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vmurthy commented on What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness   bigthink.com/business/bra... · Posted by u/NaOH
vmurthy · 5 days ago
What a beautiful, thought provoking article! When I saw the title , I thought it was a book summary of “My stroke of insight” [0]. This book is by a neuro-anatomist who had a rare stroke resulting in the left hemisphere of her brain being incapacitated. That led her to experiences similar to that of the article’s author. Do check out the book and pair it with the article

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142292.My_Stroke_of_Insi...

vmurthy commented on Double Bishops: The Silent Killers of Chess   lichess.org/@/Puli1234/bl... · Posted by u/fzliu
vmurthy · 12 days ago
FWIW , the blog post doesn't really show any famous games where double bishops helped someone win or anything like that. It's a small fragment of games where players with double bishops improved their position etc.
vmurthy commented on Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea    · Posted by u/panphora
vmurthy · 19 days ago
Went down the rabbit hole which is the overtype.dev website (nice work btw!) and found and even nicer rabbit hole - https://hyperclay.com/ Single HTML apps :). Enjoy!
vmurthy commented on Real Risk to Youth Mental Health Is 'Addictive Use,' Not Screen Time Alone   nytimes.com/2025/06/18/he... · Posted by u/koolba
vmurthy · 3 months ago
I would also pair this article with "Stolen Focus" ( a book I am currently reading -- fascinating read ) [0] . I am only 10% in and the book is captivating. Read the book to understand the "whys" of this article .

[0]https://www.amazon.com.au/Stolen-Focus-Attention-Think-Deepl...

vmurthy commented on Klarna's AI replaced 700 workers. Now the CEO wants humans back after $40B fall   livemint.com/companies/ne... · Posted by u/whstl
vmurthy · 4 months ago
Human agents + AI empowered . Gives a new definition for Agentic AI , no ? :-P
vmurthy commented on Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment   nytimes.com/2025/05/15/he... · Posted by u/jbredeche
MrZander · 4 months ago
> To accomplish that feat, the treatment is wrapped in fatty lipid molecules to protect it from degradation in the blood on its way to the liver, where the edit will be made. Inside the lipids are instructions that command the cells to produce an enzyme that edits the gene. They also carry a molecular GPS — CRISPR — which was altered to crawl along a person’s DNA until it finds the exact DNA letter that needs to be changed.

That is one of the most incredible things I have ever read.

vmurthy · 4 months ago
Cue the book "The Code Breaker" [0]. I read it a long time ago and such an incredible book and journey by Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuel Charpentier. Do check it out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Code_Breaker

vmurthy commented on Klarna changes its AI tune and again recruits humans for customer service   customerexperiencedive.co... · Posted by u/elsewhen
lm28469 · 4 months ago
Anyone with half a brain saw it coming but somehow these elite executives lack basic common sense. I wonder who they are surrounded with to come up with such deranged business decisions
vmurthy · 4 months ago
I've been thinking that they probably are smart enough to know this but see utility in spewing such lies. Because optics implies higher valuation. It's follow the money as usual :(
vmurthy commented on Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
DontchaKnowit · 4 months ago
Honestly his ex wifes book about how he reads 10k reports is really good. Cant remember the name.
vmurthy · 4 months ago
If you’re talking about Mary Buffett, it is his ex daughter-in-law. How to read financial reports like Warren Buffett is the book (I think)
vmurthy commented on Careless People   pluralistic.net/2025/04/2... · Posted by u/Aldipower
hinkley · 4 months ago
Sounds like she got sued over it. But not over propositioning direct reports for sex in front of her entire team.
vmurthy · 4 months ago
Ugh. I’ve blocked it from my memory. Deplorable. At some point, it’s just power play. Not even lust.

u/vmurthy

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