Priyesh Gupta.

cleared 9 of my 10 backlogs, before 7th sem 😎

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.

The short answer: page by page, by hand.

You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.

Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://t.co/gt9s5lbPE4

[Yadu @Yaduvam]

Ram and Lakshman receive their divine weapons from Sage Vishwamitra

by Monal Kohad

[Nilanjana Roy ���🦊 @nilanjanaroy]

Good question! Here are two excellent, Old-Delhi leaning food histories (Charmaine O'Brien and Pamela Timms), but written in 2012 and 2014.

And two favourites by Delhi food mavens/ critics. Perhaps you can persuade @virsanghvi or @reshii (if she's still on Twitter) to write the big Delhi food book.

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

✨️Full article in my substack. Link in my story✨️

https://t.co/W9IyMXoFxa

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

At the top of the ridge stands an austere Ottoman mausoleum of weathered stone and peeling grey stucco, some fifteen metres tall.

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

Why is the Last Tomb of the Ottoman Empire lying abandoned in rural India?

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

On this auspicious day of Ashada Ekadashi, I am very happy to announce the launch of my humble attempt to make history interesting.

https://t.co/SGfD2ebBpO

The idea is actually very very simple

You go to the site, select a year, and It will show you who ruled which part of India at that point in time.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

BBC literally built the greatest sound library on the internet.

It is called BBC Sound Effects, and it gives you access to more than 30,000 recordings from around the world.

Just search any word, and it instantly finds matching sounds.

You can filter them by category, duration, and even the continent where the sound was recorded.

Every sound can be previewed inside your browser, downloaded, or added to the built-in mixer so you can layer multiple recordings together.

And the archive gets insanely specific.

You can find creaking ships, old typewriters, jungle ambience, distant church congregations, and even someone vigorously washing their hands.

There is a good chance a BBC engineer recorded the exact sound you need decades before you were born.

https://t.co/vdOBewxyg3

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

you should read fiction, learn history, explore stuff that isn't just "immediately useful."

so much of life is drawing on experience. If your experience is operating so thoroughly in a specific box you really limit yourself.

[Codez @0xCodez]

Andrew Ng just released a 1-hour course on building agentic knowledge Graphs from scratch:

• 00:00 - Introduction to agentic knowledge Graphs
• 03:07 - Construction of agentic Graphs
• 14:00 - Architecture of multi-agent systems
• 23:00 - Building agentic graphs with Google ADK
• 01:06:03 - Why Graphsare the future of agentic AI

Worth more than 10 articles on loop engineering.

Watch it today, then read how to become a graph engineer in the article below.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Agile was described by a small team of good developers who worked well together and shared a common vision. The goal was to promote the idea that software was best accomplished by small teams of good developers who work well together and share a common vision.

Then the project managers and transition consultants usurped it and ruined it for everybody by making it all about them instead of small teams of good developers who work well together and share a common vision.

But the original agile message is still there, and it still describes the way that small teams of good developers who work well together and share a common vision are observed to behave in the wild.

[Lunar @LunarResearcher]

Anthropic just released a free 4-hour course

On using Claude like their own engineers:

00:15 - Prompt Claude the right way
33:21 - Why Claude struggles with code
01:33:39 - Anthropic's daily workflow
02:50:56 - The tweak that makes Claude much smarter

This free course is worth more than most AI engineering tutorials

Bookmark and watch it today

Then read the guide below

[Priyesh Gupta. @BLomdii]

Damn.

[h100envy @h100envy]

Google engineer explained how to fine-tune a tiny LLM from 46% to 90% accuracy on your phone in 21 minutes - better than $1500 on-device AI bootcamps.

pick Gemma 270M -> generate synthetic task data -> fine-tune with LoRA -> quantize to int4 -> deploy to Pixel and hit 2000 tokens per second.

That loop is how a 270M model beats a 70B one on your task, running fully offline in your pocket.

Gemma 270M + synthetic data + LoRA + int4 quantization + on-device runtime - that's the stack.

Watch and save it, then fine-tune your own tiny agent tonight.

[Sātavāhana. @SatavahanasIN]

Stupas 1, 2, and 3 at Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh - among the oldest & best-preserved Buddhist monuments in India. 1999

[Yadu @Yaduvam]

Indian temple ceilings

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

I think about this weekly

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

"All human wisdom is contained in these two words, Wait and Hope."

— Alexandre Dumas, "The Count of Monte Cristo."

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

Kafka

[The Seeker @TheSeeker268]

It's a shame no major film has been made about Biju Patnaik. He lived a life that sounds almost fictional:

In 1938, he flew his entire wedding procession by aircraft to Rawalpindi for his marriage to Gyanwati Sethi (who became the first Indian woman to hold a commercial pilot’s license, and the couple later flew daring missions together.)

While serving in the Royal Indian Air Force (including as head of Air Transport Command), he secretly ferried freedom fighters like Jayaprakash Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia, and Aruna Asaf Ali to their hideouts. He also airdropped 'Quit India' leaflets to Indian troops while evacuating British families.

The British once jailed him for transporting nationalist leaders and distributing anti-British literature but also honored him for bravery in evacuating civilians from Japanese-occupied Burma.

During WWII, he flew daring missions delivering arms and supplies to Soviet forces in Stalingrad, and over the treacherous 'Hump' route to China in
support of Chinese Nationalist forces against the Japanese.

In July 1947, he and his wife flew a Dakota into Indonesia, landed on an improvised airstrip while evading Dutch anti-aircraft fire, rescued Prime Minister Sutan Sjahrir, refuelled using abandoned Japanese fuel, and flew him safely to India via Singapore.

A couple of months later, during the Pakistani invasion of Kashmir, he airlifted one of the first Indian troops into Srinagar.

The same year he founded Kalinga Airlines, one of India's earliest private airlines.

As Odisha CM post-1962 India-China war, he secretly visited CIA headquarters at Langley to forge a covert India-US partnership against China, which led to the Aviation Research Centre (ARC) at Charbatia, which supported U-2 recon missions over Tibet.

He was also a legendary administrator and statesman, laying much of the foundation of Odisha's industrial empire (mines, ports, heavy industries etc).

When he passed away, Indonesia observed 7 days of state mourning. Russia observed 1 day. He remains the only person in Indian history whose body was draped in the national flags of 3 nations - India, Indonesia, and Russia.

Few public figures have left such a footprint.

His extraordinary life needs to be brought to the big screen.