Gunners Shot

Aadi and I had a very interesting discussion on firepower with a lot of questions thrown in. Good session.   

This is a small clip of a discussion with Ms Gayatri Devi on Pakistan Army and its political role.    

 Mr Sanjay Dixit and I had a discussion on China and the looming instability there. We also discussed as to how to tackle China in future.  

I had a very interesting conversation with Vijay (my son) on AI. The outcome is this article written by him…The original article is @  https://softwarenotes.substack.com/p/why-is-ai-important I was about to put on “Coded Bias” on Netflix and Dad asked me a curious question:  Why is AI important? I could have answered by talking about the impact of AI/ML on our everyday lives — i.e., how it impacts everyday people … the users of technology and software But I opted to approach this question as a software engineer instead. Specifically, I approached this question as someone who takes deep interest in how software came to be, historically speaking. Through a short-yet-rambling answer, which turned into an hours long discussion between us, I told him that the whole point of programming was to implement an artificially intelligent machine; and so, AI is important because it is the whole reason why computer programming exists in the first place. It was a long discussion. And I accept that mos

Also Published @ The Financial Express as China: Instability on the horizon A detailed analysis of the state of affairs in China – a nation with the second largest economy at the disposal of a dictator for life in a state of self-induced atrophy is an international problem.  November 24, 2022 7:29:19 pm In China, three facets are in flux  – Demography, Leadership and Economy. By itself any one can create a macro instability in China. (Photo Courtesy: IE) By Lt Gen P R Shankar (R) The 20 th Party Congress signalled the end of Deng’s reform and opening whose constituents were stable consensual politics, private enterprise, foreign investment, greater freedoms and improved international relations. It was a period of ‘strategic opportunity’ in which China rose to be the second largest economy. It guaranteed security in an interconnected and globalised world. Also read:   S ino Indian Border : Stable and Unpredictable   In the new post 20 th  Party  Congress  era,China has ‘two establishes’