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Somethings

Happiness and Misery—Weekly Wisdom 13th June, 2021

Hello Everyone Welcome to Weekly Wisdom, your weekly dose of highlights, quotes and notes from my notebook. If you would like to receive this in your inbox, subscribe now. Today I’d like to share: How to Build an Egalitarian, Decentralized Search Engine Part 2: The second part in my series on how to build a […]

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How to Build a Search Engine Technology

How to Build an Egalitarian, Decentralized Search Engine Part 2: Unanswered Questions

Objectivity and Neutrality is not the same. Also how to make believe?

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Somethings

The Choice of Optimism—Weekly Wisdom 6th June 2021

And the difference between a jugaar and an innovation.

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Somethings

Weekly Notes & Quotes—30th May, 2021: Invisible Muggles

And an allegory for Machine Learning

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Somethings

Weekly Quotes & Notes 23rd May 2021—the epistemological horror of Fake News

And also the beauty of mundanity.

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Human Behavior Technology

Empty Platitudes Plastered on Important Men

If it is the text that matters, then why lie about the source?

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The Truth is a Dour Mistress

Ignorance may not be bliss, but the truth can be taxing.

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How to Build a Search Engine Technology

How to Build an Egalitarian, Decentralized Search Engine Part 1: The Principles

Search is dead. So how do we revive it, without billions of dollars in funding and massive computing resources? We leverage the crowd.

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Technology

Search is Dead

Almost anything you need can be found online, its just hard to find. Because Google has shifted from being a Librarian to an Oracle.

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Rants

The time a podcast interview made me lose sleep

The narratives Nation States propagate are the basis of culture. Pakistan’s culture is based upon vacuous, stupid, and intellectually dishonest narratives. And there is no hope.