How many of you remember this from November 2004? In 2024, Americans proved that they just got dumber with time.

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!

Both Hijack S2 and Drops of God S2 have been so meh so far, especially the latter. At least Hijack is a thriller, drops of god is becoming so insufferable and pretentious.

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.

I have nothing to do so I am watching SOTU and my god the comedy horror that this crap is.

🍿 Fall (2022) – ★★☆☆☆

Fall poster

The movie has some legit vertigo inducing scenes. But it runs out of steam so quickly with horrendous acting to boot. Wish it was better – there was a decent movie in there somewhere.

With today’s matches it absolutely looks like India may have hard time even qualifying for semis, given the form the other three countries are in. Thanks India for making this World Cup suddenly interesting and especially this group!

My manager left for a week long getaway with his wife over weekend to…. some place near Puerto Vallarta. I have been trying to get hold of him since morning after all the news about escalating violence down there. I hope to hear from him soon.