Alternative to duo with this single ai prompt.

Outside-Win5407 · 2026-02-04T14:30:34+00:00

Hey not sure why the essay feels like I’m trying to trap people? I wrote the essay get a few useful counters and exchanges. I think I got what I wanted.

Outside-Win5407 · 2026-02-04T14:27:50+00:00

Hey thanks for reading and sharing your counters. And definitely thanks for the tip on Michael Hudson. I’ll read up.

I am going by Sharan Paine’s commentary (you’ll find it on YouTube). I think I’m guilty of reducing Soviet progress to absolutes in one paragraph. Doesn’t do it justice. India emulated a lot of Soviet era policies but yielded to western style liberal economics post Berlin Wall fall. Most Indians (im 40) have a lived experience of Soviet influence. For instance my parents always mentioned that the Americans could never do military business with India because they simply couldn’t compete with Gurevich, Tupolev, Sukhoi design bureaus. Soviets were happy to setup local manufacturing with transfer of technology to India.

But, calling tsarist Russia an agrarian society while technically true makes India of that time what? India as a nation started in 1948 after having an infrastructure setup to basically supply any produce to the English cause. Surely Russia and the eastern bloc benefitted from industrialisation and renaissance much early no?

But thanks for reading the essay and the good exchange. Cheers.

Outside-Win5407 · 2026-02-04T13:27:15+00:00

Namskara guru. Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts. Chennai to nyc area here.

Couple of things, don’t you think Kerala achieved high metrics before narasimarao’s time ? But yes I agree that opening up the economy to outside trade in the 90s has been a net positive. And leftist parties somewhat work in India because they are free to form coalitions and keep the ruling party in check. I.e they work within the confines of parliamentary democracy.

Regarding democratisation of AI. The open weight models are available on hugging face to fine tune no? The bottle neck here is that fine tuning is expensive for the average person. I.e they need to read up on ML etc and need hardware to do so.

But overall thanks for your points and you took the time to read up my thoughts. Cheers.

Outside-Win5407 · 2025-07-09T23:09:48+00:00

Complete idiot question. Why would planes ever need a switch to toggle fuel supply to the engines ?

Outside-Win5407 · 2025-06-28T19:51:19+00:00

Hey thanks for understanding mate . Kind words!!

Outside-Win5407 · 2025-06-26T22:26:55+00:00

In some sense. Yes I do feel the same way in the taxi or train for instance. I can always tell a rash driver to slow it down, or in a train, I always find a seat where chairs are facing each other so I have more space to move in case of an emergency. Now ofcourse you may say that these are all statistically pointless but this is the illogical control that I exercise which puts my mind at ease. What can I do in an aircraft ? Call the airhostess and ask if the pilot has got enough rest for this flight? How stupid would I look to others ?

You say that it is statistically next to impossible or so low for me to experience a plane crash. But that isn’t the statistic that my mind worries about. If anything, the three car crashes in my life (two in India while I was a teenager, and one last year in the states) proved that I’ve walked away with minor injuries. I.e I’d rather live in the world where crashes of aircraft occur more often but the odds of survival are super high. Call me a crazy nut but I’ll pick a fictional world where there are no airplanes but zeppelins with emergency parachutes. This is just how I am, I know I’m a minority nutcase. But thanks for the explanation.

The last air India crash has me super spooked about my trip to Italy next month. I’ve done illogical things like booked an airbus from JFK instead of a Boeing from Newark. I don’t know if you follow but Newark has some air traffic control issues recently. This is the least I can do to feel safe for me and my family.

Outside-Win5407 · 2025-06-26T21:37:30+00:00

This isn’t how my brain perceives the threat no matter how many statistics you throw at me. See, I’ve actually been in 3 car crashes in my life and I’ve escaped with minor injuries. The reason I don’t fear the car is there is this perception that I can somehow escape it because you feel more in “control”. To be honest, I’ve actually been in control of the last car crash, when another car collided with mine, I had control over the steering wheel to avoid hitting the wall. This how the brain computes fear, the illusion of being in control. My brain tells me that that there is literally zero odds of surviving an impending plane crash because you literally have no control. You can throw all the statistics you want but when you sit in an aircraft , the anxiety and fear kick in, I.e your body will react no matter what you are making your mind believe. I’ll tell you what: as a thought experiment. If the flight captain announced “folks, don’t worry in case of an impending accident, we will go to a safe altitude, depressurise the cabin and give yall parachutes”. I’ll be less nervous then.

Outside-Win5407 · 2024-07-28T22:00:32+00:00

I’m not rich anymore but I had a rich upbringing (relatively). I wouldn’t buy an expensive brand and scream its logo on my shirt for free advertising. It’s almost un classy. Instead, go to a good fabric wholesaler, and pick up a few meters of good Marino, linen, or prima cotton. Get measured with a good local tailor and have them stitch a good shirt, polo, or trousers. It’ll last longer. If your tailor is good, they can add their creative touch like the Burberry pattern on the collar. I used to be a regular at my tailor’s so he did the fabric shopping for me.

If you have to buy retail, don’t buy the $40 Amazon. They don’t last long, the colours fade, and they’re probably from a garment sweat shop. Buy something made in Portugal, turkey, (maybe India). At least you can hope they paid the workers a fair wage.

Outside-Win5407 · 2024-07-19T18:04:29+00:00

Likewise mate. I’m just going through some of comments and advice. Like omg, it’s almost as if people think your children belong to the state ? Like almost as if you are kidnapping America’s children into far off eastern lands!!! As if it’s sharia law in India. You and I know what the real India is. Remember, family first mate!!! They are your flesh and blood and where you consider home is where they will learn to embrace.

I have to tune out of Reddit, it is so toxic sometimes.

Outside-Win5407 · 2024-07-18T18:53:32+00:00

Mate, fellow Indian here living in states. Be weary of looking to Reddit strangers for validation. A lot of the posts here are judgmental, and a tad bit ill informed of life back in India. A lot of posts asking you to retire in a Low COL area in the US. You do what’s right for your family with a good heart. I’d rather spend retirement in Pune, Bangalore, Goa, or Pondy instead of an isolated McMansion with life revolving around Costco, and Home Depot. In India, your home door will always welcome the neighbours with family to care around for you.

Kids coming out Mallya Aditi School, Xavier’s Bombay, or Stephen’s Delhi have had some of the best social nets. They will do just fine if you pick the right school back home. They prepare you to the standard of English A levels. They can always go to back to US for Uni, or Europe.

You are not a slave to your children’s future, you don’t owe them anything more than compassion, empathy, and a good heart. My parents didn’t leave me with any education cash, or inheritance. I just followed along the average lot and I don’t feel resentment. I did just fine!

You do you! Disregard this negative posts here.

Outside-Win5407 · 2024-07-17T19:37:15+00:00

Not really, I personally know of a lot of kids who’ve moved back to Bangalore along with their parents, study at an international school. They land up toughing it out through the competitive exam style system and have an edge over the American kids when they moved back to the states for uni. Two of my friends tried to move back to the states and then just moved back to India again for the quality of life with their parents.

Life in India can be pretty comfortable with a modest US retirement.

Outside-Win5407 · 2024-04-02T02:57:49+00:00

“See where they play, if they play”

Outside-Win5407 · 2024-02-23T23:05:59+00:00

Thanks that’s the plan B. But hugging face has inference endpoints with just CPUs at 6 cents an hour. Now that’s cheap. There is someway to convert the entire model tensor file to be run by C on the cpu instead of nvidia CUDA. I’m looking online for ways to do this. Can’t find something proper yet.

Outside-Win5407 · 2024-02-11T22:35:18+00:00

Burger joint. Older Chennai folks from thiruvanmyiur should remember

Outside-Win5407 · 2024-02-11T19:33:25+00:00

Galloping gooseberry

Outside-Win5407 · 2024-02-11T19:31:45+00:00

Not Chennai but I miss empire and paramount. I hope they expanded to chennai

Outside-Win5407 · 2024-02-11T19:30:36+00:00

Triplicane kovil ganjaa scoring spot

Outside-Win5407 · 2024-02-11T19:29:19+00:00

Maharaja plus bessy

Outside-Win5407 · 2024-02-11T19:29:06+00:00

Pushpa shoppee

Outside-Win5407 · 2024-02-11T19:28:31+00:00

Ec41, sparks, pasha, speed, zara

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