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Roshan George

I'm Roshan and I post on my blog about engineering, life in San Francisco, and the process through which I became a father.

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Roshan: Created page with "A close one Sports fans are somewhat invested in how their teams do, and especially American sports fans love a good statistic. Perhaps it's the popularity of Moneyball or baseball cards or perhaps the same people who'd like that would naturally also come up with these things. In any case,...
Roshan: [[File:Dall-E 3 reimagining - A couple walking down 4th street cleaning.png|thumb|The good samaritans as depicted from my memory. They looked younger and in better shape but you get the picture.]] When we were kids there was this nursery rhyme we had about how small actions eventually sum up to large...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Screenshot - Lagrange view of Gemini version of this Wiki.png|thumb|Somewhat more textual than the HTTP version]] Recently, I've been thinking about [[wikipedia:Gemini (protocol)|the Gemini protocol]] and how it allows for text-based web pages and...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:AI Image - Boromir reaching for The Ring.png}}|thumb|A guy who is absolutely not making a mistake]] A common refrain from people in the US is that prediction markets are dangerous for protected information since many individuals are...
Roshan: Many years ago, semantic drift caught an author unfortunately unawares. After she put in a lot of work to write a book describing how homosexuals received capital punishment for centuries, it was found not days after her book was published that a sentence of 'death recorded' does not actually mean that the...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot A short while back, I used to believe that [[Blog/2026-01-10/The Impact of Fake Video is Overrated|The Impact of Fake Video is Overrated]] because people will just believe what they will and there's nothing you can do about that. But I was entirely wrong...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:Armistice Day in London, 11 November 1918 Q47852.jpg}}|thumb|They didn't know it then, but they'd feel it the end in the coming decades]] Recently, when I was thinking about how [[Blog/2026-02-21/LOTR Is The Denouement|LOTR Is The...
Roshan: [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot - Admin UI Skybright.png}}|thumb|Hit Copy To AI and then paste into your Claude Code to drive from there]] One of the things I find annoying these days is not being able to unleash Claude Code on a problem and let it spin. You have to copy out a cookie and instruct Claude on...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:Human Networks - Sane and Insane.png}}|thumb|We each think the other insane, so the alternative way to handle Shiri's Scissor is to just not talk to the other side]] On the Internet, we all interact with each other as roughly equals...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:LOTR - Potential Eagle Path.png}}|thumb|The oft-suggested use of Maiar air power to end Sauron's ring]] A sufficiently advanced intelligence cannot be 'corrected' without destroying its autonomy. Your only hope is to interact with...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:Google Street View Screenshot - Easwari Lending Library.png}}|thumb|Where I picked up the book the first time]] When I was young, I picked up a book called [[wikipedia:The Two Towers|The Two Towers]] while walking through the local...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot Apparently 38 percent of students at Stanford have at least one disability<ref name=atlantic/>. Now, the Atlantic alleges, discreetly and in a sideways manner, that a large number of doctors who have set diagnostic criteria, administrators that...

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