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@aviralsrivastava.com

SWE building Distributed Systems. Ex Pinecone, Twitter, RedHat, Atlan, Wingify. http://avisri.com

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Perhaps the best outcome of agents and LLMs is that teams are now more than ever betting on GitHub /Git for documentation in markdown.

And I’m here for it.

04.03.2026 04:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This week’s Shrinking reminded me of how Nightswimming is a literally perfect song.

27.02.2026 06:20 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

binged Hijack season 1. what a show. thriller at its best!

25.02.2026 08:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can people on H1b do this? πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

23.02.2026 22:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Is withings body scale any good? I doubt that my body fat percentage is really inaccurate. It should be way higher. #Fitnesssky

21.02.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Xmas/NYE in NYC

02.01.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Every Western political party that won office on an anti-immigration platform has ended its term with more immigrants than before. Giorgia Meloni is a recent example."

14.12.2025 14:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The World in Which We Live Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Ron Paul Institute, 2025

"When I published The Black Swan in 2007, the U.S. accounted for about 20% of the world economy (using PPP), EUR about the same, and China around 6%. Now, the U.S. is 15% and declining, Europe is 14% and dropping faster, while China is north of 20%."
substack.com/@nntaleb/p-1...

14.12.2025 14:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

natural monopoly via Indigo airlines in India has caused a ruckus throughout this country.

#india

07.12.2025 01:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

stoked to learn that my therapist, american, has read the book "My Experiments with Truth" by Gandhi

24.11.2025 21:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Understanding Unemployment in India Tale of MMS vs Modi

wrote something about the rising unemployment in india, how it differs from that of the US in statistical analysis, and data is curbed.
aviralsrivastava.substack.com/p/understand...

11.11.2025 06:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fresh Kills Landfill - Wikipedia

TIL about Staten Island.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh_K...

05.11.2025 02:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i have this utmost strong belief that the reason behind unpopularity or lack of enougb popularity for a man like john adams is due to his anti-slavery stand and practice. and same reason is behind the hatred of gandhi by those indians who dont believe in caste equality

28.10.2025 02:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love those candles on the staircase

20.10.2025 14:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy Diwali everyone! The good and the evil is within ourselves. may the good wins.

20.10.2025 14:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ran a half yesterday. 2 hours and 40 minutes.

19.10.2025 23:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

okay what are we doing for the incoming power outage in nyc?
#nyc #newyork

12.10.2025 14:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the best work is done, with best typing and focus, on 14 inch screen laptop. at least on mac.

12.10.2025 01:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Did Benjamin Franklin’s Son Remain Loyal to the British? One of the most influential and ardent Patriots couldn’t persuade his son to join the Revolution.

Long but a really good read

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

09.10.2025 22:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

to my indian friends, on this gandhi jayanti, find out which of your friends are individualist, independent thinkers, v/s who piggyback on their daddy's opinions.

02.10.2025 03:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

hes building something for podcast listeners.

28.09.2025 02:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

a friend is looking for a small oss model. 1-3 b range with great tool calling for classification. what are you guys using ?

#ai

27.09.2025 17:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My parents were visiting me in nyc for 5-6 weeks and they left for India this past Thursday. No one prepared me for how lonely I’d feel after their departure. Video calls just don’t cut it.

07.09.2025 14:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Even if it’s the national mall tourism? Even if we carry passports and visas with us?

14.08.2025 13:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Is it safe to travel to DC for tourism, this weekend? My parents are visiting from India and I’m taking them to DC from NYC

14.08.2025 10:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We are young

13.08.2025 14:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

happy srk finally won the national award for the best actor but I wish he had won for swades.

02.08.2025 18:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

waiting for a day tech people here build together and bluesky officially replaces tech twitter

30.06.2025 04:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i dont get your comment. is the person speaking voting for the bill to fund billionares?

22.05.2025 11:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wearing a blue sky merch t shirt β€œworld without Caesars” when a mom of two randomly spotted it and said, β€œI have the same t shirt”. 14th street red subway. Only in nyc haha

17.05.2025 20:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0