Personal website of Vikram Singh, Staff Research Engineer at Tejas Networks. System Simulations and RAN1/2 3GPP Standardization.https://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/https://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/detachment-isnt-apathy/https://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/detachment-isnt-apathy/Detachment gets mistaken for not caring. Read properly, through the Gita's nishkama karma and the Stoic love of fate, it is the opposite: full commitment to the work with a loosened grip on the outcome, and the reason that posture makes you better at both work and love.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:20:00 GMThttps://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/will-nokia-be-able-to-deliver/https://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/will-nokia-be-able-to-deliver/Nokia owns the house my entire field was born in, but owning genius is not the same as shipping profit. A structural look at Nokia's execution risk, the Bell Labs paradox, and whether the pieces finally convert.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:50:00 GMThttps://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/the-lost-joy-of-doing-things-for-no-reason/https://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/the-lost-joy-of-doing-things-for-no-reason/On leisure as a serious thing, hobbies as play that refuses to justify itself in the language of productivity, and the difference between genuine rest and mere consumption. The real aristocracy was never money. It was time, and what you are willing to do with it when nothing is required.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:10:00 GMThttps://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/it-wasnt-the-kauravas-it-was-bhishma/https://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/it-wasnt-the-kauravas-it-was-bhishma/A moral rereading of the Mahabharata. The obvious villains get the blame, but the catastrophe needed the silence of the good elders to happen at all. Bhishma's terrible vow, his loyalty to the throne over justice, and his silence during Draupadi's humiliation as the true hinge of the tragedy.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:40:00 GMThttps://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/authenticity-is-transient/https://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/authenticity-is-transient/Be authentic, we are told, as if there were a fixed true self waiting underneath to be honored. There isn't. The self is a moving thing, growth often requires betraying who you were, and loyalty to a frozen essence can become the most elaborate lie of all.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:25:00 GMThttps://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/openai-vs-apple-antitrust-innovation-and-collateral-damage/https://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/openai-vs-apple-antitrust-innovation-and-collateral-damage/The real fight between OpenAI and Apple is not about a chatbot, it is about the choke point: the device, the store, and the default assistant. Structural and legal reasoning from someone raised in telecom's own long history of gatekeeping.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:20:00 GMThttps://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/why-most-people-wont-make-it-and-why-thats-okay/https://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/why-most-people-wont-make-it-and-why-thats-okay/Power laws, survivorship bias, and the quiet violence of the phrase make it. Why most people will not reach the top of the tournament, why that was always arithmetic rather than tragedy, and why a good life was never a percentile.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:40:00 GMThttps://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/porus-and-alexander/https://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/porus-and-alexander/In 326 BCE a Macedonian and a Punjabi king fought across a monsoon-swollen river, and almost everything we think we know about it comes from Greek pens. A look at what the sources actually claim, what is later legend, and why the man who lost the battle may have won the story.Wed, 13 May 2026 14:55:00 GMThttps://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/nokia-vs-ericsson-in-the-ai-era/https://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/nokia-vs-ericsson-in-the-ai-era/A structural comparison of the two Western RAN giants, how AI is quietly rewriting the network roadmap, and my reasoned, uncertain view on which of them is better placed to win the next decade.Sat, 09 May 2026 07:55:00 GMThttps://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/openai-built-the-market-anthropic-built-the-business/https://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/openai-built-the-market-anthropic-built-the-business/Creating a category and banking it are different verbs. A look, from business fundamentals, at consumer mindshare versus enterprise margin, and why winning attention is not the same as winning a profit-and-loss statement.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:35:00 GMThttps://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/the-mathematics-of-gpu-scaling/https://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/the-mathematics-of-gpu-scaling/Scaling a GPU workload is a numbers game, not a vibe. A first-principles tour of Amdahl and Gustafson, strong versus weak scaling, the roofline, Little's law for latency hiding, and the alpha-beta model that explains why the interconnect, not the compute, sets the ceiling.Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:20:00 GMThttps://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/where-will-private-capital-flow-once-ai-becomes-a-commodity/https://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/where-will-private-capital-flow-once-ai-becomes-a-commodity/When raw model access turns into a commodity, the profit does not disappear, it migrates. A field guide to where private capital should flow next, and what will look, in hindsight, like this cycle's dark fiber.Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:10:00 GMThttps://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/token-addiction-and-related-finances/https://vikramsinghanttal.github.io/blog/token-addiction-and-related-finances/I've been surprised by how difficult minimalism becomes the moment something has tiny ears and a smiling face.Thu, 01 Jan 2026 10:20:15 GMT