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“We have very little time to get people ready for it, businesses ready for it…” — Kristalina Georgieva, head of the International Monetary Fund A few days back, OpenAI unvelied GPT-4o, Google unvelied Gemini Pro 1.5. I’m at a loss of words for how fast GenAI is progressing. It feels like just yesterday we were marveling at how tools like ChatGPT made learning, coding, and even creative writing a breeze, and now we have GPT-4o and Gemini 1....

I recently encountered an intriguing issue with casting objects in Java when dealing with objects loaded by different classloaders. In a modular application that dynamically loads plugins at runtime, each plugin is loaded using a separate classloader to maintain isolation and avoid conflicts. Two classes were involved: PluginClass and MainAppClass. In MainAppClass, I needed to cast an object to PluginClass. I am not an expert in java or dynamically class loading....

Concerns about Transparency and Bias Lately, there’s been a growing skepticism about the ethics behind AI, and it’s easy to see why. For one, transparency is a significant issue. Many AI systems, especially the more advanced ones, operate like black boxes. It’s difficult to understand how they make decisions, which raises questions about accountability and trust. Bias in AI is another major concern. These systems learn from data, and if that data is biased, the AI will be too....

This is meant to be a live page of all the books I’ve read, am reading and wanting to read this year. I don’t usually make notes (unless I decide to switch it up this year, unlikely) so I’ll be leaving just a few points that resonated with me and I want to remember. Read (Reread) The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck — Mark Manson Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel Eat For Life — Dr....