3TB Shorts 15: Bananas, Brown M&Ms and Dinosaur Pee
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…
Cookies in the Privacy Jar
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 ta…
3TB Shorts 14: Sensex, Corporate Taxes and the Colour Purple
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…
Trending in 2024 - Uni"cons" and Unicorpses
We have always been about making tech relatable and fun. So, when we talk about the synthetic data trend to train models, we talk about the nine lives of cats. Or when we talk about GPUs at the heart of the AI tsunami, we wonder if pasta has a role to play in that shortage. For trends that mak…
3TB Shorts 13: Barycenters, Happy Goats and Namma Yatri Rides
First Things First - Do cast your vote in favour of 3 Techies Banter for HT Smartcast x Mint Awards Vote for us HERE (Podcast Category - Science & Technology) If you are looking to find your own centre in the universe, OR looking to know more about Ethiopian berry-eating goats in 850 AD, OR look…
1T of 3TB @CES2024
First Things First - Do cast your vote in favour of 3 Techies Banter for HT Smartcast x Mint Awards Vote for us HERE 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 decide…
3TB Shorts12: Monty Python, Naughty Jingle Bells and Supercentenarians
First Things First - Do cast your vote in favour of 3 Techies Banter for HT Smartcast x Mint Awards Vote for us HERE 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 storie…
AI with Indian Tadka
First Things First - Do cast your vote in favour of 3 Techies Banter for HT Smartcast x Mint Awards Vote for us HERE 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. Som…
3TB Shorts 11: The Nine Dot Puzzle, Galileo and Broken Ice Cream Machines
Despite our population, there are no Indian books in the Top 10 Most Read List. Disturbing!!!. Recovering from that discovery, we explore the world of "Join the Dots', Atto Seconds and broken ice cream machines. How would an LLM respond to the question of whether the earth was flat or round in th…
The Jingle Project
First Things First - Do cast your vote in favour of 3 Techies Banter for HT Smartcast x Mint Awards Vote for us HERE 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 …