Mohite: The Class 9 Dropout Who Is Building Helicopters
- Thorium hope: New Fuel Powers Up India's Green Nuclear Future
- Phone Addicts: Indians spend more time on their smartphones daily than the rest of the world. More than 881 million Indians are 'always on' -- those who can't do without their phones.
- Tower proposes $8B Indian wafer fab: Israeli foundry Tower Semiconductor has submitted a proposal to the Indian government to build a 65/40nm wafer fab in India at a cost of US$8 billion
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A Curious Business Model: India will pay 70% of cost but Micron will own 100% of plant.. Micron will hold 100% ownership of a plant that costs $2.75 billion after having invested only $0.825 billion!
If chip-making is India’s goal, the Micron deal won’t deliver it. What we are getting—assembling and testing chips made elsewhere—is the lowest end of the chip-making technology. We are not competing with the US, China, South Korea, or Japan on chip-making but with, for example, Malaysia, which is already streets ahead of us in this sector - Germany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an End: China is becoming a bigger rival and is no longer an insatiable buyer of German goods. The US is drifting away from Europe and is seeking to compete with its transatlantic allies for climate investment. The final blow for some heavy manufacturers was the end of huge volumes of cheap Russian natural gas.
- Most charitable person: Jamsetji Tata, the founder of Tata Group, has been recognized as the most charitable person of the past century, having donated a staggering Rs 829,734 crore. This surpasses contributions from other global philanthropists, including Bill Gates, who secured the second position.
- Stay in touch with the earth: How walking barefoot improves your health. For spiritual seekers, the time around new moon is particularly significant to stay in touch with the earth.
- How China Miscalculated Its Way to a Baby Bust: China’s baby bust is happening faster than many expected, raising fears of a demographic collapse. And coping with the fallout may now be complicated by miscalculations made more than 40 years ago. A Moscow-trained missile scientist led the push for China’s policy, based on tables of calculations that applied mathematical models used to calculate rocket trajectories to population growth.
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
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