Pulkit Vyas

'Engineer' @yourtokenio

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The Trump administration has suspended the funding of Terence Tao and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA.

[Surya Ganguli @SuryaGanguli]

Fun Facts: NIH budget for research on diseases causing > 90% of human deaths is reduced by 40%

Homicide deaths (whether by illegal alien or not) < 0.01% but ICE funding is increased by 300%

Total ICE budget > 6 times yearly NIH budget
Homicide deaths < 0.01 disease deaths

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Ayurvedic companies with huge bank accounts spend money on shoddy research and publish in open access journals to white wash ancient pseudoscience as scientific evidence. Here is how.
1/15

[Mardy Fish @MardyFish]

Toughest sport in the world. No clock to run out. No timeouts to call. No subs to come in for you. No one to sit there and tell you what to do…This is as good as it gets guys 🎾

[Adam @adamdotdev]

another day, another timeline full of no-code app maker CEOs telling me i won't have a programming job soon while they employ lots of programmers to build their programmer cosplaying platform

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

One of the most common and defining features of science illiteracy and pseudoscience sympathizing is responding with the argument "keep an open mind."

Many so-called modern medicine doctors still do not have the competency or proficiency to distinguish science from pseudoscience and cater to sentiments rather than rationality and logic.

Majority of Indian doctors do not even know what pseudoscience is or how to define it. They believe that the continuous updation of evidence based medicine is a flaw, when it is actually it's strength. Pseudoscience practices such as Ayurveda and Homeopathy do not change, do not update. They remain remnants of a bygone era. This realisation is possible with school education and one need not be a rocket scientist or a doctor to understand this.

"Strong believers" of modern medicine is actually a misnomer. Because science doesn't ask you to believe. It shows you objective data that you can trust.

Sad to see Dr. Sumanth become the boomer uncle that WhatsApp universities embrace. We need a lesser number of "Sumanths" in our community to progress with scientific temperament.

[Pulkit Vyas @PulkitVyas8]

@rakshit087 @dramikei 👀

[Rakshit @rakshit087]

been building https://t.co/DR7vwi7fhd for the past few weeks—
seamless video commerce for shopify. one-click product tagging, direct checkout, full analytics. launching soon, join the waitlist to get early access :)

[Cory House @housecor]

Docs should be honest.

So, here's what I think the "Sunsetting Create React App" blog post should say:

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

"We've reduced our support load by 99.9% using AI"

In reality... your customer can't get ANY support now

I'm getting tired of these terrible AI bot rollouts...

Example:

[Akshat Shrivastava @Akshat_World]

Competing for 1 seat out of 100/200/1000 candidates is not a test of your talent.

But, a failure of our system.

I feel that mine was the last generation that benefitted from acing exams.

The competition now is unreal.

Reservations are not going away (people consider this as their birth right now).

You have much better odds at a better life if:

1) You develop vocational skills.
2) Understand things from an international lens.
3) Do internships/study abroad.

All this is possible.
There is a life outside IIT/UPSC/NEET

[Prudy Ray 🥭 @PrudyRay]

Men will rather glorify unsafe and dangerous jobs than treat women with dignity. As someone who’s perceived as man, I wouldn’t do this job 🥲

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

COVID infection was responsible for all that sudden cardiac death in young people. Not COVID vaccines. COVID is still around, but people are not well informed and in India, the government is least bothered about newer updated vaccination protocols to safeguard public health.

[Rafa Nadal @RafaelNadal]

Mil gracias a todos
Many thanks to all
Merci beaucoup à tous
Grazie mille à tutti
谢谢大家
شكرا لكم جميعا
תודה לכולכם
Obrigado a todos
Vielen Dank euch allen
Tack alla
Хвала свима
Gràcies a tots

[Akshat Shrivastava @Akshat_World]

Don't let the builders of new India fool you into buying sub-standard products in the name of nationalism.

You are not supposed to be a guinea pig. And, fund other people's experiments.

You pay a price.
You expect a value.
It is that simple!

If there is a mismatch, the firm is supposed to correct it.

Become logical, reward merit, expect merit.
That is how you will get better things in life.

Don't believe idiotic narratives like: don't diss on people, who are building for India.

Such brainless commentary is making people of India dumb.

[The ER Doctor @TheERDoctor]

Their researchers vs our researchers
The difference

[sophie @netcapgirl]

“tell toranaga-sama that cursor is incredible. a game changer. in its current form it’s basically the equivalent of having a technical cofounder or a team of senior engineers. tell him i’m excited to see what i can build with cursor + claude”

“the anjin doesn’t know how to code”

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

My good friend, a rationalist, doctor, writer and voracious science communicator, Dr. Shantanu Abhyankar passed away last Thursday after battling lung cancer for 2 years.

He was a Homeopathy practitioner who later quit, sat for the medical entrance repeatedly, got through MBBS and finally settled in profession as an OBGyn specialist at his place in Wai, Maharashtra.

He was a great advisor and counsel throughout my battle against the alternative medicine industry and at every step I was made part of the witch-hunt by alternative medicine regulators.

A few weeks before his death, he sent me a message asking for my bank details, for him to donate some of his life savings towards my activism on public health education and as a contribution towards battling health misinformation. I did not take him seriously at that time, because I did not believe that he was dying. I called him up and he could barely speak as he was on oxygen support. But he told me it was his dying wish, to donate money towards the personal hell that I had taken up, trying to battle the alternative medicine industry and pseudoscientific practices.

Instead of taking the money to my personal account, I suggested that he contributed it to our science-based pro-public organization, MESH - Mission for Ethics and Science in Healthcare. And he did. He contributed more than 200,000 INR because he believed that I would do good by it. And I will, I promised him.

The last time he messaged me, he told me he was going home. When I did not hear from him for a few days, today afternoon I messaged him, when I had a passing thought, asking him if he was home. A colleague of mine later messaged me, coincidentally, notifying me that Dr. Shantanu was no more.

Dr. Shantanu is the OG of science communication in India, especially when it came to debunking the utter fraud that Homeopathy is. Please spare a moment to watch his intense and brilliant talk for TEDx where he takes the pseudoscience of Homeopathy to the cleaners.
Dispelling the myths of homeopathy @ShantanuWai

https://t.co/Js7Ksv9GA8

Dr. Shantanu was a good man. Even in his death, he contributed towards helping people understand the value of rationalism, logic and critical thinking that drives scientific temperament.

MESH will now initiate a project in memory of Dr. Shantanu Abhyankar that will impact public health and improve public health for the good. I will update about the same here, sooner than later. His contribution will be honored, because it was his dying wish to me and my promise to him.

Rest in Peace my friend. You will be missed.
https://t.co/5huXfuyV2t

I never recieved a reply from him to the last message I sent him. But I know that he is home now.

[EngiNerd. @mainbhiengineer]

2.52 LPA offered by Cognizant. That's around 20k per month salary.

Just for the reference, A maid who works for 30min in a house, works in 8-10 such houses get more salary than an Engineer.

[Pulkit Vyas @PulkitVyas8]

@Arihant_s_1 Gutted