The Butterfly Effect of a Seat in REC Calicut
One Admission Letter and a Thousand Consequences Manish Chakraborty (1985) Every now and then I catch myself wondering what life would have looked like if that admission letter from REC Calicut had never turned up. I’d probably have still found some kind of decent career. Maybe I’d still have travelled a bit. Who knows. But […]
If AI Had Come to REC Calicut in 1980
Manish Chakraborty (1985) Every generation thinks it lived through interesting times, and I suppose ours has a decent claim — we started out with slide rules and have somehow lived long enough to have actual conversations with AI. So every now and then I find myself wondering, half seriously, what would have happened if AI […]