kedarkhand (u/kedarkhand)

kedarkhand commented on How Kerala got rich aeon.co/essays/how-did-ke... · Posted by u/lordleft

alephnerd · a year ago

> best case scenario, the new youth leadership of UKD actually wins and does some work

Trust me. You don't want that. Ussi najuwane nu khadi pata ni hege (Kangri but translate to your equivalent)

kedarkhand · a year ago

Even if they lack experience, they are still a better alternative than BJP and Congress who have done nothing but loot Uttarakhand up to this point!

kedarkhand commented on How Kerala got rich aeon.co/essays/how-did-ke... · Posted by u/lordleft

alephnerd · a year ago

Uttarakhand will not develop unless there are incentives to invest outside of Dehradun.

HP doesn't have a "Dehradun", which means local netas have an incentive to invest in their zilla instead of hoarding cash and real estate in a major hub. Thus, Himachal benefited from a Pharma and Food Processing industrial policy in the 1990s-2000s that industrialized the rural area around Baddi and Una, and a lot of other smaller food processing and light manufacturing industries across lower Himachal.

Also, Uttarakhand has too few MLAs for the size of population. UK has 70 MLAs but 10 million people, but HP has 68 MLAs with 6.5 million people. This means UK MLAs are much more divorced from local panchayats compared to in HP.

There is a good case study about this at Harvard Business School [0]

[0] - https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/Asian_Survey_550...

kedarkhand · a year ago

Agree on the point of Dehradun, as for the number of MLA's, that is due to the growing concerns of the native Pahadi population. The plain regions of Uttarakhand have been settled by desi people in recent decades and due to the difference in population density and fertility rates, their population is growing more and more. Now the Pahadi people have genuine concerns that everything they fought for during the Uttarakhand Movement will go to waste. And this is already happening, the finance minister of Uttarakhand abused pahadi people in the Vidhan Sabha, thankfully due to many protests, he has resigned. But if plain regions get majority seats, it would give approx 18% of UK the right to govern the entire region!

kedarkhand commented on How Kerala got rich aeon.co/essays/how-did-ke... · Posted by u/lordleft

alephnerd · a year ago

> Fifty years ago it was one of India’s poorest states

Yea that is a absolutely wrong. A state that had the highest literacy rate at independence will unsurprisingly remain at the higher end of developmental rankings..

In the 1970s Kerala was already comparable to Indian states from a human development and economic standpoint because of a strong shipbuilding and cooperative agricultural program (same with then undivided Punjab) [0] and by 1990 had developmental indicators comparable to Delhi NCR.

Instead, we should look at states that were historically more undeveloped than Kerala but are now within range of Kerala.

As such, a better rags to riches model to dig into is Tamil Nadu [1] or Haryana [2] - both were on the lower end of India's HDI rankings in 1990, and now outperform most states and lead India in GDP per Capita as well.

Himachal Pradesh [3] and Jammu Kashmir [4][5] are two others to also look at, as they are historically undeveloped agrarian Himalayan border states with laggard developmental indicators that used land reform, cooperative agribusiness, mass rural education drives, and specialized manufacturing (Pharma in Himachal, Food Processing in Jammu) to have high HDIs.

[0] - https://eacpm.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/State-GDP-Wo...

[1] - https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-rep...

[2] - https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/comment/birth-of-h...

[3] - https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-rep...

[4] - https://ras.org.in/index.php?Article=land_reform_in_kashmir

[5] - https://cup.columbia.edu/book/a-strategic-myth/9788194717560...

kedarkhand · a year ago

Hopefully Uttarakhand can follow Himachal Pradesh, but it is ravaged by national parties as of now, best case scenario, the new youth leadership of UKD actually wins and does some work

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Zambyte · a year ago

I had been paying for both for several months, and I decided to cancel Perplexity about a month ago. First and foremost, I feel like the goals of Kagi align more with my goals. Perplexity is not afraid of ads and nagware (their discover feed was like 30% nags to turn on notifications at one point if you had them disabled, and it's still an annoying amount). I also really like the custom assistants in Kagi. I made a GNU Guix lens that limits my search results to resource related to Guix (official docs, mailing list and IRC archives, etc.) which I can access with !guix, and I made an assistant that uses that lens for web results that I can access with !guixc. I can ask something like "how do I install nginx?" and the answer will be about Guix. You can do some customization with your bio on Perplexity, but it kind of sucks tbh. It would randomly inject info about me into completely unrelated queries, and not inject the info when I wanted it to.

kedarkhand · a year ago

Would you be willing to share how did you that? New to both Kagi and Guix!

kedarkhand commented on Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures? · Posted by u/vessenes

ninetyninenine · a year ago

>1) You can't learn an accurate world model just from text. >2) Multimodal learning (vision, language, etc) and interaction with the environment is crucial for true learning.

LLMs can be trained with multimodal data. Language is only tokens and pixel and sound data can be encoded into tokens. All data can be serialized. You can train this thing on data we can't even comprehend.

Here's the big question. It's clear we need less data then an LLM. But I think it's because evolution has pretrained our brains for this so we have brains geared towards specific things. Like we are geared towards walking, talking, reading, in the same way a cheetah is geared towards ground speed more then it is at flight.

If we placed a human and an LLM in completely unfamiliar spaces and tried to train both with data. Which will perform better?

And I mean completely non familiar spaces. Like let's make it non Euclidean space and only using sonar for visualization. Something totally foreign to reality as humans know it.

I honestly think the LLM will beat us in this environment. We might've succeeded already in creating AGI it's just the G is too much. It's too general so it's learning everything from scratch and it can't catch up to us.

Maybe what we need is to figure out how to bias the AI to think and be biased in the way humans are biased.

kedarkhand · a year ago

> non Euclidean space and only using sonar for visualization

Pretty good idea for a video game!

kedarkhand commented on Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures? · Posted by u/vessenes

refulgentis · a year ago

> Because LLMs have terrible comprehension of the real world.

That doesn't seem to be the case.

> You: If you put a toddler next to a wig on the floor, which reaches higher? > ChatGPT: ...

I answered it wrong too.

I had to read it, and your reaction to the implied obvious reasoning 3 times, to figure out the implied obvious reasoning, and understand your intent was the toddler was standing and the wig was laying in a heap.

I scored 99.9+% on the SAT and LSAT. I think that implies this isn't some reasoning deficit, lack of familiarity with logical reasoning on my end, or lack of rigor in reasoning.

I have no particular interest in this argument. I think that implies that I'm not deploying motivated reasoning, i.e. it discounts the possibility that I may have experienced it as confusion that required re-reading the entire comment 3 times, but perhaps I had subconcious priors.

Would a toddler even understand the question? (serious question, I'm not familiar with 3 year olds)

Does this shed any light on how we'd work an argument along the lines of our deaf and mute friend typing?

Edit: you edited in some more examples, I found it's aubergine answers quite clever! (Ex. notching). I can't parse out a convincing argument this is somehow less knowledge than a 3 year old -- it's giving better answers than me that are physical! I thought youd be sharing it asserting obviously nonphysical answers

kedarkhand · a year ago

> I had to read it, and your reaction to the implied obvious reasoning 3 times, to figure out the implied obvious reasoning, and understand your intent was the toddler was standing and the wig was laying in a heap.

It seems quite obvious even on a cursory glance though!

> toddler was standing and the wig was laying in a heap

I mean how would toddler be laying in a heap?

> Would a toddler even understand the question?

Maybe not, I am a teen/early adult myself, so not many children yet :) but if you instead lay those in front of a toddler and ask which is higher, I guess they would answer that, another argument for multi-modality.

PS: Sorry if what I am saying is not clear, english is my third language

kedarkhand commented on Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"? · Posted by u/jbornhorst

dustingetz · a year ago

early stage keratokonus, if this is true you need to get the corneal crosslinking procedure done asap while you are young as the condition progresses rapidly in your 20s. The double (triple, N-ary) vision can be corrected by special contact lenses. You may need a specialist ophthalmologist for this diagnosis. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratoconus see “signs and Symptoms” image, and note that is advanced, as a 19yo I recall a single, sharp double image when looking at the moon at night. You can also try lowering an index card in front of your eye and looking across the edge at the moon and seeing if the double image goes away when your eye is partially occluded, this is because the doubling is caused by a physical distortion of your cornea and if you manage to cover the distortion you will see clearly

kedarkhand · a year ago

Shit, It did match, looking at the text through the edge of a card does make it clear for me. Although the blurriness is not as extreme as given in the wiki page.

kedarkhand commented on Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"? · Posted by u/jbornhorst

KurSix · a year ago

Hope you find some relief soon...

kedarkhand · a year ago

Thanks man!!

kedarkhand commented on Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"? · Posted by u/jbornhorst

hshsiejensjsj · a year ago

Have you visited ophthalmologist? I’d start there. Your situation sounds too specific for good advice on HN…

kedarkhand · a year ago

I have visited two or three of them, but each one just gave a different prescription though turns out I have a little blood clot in one eye due to an accident I had a few years ago and a cataract in the other one, though it is to the side and not directly in the front, so no operation is required for that as of now.

Also, currently a broke college student, so don't really have the money to visit a good ophthalmologist :)

kedarkhand commented on Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"? · Posted by u/jbornhorst

kedarkhand · a year ago

I don't really know if anybody will read this, but if somebody does and knows what it is, please give me some advice. I see double text, not anything else, only sources of light, like anything on a computer screen. It is like what I am seeing from both of my eyes does not line up correctly. On a completely white background, I see spotches of grey. I have visited two or three doctors and each gave a different prescription, currently I have -1/1 approx, (I don't remember correctly). Man I am only 19, don't want to live like this T.T