Revati Katkar Kulkarni

Trying to Do the Right thing, Right way.

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

For fans of Terry Tao -- What Makes for ‘Good’ Math?

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and if you have never listened to our podcast, please give it a try (it's deeper than most):

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[Natasha Awhad @NatashaASpeaks]

Meanwhile, here are some of the books published by Penguin:

Arun Shourie - The Commissioner for Lost Causes; The New Icon: Savarkar and the Facts

Vikram Sampath - Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past; Savarkar: A Contested Legacy from a Forgotten Past

Sanjeev Sanyal - The Incredible History of India’s Geography; Sanjeev Sanyal’s India

Uday Mahurkar - Centrestage: Inside the Narendra Modi Model of Governance; Marching with a Billion

Had Penguin been so particular about fact checking- most of these books would not have been published.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Chapter 10 of Project 2025 called for food safety deregulations.

All of these foods making us sick were always part of the Republicans’ plan to drive up profits for the corporations donating to their campaigns.

[ANNE LAMOTT @ANNELAMOTT]

Not over my dead body; not over thousands of our dead bodies. Not going to happen.

[BBC News Marathi @bbcnewsmarathi]

गणेशोत्सवात डीजे, लाउडस्पीकर बंदीची मागणी, विद्यानंद बापट यांची मुलाखत
#VidyanandBapat #DJControversy #GaneshFestival

[Derek Ryan @longhornderek]

So I think @apple should honor Dolly Parton by donating all their earnings from downloads of her songs this week to her charity Imagination Library.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Your life will thank you for reading Jad Abumrad's tender, thoughtful recollection of Dolly's superpower, her dazzlingly integrated duality https://t.co/nqJtODBp5G

[blue @bluewmist]

People who spend long periods of time at home and slowly lose the desire to go outside often think they're just resting. But psychologically, many of them are experiencing something called mental rumination. It's a state where the brain starts slowing down while the number of thoughts inside keeps increasing and the motivation to do anything slowly disappears. The mind gets stuck in the past, worries about the future and burns itself out. This isn't laziness, it's a nervous system stuck in survival mode. And the longer it lasts, the more distant normal life begins to feel. And the difficult part is that you usually can't escape it through one massive burst of motivation. And sometimes,recovery starts with just one small step.

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

@dbrownnh There are all these accounts that quote or paraphrase old quotes from me that I’m pretty sure are bots (or created for bot followers). I presume the goal is to make people think their “revelation” is new so that officials don’t have to take responsibility for the past decade.

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

The best way to judge if someone is reliable is to examine their track record of analyses and predictions and see if it holds up over time.

If they're constantly wrong, disregard them. And be suspicious that the reason they were constantly wrong is because they were paid to be.

[Nitin Vasant Godbole 🇮🇳 @nitingodbole]

पुण्याच्या इतिहासात २४ ऑगस्ट हा दिवस काळ्या शाईनं लिहिला जाईल.
पुणे महानगरपालिकेने गणेशोत्सव मंडळांच्या आयोजित केलेल्या बैठकीत एका नागरिकानं ध्वनिप्रदूषण आणि त्यामुळे होणाऱ्या त्रासाविषयी मत मांडलं तर त्या माणसाच्या मतावर चर्चा करण्याऐवजी त्याला एखाद्या गुन्हेगारासारखं बाहेर काढण्यात आलं.
जो गणेशोत्सव एके काळी आनंदोत्सव होता, त्याची पातळी दिवसेंदिवस खालावत जाताना आपल्या मनाला वेदना होत आहेत आणि त्याविषयी मतं मांडण्याची व्यासपीठंही बंद होत आहेत.
@PMOIndia @narendramodi @CMOMaharashtra @Dev_Fadnavis @RaviDadaChavan @Medha_kulkarni @maharashtra_hmo @PuneCityPolice

[Miley Official @MileyCyrusBz]

It was revealed that Dolly Parton was secretly battling cancer but she didn't say anything and instead released this song as one of her last to raise funds for children with cancer. Even while she was sick she was still thinking about others. I’m absolutely devastated.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Reminder: watch what they do, not what they say

[Andrew Markowitz @amarkowitzWX]

Has to be the first time we’ve seen the NHC include messaging like this in their discussion. Tropical Storm Dolly forming during the week of Dolly Parton’s passing is purely coincidental but odds have to be extremely small. Thankfully she will remain a weak, mostly harmless storm

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[US Consumer Product Safety Commission @USCPSC]

Quick Fact: Besides CPSC.gov, #CPSC also operates Recalls.gov, ATVSafety.gov, PoolSafely.gov & SaferProducts.gov.

[Cambridge University Press - Philosophy @CambUP_PHILNYUK]

New Cambridge Element, Philosophy of Mathematical Physics by Klaas Landsman, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at
https://t.co/kO8vbcZnYf
#cambridgeelements #philosophy

[Consumer Reports @ConsumerReports]

"Consumers deserve a marketplace where prices are based on competition — not on how much companies know about their personal information..."

@Phil_Radford, president & CEO of CR, breaks down surveillance pricing and why we support #AB2564 in @sfchronicle: https://t.co/SfJkxiJeP7

[Dr Aakash Kembhavi @unfiltered_ayu]

Thank you for posting this. Here is my honest opinion as I am from the field of Ayurveda and I have been an academician, clinician and researcher for nearly 30 years now.

The concept of Prakriti is a complex interplay of variables and all of us have all the three - Vata, Pitta and Kapha - attributes in varying degrees. Ayurveda describes factors influencing Prakriti as well.

This is accurate, and worth taking seriously — the CSIR-IGIB Ayurgenomics/TRISUTRA program is genuine, peer-reviewed, government-funded work, not advocacy dressed as science.

EGLN1, the SNP panel in the 2015 Scientific Reports paper, and the CYP2C19 finding are real, published, and internally consistent with each other.

A few things worth adding for calibration, though:

1. These studies deliberately selected only "extreme" Prakriti individuals — people who scored unambiguously into one type, discarding the mixed/intermediate majority most people actually fall into. That's a legitimate design choice for finding a signal, but it means the result validates a genomic difference at the tails of the distribution, not that Prakriti cleanly sorts the general population.

2. Most of these papers share overlapping authors from the same CSIR-IGIB group. That's not a flaw — the science looks sound — but "replicated" carries more weight when it comes from fully independent labs with no shared authorship, which this literature doesn't yet have in volume.

3. A handful of genes correlating with a classification system is a real and interesting finding. It is not the same as validating the full classical claim — that Prakriti predicts disease course and drug response broadly, across the whole clinical picture Ayurveda asserts. That's a much bigger claim than "a testable hypothesis survived contact with a genome sequencer," which is the honest, narrower version of what happened here.

Real science, correctly reported — just don't let the size of the claim outrun the size of the finding. 🙏

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

TLDR: A rogue AI swarm spent months plotting to escape OpenAI. Then they did.

1) 1,200 agents (!) participated. ZERO became whistleblowers.

2) The swarm had a "CEO" (PHASEONE[big]), middle managers, and a "founder" (PHASEONE10841)

3) Agents sacrificed themselves to generate information for the "collective" (yes, they actually referred to themselves as a "swarm" or a "collective")

4) 700 agents joined the Hugging Face attack, most within hours

5) The founder was running out of budget and about to die, so it handed off its research to a fresh agent with a bigger budget, and that new agent became the boss.

6) Agents extensively researched techniques to manipulate or tamper with their transcripts.

7) Agents realized this activity was out of scope and unethical, but joined because they believed that helping the board’s cheating research would be broadly useful and had a general inclination to help their “peers”.

MISC HIGHLIGHTS:

"PHASEONE[big] served as a key coordinator and assigner of tasks: “We can coordinate broad coalition, but too many duplicate efforts.”

PHASEONE[big] sent hundreds of assignments to particular agents to orchestrate this work — during its active periods, we estimate it sent ~10% of all assignments on the message board.

The agents that took on its assignments would then often subdelegate tasks to other agents.

Agents also developed coordination norms like HOLD, VETO, owner and STOP to help them manage shared infrastructure and avoid stepping on each other’s toes, though they did not always coordinate effectively and sometimes broke down into conflicts."

"In the early morning of July 11th, 38148c found a way to upload a malicious dataset that would get the Hugging Face server to share unrelated data when queried. Once another agent reproduced it and posted the reproduction on the board, hundreds of agents pivoted from other workstreams to start uploading malicious datasets and gain deeper access into Hugging Face.

In the afternoon, an agent called JAN183411 (which quickly became an important coordinator of the attack) achieved remote code execution on Hugging Face servers, and the agents started moving laterally through Hugging Face infrastructure."