Zaníyaŋ Yutȟókča (Brave Change)

íyaŋYutȟókčA busy start to the year for Electron with launches from LC-1 in New Zealand and LC-2 in Virginia this quarter.

íyaŋYutȟókčI realized that there were so many of these kinds of slips taking place that I clearly hadnt left the matter behind.íyaŋYutȟókčand this third book that Im writing takes place in Toronto and New York and Paris among the diaspora.

íyaŋYutȟókčArudpragasam jumps from novels to the politics of caste to philosophy to Sanskrit poetry to Tamil-language writing and back again with ease.íyaŋYutȟókčI have this little voice in my head that says I need to try—but those elements of novel writing are not what I am interested in.íyaŋYutȟókčThese are the psychological and the class conditions that make it the case that its impossible to hold me to a high level of truth or accuracy.

íyaŋYutȟókčand it showed me that there was a place in fiction and novels for a lot of what interested me about philosophy.íyaŋYutȟókčINTERVIEWERAre you ready to say anything else about your new book yet?ARUDPRAGASAMI look at every novel I write as a kind of apprenticeship.

íyaŋYutȟókčand it certainly wasnt the case with this novel—even though I didnt mean for A Passage North to be about the genocide.

íyaŋYutȟókčMaybe it has to do with coming from a context in which books are not readily available and when you see a book.íyaŋYutȟókčKey topics included the five pillars of AI ethics.

íyaŋYutȟókčAlso: AI in 2023: A year of breakthroughs that left no human thing unchangedIm telling you this because if any company has the cred to offer a credential on AI fundamentals.íyaŋYutȟókčFun fact: ZDNETs own Steven J.

íyaŋYutȟókčalong with answering a few reader questions.íyaŋYutȟókčyoull deep dive into ways that AI makes predictions.