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Shibaprasad Bhattacharya
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Math, Stats, and Data nerd. An ordinary man.
Sharing experiences, and occasional rants.

I generally post about #DataAnalytics, #ML, #Football, #Coffee, #India […]

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New blog post about processing grief, cultivating a sense of gratitude, and the shitty year.

https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/grief-gratitude-and-a-shitty-year
Grief, Gratitude & a Shitty Year
On 10th November 2025, around 7:50 PM, I received a distressing news.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
shibaprasad.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy
Browsing is something that I truly enjoy. It is a form of curated curiosity.
(Though it comes with its perils.)

Why would I want AI agents to do it for me? Don't really see the need at this point.

#llm
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
shibaprasad.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy
Perception melts when confronted with actual human joy. A Halloween story from India.

#blogpost #substack

https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/trick-or-treats
Trick or Treats?
Last week (Oct 30), an NRI colleague asked me about Halloween celebrations in India.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
shibaprasad.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy
My work involves working with LLM APIs. I was surprised to see even the advanced models (except Claude 3.7) making basic mistakes, such as being unable to perform basic summations. (it was doing 1+2+1+3+2+1 = 11)

It kept on happening time and again.

#llm #ai
October 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Roo reaction

[description: kangaroo checking out a Halloween display is scared by the cackling skeleton -- you can see the roo running away far down the street]

#kangaroo #roo #animal #halloween #humor #humour
October 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Choosing between a 5-seater and a 7-seater car? Same question applies to hiring: do you build for average days or peak days?

I explored that in my new blogpost.

https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/5-seats-or-7-average-or-peak

#blog #blogpost
5 Seats or 7? Average or Peak?
On optimizing for the norm vs the exception
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October 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Any Data Science/Analytics or IndieWeb community based out of Hyderabad?

Would love to be a part of one.

#DataAnalytics #datascience #indieweb #hyderabad #India
October 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Thank you, John Stewart, for putting together an easy-to-understand conversation about the threats and dangers of #ai

And thank you Geoffrey Hinton, for the patience and clarity around this topic.

This is a brilliant and crystal clear interview, and well worth listening to twice - 10/10 - must […]
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October 10, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Asked ChatGPT and Claude the same question. Their responses were surprisingly different. New post about conversational styles and sitcom wisdom.

#llm #genai #substack #blogpost

https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/the-coach-vs-the-friend-an-llm-experiment
The Coach vs The Friend: An LLM Experiment
Sitcom dads, life prompts, and testing whether ChatGPT and Claude adopt different conversational roles.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Haha! Loved this!

https://tyagarajan.substack.com/p/the-slop-singularity-is-here
The Slop Singularity Is Here
Slopocalypse now
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October 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Goodhartian illusion.

#India #kolkata

https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/kolkata/kolkata-rated-safest-and-least-safe-by-two-national-reports-on-womens-safety/cid/2126166
October 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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R & Positron users, I am facing an issue:

When using R Notebooks (.ipynb) in Positron, I am not getting the autocomplete features that I typically see when working with Python.

Am I missing a setting, or how can I enable this functionality?

#rstats #datascience
October 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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@shibaprasad @mastodonindians Moreover, AAI lists 23 airports handling international passengers in 2006-07 (excl. non customs airports and 'other airports'). Between April to August this year, the number of such airports stood at 39 (excluding airports that were listed under data for […]
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October 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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India’s skies aren’t just for metros anymore. Non-metro towns are claiming a bigger share of the aviation map, proof that growth is spreading, even if flying is no longer the luxury it once was. The numbers speak for themselves.

Read on HT app […]

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Non-metro cities take off in India's aviation boom By Sreedev Krishnakumar That India’s post-reform growth story has been an unequal one is a well-accepted and commented upon fact. However, this inequality does not mean that growth has been the preserve of just a handful of places. In fact, there are enough signs that even as inequality persists, opulence is also spreading across India’s geography. Among the most important proofs of this is the growing share of non-metro towns in India’s aviation map, albeit with the caveat that air travel is no longer seen as the luxury it once was. The numbers speak for themselves. (The full text is too long to be pasted here. Please click on the link in the app to read it on the free HT app.)
October 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Replugging my last blog post:

Discovering two Indias amidst the chaos of Sunday markets.

#blogpost

https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/small-cuts-big-realisations
Small Cuts, Big Realisations
Finding perspective in the chaos of Sunday markets
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October 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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West Bengal lost nearly 3 lakh Class 12 students between 2024 and 2025 - a 37% drop in just one year.

I dug into the data to understand why, and ended up with more questions than answers.

@mastodonindians #India #data

https://www.shibaprasadb.com/2025/10/04/class12-dropouts.html
The Curious Case of West Bengal's Disappearing Class 12 Students
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October 4, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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My evening runs around western Hyderabad often give me space to think.

One such run made me see how the same shop, same butcher, same cut can belong to two very different Indias.

Wrote about it here.

#blogpost #substack #blog

https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/small-cuts-big-realisations
Small Cuts, Big Realisations
Finding perspective in the chaos of Sunday markets
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October 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Thoroughly enjoyed my Vibe coding experience of creating my Semi-professional website.

Bought a domain yesterday.

Though I would assume the experience would have been much more enriching if I had a solid foundation in HTML and CSS. Which I don't, sadly.

#llm #vibecoding #website […]
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September 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Got some great suggestions, so reposting this.

If you are into Stat/Data/Product/Strategy, I would love to have your suggestions.

#rstats #datascience #DataAnalytics #analytics #technology #BusinessStrategy #stats #statistics […]
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September 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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I think we should treat people who get scammed and come out and talk about it like heroes. And this is important: no matter how "obvious" the scam might seem in retrospect or from the outside of the community it prey'd on.

The more I look at scams the more I think this is major factor in how […]
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September 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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One day they will understand that "Let's build black boxes that are really good at predicting data" is a dead end for scientific progress.

https://news.mit.edu/2025/can-large-language-models-figure-out-real-world-0825

"[They] devised a new approach to […]

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September 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Why did RSS feeds go out of fashion? Seems like a great way to have a curated feed - all in one place!
September 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Earlier this week, China announced that it will no longer claim "developing country" perks at the WTO, a nod to its economic heft and a bid to be seen as a champion of the Global South and multilateral institutions. Today's Number Theory charts its rise as a […]

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Developing country to export superpower: China’s journey By Sreedev Krishhnakumar China has announced that it will no longer seek for itself the special and differential treatment provisions reserved for developing countries at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The move reflects not only an acknowledgement of its growing economic weight, but is also an effort to present itself as a constructive force in multilateral reform. The charts below trace China’s rise into a global exporting powerhouse since joining the WTO and examine how its trade dominance contrasts with its still modest income levels. (The full text is too long to be copied and pasted here. Please click on the link in the post to read it for free from the HT app)
September 26, 2025 at 4:52 AM