Fifteen years to the day since mom passed. It feels forever ago and not too long ago at the same time. Time has healed the wounds so to speak. The first few years of her anniversary were hard on me and family, but over time all of us have moved on in many ways. Dad still does his puja and all, but now life just goes on after a quick prayer in the mind wishing her well. A part of me still imagines what would have life been if she was still around.
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Rinku Singh’s dad died just 2 days ago. The guy went and came back to the team in no time. This is not something to be celebrated or praised as “duty to country BS”. This is purely an indication of insecurity and feeling that you cannot let go off your back lest someone else take your spot feeling. It’s a terrible. (I know it’s possible he hated his dad and all that, but it’s still setting a terrible example)
So many of my colleagues and acquaintances are now talking about creating a passive income source to hedge against AI taking their jobs. I know folks who started a soccer academy, another colleague wants to open bakery franchise, and a few others looking to real estate rentals for income. I am not sure of any of it though. If AI is going to take away white collar jobs wholesale, people will have no money to spend on any of these. We are staring at a collapsing society if jobs disappear like that and no amount of donuts are going to bring you that needed income. I get the idea of creating a secondary source of income I just don’t know what will click though.
A is in India for a personal trip but she was asked to come to work for a day in Chennai as a big chunk of USA team is also there next week so she was asked if she could come. Now the team of Americans and Indian-Americans are already there and news of Iran war came out. The company issued an advisory that all Americans should stay put in their hotel room until further notice. In Chennai. Obviously the desis didn’t listen coz we know better, but a couple of white people who did travel are locked in their hotel rooms it seems. And all I can think is Americans really do feel that the entire world centers around them and everyone is out to get them. We had a good laugh at this and I was like good , just ask the whites to stay put in hotel entire week and you can just enjoy the fun by yourselves. Grow up, white people, you are not the victims 😂
🍿 Ikkis (2026) – ★★★★☆
Even with inconsistent editing, Ikkis is the anti-war war movie we need today. I watched this only coz of Sriram Raghavan behind the camera and it didn’t disappoint. No jingoism of any kind, and represents Pakistanis as humans with feelings – it’s a surprise that a deeply emphatic movie about people on both sides can get made in India today. The performances are all first rate but bookended by Dharmendra’s bittersweet and endearing last performance. I did not expect an Indian movie to take a tone like this movie did about India Pakistan.
This is the first company I am working that is completely dominated by Asians (non-Indians). Whites and Indians are the minority in this company which is slightly different from all the other places I have worked at before – generally they have been Indian dominated followed by whites and Asians.
Imagine I was 2 million in debt on my already under water house, but I want to buy a house worth 5 million and I go to Bank of America and say give me the best rate possible what do you think they will say? They will kick me out is what they will do. This is exactly what Paramount is doing by trying to buy Warner Bros but banks and lenders are like cool cool it’s ok you take on 85 billion dollars in debt – the American public will bail you out eventually so why worry?
My boss is out this week so I am his proxy and A is in India so I am also solo parenting ubering the kid around for her activities, cooking, getting dog his daily activities and dealing with escalations at night. I can’t wait for both of them to be back and I will fucking take a few days off!
I don’t think Jensen and Musk are totally wrong when they say that in ai era new generation of learners are better off focusing on math and physics rather than coding. I am sure it extends to beyond math and physics. We are already seeing it play out in high school. Comp science is no longer the in thing for high schoolers even in stem focused (read CS) like TJ. A good majority are now opting for biotech / neuroscience / physics / math / medical tracks etc. Comp sci / coding is nowhere in the top list for any high schooler anymore. Who knows humanities and liberal arts may after all come back.
It’s not that I cannot write SQL queries to do data analysis, but I do struggle when I have to write complex queries and have to join multiple data sets. Now with AI tools, all I do is prompt the AI to build a query for me. I know enough to know what I want and I can look at query to see if it makes sense but I am not smart enough to write the query in 5 minutes like AI does. For things like this, AI is so good. However as they say, if the underlying data itself is junk or the schema is sub optimal even best AI is going to serve you half cooked meat.