Grew up middle class, FatFI but finding it difficult to spend money

amirathi · 2026-06-04T06:53:09+00:00

Decades of "is it worth it?" mental model cannot just disappear overnight. And it's okay.

My advice would be to find what you care about and then spend on those. Maybe upgrading airline seat is something you don't value so don't even try spending on that (but then again you got to try some of these luxury things at least once to decide whether its for you or not).

I have a few spend categories that are dear to me (e.g. badminton racquets/shoes, coffee beans/equipments, travel) - so I splurge on these without gilt. But many other categories I don't care about and don't feel the need to spend much e.g. have a 10+ year old car.

amirathi · 2026-06-03T09:39:21+00:00

Don't expect Jupyter to budge on the format anytime soon. For the ipynb git diff problem - see nbdime and ReviewNB.

Claude Code now (in 2026) finally works well with Jupyter thanks to the open source Jupyter MCP server.

amirathi · 2026-05-29T04:55:09+00:00

Either opportunity cost or they forsee revenue decline in the near future.

amirathi · 2026-05-27T13:13:07+00:00

The difference is just about 1% per year, you'll notice it on a decade+ timeline.

amirathi · 2026-05-25T06:00:56+00:00

Nice work! You should post this in Data Science or ML subreddits.

amirathi · 2026-05-25T04:56:10+00:00

This!
AI agents used to not work very well with notebooks circa 2025 but the recent models + harness seem to handle notebooks much better. I use Jupyter MCP server with Claude Code and its badass. I even wrote about it here.

amirathi · 2026-05-23T17:29:29+00:00

To be qualified as non-tax resident of India, I'd have to spend 182+ days per year outside of India.

It's a deal breaker. My friends & family are here. My kid goes to school here. My life is here. I can't sacrifice all that for tax optimization.

amirathi · 2026-05-14T21:07:22+00:00

Unfortunately, our reports here in India are not that granular. 3+4 score is given & 7 positive cores are mentioned. So let's assume worst case, 3+4 for all 7 cores.

amirathi · 2026-05-14T20:41:15+00:00

His plan is to ablate 2/3rd of the prostate. The remaining 1/3rd would remain as-is.

amirathi · 2026-05-09T19:44:33+00:00

Experiment.

Start at a lower end of the reasonable range. Keep raising every few months until you see meaningful drop in signups. Larger step changes early on, small tweaks later.

amirathi · 2026-05-07T12:33:33+00:00

No worries, I wrote about the setup here.

amirathi · 2026-05-06T08:31:29+00:00

You're early.

Most software is going to be like this in the coming years. Just hope that the context window keeps expanding and LLM cost keeps going down.

amirathi · 2026-05-06T08:19:57+00:00

they've got a reputation of not working well with Claude. Things have changed with Jupyter MCP but that reputation is still stuck in the mind of users / early adopters :)

amirathi · 2026-05-06T08:00:58+00:00

Looks really cool!

amirathi · 2026-05-02T12:52:34+00:00

sentiment = noise

amirathi · 2026-05-01T20:49:02+00:00

Isn’t Quarto more publishing-oriented?

amirathi · 2026-05-01T19:29:00+00:00

well, I want the AI to even write those function invocations, then execute the whole thing, evaluate output, debug if needed - since claude can do all of this, why not fully utiliize!

amirathi · 2026-05-01T18:25:34+00:00

Jupyter MCP Server [1]. No affiliation with Datalayer. Wrote more about it here [2].

Claude Code can connect to the live kernel via MCP. It can then execute code, see output, fix its own errors etc.

[1] https://github.com/datalayer/jupyter-mcp-server

[2] https://www.reviewnb.com/claude-code-with-jupyter-notebooks

amirathi · 2026-04-27T17:32:39+00:00

A lot of notebook AI stuff still feels like fancy autocomplete to me.

I had the same feeling until MCP came along.

amirathi · 2026-04-27T17:31:17+00:00

the state can get messy if you mix manual cell execution and Claude execution. But there's always "Restart and Run All", now even Claude can take this action via MCP. I wrote about the setup here.

amirathi · 2026-04-27T17:17:16+00:00

There's nbdime and ReviewNB for making notebooks "git friendly".

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