Pose Estimation

• MoveNet
• Mediapipe
• MMPose
• PoseNet
• AlphaPose
• HRNet
• OpenPose
• YOLOv8 

Tech Sanctions on Iran

Online Services Inaccessible in Iran due to Tech Sanctions

What makes a person ugly or beautiful?

Cultural Standards:

• Societal Ideals - this varies across cultures and shifts through time
• Media Influence - promotes unrealistic and narrow-minded ideals

Biological Factors:

• Symmetry - defined facial symmetry, often influenced by the golden ratio
• Averageness - closer to the average are perceived as more attractive
• Health Cues - features that signal good health

Psychological Factors:

• Personality - positive traits that aggregate into attraction
• Confidence - inclined to be more assertive
• Individual Preferences - subjectivity based on different perceptions
• Inner Beauty - positive traits that are considered more important for the long-run

Top Books on Philosophy

Classics:

• Meditations
• The Republic
• Nicomachean
• Meditations on First Philosophy

Modern/Contemporary:

• Being and Time
• The Myth of Sisyphus
• Existentialism is a Humanism
• The Ethics of Ambiguity
• The Order of Things
• The Interpretation of Dreams
• No Logo

Intros:

• Sophie's World
• The Story of Philosophy

Deep Dives:

• Critique of Pure Reason
• Being and Nothingness
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Ethical/Political:

• The Prince
• Utilitarianism
• On Liberty

Consciousness:

• What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
• The Conscious Mind
• Consciousness Explained
• I am a Strange Loop
• The Enigma of Consciousness
• The Astonishing Hypthesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
• Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Nihilism:

• The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
• Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction
• The Trouble With Being Born
• The Will to Power
• The Gay Science
• The Stranger
• Notes from Underground
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• The Myth of Sisyphus

Stoicism:

• Letters from Stoic
• Discourses and Selected Writings
• How to Be Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
• The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
• Meditations

Existentialism:

• Fear and Trembling
• Existentialism is a Humanism
• The Myth of Sisyphus
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• Being and Nothingness
• The Plague
• Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre
• Notes from Underground
• The Stranger

Metaphysics:

• Metaphysics
• Critique of Pure Reason
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Being and Time
• Naming and Necessity
• On the Plurality of Worlds
• Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction 
• The Metaphysics Within Us: The Hidden Dimensions of Our Everyday Lives

Epistemology:

• The Problem of Philosophy
• Knowledge and Its Limits
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Gettier Problems and the Analysis of Knowledge

Philosophy of Mind:

• The Mind-Body Problem
• Consciousness Explained
• I am a Strange Loop
• Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension

Ethics and Morality:

• The Republic
• Nicomachean
• Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
• The Moral Limits of Markets: The High Price of Putting a Price on Everything
• Utilitarianism
• On Liberty
• Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
• The Ethics of Ambiguity
• Beyond Good and Evil
• On The Genealogy of Morals

Sinosphere Languages

AI Tools for Development

• Aider: rapid prototyping
• Cline: rapid prototyping
• Cursor: refinement
• Devin: build projects and scrapers
• Copilot: quick edits
• Tabnine: integrate with IDE for code completion
• Kite: high-quality suggestions
• Codeium: autocompletions
• Polycoder: code assist in teams
• Ghostwriter: custom code enhancer
• Bolt: project starter and initialization
• AutoGPT
• Pandora

What do gods of generative AI have in store for 2025?

What do gods of generative AI have in store for 2025?

Why does the west hate Islam?

• Media perpetuates anti-Islam hate through a pre-defined mainstream narrative
• Cyclical perception influenced through negative portrayals
• Media and Entertainment industry is divisive in labels, black vs white, and demonization
• Lack of tolerance, understanding, and inter-faith dialog
• Perceptions of backward stereotypes and biases that contradict western values and beliefs (although one can question, what are western values and beliefs?) 
• Fear of the unknown
• Lots of collective judgement and generalizations that breeds prejudices, biases, and discrimination
• Looking for someone else to blame or scapegoat for the issues in their lives
• Trigger of tribalism of us vs them
• Fear of sharia law (even though, this is not really a required practice)
• Extremism and terrorism which is propagated, financed, and perpetuated by the West. This is indicative of the fact that conflicts and wars are profitable to the West.
• Historical context in the crusades
• Direct financial motives connected to natural resources and religion. Many pre-dominantly Islamic countries are rich in natural resources, centers of trade routes, and rich in traditional values.
• Cultural complications with dietary restrictions, freedom of speech, treatment of women, religious attire, and many other cultural practices are seen as odd and incomprehensible
• Perceived as a threat to western cultural norms (what exactly are western cultural norms is anyone's guess where people are confused about what gender they are?)
• Bad perceptions and intolerance feeds further negative views and hate like a vicious cycle
• The fact that many muslims are fixed in their beliefs and unwilling to change makes it incompatible with modern values of social progress, democratic participation, and resistance to scientific thought
• The perceptions that Islamic societies have an intolerance for other religions

How do you counter this?

• The West likely needs to stop interfering in foreign politics, economics, and conflicts
• The West should focus on their own taxpayers
• The West should stop trying to colonize other countries that don't conform to their ideals to steal land and natural resources
• Respect other people, their cultures, and values
• Provide more objective mainstream narrative and mindful use of language with journalistic ethics and responsibility so people can decide for themselves 
• The West should let countries flourish and grow
• Stop bombing their countries so they don't turn into refugees and cause a western immigration crisis
• Increase tolerance through understanding and inter-faith dialog
• The understanding that every one has the right to liberty and security wherever they are in the world
• The understanding that basic human rights are accorded to people in every civilized society
• Stop being so greedy with the colonial mentality
• The West should stop selling weapons and equipment, if there are no real conflicts, who'd need the budgets for defence?

Work Better and Smarter

Prioritize Ruthlessly

• Find your Key Objectives
• Use the Pareto Principle
• Use the Eisenhower Matrix

Optimize Your Workflow

• Block time slots
• Batch Tasks
• Minimize Distractions
• Learn to Delegate

Continuous Learning and Improvement

• Develop Skills
• Get Feedback
• Experiment and Iterate

Cultivate a Growth Mindset

• Take on New Challenges and Deal with them Head On
• Focus on Solutions
• Accept Mistakes and Learn From Them

Take Care of Yourself

• Prioritize Sleep
• Develop a Healthy Diet, Exercise, and Routine
• Take Breaks

Things LLMs Cannot Do

• Lack of True Understanding:
• They operate on probabilities and patterns based on the training data
• They have no understanding on the meaning of language
• They have no grasp of concepts on the basis of which they generate grammatically correct sentences

• Hallucination and Bias:
• They have the propensity to generate incorrect and nonsensical information
• They mimic the biases in their training data that leads to unfair or discriminatory output

• Sensitivity to Input:
• Minor changes in input can drastically alter output that makes it difficult to control response

• Lack of Common Sense and Real-World Knowledge:
• They lack true common sense and worldly experience, the most they can access and process is the information based on their training data
• They fundamentally lack the understanding of everyday situations and interactions

• Ethical Concerns:
• They can be used to generate misleading and even harmful content
• They can be misused that have ethical implications

• Limited Creativity and Originality:
• They lack basic sense of creativity that is outside the fold of the patterns in training data to generate truly original concepts and ideas

• Emotions and Consciousness:
• They lack feelings, self-awareness and have no way of experiencing emotions

• Reliance on Data:
• They are only as good as the data they have been trained on and are a reflection of it

• Physical Actions:
• They are software programs in the digital realm and cannot interact with physical world

Awesome LLM

Awesome LLM

Why ex-Googlers make the worst hires?

• Lots of arrogance but very little to justify it in performance
• Mostly come with sexist, racist, and misogynistic attitude
• Lots of biases for minority hires so your diversity initiatives will suffer
• Lots of biases for pay, work, and benefits
• They significantly effect the team culture through negative attitudes
• Questionable skills and experience
• They will question everything with unconstructive ways of working and the solutions they come up with are usually bookish, unproductive, inefficient, and uncreative
• They lack pragmatism and common sense
• They want to interview people in convoluted ways which have no context nor relevancy to the role just like how they did at Google
• They want to make your organization function like Google like a mirror to their past
• They drive a toxic culture, whatever was bad at Google they bring to every other organization or team
• They like to harass other employees
• They look at others in a team as lesser individuals and make the collective team feel miserable
• Why did they leave Google to come to work at your organization if Google was so great?
• They demand higher compensation packages just for working at Google, while their pay at Google was at best mediocre
• If they are part of the team that has to screen candidate applications they seem to be stuck on where the candidate got their degree and their racial backgrounds then end up interviewing them with racist stereotypes and biases
• They lack job relevant experience and skills because they didn't exactly do much at Google
• They don't want to be interviewed the same way as other candidates, treated like special candidates for some reason (maybe special candidates with disabilities?!)
• You have to flex your entire organizational handbook to meet their ridiculous expectations
• They lack basic work ethics, integrity, and fundamental sense of professionalism in the workplace
• Pretty much every ex-Googler talks and acts like they are still in school or university with emotional immaturity
• They act like spoiled and pampered brats in the workplace
• They lack basic skills of being able to think outside the box
• They tend to be unwilling to learn new things or new ways of doing things
• They tend to frustrate easily on tasks and require a lot of micromanagement
• They tend to be resistant and unwilling to listen to constructive feedback, at times repeat the same mistakes without learning from them by overcompensating with a false sense of overconfidence and lack of experience
• They tend to waste people's time by pontificating and procrastinating
• Habitually putting people down to artificially inflate their egos and prop themselves up
• They tend to be the biggest cynics of other employees in workplace especially if they are not ex-Googlers
• Sometimes they can act as saboteurs or moles out of pure jealousy and resentment

Falcon

Falcon

Qwen

Qwen

Mistral

Mistral

Llama

Llama

DeepSeek

DeepSeek

Cybertruck

Possibly, one the ugliest cars on the market. It is now also the deadliest after exploding outside of Trump Tower. The design especially is impractical, lacks usability, comfort, and a safe driving experience. This car falls short on a number of areas.

• Unconventional Design: angular stainless steel exterior that is easy on dings and dents
• Limited Visibility: narrow windows are problematic on visibility and safety
• Ride Quality: stiff suspension, mostly for off-road use, with uncomfortable driving experience on roads
• Interior Aesthetics: ugly interior to compliment the ugly exterior
• Unproven Technology: questionable, hit and miss technology

Worst Companies to Work For

• ServiceNow
• Salesforce
• NextEra
• S&P Global
• McDonald's
• Starbucks
• Burger King
• Whole Foods
• Walmart
• Union Pacific
• Signet
• Caffe Nero
• JD Sports
• WH Smith
• Betfred
• Zara
• Taco Bell
• Comfort Call
• Eden Futures
• Tim Hortons
• Max Spielmann
• Bodycare
• Poundstretcher
• Choice Care
• Victoria's Secret
• Valorum Care
• McColls
• Hertz
• Family Dollar Stores
• Steak n Shake
• Speedway
• The Children's Place
• Regal Cinemas
• The Fresh Market
• Rent-A-Car
• Forever 21
• Belk
• Alorica
• CompuCom
• Frontier Communications
• Dillard's
• CVS Health
• Kraft Heinz
• Dish Network
• Sears
• Kroger
• Tyson Foods
• Kmart
• TJMaxx
• Genesis Healthcare
• US Security Associates
• LA Fitness
• Charter Communications
• Amazon
• Tata
• Wipro
• Infosys
• HCL
• Tech Mahindra
• NTT
• Dell
• Cargill
• Reliance Industries
• Comcast
• Wells Fargo
• Bank of America
• Subway
• Shein
• Dollar General
• ExxonMobil
• Balenciaga
• BP
• Spirit Airlines
• Meta
• Twitter
• Fox Corporation
• Trump Organization
• Pfizer
• Coca Cola
• Tesco
• Google
• Microsoft
• Disney

Data Repositories

Data Repositories

Public APIs

Public APIs

Product Hunt

Product Hunt

AIBase

AIBase

Exa

Exa

GenAI Project Ideas

• Kickstart Projects 2025
• LevelUp
• GenAI Ideas
• GenAI Applications
• GenAI Projects
• Example Use Cases
• More Use Cases

Transformational GenAI Projects

• Swirl
• GraphRAG
• TaskingAI
• Superagent
• SuperDuper
• Taipy
• Composio
• Postiz
• LLMWare
• CopilotKit
• Julep AI
• Traceloop
• Classiq
• ToolJet
• Keep
• Digger
• Skyvern

Awesome GenAI

Awesome GenAI

LLM Mesh

LLM Mesh

HuggingChat

HuggingChat

GenAI Trends 2025

• More Advancements and Use of AI Agents
• Democratization of AI
• Importance of AI Safety and Ethics
• Integration of AI into Everyday Life
• Evolution of AI Models
• Multimodal Advancements
• Divergence for Parallelization and Ensemble of SLM
• Importance of Data Quality and Privacy
• Growing Scientific Discovery Through AI
• AI Literacy
• Evolution of AI Landscape
• More use of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
• Divergence and exploration into Cognitive Science
• Advancements in Inference and Orchestration
• Divergence of AI and Quantum Computing
• Intelligent Personalization
• AI-Native Businesses
• More Advancements in Explainable AI
• Evolution of AI in Cybersecurity and Crytocurrency
• Improved Q/A Methods Beyond Prompt Engineering
• More Advancements in Integration between Knowledge Graphs and LLM/SLMs
• More Efficient Methods in Vector Search
• More Advancements in Graph Deep Learning
• More Advancements in Computer Vision for Media

AI Companies 2024

 

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AI Landscape

Why Indians make the worst hires?

• Once you hire an Indian, they will try to get you to hire more Indians, work with more Indians, and try to push for Indian outsourcing
• An Indian manager will have a preference for Indians, lots of biases
• Over time your diversity efforts will get a massive setback
• They generally tend to follow a caste system mindset so brewing ground for racism, prejudice, and discrimination and this will become an issue within teams but also in recruitment/human resources practice. Also, that BJP mentality seems to be spreading across organizations. Likely will be looked over for promotions, increments, recruitment in place of an Indian. 
• Indians don't mingle, assimilate, or interact much with other groups of people
• Interviews become very bookish, like sitting in a classroom
• They can't think outside the box
• They have a tendency of replicating what others have done
• Poor sense of creativity
• Lower salaries in most cases here equates to poor quality of work
• They will be quick to dismiss "no, that cannot be done" if they have not seen someone else do it before
• They need a lot of hand-holding, mentoring, training, and micromanagement
• Ordinarily, implementations will be buggy and not meet requirements
• Indian managers drive a lot of politics, nepotism, low salaries, tend to be rude, and provide for a bad work life balance
• Lots of unnecessary "yes, sir", "no, sir"
• Their judgement of correctness is measured in terms of how other people and organizations are doing things
• That weird smell in the office
• Lots of bad practices
• Nothing ever gets done properly
• They say they can do everything, but nothing is done correctly
• They will want everything for free
• They are not pragmatic, they will follow trends and come with a crowd follower mentality
• They are generally unwilling to challenge the status quo so bad things stay the same
• They are unwilling to take the initiative, be proactive
• They also tend to take credit for other people's work
• Lots of cultural favortism in workplace
• Indian managers and employees drive a toxic work culture
• Many tend to be incompetent, do not deliver on what is on their resume, nor a reflection of their experience
• They have degrees but practically struggle with inexperience
• Communication skills tend to be poor and at times difficult
• Lots of lies and deception to cover things up
• Questionable sense of work ethics
• Overtime your customer service and product quality will degrade

This is not to say you should stop hiring Indians. Some obviously are good but those tend to be few and far between. However, recruitment should always be fair and give everyone an equal opportunity.

Russian Economy

Despite of sanctions, Russia is expected to show continued economic growth in 2025. But, this growth may be slower with GDP forecast of between 0.5% and even 2.5%. The Russian economy is resilient and adaptable. This is as a result of many factors. 

• Sanctions: Imposed by western countries will continue to impact economy especially in energy and financial sectors.
• Geopolitical Risks: Ukraine conflict and tensions with NATO will create uncertainty and risks
• Commodity Prices: Dependence on global commodity prices as a major exporter of oil and gas. Fluctuations in prices to effect the economic growth.
• Domestic Policies: Economic strategy on monetary and fiscal policy will also have an impact.

Black in Metaphorical Language

The use of term 'Black' needs to stop in metaphorical linguistics because it associates the color with bad and 'White' normally is assumed as good. This forms into a harmful and racist trope. However, the roots of such metaphors is historical in context.

Historical: The roots are in association with slavery and colonialism. White Europeans associated black with darkness, evil, savagery. They associated white with purity, goodness, and civilization. This was a way to justify further enslavement and oppression of Black people.

Cultural Reinforcement: The association is reinforced in popular culture, literature, and language. 

Impact: Such harmful stereotypes create a lasting impact on society which contributes to mindset of people and the dehumanization and discrimination of Black people. Furthermore, it perpetuates negative stereotypes and prejudice.

Challenge Stereotype: Important to recognize such language use as harmful and call it out, being mindful, and promote positive representations of people in society.

Examples of Metaphors:

• Black lists and White lists
• Pot calling the kettle black
• Black sheep
• Black humor
• Black Friday
• Black mood
• Black market
• Black magic
• Black death
• Black box

Prominent Health and Safety Standards in World

• ISO 45001
• ILO
• European Union Directive
• OSHA
• HSE UK
• OHSA
• ANSI
• NFPA
• ANSI Z10
• AS/NZS 4801

How do Bitcoin Wallets Work In Simple Terms?

Bitcoin Wallet: Digital vault for Bitcoin which stores the keys to bitcoins that allow you to manage and access. A wallet is a keychain and the Bitcoin like scattered houses in the world. The keys on the keychain unlock those houses. There are two types of keys: Public and Private. Public key is the address to house which is shareable. Private key is the secret key that only you know to prove ownership and authorization.

How it works?

• Generate Keys when you create Bitcoin wallet with both public and private keys
• Receive Bitcoin by sharing your public key
• Sending Bitcoin by using your private key
• Back up your wallets for access recoverability

Bitcoin Wallet

Bitcoin Wallet

Bitcoin Wallet

Resources on AI Ethics

• AI Now Institute
• Partnership on AI
• IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
• Montreal Declaration for Responsible Development of AI
• AI Now Report
• Ethical Algorithm
• Weapons of Math Destruction
• Human Compatible
• AI Ethics Lab
• AI Impacts
• 80,000 Hours
• Algorithmic Justice League
• Data and Society
• Human Compatible AI
• Leverhulme Center for Future Intelligence
• Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
• Neural Information Processing Systems
• AI and Society
• Ethics and Information Technology
• Journal of AI Research

Resources on Laziness and Procrastination

• Atomic Habits
• The End of Procrastination
• Deep Work
• The One Thing
• The Willpower Instinct
• Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
• The Now Habit: A Guide to Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying the Power of Now
• Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
• The 5 Sec Rule
• Getting Things Done

Cognitive Science Resources

• The Seven Sins of Memory
• The Evolution of Human Language
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• The Cognitive Structure of Emotions
• The Neuroscience of Consciousness
• The Embodied Mind
• The Feeling of What Happens
• The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
• The Social Brain: The Neuroscience of Human Relationships
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
• 10 Classics from Cognitive Science
• Awesome Cognitive Science
• Cortical Substrate for Exploratory Decisions in Humans
• Contextual Guidance
• Dissociable Neural Mechanisms
• The Functional Neuroanatomy
• Top-Down Facilitation of Visual Recognition
• The Computational Mind
• On Intelligence

Dahiya Doctrine and Hannibal Directive

Hannibal Directive:

• Focus: To prevent capture of Israeli soldiers by enemy forces
• Application: Authorizes use of force, including lethal force against captured soldiers to avoid abduction
• Goal: Prevent capture of soldiers
• Targets: Captured soldiers
• Legality: International law violation
• Issue: In most cases, it violates international humanitarian law and principle of proportionality

Dahiya Doctrine:

• Focus: Deterrence of enemy attacks through deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure to inflict maximum civilian casualties
• Application: Disproportionate force against civilian areas and infrastructure
• Goal: Deter attacks and inflict collective punishment
• Targets: Civilians and infrastructure
• Legality: Essentially, a war crime
• Issue: In most cases, this is considered a war crime by human rights organizations and international law

Why is it bad to have role models?

Initially, they can be a great source of inspiration and guidance. But, there is a limit to how much inspiration and guidance you want from them compared to your own individual uniqueness. Often the role model can limit your creativity for growth, your capacity to make mistakes, to learn from those mistakes, experience life, and define your own uniqueness. End of the day, role models are also people, they aren't perfect. Healthier option is to create your own unique path through a multitude of inspirations and experiences.

• Unrealistic Expectations: Looking up to someone can lead to unrealistic expectations of yourself that leads to disappointing outcome when you don't achieve the same level of success and perfection
• Limited Perspective: If you focus too much on one role model this may limit perspectives for growth and prevent you from developing your unique self and prevent you from exploring your own talents and interests
• Disappointment: When the role model makes a mistake or falls short of your ideals, it can be disheartening to your self-esteem
• Pressure to Conform: Feeling pressure to emulate can stifle individuality and prevent you from developing your authentic self
• False Sense of Intimacy: Easy to feel a false sense of connection to the role model you look up to, but in the end it is likely only a very small glimpse of their life.

Leave Azure Now

Why are you still using Azure? Do you feel concern for the costs, the complex pricing, confusing interface, the frequent service disruptions, the excessive vendor lock-in, the lack of reliable services and poor quality on the platform, the inconsistent and difficult to navigate documentation, frustration with integration, poor support where everything turns into a sales pitch, and an endless cycle of issues? The following cloud providers could be better options that will save you sleepless nights.

• AWS
• GCP
• Digital Ocean

Why is Azure so Bad? 

• Complex Pricing: Pricing model can be intricate and difficult to understand
• Confusing Interface: Portal can be overwhelming with a lack of intuitive navigation 
• Service Disruptions: Endless cycle of service outages that impact businesses
• Vendor Lock-in: Tight integration with Microsoft products makes it difficult to migrate and even re-design cloud agnostic or hybrid solutions
• High Costs: More expensive than AWS, Digital Ocean, or GCP across many services
• Integration Challenges: Complexity in integrating with on-premise, open source, and third-party applications
• Terrible Services: Badly designed services across the entire platform that just don't integrate well, very brittle infrastructure that leads to issues in security, orchestration and workflow, poor use of best practices and patterns, the entire platform basically lacks the cloud fundamentals 
• Dodgy and Poor Support: The support is very dodgy where everything is a sales pitch to get you to use more of Microsoft products, even their help and documentation have a significant bias, clueless support, support teams are not very practically knowledgeable but act more like sales engineers, leads to an endless cycle of issues, in most cases you will never get your original support query answered but re-directed to a documentation that is likely outdated, inconsistent, or doesn't answer the query, you will never get a straight answer to anything, support teams almost sound horrified when you mention anything to do with Linux

Best areas for Entrepreneurs

Best areas is largely subjective based on specific industry, business model, and personal preferences. In most cases, it depends on your needs and goals. Consider also towards industry focus, cost of living, and access to resources. However, in terms of general factors like ease of doing business, access to capital, talent pool, and overall entrepreneurial ecosystem, there are a few hot spots.

• Silicon Valley (California) - USA: established tech startups, venture capital, and highly skilled workforce
• New York City (New York) - USA: global financial hub with a diverse economy and strong entrepreneurial culture
• Austin (Texas) - USA: growing tech scene with lower cost of living than California
• London (UK): a financial center of the world with diverse talent pool
• Berlin (Germany): a major hub for tech startups and digital nomads, affordable and creative scene
• Amsterdam (Netherlands): open environment for entrepreneurs that focus on sustainability and innovation 
• Singapore: advanced business environment with focus on innovation and technology
• Hong Kong: global financial center with access to asian markets
• Dubai (UAE): fast developing city, ambitious plans for global innovation hub
• Toronto (Canada): growing tech scene with strong focus for AI and fintech
• Vancouver (Canada): vibrant with supportive ecosystem and a high quality of life
• Dublin (Ireland): rapidly growing tech scene in software and gaming
• Stockholm (Sweden): strong focus on sustainability and green technology
• Seoul (South Korea): rapidly growing tech scene in mobile and gaming

Why is quality of Whole Foods so poor?

• Supply Chain Issues: disruptions in food supply that leads to less fresh produce and inconsistencies on availability
• Amazon Acquisition: shift in focus for greater efficiency and cost-cutting which has a negative impact on quality
• Increased Competition: increase in competition from other grocery stores who also offer organic and natural options that leads to pressure to lower quality for lower prices
• Customer Feedback: increase in negative customer feedback on quality of food especially produce
• Internal Issues: Reports indicate employee morale is low, poor training initiatives, cracks in leadership, and mismanagement

Bad Things About Christmas Holidays

• Many shops are closed
• Turns into a ghost town
• People are all in a hurry to get to somewhere
• You look like a weirdo walking on the streets because everyone else is at home for the holidays
• There is nothing good on TV
• All the sales look like scams
• The constant bombardment of advertising and pressure to buy something
• Expensive time of the year that leads up to debt and stress for many
• Can lead to a lot of family drama from disagreements, arguments, to uncomfortable situations
• The ones that are single are left all alone, for some it can be the loneliest time of the year
• Pressure to create the most perfect christmas
• Reality of christmas tends to fall short with disappointments
• Overindulgence of food and drink leads to sickness, accidents, and bad habits
• Lack of sunlight and no snow can make many feel dull and emotionless in the winter season
• Lots of disruptions to routine
• Lots of traffic congestion on the roads and many travel delays
• Huge environmental impact
• That weird feeling when you have a decorated tree stuck in the house when it should be outside
• When that turkey is badly cooked and gives you the taste of dry, flavorless, gamey, sour, and metallic all in one
• Leads to post-christmas blues with all the letdown, sadness, and depression
• It makes everyone focus on materialism
• Crime rate sky rockets across cities
• Work schedules are disrupted
• Meeting new family members that you never knew existed, hadn't seen in ages, and are then in a situation to explain why you haven't seen them for so long
• That feeling of stuffiness and chaos when there is so much going on in one household
• Everyone is interested in taking photos with you
• Those same christmas songs keep repeating over and over and over again
• Some one always has to have that smelly sock by the fireplace
• When you don't get the gift you wanted but the one you explicitly said you didn't want
• When someone gives you a bunch of gift cards because they couldn't be bothered to buy you a present
• When someone gives you the same gift you gave them last christmas
• When you are stuck opening that ugly looking insane gift that you hate in front of the family like it was the best gift you ever got
• Finding a parking space can suddenly take a very long time
• When you dread that electricity bill
• Christmas movies are bad
• Becomes a breakup season for many with all the commotion, stress, and pressure
• Lots of random hookups because everyone is so drunk
• People get that unusual sense of motivation to cheat on their spouses
• Those awkward office parties where people are overly social especially ones you never knew suddenly start showing interest in you
• Having to continue that lie about santa so someone's child won't feel miserable

Gitcoin

Gitcoin

Eth Limo

Eth Limo

How Dramas Achieve Emotional Engagement?

Drama shows are basically idealized versions of reality that are designed for entertainment value and emotional engagement. This is how they achieve engagement.

• Exaggeration for Effect: Amplification of emotions, conflicts, and plots to create a captivating narrative. The heightened sense of emotions create larger-than-life characters with over dramatized coincidences.
• Simplified Conflicts: While real life problems are more complex, dramas depict simplified versions of conflicts and resolutions in order for the audience to find it easier to follow and understand. 
• Focus on Entertainment: Focus is on entertainment which prioritizes engaging storylines, memorable characters, satisfactory plot lines and resolutions.
• Time Constraints: Storylines are fast paced due to limited budgets with a timeframe.
• Idealized Portrayals: Furthermore, idealized versions of relationships, careers, lifestyles add to the dreamy but life-like feel to dramas.
• Creative License: There is creative freedom to shape the narrative and character dynamics to articulate the story even if it veers away from reality.

What is a Thought Chain?

Chain of Thought Prompting (AI):

• Pattern to improve reasoning and problem-solving in LLMs
• Rather than directly asking for an answer the prompting provides a way to think through the problem step-by-step as an outlined process
• Helps model breakdown complex tasks into smaller steps towards a more accurate result

Stream of Consciousness (Psychology):

• Psychological phenomenon where thoughts and ideas flow freely and unfiltered with no care for grammatical or logical structure
• The capture of raw unedited flow of consciousness as it happens

A Series of Connected Thoughts (General):

• Series of connected thoughts or ideas that follow a certain reasoning or association
• Something that may start as a memory, then an emotion, then a reflection of past experience

Notion, Thought, and Concept

Notion:

• General idea or belief
• Vaguely defined impression of a fleeting idea and more subjective
• Sparks of ideas

Thought:

• Mental process of reasoning
• Involves a conscious or unconscious process
• Involves ideas, images, feelings
• Mental processes that fuel notions

Concept:

• General idea or understanding
• Defined and objective 
• Involves past experience or knowledge
• Fully formed, well-defined ideas resulting from thoughts

Evolution of Narrative Fiction

Evolution of Narrative Fiction

Physical Intelligence

Physical Intelligence

Generalist Robot

Top AI, NLP, and KG Influencers on Web

• Andrew Ng
• Lex Fridman
• Yann LeCun
• Fei-Fei Li
• Gary Marcus
• Timmit Gebru
• Andrej Karpathy
• Demis Hassabis
• Geoffrey Hinton
• Yoshua Bengio
• Ian Goodfellow
• Cassie Kozyrkov
• Meredith Whittaker
• Kai-Fu Lee
• Sebastian Ruder
• Yoav Goldberg
• Emily M. Bender
• Chris Manning
• Richard Socher
• Kyunghyun Cho
• Danny Britz
• Evan Jones
• Angelica Lim
• Stuart Russell
• Hugging Face Team
• Oriol Vinyals
• Quoc Le
• Matthew Mayo
• Ines Montani
• Ali Rahimi
• Been Kim
• Mark Needham
• Kelly Sommers
• Jessica Kerr
• Bonnie Zhang
• Daniel Garijo
• Amy E Hodler
• Margaret Mitchell
• Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Steven Pinker
• Daniel Kahneman

Faster Time To Market Programming Languages

• Python: clear syntax, extensive libraries, and wide range of frameworks for rapid prototyping and development
• Javascript: ubiquitous language on the web with vast ecosystem of libraries and frameworks
• Dart: hot reloads, flutter framework, strong typing and ahead-of-time compilation with a growing ecosystem
• Go: designed for efficiency and concurrency for building scalable and performant systems
• Kotlin: concise and expressive syntax, strong type system and null safety, multiplatform support, a growing ecosystem, and interoperability with Java (though that slight dependency on Java may not be for everyone's taste)

What determines faster time to market?

• Language Design and Implementation
• Development Tools and Frameworks
• Community and Ecosystem

Elements of Behavioral Economics

• Bounded Rationality: limited cognitive resources leads to imperfect rational decisions and may rely on heuristics with limited access to information at the time 
• limited cognitive capacity
• incomplete information
• time constraints
• Cognitive Biases: Errors in judgement influence decision-making like loss aversion, framing effect, anchoring bias
• Prospect Theory: Values vary in gains and losses, people are more risk-averse when facing losses, decisions vary on risk, uncertainty, and probability
• loss aversion
• value function
• probability weighting
• reference point
• Social Influences: choices are influenced by social norms and peer pressure
• Choice Architecture: presentation of choices influences decision-making 
• power of presentation
• nudging behavior
• defaults
• framing
• incentives
• simplification
• References:
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
• Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
• The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
• Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
• The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life
• Behavioral Economics
• Advances in Behavioral Economics
• behavioraleconomics.com
• behavioral scientist
• The Behavioral Scientist
• Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
• American Economic Review
• MIT Courseware - Psychology and Economics

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