Large language models, like openAI’s GPT3, are very powerful AI models. You might have encountered the above statement sometime during last year. I did too. And moved on. Till a course in nautral language processing brought me back to things that it deals with. Can such models, trained on huge…

It is important to quantify the risks associated with unconventional monetary instruments. This helps policymakers carry out cost benefit analysis. In this article, I discuss Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGBs), a unique monetary instrument issued by the Government of India. I attempt to quantify the risk that the government bears while…

“The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.” - The Economist[1] CEOs of big firms agree[2]. The smart people in the Government can’t be behind (they read the Economist!). I recall meetings in the government where all nodded affirmatively when someone mixed data and oil in the…