Shanka

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[Shanka @ThereIssNoSpoon]

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[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world. 🧠

[Shanka @ThereIssNoSpoon]

@ChristinMP_ @SWRRLY @drmsbc @VSOMANNA_BJP @DKShivakumar @MBPatil Edit : Re-construct the marked (and other Exit points) “Majestic-KSR Bengaluru Railway Station [SUBWAY]” for a safe, smooth, WIDE & well-lit pedestrian movement

@GBA_office @GBAChiefComm @osd_cmkarnataka @krishnabgowda @Tejasvi_Surya @BMTC_BENGALURU @KSRTC_Journeys @tdkarnataka

[Shanka @ThereIssNoSpoon]

@ChristinMP_ ▪️Waiting for @SWRRLY @drmsbc to AWAKE to the necessity of track inter-connections at KSR BENGALURU Platform 1-4 towards MYSURU side

▪️Re-Construct the existing UNDERPASS connecting MAJESTIC to SBC rlwy station, with a new & WIDE structure.

@VSOMANNA_BJP @DKShivakumar @MBPatil

[Dpt of Archaeology Museums and Heritage, Karnataka @KarArchaeology]

ಗದಗ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಲಕ್ಕುಂಡಿಯ ಪ್ರಾಚ್ಯವಶೇಷಗಳ ಅನ್ವೇಷಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರಕೂಟರ ಕಾಲದ ವೀರಗಲ್ಲು ಪತ್ತೆಯಾಗಿದೆ.

ಸುಮಾರು ಕ್ರಿ.ಶ 9-10ನೇ ಶತಮಾನದ ವೀರಗಲ್ಲು ಇದಾಗಿದೆ.

#lakkundi

[Shanka @ThereIssNoSpoon]

@SCoRAILWAYVSKP Road connecting TIRUPATI RAILWAY STATION to Tirupati APSRTC BUS STAND is very CONGESTED — full of street hawkers, NO PEDESTRIAN pathway, shop encroachment & blockade by taxis & autos

Kindly clear & WIDEN - TPTY Entry/Exit road

@drmgtl @MCTTirupati @AndhraPradeshCM @CDMA_APGov

[HiRISE: Beautiful Mars @HiRISE]

HiPOD: Gullies and Boulder Tracks

This image features shallow gully channels with debris aprons emanating from a buried layer on the interior of a crater wall. Also visible are many boulders of varying sizes along the wall.

https://t.co/GYJURsth7j

#Mars #science #NASA

[Shanka @ThereIssNoSpoon]

@SCoRAILWAYVSKP Road connecting TIRUPATI RAILWAY STATION to Tirupati APSRTC BUS STAND is very CONGESTED — full of street hawkers, NO PEDESTRIAN pathway, shop encroachment & blockade by taxis & autos

Kindly clear & WIDEN - TPTY Entry/Exit road

@drmgtl @MCTTirupati @AndhraPradeshCM @CDMA_APGov

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Land of Unreason, by Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp. Holt & Co, 1942. Cover art by Boris Artzybasheff.

[ESPNcricinfo @ESPNcricinfo]

That was all of us, Kane 🥲

[Shanka @ThereIssNoSpoon]

@CKM_Rail_Users @Vidyadhara89 @ChristinMP_ @KotasBJP @CTRavi_BJP @NiranjanC70085 @DrmMys @drmubl No! It's more in the hands of ‘user patrons.’

Give the SWR, a good UR ticket number(s); and they would be obliged to increase the frequency and the overall coach composition number from 10 to 14 (and beyond) in the days to come.

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

Vanishing kothars: The Himalayan granaries that once secured food for generations https://t.co/t5oLXNlCvs

[The Times Of India @timesofindia]

On 21st May, after a decade-long wait, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) absolved 12 #Delhi-based super-speciality #hospitals of allegations that they had subjected patients to exorbitantly marked-up healthcare charges.

The ruling has sparked debate about consumer protection in India's vast healthcare sector.

More details https://t.co/abiEJ7eOhx

Breaking news, top stories, complete coverage — all on the TOI App. Download now! 👉 https://t.co/ogFaRsVinV

[Shanka @ThereIssNoSpoon]

For decades, traversing “through Bengaluru” to reach adjacent District HQs : TUMKUR 🔄 KOLAR, by train, has been a TEDIOUS CHOKE POINT

Request [@VSOMANNA_BJP @drmsbc @SWRRLY @Mlajyothiganesh @CMofKarnataka] to SHORTEN the reach -- “via Dodballapura, Devanahalli, Chikkaballapura”

[BLACKCAPS @BLACKCAPS]

One of our greatest ever, signing off.

Kane Williamson has announced his retirement from international cricket effective immediately.

Head to https://t.co/Pm8RiU65zt to read more.

[Indian Culture Portal @_IndianCulture]

#PaintingsofAjanta: Discover Cave 1 – #Mahāsudarśana at the #AjantaCaves.

Visit: https://t.co/XrVstMjCJL

#IndianCulturePortal #Maharashtra #History #ASI #BuddhistArt #CulturalHeritage #Jataka

@MinOfCultureGoI @AmritMahotsav @incredibleindia @ASIGoI @maha_tourism @tourismgoi

[Indian Culture Portal @_IndianCulture]

#PaintingsofAjanta

Cave 1 – #Mahosadha at the #AjantaCaves.

https://t.co/XrVstMjCJL

#IndianCulturePortal #Maharashtra #History #ASI #BuddhistArt #CulturalHeritage #JatakaStories

@MinOfCultureGoI @AmritMahotsav @incredibleindia @ASIGoI @maha_tourism @tourismgoi

[Indian Culture Portal @_IndianCulture]

#PaintingsofAjanta: Found in the right aisle of the pillared hall in Cave 1, the painting uses subtle colours.

https://t.co/XrVstMj4Ud

@MinOfCultureGoI @AmritMahotsav @incredibleindia @ASIGoI @maha_tourism @tourismgoi

[Shanka @ThereIssNoSpoon]

@mvhdbl @drmned @SCRailwayIndia @drmsbc @drmhyb @VSOMANNA_BJP @SWRRLY @ChristinMP_ @HKPatilINC True! And the SAD TRUTH is, #Karnataka isn't connected with the nearest Aurangabad rlwy station, AWB

@CMofKarnataka @SWRRLY have conveniently forgotten the FACT that ELLORA, DEVAGIRI/DAULATABAD Fort were built by our own Rashtrakutas & Seuna/Yadavas

@VSOMANNA_BJP @JoshiPralhad

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

For most frogs, life begins as a game of odds. They lay their eggs in the water, where fish and insects gobble up about 98% of them before they even have a chance to hatch. The African grey foam-nest tree frog (Chiromantis xerampelina) figured a way out: it took its nest into the air.

✍️D.P. Kasbekar

https://t.co/mTS3jN5UfK

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A self-taught Irish schoolteacher wrote a book in 1854 that almost nobody read for 80 years, until a 21-year-old MIT student picked it up and realized it could be used to design every computer in human history.

His name was George Boole. The book is called An Investigation of the Laws of Thought.

Boole was born in 1815 in Lincoln, England. His family was poor. He left school at 16 to support them. He taught himself Latin, Greek, French, German, and Italian.

Then he taught himself mathematics. By 19 he had opened his own school. By 24 he was publishing original papers in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, competing with men who had spent decades inside the best universities in Britain.

He never had a degree. He never had a mentor. In 1849, Queen's College in Cork hired him as a professor anyway.

In 1854, he published his masterwork. What he built inside it was something nobody had attempted before at this scale. He turned logic into algebra.

Before Boole, logic was philosophy. You argued in sentences. You reasoned in paragraphs. It was powerful and completely impossible to automate, because there was no formal system underneath it, just language.

Boole stripped it down to arithmetic. He showed that every act of human reasoning could be reduced to operations on two values. True or false. One or zero. AND, OR, NOT. If both conditions are true, the result is true. If neither is, the result is false. Every judgment a human mind makes, every decision, every deduction, could be written as an equation following those rules.

Logicians read it. They found it interesting. Engineers building machines had never heard of it.

For 83 years, the book sat there.

Then in 1937, a 21-year-old MIT master's student named Claude Shannon was working on a thesis about electrical relay circuits. Switches that could be open or closed. Current that either flowed or didn't.

He read Boole and understood something nobody had connected before.

An open switch is a zero. A closed switch is a one. A circuit with two switches in series only carries current when both are closed. That is AND. A circuit with two switches in parallel carries current when either is closed. That is OR. Shannon proved that every possible logical relationship Boole had described could be physically built using wire and switches.

That single insight is the foundation of every computer ever made.

After Shannon, chip designers stopped thinking about electricity and started thinking about logic. Every transistor on every processor running right now is implementing a Boolean operation. Every if-statement in every codebase is Boolean logic. Every database query using AND or OR. Every neural network threshold that fires or doesn't fire. All of it is running the algebra of a self-taught schoolteacher from Lincoln who died 160 years ago.

The strangest part is what happened to Boole at the end.

He was walking to class in November 1864 when he got caught in a rainstorm. He lectured for hours in wet clothes. He went home sick. His wife, Mary, believed in homeopathic medicine and thought the cure should mirror the cause. She wrapped him in wet sheets and poured cold water over him repeatedly.

He died a few days later. He was 49.

He never saw a transistor. He never saw a circuit. He never saw a single physical machine run a single one of his rules.

His book is in the public domain. Free to download. Most engineers use the word Boolean dozens of times a week. Almost none of them know who they are saying.

The man whose logic runs inside every phone, every server, and every AI model on Earth died soaking wet in a small Irish town, 83 years before anyone figured out what he had actually built.

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

By Sorit Gupto