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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · 2d

Good to know that when the world will fall apart we will have chocolate 🍫 and coffee ☕ to console us.

EU Science, Research & Innovation @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu · 2d

From drought to disease, coffee & chocolate are feeling the heat of climate change. But science is brewing solutions.

The EU-funded BOLERO project develops climate-resilient coffee and cacao by grafting, testing new varieties, & working with farmers and industry.

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Brewing resilience: researchers safeguard coffee and chocolate from climate threats

In the hills above Matagalpa, Nicaragua, farmer Juan Pablo Castro has been growing coffee for 25 years. His two-hectare farm, dotted with citrus trees, is typical of the smallholdings that supply much...

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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · 2d

It's always DNS. Always.

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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · 3d

McCaffrey 7 - Falcons 3

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 4d

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · 9d

I feel like using "struggled mightily" and "reached for the stars" in my performance review

Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 10d

This has been a strange Atlantic hurricane season. It seems like every storm fell into two categories: struggled mightily, or reached for the stars.

Here's a recap of what we've seen so far this year:

Checking in on the strange 2025 Atlantic hurricane season

It's been a strange hurricane season across the Atlantic basin so far this year—and it's not done just yet.

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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · 10d

A fleet of Waymo "going to work" in Palo Alto.

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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · 11d

I realized that. We Americans have made up our own world and we love gadgets. So when I saw simpler bikes in Amsterdam I freaked out. It's almost like why all these people are riding such "unsafe" bikes.

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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · 11d

Perhaps a less talked about argument is that the robust adoption of the Internet, cloud, and mobile phones is what set the foundation for a rapid growth of AI. Many other tech failed in the past had poor timing. AI, this time around, is well-timed.

Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · 12d

Also, not all bikes have external wire brakes. You brake them by pedaling in the opposite direction. I was terrified when I rented a bike and began to bike on busy streets but then it was so much fun afterwards.

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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · 15d

I have no evidence to support this but it would be worthwhile to look at increased instant gratification from digital channels compared to reading a book for "fun." Adults look for a reprieve from hardship (labor) and turn to easy solutions. Rise in services delivering fast food is another example.

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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · 16d

I always wonder why all call centers don't give customers an option to have an agent call back. It's such an easy thing to do and doesn't cost more. It creates so much goodwill for a company when customers don't have to wait, someone calls them, and their problems are solved.

Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · 21d

A couple of questions: 1) If you believe that market is irrational, is there a different company/stock that follows a similar pattern? 2) Is there anything Tesla-specific that might explain this, regardless of whether it is grounded in data or not, other than generic market irrationality?

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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · 26d

I don't think people understand what "mathematically" actually means. Reducing prices by 1500% is mathematically possible but the odds of that happening are far lower than the Mariners winning the World Series. You don't have to talk to "experts" and if you do, your experts aren't very good at math.

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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · 29d

If true, this is a big deal.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 29d

Privacy startup Duality says it has developed a private LLM inference framework that uses fully homomorphic encryption to let LLMs answer encrypted prompts (Rina Diane Caballar/IEEE Spectrum)

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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · Sep 23

I'm still hung up on an uppercase 'R' in "Robot."

Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · Sep 13

After 20 years, @gaberivera.bsky.social finally gets a headline at techmeme

Techmeme @techmeme.com · Sep 12

On Techmeme's 20th birthday, its founder explains what's behind the site's consistency, debunks some supposed media trends, and outlines future directions (Gabe Rivera/Techmeme News)

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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · Sep 5

I always feel that the Cowboys don't really want to win and every year they prove me right.

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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · Sep 5

Now people can attach nonsensical posts written using AI to train AI. That will work out really well.

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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · Sep 1

I can get behind this project

WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · Sep 1

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · Sep 1

The treadmill screening of ‘THE LONG WALK’ took place, where every person had to walk on a treadmill faster than 3MPH for the whole movie.

If they stopped, they were escorted out of the theater.

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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · Sep 1

Go buy a lotto ticket

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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · Aug 23

I had one of these. Loved it!

Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · Aug 18

Let's make sure that we take NBC out of our name and let's pretend that Microsoft never had anything to do with MSNBC either. Find a three letter word to add and throw in two red stripes in the logo.

Chirag Mehta @chirag.bsky.social · Aug 13

No such thing as bad PR

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