Surya Prakash Jayanti

Few quotes I liked from my recent book "Contagious". STEPPS model for virality: In 2010, for example, there were almost 17,000 Olivias born in the US but only 492 Rosalies. It's always difficult to understand why some names catch fire and others don't. Word of mouth tends to reach people who are actually interested in the thing being discussed. One in 10 Americans tells the other nine how to vote, where to eat, and what to buy. People share things that make them look good to others. As the story gets transmitted from person to person, some details fall out and others are exaggerated. And it becomes more and more remarkable along the way. Experts estimate that as many as 10 trillion frequent flier miles are sitting in accounts, unused. Enough to travel to the moon and back 19.4 million times. Just like many other animals, people care about hierarchy. Apes engage in status displays and dogs try to figure out who is alpha. But status is inherently relational, Being the l...

Quotes from the book "Masters of Scale" -  Reid Hoffman. The earlier you can predict a "Yes" in a field of "Nos" the bigger your opportunity. Part of the journey that we entrepreneurs are on is learning how to separate our winning instincts from our losing ideas. Your instincts are right 95% of the time and your ideas might be right 25% of the time. Time is your most precious resource; don't waste it on a bad idea. Naysayers are likely to be right, their "Nos" can help you switch from a failing Plan A to a more promising Plan B. It's better to have one hundred users who love you than a million users who just kind of like you. A lot of people have the fallacy of believing design is how it looks. Design is how it works. If you're not grappling with decisions, then you're living with a false sense of neutrality. Trust = Consistency Over Time. If you foolproof your culture, you'll have a culture of fools. You can train someone on ...

Quotes from Miracle of mindfulness - Thich Nhat Hanh I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin ari, but to walk on earth consciously. When walking, the practitioner must be conscious that he is walking. when sitting, he must be conscious he is sitting. No matter what position one's body is in, the practitioner must be conscious of that position. We must be conscious of each breath, each movement, every thought and feeling. Mindfulness to refer to keeping one's concsciousness alive to the present reality. Hardest of all is to practice the way at home, second in the crowd, and third in the pagoda. A person who knows how to breathe is a person who knows how to build up endless vitality. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encouter with reality. Mediation is contemplating Body, feelings, mind and eternal objects. Quotes from zero to one - Peter Thiel In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable. The most contra...

Here are some interesting quotes from the book, "Our Final Invention" - by James Barrat. The author constantly warns about the perils of AI. The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else. The National Institute of Standards and Technology found that each year bad programming costs the US economy more than $ 60 billion in revenue. An agent who sought only to satisfy the efficiency, self-preservation, and acquisition drives would act like an obsessive paranoid sociopath. Per dollar spent, computers have increased in power by a billion times in the last thirty years. Imagine a world where the difference between man and machine blurs, where the line between humanity and technology fades, and where the soul and the silicon chip unite. When our machines overtook us, too complex and efficient for us to control, they did it so fast and so smoothly and so usefully, that only a fool or a prophet would have dared compla...

This is very interesting book from Ray Kurzweil , A futurist, inventor and author. Its fascinating to imagine the role of GNR(Genetics, Nano and Robot AI) in the future. You can refer his 6 Epochs of evolution here . Image courtesy: Bing AI image generator Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. When scientists become a million times more intelligent and operate a million times faster, an hour would result in a century of progress (in today's terms). There are no hard problems, only problems that are hard to certain level of intelligence. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. There are three great philosophical questions. What is life? what is consciousness and thinking and memory and all that ? and how does the universe work ? The good news is that our lives have purpose; the bad news is that their purpose is to help some remote hacker estimate pi to nine jillion deci...

 Quotes from "My Journey Home" Within you, without you According to our surroundings and experiences, we have a particular perception of reality. When passion is frustrated, people lose all good sense. The nature of the mind is to interpret nonessentials essential. The mind creates artificial needs, believing it cannot live without them. In this way we carry a great burden of attachments through our life. Where there is faith, fear cannot exist. You may have to leave the geographical boundaries of India. However, you never have to leave Bharata, the spirit of India within. Saintly personality can be softer than a rose or harder than a thunderbolt. Quotes from "The Dark Net" Normal person + anonymity + audience = Total Fuckwad For every starry-eyed vision of future utopias there was an equally vividly dystopian nightmare The idea that technology is neutral, just a tool, is plain wrong. That's never been the case. It embodies basic choices and values of any societ...

Please don't be mislead by the title, its a book on AI. If you are wondering why the book is named like this, Author is a researcher trying to teach AI on generating "pick up lines". Thats the pickup line AI came up with 😀 . This is one of the best books I read so far on AI. Here are some quotes from the book: Programming an AI is almost more like teaching a child than programming a computer. The question AI is answering is not "what is the best solution?" but "What would the humans have done ?" The narrower the AI, the smarter it seems. The human brain is a neural network made of eighty-six billion neural networks. Most of the times, what we asked AI to do isn't what we actually wanted them to do. Give AI a goal - data to imitate or a reward function to maximize and they'll do it, whether or not they've actually solved your problem. On December 2017, Google maps directed cars toward neighborhoods that were on fire. It wan't trying to ...