3 Techies Banter #3TB

Imagine the Indian fintech industry as a Bollywood dance sequence. It begins in the early 2000s, with a few enthusiastic background dancers, mainly startups like Paytm and ItzCash, shaking to the primitive rhythms of dial-up internet. The choreography was less "smooth moonwalk" and more "clunky robot dance," but the spirit? Unmatchable!

As the beat of technology quickened, so did the steps. By the 2010s, the stage was ablaze with ...

From a beer-drenched London street to the simple joy of a flying disc and finally to the click of a mouse that bought "Ten Summoner’s Tales," history, it seems, prefers its tales served with a side of whimsical. And we have a rhyme to match.

In London's streets, the beer did flow,
A flood of ale from long ago.
The vats did burst, the town did weep,
In hops and barley drowned so deep.

Then Yale, where pie tins took to fli...

Royal Enfield. More than just motorcycles, the brand forges brotherhood across the Indian highways. Owning a Royal Enfield is your passport to a fraternity of wind-chasers and adventure-seekers. It's not just about the ride; it's about the rider's rite of passage into a tribe that shares tales of rugged roads and starlit skies.

The IPL is a cricketing carnival that is more than cricket. It builds communities, with fans bonding ove...

Could a banana split or a split personality have anything to do with the fact we share 50% of our DNA with bananas? Scientific facts or outrageous humour? A little of both, really.

And the next time you meticulously pick out unwanted items from your food, remember you're just channeling your inner rock star. Ask Van Halen about their brown M&M snacks.

Speaking of refreshments, that glass of water you're sipping might just hav...

In the town of Internetville, a unique bakery, Data Delights, offered irresistible cookies with a catch: each cookie had to be paid for with a sprinkle of personal data. Enamoured by flavours like Lemon Log-in and Chocolate Profile Crunch, the townsfolk unknowingly traded their privacy for these tasty treats.

Soon, the bakery owner, knew more about the town's inhabitants than they knew about themselves. T...

In India's market, returns are the king,
Outshining others, the bell they do ring.
With growth so robust,
In the Sensex, we trust,
To investors, great joy they do bring.

To save on their taxes, firms sail far and wide,
To Ireland and Delaware, they smoothly glide.
With cleverness and stealth,
They amass their wealth,
In havens, their profits do hide.

Purple, once rare, adorned only the elite,
A colour o...

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Only the most deserving, the truly worthy and the purest of techies of the three of us got to go to CES2024👨‍🎓 .

So, as a fitting "punishment" for his Vegas pleasures, we decided this episode would be an interview with Nilesh. Remember, there are no free lunches in this world. And what happens in Vegas doe...

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We are guessing that the "Naughty" in the title is what got you hooked. That is smart sales personship (note gender neutrality here 😉 ). Or another set of super interesting stories from the "House of 3TB". This is inspired by the calls we get from the "House of Abhinandan Lodha" to buy houses we cannot afford.

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If you start tracing the origins of anything in India, nothing is short of at least 2000 years old. Imagine our surprise when we realised the same is true even for AI in India. Some interesting stories from ancient times there - Barbarik, Ashok's fight with robot warriors, and even Kumbhakarna.

AI in modern India ...

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Be they artists, performers or athletes, to stay on top of their craft, everyone needs to keep testing their limits. And that also holds true for the three of us as well. How much fun can we really have? How can we do one better? How can we find another way to make everyone smile?

Enter - The Jingle Project.

Why ...

One of the most enduring images of 2023 was Elon Must carrying a sink to the Twitter office. The message "Let that sink in". And sink it did. Twitter and everyone associated with it. So much so that it became a variable "X".

That got us thinking. Let us do an episode about all that went wrong with tech in 2023 (What an idea, Sirji). Of course, there were good things too, but they were mostly restricted to our podcast. The year sta...

Picture a gleaming kitchen, not of stainless steel and polished marble, but of code and algorithms. Here, the head chef isn't human, but a complex generative AI armed with a digital Swiss army knife that cuts, slices, dices, and blends through lines of code. The pantry? Forget neatly labelled jars and neatly stacked shelves. This is a digital garbage pile – fragments of text, snippets of code and images culled from the internet's d...

From ancient mummies navigating modern red tape to towns tweaking their names for reasons you will shortly understand, the world's tapestry of tales never ceases to amuse and astonish. Which is where we come in. In fact, this mummy's travel tale is a reminder of how time, in both literal and bureaucratic senses, can be surprisingly elastic, very unlike the "Jiffy" in our episode.

Join us yet again for a regular diet of "battle the...

In the land of AI, where the code rivers flow,
ChatGPT sips water, just so you know.
For every few prompts, a half-liter it drains,
In the quest to answer, with computational brains.

The mighty GPT-3, in its training days prime,
Used 85,000 gallons - quite the climb!
With $11.3 billion raised, it's a financial feat,
But its impact on our world? That's still a seat.

Now, let's peek at Water.org, what a noble sigh...

Hum Shayar to Nahin. Magar......We love to rhyme. So here goes

In Silicon Valley, where tech dreams ignite,
There's a squad of women, in code and gadgets who are pretty bright.
They code like a breeze, debug without a fight,
In a world where ones and zeros dance day and night.

In this high-tech realm, James Bond might roam,
With his sleek gadgets, far from his London home.
Sipping his secret martini, shaken with a ...

If you are going down the merry path of generative AI, be prepared for this conversation between "THE BARD" and his new AI bot-mate.

William Shakespeare: Pray tell, mechanical muse, dost thou reckon thy generative wit surpasses the folly and wisdom of man?

AI Chat Bot: Verily, Sir Shakespeare, I process with silicon speed, yet my heart, a binary beat, knows not the depth of human creed.

William Shakespeare: Ah, a tool of both li...