The podcast covers a niche that is not common.

But all the episodes are not equally good, of course, and much depends on the guests.

I really liked the Carlo Rovelli episode (#2), the Tyler Cowen episode (#19), Kip Thorne (#24), Steven Strogatz (#41), etc.

Same habit with Python.

The Ju in Jupyter does stand for Julia, you know.

Pluto was a meh experience and I didn't keep using it.

Or do you read long form content in good magazines/newspapers on vaccines, disease, etc.?

Even the topics that I didn't enjoy, I did the essays, presentations, assignments myself, and that led me to learn at least something in those topics.

CS3110: OCaml Programming: Correct + Efficient + Beautiful [0]

It is one of the best programming resources that I know of.

[0]: https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html

I have delved deep in this matter, and read and plan to read multiple books in this theme:

1. Be As You Are: The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi - David Godman

2. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig

3. Franny and Zooey - JD Salinger

These come from top of my mind.

If you have the acumen, go read Bhagavad Gita, Gospel of Ramakrishna, Tao Te Ching, etc.

Many people mistake what is conveyed as "NPC" here as being quitters and losers, but it is about owning consequences like no other way.

He wrote 300 verses in Sanskrit. And they are on three different topics: sensuality and pleasure, policy and ethics, and finally renunciation.

In Shringar Shatakam (100 verses on sensual pleasures), he writes:

“Casting aside envy, considering the matter carefully, let the noble ones tell us, with due propriety: Which ought one to frequent — the slopes of the mountains, or the buttocks of women whose smiles are stirred by Love?”

and

“Why all this elaborate, pointless talk? There are only two things worth attending to in this world: the fresh, wine-intoxicated youth of beautiful women, heavy with their breasts - or the forest.”

But in the final book, he realizes the folly of the senses, and writes:

“Sensual objects will inevitably leave us, even after remaining with us for a long time. What difference is there between losing them and voluntarily abandoning them? When they depart against our will, they cause unbearable anguish; but when we ourselves abandon them, they produce the infinite happiness of inner tranquility.”

Amazing character.

2. LLM from 0 to Hero, and nanoGPT by Andrej Karpathy

Maintaining physical ones is not practical anymore - with travels and all.

I will listen to worse music if a human has written it, performing it.

You can listen to all sorts of great musicians on Spotify, but why do you go to live performances of real artists?

The only AI 'art' I am open to using are AI-gen images for illustrating blog posts, etc., when the illustrations are not central or key to the post.

For example, the AI model being used is also a big factor.

Gemini 3.5 Pro, Grok were like this - spewed nonsense advice for anything 'physical'. Grok gave me very poor gardening advice, as an example.

But Claude Opus 4.8, 5, GPT Sol 5.6 are much better in this front.

So, it is an AI/model issues, not a skill issue.

For the recall part of education, the book's exercise, or simply covering up the relevant part with hand and forcing a recall, writing about what you learned, teaching someone else - all work great, and the flow is much more natural.

We know how.

This does discourage real people to take up positions there.

Latest was my childhood friend; after his Master's from a reputed institutions, did not ultimately appear at a BARC interview and is now a PhD student in a really good institution.

This does happen.

It's totally, completely, fully different.

Have you ever worked as an electrician/plumber, etc.?

The amount of physical stress, sweat, exposure to bad weather, etc. are orders of magnitude higher than what you get as a tech worker, even in 38°C heat even without an AC.

Your comment reads like it's coming from someone who never ever worked physically even as a volunteer/for fun.

Any non-trivial amount of physical work will tell you that it’s many orders of magnitude tougher than working with computers.

The worst part is you gotta show up and work your ass off even when you have flu, or something like that, or you lose a day's wages.

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