3TB Shorts 14: Sensex, Corporate Taxes and the Colour Purple

In India's market, returns are the king,
Outshining others, the bell they do ring.
With growth so robust,
In the Sensex, we trust,
To investors, great joy they do bring.

To save on their taxes, firms sail far and wide,
To Ireland and Delaware, they smoothly glide.
With cleverness and stealth,
They amass their wealth,
In havens, their profits do hide.

Purple, once rare, adorned only the elite,
A colour of royalty, none could compete.
From snails, it was born,
Now widely worn,
Its history of luxury, none can defeat.

We have always been about making tech relatable and fun. 

So, when we talk about the synthetic data trend to train models, we talk about the nine lives of cats.

Or when we talk about GPUs at the heart of the AI tsunami, we wonder if pasta has a role to play in that shortage. 

For trends that make sense, listen to this episode about cons and corpses that 2024 holds.

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If you are

• looking to find your own centre in the universe, OR 
• looking to know more about Ethiopian berry-eating goats in 850 AD, OR
• looking for cool ways to get around Bengaluru cheaply

This is the podcast for you. 

Get Busy Living. Get Busy Listening

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Only the most deserving, the truly worthy and the purest of techies of the three of us got to go to CES2024👨‍🎓 .

So, as a fitting "punishment" for his Vegas pleasures, we decided this episode would be an interview with Nilesh. Remember, there are no free lunches in this world. And what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas anymore; it is podcasted out to the world.

Readers of the right age will recall the times when you had to write an essay about your visit to the Taraporewala Aquarium or the Nehru Planetarium. This is our version of that childhood memory.

Join us for a virtual ride through NIlesh's eyes - right from when he landed in Las Vegas, the astonishing lack of Jain food at the venues and how unlike it was to all his trips to Pragati Maidan.

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We are guessing that the "Naughty" in the title is what got you hooked. That is smart sales personship (note gender neutrality here 😉 ). Or another set of super interesting stories from the "House of 3TB". This is inspired by the calls we get from the "House of Abhinandan Lodha" to buy houses we cannot afford.

Not sure why they are not calling from the office, though 🤣🤣🤣.

So get busy listening.

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If you start tracing the origins of anything in India, nothing is short of at least 2000 years old. Imagine our surprise when we realised the same is true even for AI in India. Some interesting stories from ancient times there - Barbarik, Ashok's fight with robot warriors, and even Kumbhakarna.

AI in modern India started patchy but has gathered momentum recently. India has chosen a path of application-led AI development. We have chosen to focus on population use cases per our DPI design philosophy. Bhashini, Karya and the world's first Hindi LLM - OpenHathi.

That should be enough to get you interested. Enjoy the tech with AI tadka episode.

Despite our population, there are no Indian books in the Top 10 Most Read List. Disturbing!!!. Recovering from that discovery, we explore the world of "Join the Dots', Atto Seconds and broken ice cream machines. 

How would an LLM respond to the question of whether the earth was flat or round in the 1500s? Could it have saved Galileo?

Have fun "shorting". Is that even a word? 😆🤣🤣😂😂

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Be they artists, performers or athletes, to stay on top of their craft, everyone needs to keep testing their limits. And that also holds true for the three of us as well. How much fun can we really have? How can we do one better? How can we find another way to make everyone smile?

Enter - The Jingle Project.

Why did we even take this up? 
- Because we are a strange brand of nutty. 
- Because we love troubling ourselves with new challenges.
- Because we love the process of fun-making.

An interesting phenomenon we now see unfolding is our "jealous" and full-of-FOMO friends wanting to join the parade, too.

So here is our co-created MTV avatar set to the music of an old classic with a dash of tech and a whole new level of madness.

Birthed by Salone Ghosh. Lyrics by Kaushik Chatterjee. Sung by Jayashree Rammohan. Music Arrangement by Tushar Sharma. Recorded at The Furtados School of Music. Music Video enacted by Sheetal, Nilesh and Samiran 

One of the most enduring images of 2023 was Elon Must carrying a sink to the Twitter office. The message "Let that sink in". And sink it did. Twitter and everyone associated with it. So much so that it became a variable "X".

That got us thinking. Let us do an episode about all that went wrong with tech in 2023 (What an idea, Sirji). Of course, there were good things too, but they were mostly restricted to our podcast. The year started with an awesome trailer, followed by some great guests, 3TB Shorts, Cool GenAI artwork, a Jingle, carousels and more.

From where we stand, this was really "Looking Like a Wow".

Happy New Year – may your batteries be full, your Wi-Fi strong, and your virtual meetings, mercifully short. See you on the other side.

Picture a gleaming kitchen, not of stainless steel and polished marble, but of code and algorithms. Here, the head chef isn't human, but a complex generative AI armed with a digital Swiss army knife that cuts, slices, dices, and blends through lines of code. The pantry? Forget neatly labelled jars and neatly stacked shelves. This is a digital garbage pile – fragments of text, snippets of code and images culled from the internet's deepest corners.

What happens next is more euphonic than gastronomic - this is a podcast - silly.

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