🎉 Announcing July winners of the Gaur & Chopra Escape Velocity Grants where we give a no-strings-attached grant of Rs 50k to ambitious people under 25 for whom this money can change their life.
- Sajjan Singh Chouhan
- Phula Kumari
- Nitin Raja
Their profiles 👇
1/ Sajjan is a 5th-year law student who aspires to become a judge.
On 100% scholarship since 10th, he needed Rs 55k for joining coaching classes for judiciary exams that his family cant afford
We hope our grant helps him become a judge and impact India.
Nitin is a 20-something building an anti-theft helmet. He has a basic prototype ready and needs funds to make a production-grade model to show to @bounceshare and @Vogo_rentals and launch a hardware startup.
4/ We got 375 applications in total and many more great applications than we could support in a month.
Just saw the live demo of @OpenAI’s new model Codex - it converts natural language into code.
Not so far from today, you’ll be able to describe what you want to get done and the model will output code that’ll do exactly that.
For example, you could say:
“Email me whenever a tweet mentioning bitcoin and elon musk gets retweeted more number of times than a tweet mentioning doge. If I don’t open the email, call me”.
It’ll use APIs to write a code to get this done.
This is significant in two ways:
- It takes the user beyond interacting with standard visual interfaces which are the same for everyone. When interaction is via generated code, each user can use a software in extremely customised manner (in ways devs may not even have imagined).
“I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
I feel, therefore I am is a truth much more universally valid, and it applies to everything that's alive...
.. My self does not differ substantially from yours in terms of its thought. Many people, few ideas: we all think more or less the same, and we exchange, borrow, steal thoughts from one another. However, when someone steps on my foot, only I feel the pain...
.. The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self ...
2/ Markets are competitive and initial success usually leads to other companies or new startups trying to copy and replicate such success for themselves.