Articles by akbarnama
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Death of an Indian Tech Worker (restofworld.org)

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Strong vs. swole: the surprising truth about building muscle (theguardian.com)

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Reviving Bettertyping.org with AI Coding Agents (davidschilling.de)

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No Chess on a Dead Planet (indianexpress.com)

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Satellites of Indian startups doomed in ISRO PSLV failure. Were they insured? (wionews.com)

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Two Indian students won a $200k settlement with US university (indianexpress.com)

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Investing Mastery with Nick Sleep: Nomad's Costco Investment (quartr.com)

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Why 9 Bike Riders Die Every Hour (indiaspend.com)

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Delivering Exploitation: A Marxist Analysis of India's Gig Economy (kushalvala20.substack.com)

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WhatsApp,Telegram Must Ensure SIM Binding with Services – Indian Government (medianama.com)

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Finland clings to happiness crown as economic gloom deepens (reuters.com)

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Drop in international student arrivals could prove costly for American economy (scroll.in)

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The attention economy is inverting (sundaylettersfromsam.substack.com)

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Silent killers are stalking Indian hospitals. Who is responsible? (scroll.in)

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Don Manuel, the 104-year-old chess player (theguardian.com)

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13-year-old Afghan boy lands in Delhi by hiding in plane's landing gear (deccanherald.com)

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You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why [video] (youtube.com)

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Fragile utopia: Why wealthy Gurugram is a failed city (scroll.in)

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A Philosophy of Software Design vs. Clean Code (github.com/johnousterhout)

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Glorious Loss (telegraphindia.com)

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FIDE Ratings Revisited (lichess.org)

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Cricket, Fandom, and the Unspoken Price of Fantasy Gaming (uselessmbaguy.substack.com)

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Shakespeare can help us overcome loneliness in the digital age (scroll.in)

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Shattered Lands by Sam Dalrymple review – the many partitions of southern Asia (theguardian.com)

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US tariff on India zooms to 50% as Trump piles on 25% additional duty (indianexpress.com)

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Why Zohran Mamdani's surname tells the story of migration and community (scroll.in)

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AC Temperature Limits Can Help Save Energy (indiaspend.com)

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Science of Chess: How does chess calculation depend on words vs. pictures? (lichess.org)

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Want to avoid chronic back pain? Walk over 100 minutes a day (business-standard.com)

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A French region has banned tap water. Is it a warning for the rest of Europe? (theguardian.com)

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109 years to buy a home: Mumbai real estate puts even the rich on the sidelines (businesstoday.in)

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Air India's Crisis Exposes Deeper Structural Flaws in Indian Aviation (moneylife.in)

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SiCSem plans plant in Odisha, ties up with IIT (newindianexpress.com)

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Magnus Carlsen might walk away from classical chess (lichess.org)

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Infosys unveils over 200 AI agents under Topaz in Google Cloud tie-up (business-standard.com)

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Universities must dare to become architects of the future (universityworldnews.com)

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Spaced Repetition Algorithm: A Three‐Day Journey from Novice to Expert (github.com/open-spaced-repetition)

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Dassault Rafale vs. Eurofighter Typhoon: A 2025 Technology Comparison [video] (youtube.com)

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Jewels linked to Buddha remains go to auction, sparking ethical debate (bbc.com)

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Assessment of fine-tuned LLMs for real-world chemistry applications (rsc.org)

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AI in Customer Service: Frustration with Glitchy Automation and Data Capture (moneylife.in)

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Zoho halts $700M semiconductor plan (semiconductorsinsight.com)

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Professor's perceptron paved the way for AI – 60 years too soon (cornell.edu)

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Time to quit your pointless job, become morally ambitious and change the world (theguardian.com)

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Women drove evolution: Cat Bohannon on her new history of humanity (theguardian.com)

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Why Are Samsung LG, Sony and Most Other TVs Manufactured in China Today? (channelnews.com.au)

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Telangana declares heatwave/sunstroke as 'state specific disaster' (telegraphindia.com)

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Human evolution complexity revealed in astonishing new study (earthsky.org)

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Why Is It Lovely (solipsys.co.uk)

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News outlets receive 'threat mails', some delete stories over Vantara project (altnews.in)

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Chess looking for new audiences with Esports World Cup looming (reuters.com)

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Domain Driven Design and Python: David Seddon[video] (youtube.com)

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Learn How to Solve from the World Champion of Solving (chessbase.in)

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Hit by heatwave, Mumbai is ignoring a quick fix to cool off (scroll.in)

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The Costs of Reliance's Wildlife Ambitions (pulitzercenter.org)

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Why Do Young Men Migrate? (thewire.in)

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FIDE Slams Freestyle Chess, Threatens Legal Action (chess.com)

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Hermit guardian of Budelli dies after three decades on paradise island (theguardian.com)

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Ancient DNA may rewrite prehistory in India (bbc.com)

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Silicon Road: Leela Gives Rook Odds Breathtakingly Brilliant [video] (youtube.com)

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India's filter coffee is now best in the world (theprint.in)

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Ocugen Announces FDA Approval of EAP for Patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa (ocugen.com)

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Andhra Vedic institute's time has come (theprint.in)

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Can I learn to love weightlifting in six weeks? (theguardian.com)

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Biggest and 'most complete' dinosaur skeleton to go on sale on November 16 (telegraphindia.com)

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Born in France but searching for a future in Africa (bbc.com)

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It's rough out here: Why Trump and Harris should listen to this mum (bbc.com)

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What the 'India hype' hides: Economic malaise and a broken country (scroll.in)

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An Online Gaming App, Promise of Big Prizes and a ₹ 400-Crore Fraud (ndtv.com)

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How Vishy Anand is supporting young super talents of India through WACA (chessbase.in)

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Scams shattering Indian students' dreams of studying in Australia (abc.net.au)

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International students in Canada face deportation,sparking protests (citynews.ca)

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What does the image decoding attribute do? (tunetheweb.com)

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An introduction to the remontoire (watchaffinity.co.uk)

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'Addicted' young traders, out-of-control binge (theprint.in)

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Fears US economy headed towards recession spark jitters across global markets (abc.net.au)

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Why Young People Today Take Longer to Grow Up[video] (youtube.com)

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The Middle-Income Trap – World Development Report 2024 (worldbank.org)

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What's Behind Bangladesh's Deadly Protests? (asiapacific.ca)

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Sori Yanagi's Everyday Beauty (nytimes.com)

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Speaking to AI (oneusefulthing.org)

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Google DeepMind launches 2B parameter Gemma 2 model (thenextweb.com)

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Why Does Predicting a Protein's 3D Structure Matter? (piip.co.kr)

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I scattered Dad's ashes outside LA stadium where I won gold in 1984 (telegraph.co.uk)

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What's special about Paris 2024's flying Olympic flame and how does it work? (euronews.com)

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India's record heatwave vows to return: Can we survive the next? (thehindu.com)

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Low latency carbon budget analysis reveals decline of the land carbon sink (arxiv.org)

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The Indian Farmers Battling Climate Change with 10k-Year-Old Emmer Wheat (foodunfolded.com)

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The Million-Dollar Taxi (2011) (npr.org)

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Review of Bryan Caplan's the Case Against Education (scottaaronson.blog)

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'Goldmine' collection of wheat from 100 years ago may help feed the world (theguardian.com)

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The Northeast Indian YouTubers challenging cultural stereotypes through mukbang (restofworld.org)

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India's First Data Privacy Awareness Card Game (ishitabegani.com)

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How Mondragon Became the World’s Largest Co-Op (newyorker.com)

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Planners vs. Searchers in Foreign Aid [pdf] (nber.org)

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[flagged] Wired: Why are so many young people addicted to video games? (theguardian.com)

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How They Invented Logarithms [video] (youtube.com)

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Heatwave puts focus on 'labour law violations' at Amazon (newslaundry.com)

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Brains, computation and thermodynamics: A view from the future? (3quarksdaily.com)

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The Brain's Navigational Place and Grid Cell System (nobelprize.org)