Arish Ali | A Swell Personal Podcast
Visit my Swellcast website to reply to my episodes: https://www.swellcast.com/arish This is the personal podcast of Arish Ali, co-founder of Swell. To learn more or to start your own personal or community podcast, please visit www.swellcast.com.
Episodes
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"I ran into an old college friend of mine a few days ago. A quick shout out to Anant Chandrashekharan if you're listening. And for some odd reason, the one memory of our IIT Kanpur college days that came back to me was remembering that we had taken a philosophy of science course together and Anand had presented a brilliant term paper on the philosopher Karl Popper. Popper's great contribution t...
"I was watching the US elections coverage on TV recently and one of the talking points for the Republican Party is that it is a party of common sense. And it reminded me of an incident from my childhood. When I was in school. In fourth or fifth grade, our science teacher had given us a problem and everyone in this class came up with their own answer or solution to it."
"While superficially people look very different across from, coming from different parts of the world, being from different races, what you see when you look at all the genetic diversity is that there's lot more diversity within a particular race than across races. Specifically, 92% of difference in genes between people is between people of the same race. Only 8% of the difference is across rac...
"Over the past few years, it has obviously advanced by leaps and bounds, but it is still fundamentally trying to solve that same problem. What is the next best based token in a string? And to me that just doesn't sound like the right foundation for intelligence. I know Sam Altman and others have claimed that we are all stochastic parrots at some level, but for whatever reason, I'm not quite con...
"When I visited Rome last year, one of the highlights of my trip was the incredible coffee. Almost anywhere in the city you went to, you could not go wrong. Two of the best coffee shops I found were coincidentally very close to the pantheon, so if you're visiting Rome as a tourist and go to the pantheon, you should definitely not miss these places."
"I thought that was a very clever workaround, albeit also the least plausible one, since in terms of what they're talking about, this is probably something that we'll never actually find out to be true later. See, a lot of Sci-Fi books are come up with ideas that eventually, later on turns out to be possible or plausible, and it's just that they are ahead of the times."
"One thing that I learned as an engineer, and I've found invaluable in all aspects of my life, is linear algebra. Or more accurately, the way linear algebra teaches you to look at the world. I consider the linnal course I took one of the most useful courses I took during my undergraduate education at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur. The fun fundamental concept that I learn was that...
"You. My Ranjan story starts in 2004 with the chance encounter I had with Nirav, who was Ranjan's cofounder at Cellmania. So both Nirav and I were staying at the same hotel during the CTIA wireless conference and we happened to share a cab to the conference and we got talking. At that time we were a mobile game startup and Nirav told me that Cellmania was looking for mobile game developers."
"Thereby, this system of government tends to result in the triumph of mediocrity and entails the exclusion of first rate ability if this is combined with honesty. But the alternative to that despotism almost inevitably means the triumph of stupidity. And of the two evils, the former is the less."
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