Nitthin's Musings

The Bandwidth of Reality

Part 6 of "The Inference Universe": Why some channels are wide, some narrow, and what happens when we widen them

9 hrs ago • Nitthin Chandran Nair

The Future of Inference

Part 5 of "The Inference Universe": What happens when we build inference machines that outrun us?

Feb 13 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

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The Inferring Self

Part 4 of "The Inference Universe" : You are not a thing that thinks. You are the "thinking" itself, the computation running on meat, for a little…

Feb 12 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

Markets as Inference Engines

Part 3 of "The Inference Universe" : Prices are posteriors, arbitrage is error correction, and money is the universe's most successful protocol

Feb 2 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

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January 2026

The Social Inference Machine

Part 2 of “The Inference Universe”. Why cultures are compression algorithms, revolutions are phase transitions, and we are each other’s priors

Jan 14 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

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The Physics of Inference

How atoms gossip, stars listen, and reality computes itself.

Jan 9 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

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October 2025

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Oct 31, 2025 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

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A first-person review of getting started with Operating Principles - 7 days in

Creating a personal OS seems too complex without a base set of operating principles to work with. So here's v1 of building operating principles for the…

Oct 28, 2025 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

July 2025

Why we crave more of the same: the hidden science of familiarity in art, music, and stories

Ever notice how discovering something new: a song, a film, a book; often makes you want more of the same instead of something even newer? There’s a…

Jul 1, 2025 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

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April 2025

Why India Risks Becoming 1990s China Without the Escape Plan

India is attracting the world with affordability, but not building upward mobility, ownership, or IP. If we don’t shift from cost to value, we’ll be…

Apr 15, 2025 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

The narrow corridors of high margin opportunity in India

Are rising land and logistics costs, paired with low per capita income, stifling business margins—and the country’s broader economic aspirations?

Apr 2, 2025 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

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December 2024

India's Infrastructure needs an intervention (Part 1)

When flats in Gurgaon and Bengaluru sell for crores - the unaffordable prices, un-realistic rentals and unplanned cities are a threat to India's rising…

Dec 28, 2024 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

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