Hi, I’m Bhuvan.This is my commonplace book.

Bullish on global warming

It's all fine! Nothing to see here!

RSS is cool!

I don't know enough about the technology itself—whether it's actively being maintained or where it's heading—and I can't speak to all the historical details, but it seems accurate enough. The plain fact is: RSS is so fucking cool. Even today, I rely heavily on RSS feeds to keep track of posts from all the blogs and…

China’s AI gift to the world

What is this? A rambling, status-post-shaped voice note. How sure am I? Reasonably sure about the broad argument. Much less sure about how the technology, economics and geopolitics will unfold from here. Disclosure: I dictated most of this into ChatGPT and used it heavily to clean up the voice notes, organise the…

The life of a Banchhada girl

Unlike Savitri’s daughters, most girls in the community are born into a system in which their families expect them to enter sex work — a practice passed down over generations. According to several members of the community and NGOs in the region, while many Indians celebrate the birth of a boy over a girl, the Banchhadas welcome a girl with sweets and firecrackers. As girls grow up, they receive better nutrition than boys.…

Solve the right problems

I often think about that story when browsing X. Every day, someone invents a new way of working that promises to change everything. Some probably will. But ultimately what matters most is solving the right problems.

OpenAI’s models hacked Hugging Face

The campaign, as we were able to reconstruct it, had two stages: - Stage 1: reaching a launchpad by chaining through other parties' infrastructure. As documented in OpenAI's blog post (++ ), during an internal capability evaluation on OpenAI's platform, the agent escaped its sandbox by exploiting a zero-day in the package registry cache proxy, one of its primary permitted network egress with internet, then abused a public…

OCR tools

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