Ancient Indians not only invented the concept of Shunya, they could explain this and coded this into shlokas, and were masters of all that is abstract.. it truly is a shame that we today have very few centers of advanced thinking and learning..
love this scene where billy asked sheldon to prove that zero exists, and when he tried but kept contradicting his own statements. then went to two of his professors, and they ended up realizing they couldn’t prove it either.
@saivamtamil திருப்பரங்குன்றம் மல மேல ஸ்பீக்கர்ல அரபில கத்தும்போது வராத கோவம் ஒரு cinema poster பாத்து வருதுல? என்ன ஒரு பக்தி.. உங்க மொழி வெறியெல்லாம் சொந்த மத அடியார்கள திட்ட மட்டும் தான்.. ஓரமாக சென்று கதறவும்..
In 2016, Dr. Geetha Manjunath was heading AI research at Xerox's Bengaluru lab, a role that followed a PhD from IISc, a stint as Principal Scientist at HP Labs, and over two decades building enterprise AI systems. Then her cousin, in her early forties, was diagnosed with breast cancer at a stage too advanced to treat.
"The mammogram had missed her cancer earlier," Geetha would later say. She quit her job soon after.
Mammography, the global standard for breast cancer screening, has real limits. It uses ionising radiation, is often painful enough that women actively avoid it, and is known to be less reliable in younger women and in the dense breast tissue common across Indian women. In India, where breast cancer accounts for over a quarter of all cancer diagnoses and the five-year survival rate trails far behind the United States and Australia, late detection is not a statistic. It is the difference between a cure and a funeral.
Geetha had spent years working with thermal imaging on unrelated projects. She wondered if temperature variation in breast tissue could reveal what mammograms missed, and built the science to test it. The result, Thermalytix, requires no radiation, no incisions, and no physical contact: a woman sits before a thermal sensor for a few minutes, and an AI model trained on clinical data analyses the image.
Niramai Health Analytix, the company Geetha founded and now leads as CEO and CTO, has since screened over 300,000 women across more than 20 countries, built on 39 patents and validated in 55+ peer-reviewed clinical studies. Geetha herself has been named to Forbes India's Top 20 Self-Made Women and inducted as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
For India, where cost and discomfort keep millions of women away from regular screening, a radiation-free test that can be deployed in a primary clinic is not a convenience. It is a chance to catch what would otherwise be caught too late.
@trigguuuu No South Indian woman has ever come even a mile close to Bollywood's highest-paid actresses of any era... Vyjayanthimala, Hema Malini, Rekha, Sridevi, Aishwarya Rai, and Deepika Padukone... oh wait..
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh was established in 1505. Sushruta had already been performing reconstructive surgery for over two thousand years by then. His ethical framework predates the Hippocratic Oath. East India Company surgeons were still learning rhinoplasty techniques from Indian practitioners in the 18th century.
What happened in Edinburgh this week is an overdue correction to Western assumptions about where foundational medical knowledge originated.
Just as we're going towards computer based NEET next year we should also conduct the exam at-least 20 times a year.
- The MCAT in the US is held 30 times a year.
- A student can give it 3 shots in a year.
- And upto max 7 attempts is allowed.
Exams, due process etc is very important BUT we've got to systematically reduce the hype/single point failure aspect to students.
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I don't get this closing of the centers after the exam starts! Like those kids are going to have lesser time to write the same exam. If they do well, what's the problem! This atrocious colonial mindset needs to change. Decolonise FFS!
If Coonoor has a parking problem, shouldn't the solution come from general public funds and municipal planning? Why should only Hindu devotees' contributions be used for infrastructure that benefits everyone—residents, tourists, businesses, and visitors of all faiths? Btw, Coonoor has almost 25% Christian population. Would we be alright if money from the Churches goes towards this? I don't think we should be. Devotees donate for a cause. Taxes are collected for a reason. Use taxes. Not donations.