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AI Music
Bengali AI Songs
English AI Songs
Hindi AI Songs

Is Claude Mythos, a Myth?

artificial intelligence

A Calcutta Bengali’s Guide to the Various Schools of AI
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
AI and Denial
AI Cannot Suffer Yet, Which Is Probably Lucky for Us
Anthropic Is Coming for Wall Street
OpenClaw and the Uneasy Arrival of Agents That Actually Do Things
The Coming Unemployment
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle
The Machine That Cannot Take a Shit
The Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint

Intro

Facial Pleasure Receipts

LPG debacle

The Fish Bengalis Eat

food-and-culture

Tea

Hormuz, Day 52

health & society

Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar

Propofol, Nightmares
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Ordinary Patient

AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
AI in Healthcare: Beware
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity

Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT
HL7 vs FHIR, Explained Simply
How VA Healthcare Data Systems Work: From MUMPS to SQL
Kenneth Arrow, Medical Uncertainty, and the False Dream of Healthcare as a Normal Market
Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support, Not Another Checkbox
The Premature Bedside Manner of Large Language Models
The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems

Building VA Data Warehouses
Confounding Factors
Databases and Data Warehouses
FHIR
HIE from First Principles
India’s AI Moat
The Missing Scientists
The Questions You Ask
Vector Databases
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics might not

healthcare-systems

Homeopathy

Pohela Baisakh

history-of-science

Trigonometric Colonization

India’s White-Collar Issue
Jogar, Jugaad, and the Greedy Improvisation of India

The Epistemic Iceberg Effect

The Four Fundamental Subspaces of Linear Algebra

The English Medium Urine Stain

mental health systems

Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood

Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained

natural history

Pests we love

Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic

The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat

A Meaningless Number on an Average Star
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Happiness After Quicksand
Nightmare Wrapped in Skin
Shadow Citizen of My Own Room
The Body Going to Plan
The Contender Who Would Not Compete
The Kolkata Bat Waiting for a Bus
The Painful Tooth Fairy
The Terrace Republic
The Unhelpful Man in Calcutta
Why I Write What I Write

personal reflections

This Blog’s History

personal satire

How Are You and Other Small Cruelties

The Ghost as Perception
The Prognosis Is Clarity

political economy

Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise

Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People

Maa Sitala, Maa Manasa, and the Bad Public Health Architecture of Fear

Cicada, BA.3.2

Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter

Dogs Detect Violations.
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
The History of the Shape of Atoms

Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Costume Ambition
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
The Bright Smile of Overconfidence
The City That Begs at the Window
The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
The Invasive Human Weed Species
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
The Pufferfish Economy
The Range Limit of Kinship
When Structure Loses Its Map
When the Office Learns to Beg
Why India Has Such a Rich Assortment of Hoodlums and Goons

systems thinking

Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals

India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI
The Last Economy
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
When Nothing Beats Something
Why Scrolling Beats Reading, Until It Ruins the Reader

useful mental models

First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality

work, migration, india

The Returnee Who No Longer Fits

Personal

Exploring concepts, systems, and logic in Personal.

The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat

The Barebones Lifeboat: America, Calcutta, and the Price of Staying Afloat

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