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Karma, Free Lunches– Lessons from the world of LLM

If you do not believe in Karma, you got to think again. If you think there are free lunches, then you must be living under a rock. Remember when Gmail offered 1 GB of MailBox at no cost. It was not just mails, it was a slew of utility in the form of tech, tools and apps that made our lives seemingly easier. We mailed, we messaged, we reviewed, we blogged, we vlogged, we trolled, we bought, we sold, we shared, we shamed, we lapped up the free internet with both hands and drank from the hose and as we kept drinking the ocean of soda-pop (internet) from one end, we were filling up the ocean with more fizz with every time drop of information that we put into it. This ocean of information is the super intelligence which manifests itself today as Gen AI- Open AI, Gemini, Grok… Simplistically, this is nothing but the sum total of all our collective Karma on the web. The Web that fed the AI, has the Ying and the Yang and everything in between. We are not far away from a day where we switch our...
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Everything is overrated

  Everything is overrated - money, career, marks, success, failure, popularity, relationships, trends, fashion, sex... (especially sex - all the titillation thrust at us lifelong across all forms of media and entertainment. You just can’t get a break from the only formula some humans think that humanity needs. Now the AI algorithms think so too :)) If you think you are not scoring enough as yet on one or more of these aspects, do not fret. There is enough time for you to get bored with whatever you are desperate for today, just relax. So, what are we here for, anyway. The answer I liked the best so far was from a sermon that I heard from a monk recently. In summary, he said, we all are a part of the superpower (God) that created us. We have over a period forgotten what our origin is and what we are capable of being. We have relegated us to be human like when we are perfectly capable of being God like. Our aim in this lifetime is to get close to becoming one with The One. Almo...
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The World Cup that did not have a Winner!

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As if on cue to my r ecent blog post on ICC rules that are crying for change , we witnessed one more farcical ICC rule at play in the most decorated match played in 2019, yes the world cup final, and it significantly upped the luck factor for one of the teams involved in the well contested battle. I do not have a problem with the rule where the match gets decided by the most number of boundaries scored by a team even if after the super over the score remains a tie, which was the case for this match.  We need something to break the tie and this is one way where ICC chose to reward the team which played more bold and entertaining cricket. Rightly so, England, amidst muted celebrations lifted the much coveted trophy that they so badly wanted. If they so badly wanted it, then why were the celebrations so muted? Well I guess possibly because England felt guilty being awarded 4 extra runs for an overthrow during the last over.  Not that they could not have won otherwise, bu...
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3 simple changes ICC can bring about to not let down the game of Cricket

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Luck, it seems, can play a big role in life. You start for the airport 2 hours before the departure of your flight and still miss the flight. Bad luck! Is it really? It really depends upon from which place you tried to pull of this stunt? In a city like Bangalore, it is asking for trouble. If you had checked with locals or even merely checked the Google maps, you would have known that you should have doubled the time you gave yourself. There are lot many such situations where we attribute it to “luck” when all it was needed to make it “science” was simple application of mind. If you follow the game of cricket , go ahead and read on. If you don’t follow the game, let me improve your luck by telling you upfront that this one is not for you. Thanks to the format and the rules, as such explaining the game to a novice is difficult, trying to explain the loopholes and issues in those rules and format can be a nightmare and could derail me. Sports, in general, has its share of luck...
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Taxes this year, is your incentive next year

2016 A.D will go down as a landmark year in the history of India. Demonetization came in as surgical strikes on Black Money (In the process it also temporarily affected lives or normal people who are law abiding as well - but the inconvenience was more than welcome as it was a part of the war on black money.) Let us assume that over a period of time the above initiative increases the tax paying population of the country significantly from the current single digit percentage of population who do pay taxes. It is very important for a nation to make the people lovingly pay taxes instead of grudgingly or forcibly doing so- along the lines of some of the welfare nations of Scandinavian countries. How can we turn around this behavioral trait? The below article explores a simple way to start https://www.change.org/p/finance-ministry-incentivise-income-tax-payers-make-them-feel-proud-to-pay-their-taxes When will this be a reality?
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Managing Innovation

Innovation has always excited me. It meant doing something better and different from what was expected. I have invariably moved on to roles and opportunities which required innovation. In each of those roles, when it was felt that we had innovated enough at that point, I have been lucky to move on to a different role.   Over the course of my career in both IT Products and IT Services organizations, I have had opportunities to both manage innovation and be managed to innovate in structured and unstructured ways. Based on my experiences with innovation- first hand, observed and hearsay, I have tried to pen down my gospel for managing innovation. My gospel for managing innovation: 1.        Quality over Quantity One of my most important learning in managing innovation is that when it comes to innovation, quality and not quantity is the way to go. What I mean by that is, while it might seem very rational and logical to institutionalize inno...
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What you give is what you get (WYGiWYG)- Make your World a bit better, a lot faster- Part 3

Just to refresh your memory, in Part # 1 of my blog on this subject I referred to WYGiWYG (What you give is What you get) as a Crowd Source Ideation and Application Development platform where you and me can come together and put together an application, market it, get it going and hand it over to the Government when the benefit of the application is there for anyone to see. In this blog, as planned earlier, I am going to elaborate on the Framework for Integrated Helpdesk for good Governance (Through Public Opinion and Feedback), an example for an Application/ Infrastructure that can get built through this WYGiWYG platform “A Problem needs to be reported first in order to be solved”, That is the basic premise behind this “Integrated Helpdesk”. This is a proposal to enable the various public interfacing functions/departments of State Govts.  and/or the Central Govt. to listen to the actual problems of the people and to their views/Requests for improvements through an Inte...
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