Really sorry for your loss. I started following through you and she quickly became one of my favorite accounts for her earnestness and curiosity. Shocked at how it all transpired.

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Great anecdote here from former FT editor Richard Lambert on the time Manmohan Singh came to the FT to talk with him and Martin Wolf. H/T @andymukherjee70.bsky.social

Anand Akela in andaaz apna apna attending the wedding of ravina and Prem.

And now my Archive is complete! Swallowed this whole over the last 24 hours. Will do a slow read once more before the winter ends!
So glad I reread the earlier books. There was a lot that I had forgotten.

Hope their CEO hangs out in New York as well.

What an amazing statistic.
Planes are so safe that passenger safety can be measured in light-years!

Titan AI reference in the wild! Yay!

Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too? | Quanta Magazine The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.

This is pretty metal! The blood-brain barrier may not be as insurmountable as previously thought to be and our brains might just have their own microbes www.quantamagazine.org/fish-have-a-...

so tired of centrists blaming leftists for centrists losing elections

Tonight’s sunset! Truly California has the Mandate of Heaven!

Ooh thanks! Going to pick it up post finishing the Wind and Truth. Looks exactly like what I was going for. Hope it ends on a hopeful note though. Winter readings better not be bleak.

Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
J R R Tolkien: Now it is time to drink the cup of farewell. Drink then, and let not your heart be sad, though night must follow noon, and already our evening draweth nigh.

Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty

George R. R. Martin: The cup holds dark ale, thick as blood, brewed by northern monks. The foam clings like snow on the Wall. Half is gone—spilled in a brawl or drained by a scheming lord. In the game of cups, you drink or you die.

Post LOTR, this Cosmere Universe series and the Wheel of Time have been the only two high fantasy series which have ticked all boxes for me. Didn’t get into Mazalan and although enjoyed ASOIAF and Kingkiller I just don’t expect them to be completed in my lifetime. What else am I missing?

Just realized that the fifth and final book in Brandon Sandersons Stormlight archive arc 1, The Wind and Truth will be out on this December 6th. Now planning to re read all the books starting today. Have forgotten a lot. Hope I am able to catch up in time.

Marc Andreessen whining that "the left" treated "Big Tech" with contempt is kind of interesting, because the kernel of truth in it is that it was quite shameful the extent to which the mainstream of politics seem to be prepared to let him get away with the ICO and NFT episodes.

Wonderful! t.co/GKikpzMpqG

The Forgotten Story of How IBM Invented the Automated Fab Fifty years ago, a brash middle manager had a vision: a chip in a day

This is a wonderful account of Bill Harding and his management style which led IBM to invent the automated fab. Such a good read. Pretty incredible that they managed to cut down the complex month long process to a single day! spectrum.ieee.org/semiconducto...

Column | The Harris campaign’s ground game was not the problem A recent assessment of the 2024 presidential contest suggested that Democrats needed to emulate right-wing outreach. But that’s different from turning out voters.

I saw a number of people sharing a Guardian piece that suggested Trump had a better grasp of the ground game than Harris. He … didn't. The piece conflated some very different things in a weird way!
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I know it’s all noise on social media but Magnus was bang on when he said Gukesh doesn’t make these moves by hand. His point about intuition or calculation is subtle and about to get misconstrued a lot. There is a fabi podcast (don’t know which one) which more or less brings up this point as well.

This was my thought almost verbatim when they announced RFK. Also the next totally preventable pandemic is already here thanks to the insistence of using raw milk. bsky.app/profile/brah...

Horrific torture of civilians by Indian army in Kishtwar region of Kashmir. An eyewitness recounts “They were unable to move. When I lifted their clothes, I was numb. They had been beaten ruthlessly; two of them vomited blood.”

indianexpress.com/article/indi...

Rare footage of a footnote being born in the wild.

i will also die angry at the genAI crowd for deliberately causing the general public to conflate the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine with USEFUL forms of machine learning, like that wildfire early-detection system they're using around Kelowna now

Nice!

He famously dated Anna Kournikova no?

Next time you goof up and somebody calls it a childish mistake, correct them that it’s actually a chaldees mistake.

Oh really? Growing pains I guess due to a small team behind it. And yes they should fix the basic issues and scale well before rolling out new features.