New blog post about processing grief, cultivating a sense of gratitude, and the shitty year. https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/grief-gratitude-and-a-shitty-year

Browsing is something that I truly enjoy. It is a form of curated curiosity. (Though it comes with its perils.) Why would I want AI agents to do it for me? Don't really see the need at this point. #llm

Perception melts when confronted with actual human joy. A Halloween story from India. #blogpost #substack https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/trick-or-treats

My work involves working with LLM APIs. I was surprised to see even the advanced models (except Claude 3.7) making basic mistakes, such as being unable to perform basic summations. (it was doing 1+2+1+3+2+1 = 11) It kept on happening time and again. #llm #ai

Roo reaction [description: kangaroo checking out a Halloween display is scared by the cackling skeleton -- you can see the roo running away far down the street] #kangaroo #roo #animal #halloween #humor #humour

Choosing between a 5-seater and a 7-seater car? Same question applies to hiring: do you build for average days or peak days? I explored that in my new blogpost. https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/5-seats-or-7-average-or-peak #blog #blogpost

Any Data Science/Analytics or IndieWeb community based out of Hyderabad? Would love to be a part of one. #DataAnalytics #datascience #indieweb #hyderabad #India

Thank you, John Stewart, for putting together an easy-to-understand conversation about the threats and dangers of #ai And thank you Geoffrey Hinton, for the patience and clarity around this topic. This is a brilliant and crystal clear interview, and well worth listening to twice - 10/10 - must […]

Asked ChatGPT and Claude the same question. Their responses were surprisingly different. New post about conversational styles and sitcom wisdom. #llm #genai #substack #blogpost https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/the-coach-vs-the-friend-an-llm-experiment

Haha! Loved this! https://tyagarajan.substack.com/p/the-slop-singularity-is-here

Goodhartian illusion. #India #kolkata https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/kolkata/kolkata-rated-safest-and-least-safe-by-two-national-reports-on-womens-safety/cid/2126166

R & Positron users, I am facing an issue: When using R Notebooks (.ipynb) in Positron, I am not getting the autocomplete features that I typically see when working with Python. Am I missing a setting, or how can I enable this functionality? #rstats #datascience

@shibaprasad @mastodonindians Moreover, AAI lists 23 airports handling international passengers in 2006-07 (excl. non customs airports and 'other airports'). Between April to August this year, the number of such airports stood at 39 (excluding airports that were listed under data for […]

India’s skies aren’t just for metros anymore. Non-metro towns are claiming a bigger share of the aviation map, proof that growth is spreading, even if flying is no longer the luxury it once was. The numbers speak for themselves. Read on HT app […] [Original post on journa.host]

Replugging my last blog post: Discovering two Indias amidst the chaos of Sunday markets. #blogpost https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/small-cuts-big-realisations

West Bengal lost nearly 3 lakh Class 12 students between 2024 and 2025 - a 37% drop in just one year. I dug into the data to understand why, and ended up with more questions than answers. @mastodonindians #India #data https://www.shibaprasadb.com/2025/10/04/class12-dropouts.html

My evening runs around western Hyderabad often give me space to think. One such run made me see how the same shop, same butcher, same cut can belong to two very different Indias. Wrote about it here. #blogpost #substack #blog https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/small-cuts-big-realisations

Thoroughly enjoyed my Vibe coding experience of creating my Semi-professional website. Bought a domain yesterday. Though I would assume the experience would have been much more enriching if I had a solid foundation in HTML and CSS. Which I don't, sadly. #llm #vibecoding #website […]

Got some great suggestions, so reposting this. If you are into Stat/Data/Product/Strategy, I would love to have your suggestions. #rstats #datascience #DataAnalytics #analytics #technology #BusinessStrategy #stats #statistics […]

I think we should treat people who get scammed and come out and talk about it like heroes. And this is important: no matter how "obvious" the scam might seem in retrospect or from the outside of the community it prey'd on. The more I look at scams the more I think this is major factor in how […]

One day they will understand that "Let's build black boxes that are really good at predicting data" is a dead end for scientific progress. https://news.mit.edu/2025/can-large-language-models-figure-out-real-world-0825 "[They] devised a new approach to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Why did RSS feeds go out of fashion? Seems like a great way to have a curated feed - all in one place!

Earlier this week, China announced that it will no longer claim "developing country" perks at the WTO, a nod to its economic heft and a bid to be seen as a champion of the Global South and multilateral institutions. Today's Number Theory charts its rise as a […] [Original post on journa.host]

Hey Stats & Product folks - what's your must-read book for leveling up strategic thinking? Crowdsourcing my 12-month reading plan to get better at asking the right business questions. Drop your best recs! #statistics #product #strategy #technology […]

Had terrible biryani at work recently. It had potatoes (Calcutta style) but missed everything else that makes good biryani. Reminded me of Catenaccio football and why most people fail when copying success - they replicate the obvious differentiator but ignore the invisible system that makes it […]

Is there a way I can block a few #? Want to block #bot and a few others.

I recently built my professional website without deep HTML/CSS skills, by working alongside LLMs as a co-pilot. In this post, I share a few notes on “vibe coding”: breaking tasks down, committing frequently, and knowing when to start over […]

Designed a minimal personal website with the help of LLMs and a bit of vibe-coding. Will start writing about my tech related explorations here, and moving a bit away from Substack. https://shibaprasadb.github.io/2025/10/02/BeyondSubstack.html #blog #blogpost #technology

I wrote a new #note about how I got into #programming: https://notes.abhinavsarkar.net/2024/into-programming #blogging #personal

Created a minimal personal website over the weekend: https://shibaprasadb.github.io/ Tech-bros, any suggestions to make it better? For blogs, I am redirecting to my semi-regular data blog-newsletter (Substack). Any suggestions on improving the About/Home? #tech #technology #DataAnalytics […]

Friendships used to feel like a yes/no question to me. Now they seem more like a scale. Wrote a small piece on this. #blog #blogging #blogpost #substack https://open.substack.com/pub/ordinaryanalysis/p/on-the-continuity-of-friendships?r=i27rg&utm_medium=ios

[Exercise, mh] I’ve been going on more runs lately. I think what has helped has been acknowledging that I don’t have to think of ‘going for a run’ as ‘good’ or ‘not going’ as ‘bad’. I’m accepting that being outside, preferably in some long walk or run format, is a core pillar of my mental […]

The 1st part of HT's 2-part series on evolution of India's foreign trade traced its trade in goods & services over time and against major economies. This 2nd part dives deeper into the disaggregated picture of India’s foreign trade. Read on HT app […] [Original post on journa.host]

Flights, flats, biryani, and the strange inertia of coming back from home. My notes from a Kolkata trip. @mastodonindians #blogging #substack #blogpost https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/back-to-kolkata-then-back-again

Why does work-life balance feel so different in India vs. the West? I explored a surprising hypothesis in my latest blog post: it's all about the "Default Homemaker. https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/women-work-and-the-west @mastodonindians #India #work #tech

I’ve been seeing a lot of "influencers" making videos on how to immigrate to a Western country without the usual prerequisites like an IELTS score, university admission, or a job offer. #nri

I'm starting a series of blog posts, in which I write a #bytecode #compiler and a #virtualmachine for arithmetic in #haskell. We explore the following topics in the series: - Parsing arithmetic expressions to ASTs. - Compiling ASTs to bytecode. - Interpreting ASTs. - Efficiently executing […]

Why do smart people give terrible presentations? Usually because they forget where their audience is starting from. Wrote about that in my blogpost: #blogpost #blogging #substack https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/lost-in-translation-and-presentation

https://stic.earth is a collection of privacy-respecting, self-hosted applications and services, which includes https://fantastic.earth, my server. It currently runs these services: - #Mastodon (Microblogging) - #Pixelfed (Image posting) - #Bookwyrm (Book […] [Original post on fantastic.earth]

Faith multiplies when jobs don’t. A short reflection on gods, doubt, Bhagat Singh & why small-town India feels more devout than ever. @mastoindians #India #blog #blogging https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/the-comfort-of-belief-and-the-weight

In my last blogpost, I wrote about how companies sometimes try to mask operational cracks with product-level band-aids. It might work in the short term, but it’s rarely the best way to solve deeper issues. #tech #product https://datasignal.substack.com/p/when-product-patches-operational

I’ve come across several decision-making and org design frameworks, like DAI, RACI, RAPID, etc. My biggest takeaway? Fewer letters = less regulatory cholesterol = more autonomy. I wish some management guru would just create a framework called "U" and be done with it. #management #decisionmaking

Looking for a new opportunity! I'm a data science generalist with 4+ years experience who brings breadth across analytics, operations research, and ML. Love solving messy and ambiguous business problems in this space with Python/R. If you know of roles where breadth + problem-solving curiosity […]

I want to read a #compiler book written in the last 15 years that covers same topics as the Modern Compiler Implementation book by Appel, but uses recent terminology, tools and techniques. Any recommendations? #compilers #programminglanguages

#ai #llm bots may have stolen all my code but atleast it makes me feel better about never writing any documentation or comments

Ever been spammed with those “Did you reach safely?” calls after a late-night cab ride? I dug into why that happens, and how it says more about product band-aids than real safety systems. https://datasignal.substack.com/p/when-product-patches-operational #productmanagement #productstrategy […]

Kolkata is the only city among India’s top 10 where its population share exceeds its GDP contribution. Even after including the industrial belts of Howrah and Hooghly, the numbers stand at 2.16% (GDP) vs 2.29% (population). Source of the plot […] [Original post on mstdn.party]

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas. Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented? Here's the actual impact. "AI" is a […]