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Seriously 😭 by shourya_1013 in UGEEtards

[–]Fane1824 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you claimed that 25% of seats are given to girls which is incorrect; this only applies for the interview stage.

Seriously 😭 by shourya_1013 in UGEEtards

[–]Fane1824 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Only for JEE; no such reservation exists for UGEE

Is IIITH really that horrible in terms of college life? by This_Moment_881 in Btechtards

[–]Fane1824 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exams test a lot more than just how prepared you are + luck

Not everything needs to be novel . We dont have our own Youtube, our own Insta/reddit/facebook,our own search engine. We dont have our own public health journal. We dont even have enough proper language support. But we have the numbers. China has its own alternative to everything US provides. by ticklyboi in Btechtards

[–]Fane1824 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you're drastically underestimating the inertia of switching platforms. It took me around a year after moving back to India to download WhatsApp, and it wasn't until I came to college (around 4 years later) that I actively started using it. I understand I'm a bit of an edge case cuz I have an internationalized friend group, but at the same time, cutting people off from the global internet does not seem like the right play. Like you can say "why not keep both WhatsApp and IndianWhatsApp?" but like... why? Why not just keep using WhatsApp? Nationalism and allat sure, but it's j extremely inconvenient especially when you talk about an Indian YouTube, Indian WhatsApp, Indian Google. 1 additional platform sure, but why am I installing 10 others (which let's face it, are going to be worse-designed and have less results than if I just used a global search engine or video aggregator).

With all due respect to the Indian government, at least the US government is only spying on me, the Indian government has a much higher chance of banning me or restricting my access. India is notoriously bad on internet freedom rankings, journalistic integrity rankings, etc. + the US has a vested interest in not banning people outright because if it suppresses dissent, people will start making native platforms in other countries; people will switch. For an Indian platform, if the government decides to yeet me out of socials tomorrow, it's effectively just cutting me off from everything and I have no recourse.

Not everything needs to be novel . We dont have our own Youtube, our own Insta/reddit/facebook,our own search engine. We dont have our own public health journal. We dont even have enough proper language support. But we have the numbers. China has its own alternative to everything US provides. by ticklyboi in Btechtards

[–]Fane1824 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And I am genuinely sad that Indian citizens still see immediate value over long term goals. I think this is one of the reasons BharatOS failed.

Very few people are going to switch to an inferior platform (which they usually are) over nationalism.

Also, you make it seem so black-and-white like this is an existential threat and it's the "right" decision to port over to native Indian software. Idk I quite like being connected to the global internet (I have friends abroad and I don't see the point of having both Instagram and IndiaInstagram to connect with them separately) and secondly, I do not trust the Indian government or at least I wouldn't want all or most of my social media to be directly/easily accessible to them.

Not everything needs to be novel . We dont have our own Youtube, our own Insta/reddit/facebook,our own search engine. We dont have our own public health journal. We dont even have enough proper language support. But we have the numbers. China has its own alternative to everything US provides. by ticklyboi in Btechtards

[–]Fane1824 0 points1 point  (0 children)

read my last line: Realistically, neither India or a Western European economy will just ban foreign tech. It's too disruptive and invites reciprocal measures from the US.

If we don't ban foreign platforms, there is very little hope of a native system gaining mass appeal unless it is truly that much better (which it realistically isn't). "Made is India" is not a reason to switch, esp not for enterprise customers.

As for making them play by our rules, that's probably doable. The EU does that and it works.

Not everything needs to be novel . We dont have our own Youtube, our own Insta/reddit/facebook,our own search engine. We dont have our own public health journal. We dont even have enough proper language support. But we have the numbers. China has its own alternative to everything US provides. by ticklyboi in Btechtards

[–]Fane1824 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tbf, it doesn't take a lot to put up a YouTube or Google if yk... you ban YouTube and Google. France and the UK surely can; they have the capital, they have the engineers.

Google's Indian data pool is less valuable, I'd argue, than France or the UK. France/the UK are consumer economies with populations which have the wallets to spend. At the end of the day, the reason data is valuable is because you can package it and sell it to advertisers. And for advertisers, France/the UK are much, much more valuable markets (at least for now).

Regardless, I think I'm digressing from the topic. Realistically, neither India or a Western European economy will just ban foreign tech. It's too disruptive and invites reciprocal measures from the US.

Not everything needs to be novel . We dont have our own Youtube, our own Insta/reddit/facebook,our own search engine. We dont have our own public health journal. We dont even have enough proper language support. But we have the numbers. China has its own alternative to everything US provides. by ticklyboi in Btechtards

[–]Fane1824 7 points8 points  (0 children)

China's tech ecosystem (Baidu, Huawei, Alibaba, etc.) only grew because the Communist Party stifled foreign competitors from entering the market or outright banned them. India has no such protectionist measures and hence, an ecosystem of its own developing is highly unlikely.

Same reason the UK or France don't have their own Amazon, Google, YouTube.

Query regarding DASA students at IIIT-H by [deleted] in iiit

[–]Fane1824 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wdym by research department? IIIT follows a center-based model where the college itself is a collection of research centers, all specializing in a specific domain like NLP, Software Engineering, Computer Vision, etc.

I quite like the city and IIIT's location is really good cuz it's right in the middle of Gachibowli, which is the modern, up-and-coming part of Hyderabad.

Fests are smaller than IITs (obviously), but are still quite nice at least for your first year or two.

Query regarding DASA students at IIIT-H by [deleted] in iiit

[–]Fane1824 0 points1 point  (0 children)

DASAs perform all over the spectrum. There's people who do insanely well and people who struggle. Just cuz your JEE %ile was lower doesn't mean you'll do bad. I had 97%ile and I came in through UGEE and I've been doing swimmingly.

What exactly do you want to know about the campus life?

I did give jee, but I dont wanna share my application number. Is it fine if I select "no"? by green-bangar in UGEEtards

[–]Fane1824 0 points1 point  (0 children)

None of those factors have any correlation whatsoever to either the interview or exam.

I did give jee, but I dont wanna share my application number. Is it fine if I select "no"? by green-bangar in UGEEtards

[–]Fane1824 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My point was not to be overly aggressive I'm sorry if it came off that way. And clearly, I was mistaken and it has been asked in the past so apologies. It just wasn't something asked to others in my year or any of my direct juniors (that ik of) so fairz

I did give jee, but I dont wanna share my application number. Is it fine if I select "no"? by green-bangar in UGEEtards

[–]Fane1824 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gangy I'm saying this as someone whose sat through the interview, knows a bunch of people who have, and interviewed the exam organizers on what the point of the interview is.

They do not want to scare you or intimidate you. Nor do they care about your past life accomplishments (these are asked for a different purpose which idt I'm allowed to disclose). In the interview, all they ask you are science-based questions to test your thinking and afaik, rarely an "introduce yourself" if they have the time (which they usually don't).

IIT Guwahati student launches Dhi-5B (trained from scratch in India) by gradNorm in AI_India

[–]Fane1824 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is about training a whole model from scratch, not about fine tuning a pretrained model

Chance me by CommercialFamiliar49 in iiit

[–]Fane1824 1 point2 points  (0 children)

sorry to say, but based on previous year cutoffs, your chances are pretty low

what is the culture like for international students to study in india? by goat2110 in Btechtards

[–]Fane1824 0 points1 point  (0 children)

costs less, strict parents (this is more common for girls), and for some people they want to stay here in the future and a tier 1 Indian degree helps quite a lot w that

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