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When something new and powerful arrives in the world, the first instinct is usually one of two things: either to worship it or to fear it. Both responses share the same flaw. They treat the new thing as though it exists outside of us, as though it arrived from somewhere beyond human hands and…
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There is a version of you that existed before the smartphone. Before the notification. Before the small red circle on the app icon that told you someone, somewhere, needed a response. That version of you knew what it felt like to be unreachable. To sit in a waiting room with nothing but your thoughts.…
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Thinking is one of the most extraordinary capacities humans possess. It allows us to imagine what does not yet exist, trace causes backward and consequences forward, build systems, diagnose failures, and make meaning out of chaos. Entire civilisations rest on it. So do sciences, institutions, and families. And yet the same faculty that enables…
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Why Machines Learn rewards slow reading. It is structured less like a linear argument and more like a guided walk through the intellectual terrain that made modern machine learning possible. Each major section takes a foundational idea—learning rules, error correction, representation, probability—and places it within a longer scientific lineage, showing how today’s algorithms are…
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In January 2026, Amazon announced another large round of layoffs, cutting roughly 16,000 corporate roles worldwide. This followed earlier reductions in late 2025, bringing the total number of eliminated corporate positions to around 30,000 within a matter of months. The announcement arrived even as the company reported healthy financial performance and doubled down on…
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Most people live as if life owes them coherence. They assume that if they behave sensibly, choose carefully, work hard, and avoid obvious mistakes, the world will respond in kind. This belief is rarely stated explicitly, but it sits beneath almost every private disappointment and public outrage. When effort fails to translate into outcome,…
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Inspired by a line from “Maattram Onre Maaraathathu,” written by Vairamuthu for the film Kochadaiiyaan (2014), music by A.R. Rahman. There’s a line from a Tamil song that I haven’t been able to shake. Tamil Lyrics நீ என்பது உடலா?உயிரா? பெயரா?மூன்றும் இல்லை… செயல்! English Translation & Transliteration Transliteration:Nee enbathu udala?Uyira? Peyara?Moondrum illai… Seyal! Translation:Are you…
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Every year, without fail, it happens. Calendars tick over. Notifications erupt. Phones vibrate with predictable precision. Birthdays. New Years. Festivals. Anniversaries. Entire social networks suddenly come alive—people who have been silent for months, sometimes years, re-emerge to send a message that looks uncannily similar to a hundred others. “Happy New Year.”“Many happy returns.”“Wishing you…
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We like to believe we are principled people. We say things like “I can’t miss work,” “I don’t break commitments,” or “My health comes first.” These statements sound responsible. Mature. Final. They are none of those things. Because the truth is simpler and far less flattering: our priorities are elastic. They stretch generously for…
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The Uneasy Coexistence We Can No Longer Ignore At almost any moment today, millions of people across the world are living under conditions that would be considered unthinkable elsewhere—constant fear, displacement, hunger, loss of family, and the daily uncertainty of survival. Ongoing conflicts in places such as Sudan, Palestine, Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, Myanmar, and…