이모, baby PL thingy @fp_launchpad, sitar-strummer, 🇮🇳, inhabiting the settler-migrant continuum.
ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು/சென்னை/내 사랑이 사는 곳
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Alina Banerjee | ಅಲಿನಾ বৈনর্জি retweeted
Congratulations to @LulaOficial and the people of Brazil on his historic fourth term, defeating Trump-backed Flávio Bolsonaro's far-right divisive campaign. A victory for democracy and proof that the far right is not invincible!
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LLMs and the rest can't teach in the way a good teacher can but they can be great tools for building things to teach with - notes, slides and most of all, visualizations.
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I know of Latour's writing on the environment (via Adam Tooze's newsletter) but never paid attention to his writings in this area.
Thank you. This will be most interesting.
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Is there an article or paper that helps understand Latour's idea? That PL development is shaped by lineages as much as it is by computational requirements makes sense in some ways. Concrete literature would help understand it better.
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Alina Banerjee | ಅಲಿನಾ বৈনর্জি retweeted
If you've made it this far, do visit bengaluruvotes.opencity.in, look up which ward you live in and consider donating.
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Alina Banerjee | ಅಲಿನಾ বৈনর্জি retweeted
Special shoutout to Claude (@claudeai @AnthropicAI) and Codex (@OpenAIDevs @OpenAI) which enabled us to build this.
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Alina Banerjee | ಅಲಿನಾ বৈনর্জি retweeted
Oh and the entire codebase is OSS MIT License at github.com/snarayanank2/beng…
We're hoping to use / adapt this for future urban body elections in different cities.
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Alina Banerjee | ಅಲಿನಾ বৈনর্জি retweeted
Donations go to Oorvani Foundation, the non-profit behind this: oorvani.org/support-us @oorvani
For scale, ₹3 lakh is about 0.00008% of what the city spends in a year. We'll tell you where ours went.
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Alina Banerjee | ಅಲಿನಾ বৈনর্জি retweeted
How you can help: money. Sorry.
The whole thing runs on roughly ₹3 lakh. That pays for AI that extracts information, people to check every candidate's affidavit by hand, sending voters reminders, and settling Google's bill each time someone looks up their ward.
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Alina Banerjee | ಅಲಿನಾ বৈনর্জি retweeted
The site opens around Nov 1 or when the election is announced, whichever arrives first. We are not taking bets.
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Alina Banerjee | ಅಲಿನಾ বৈনর্জি retweeted
Why bother? Nobody under thirty in this city has ever voted for a corporator. Neither has anyone who moved here in the last ten years, which in Bengaluru is a lot of people.
That's a great many first-time voters, and a ballot full of names they've never heard.
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Alina Banerjee | ಅಲಿನಾ বৈনর্জি retweeted
Also on there: your polling booth, how to vote, the issues in your ward, and questions worth putting to whoever rings your doorbell over the next few weeks.
All of it in English and Kannada.
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Alina Banerjee | ಅಲಿನಾ বৈনর্জি retweeted
Once candidates are announced, each one gets a report card: age, education, assets, criminal cases. All taken from the affidavit they swore themselves.
Same fields for everyone, side by side. We add no opinions. We'll use both AI and humans.
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Alina Banerjee | ಅಲಿನಾ বৈনর্জি retweeted
The first problem is basic. The wards have been redrawn: 369 of them now, across 5 corporations, and most people don't know which one they live in.
So step 1 is finding out which ward do you belong to.
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Alina Banerjee | ಅಲಿನಾ বৈনর্জি retweeted
It's called Bengaluru Votes: bengaluruvotes.opencity.in
A partnership between @oorvani @Janaagraha1 , plus volunteers like me. Not affiliated with any party, candidate or government body. We intend to be equally unhelpful to all of them.
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Alina Banerjee | ಅಲಿನಾ বৈনর্জি retweeted
Bengaluru last elected its ward councillors in 2015. Since then the city has spent about ₹38,455 crore a year with nobody local to blame for the pothole outside your gate.
The ward elections are coming soon, hopefully 🤞. A few of us are building something for them. 🧵
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Do apply and come. It is a fabulous opportunity to quickly learn things in PL, logic and verification as well as meet all of us at FP Launchpad in Chennai.
FP Launchpad is running a PL Winter School between Dec 7th and 11th at IIT Madras: fplaunchpad.org/winter-schoo….
Application to attend will open early next week. Please share widely.
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@ACTFibernet If this cannot be resolved by tomorrow, then something serious is not being communicated. Each time your engineer promises to come by and fix the issue then never picks up my calls again.
I will be forced to cancel by nexty week because I need reliable connectivity
Hi Alina, we sincerely apologize for the service disruption caused by inclement weather. Ticket SR10382591973884 has been escalated to our field team on priority. We expect this to be resolved within 24 to 48 hours and appreciate your patience.
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