It’s insane that there is a partial government shutdown happening which means tsa agents have been working without pay for a month but this country can also spend more than a billion a day on a useless war. If this happened in India there would general strikes and bharat bandhs galore with violence on streets against the govt. Americans are truly remarkable people.
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I am aware the same argument will work in reverse too if data science wanted product management time. I am also fairly certain AI will do a pretty good job of my job too. We are truly in a different territory here and if you are in tech you should at this point really think through how you can use AI to augment and keep you a step ahead of it as long as you can.
I gave a page long prompt to internal ai tool to do some deep discovery and do data analysis on given data. It’s been 15 minutes and it’s still doing its analysis. It’s tempting to think this is so slow, but I know that if I have the same problem to my data science team they would give me a 2 week estimate to come with analysis. Why would I go to my data science team?
It’s strange every time I see Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli post retirement in pictures and videos, Rohit always looks happy and enjoying the game, while every thing about Kohli seems like he is just perpetually angry or dissatisfied. Rohit just looks so chill and really enjoys the game on or off the field with no airs around himself.
I have actually never seen a single episode of “The Wire”. I started watching it once and stopped midway at first episode. I lived in Baltimore from 2001-2004 for masters, have taken public transport through some of the worst areas of Baltimore (of course only in daylight!) and was relieved when I finally left it so why do I want watch a tv show shot in and around same areas hehe. I know I should see it though at some point. It’s been years if not a decade or more I have been to Baltimore and I have no desire to visit this city.
Don’t get what was going on in England and New Zealand’s game plan last two matches. Both won the toss and made India bat which I think was a foolish idea. England came close but common sense would indicate that in a pressure cooker match against a side like India you are much better off putting pressure on India to chase rather than them put up a total.
Of all the places in dc that stupid, no make that incredibly stupid Indian couple decided to film a dance for tiktok reels at the World War II memorial. The one place in national mall that invites the worst of this country and is littered with maga galore – that place. And now they maybe deported. Good riddance. I support their deportation. Even if the place was not maga central, a war memorial is no place for a ridiculous dance video – like what the fuck were this couple thinking! Like you have entire fucking national mall with so so so many options for this. https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/indian-origin-man-madhu-raju-face-deportation-viral-video-tik-tok-dance-world-war-two-memorial-washington-dc-us-2878879-2026-03-08
My teen’s Iranian best friend is coming over for a sleepover so they both can watch the f1 race tonight. There was a third Iranian girl who wanted to join too but apparently their parents didn’t want to send her to our place without meeting us first because as my kid says her friend said “we are not Iranians”. My kid thought it was highly inappropriate of her to say this and it was racist – I didn’t think it was. I told her that her parents are looking out for her and they want to make sure whose house their teen is gonna spend a night at. But why phrase it “because we are not Iranians!” She quipped and I was like while word choice may have been weird, if she was going for a sleep over at a white family’s house whose parents we have never met, I would think exactly like her parents, and actually would be less concerned if her friends were Indian actually. Not that I wouldn’t be concerned but just being a desi myself, I would subconsciously trust my own people (even if unfounded) than I would trust a white family I have never met. We offered to FaceTime the other family but they never got back and so she is not coming – an outcome my kid didn’t mind coz she didn’t like the other girl much anyway. All is well that ends well.
A part of it I guess is growing up around boys? But even the boys we know don’t follow as many sports as her so even if that was a catalyst, I don’t think it’s as much anymore. The kid now has a reputation of being the “sports gal” in her circle lol and desi in me is like I wish you were known as the “math girl” 😆
Apparently f1 is now her favorite sport. So much so thst she has a sleepover planned with her best friend so they can both watch it live. How why when all this happened, I have no idea. What about arsenal then I asked? What about them she said – I still like watching them but now f1 is my favorite. It’s funny to see our kid be way more sports obsessed than either her mom or dad are. At her age all I cared for was cricket but even that too was not crazy level – I actually grew to love cricket more later in life. Anyway, sports is wonderful interest so more power to her.