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[Vipul Mathur🐧 @VipulMathur]

80486 DX 25Mhz from 1989

[Vipul Mathur🐧 @VipulMathur]

@mnwsth Thanks for saying this. I was losing the faith in recent months. Please share when the paper is out.

[Manoj Pandey @manojpandey66]

The harsh, unglamorous reality of running a research lab in India:
• 9 months spent navigating bureaucratic loops just to onboard a single postdoctoral fellow.
• Two nationally funded grants stuck in fiscal limbo, sanctioned on paper, zero cash flow in practice.
• Project staff and research fellows surviving without salaries for 90 days.
We celebrate Nobel dreams and technological self-reliance on public stages, but behind the laboratory doors, PIs spend 70% of their bandwidth begging finance desks to release sanctioned funds and apologizing to unpaid junior scholars.
Science does not fail in India due to a lack of intellect or ambition; it gets slowly suffocated by procedural inertia and financial apathy. If we cannot ensure basic salary timelines for young researchers, talking about global leadership is pure theater. 🎯☕📊🔬
#IndianAcademia #ResearchFunding #HigherEdRealities #SciencePolicy #PostDocStruggles #AcademicLeadership #SystemicReform

[Vipul Mathur🐧 @VipulMathur]

Watching @astro_anil working on the ISS space walk live stream on https://t.co/HAVtitL2xh gives you a first-hand look at what systems maintenance means on the frontiers of engineering. #inspiring

[NASA @NASA]

LIVE: NASA's Anil Menon and @csa_asc's Joshua Kutryk are setting up a new solar array outside the @Space_Station. Today's spacewalk is scheduled to start around 8am ET (1200 UTC) and run for about six and a half hours. https://t.co/xoJPYWty9Z

[CurvvEV Owners Club India @CurvvEVownindia]

🌪️ When Cyclone Arnab knocked out power in Rajahmundry, Indar Raju’s #TataCurvvEV came to the rescue! ⚡

V2L powered 3 fans + 5 lights for 13 hours overnight, using just 13% SoC (56% → 43%). 🔋🏠

An EV is more than a car! 🚘

#V2L #EVLife @Tataev @Shaggy7979 @subikash_r

[Superman @thesupermannx]

This paper answers why confident idiots run the world.

Cornell University published a psychological paper that explains every terrible boss, every loud influencer, and every broken corporate hierarchy.

It’s called “Unskilled and Unaware of It.”

they tested participants across logic, grammar, and humor to measure the gap between actual performance and self-perception.

And the results are wild.

participants scoring in the bottom 12th percentile consistently believed they were operating in the 62nd percentile.

they were not lying. they were literally incapable of recognizing their own incompetence.

the paper revealed a brutal paradox:

the exact skills required to master a domain are the exact same skills required to accurately evaluate your own competence in that domain.

if you lack the skill, you inherently lack the cognitive capacity to realize you are failing.

this creates a dangerous systemic loop.

the incompetent are blessed with absolute, blinding certainty. their brain protects them from their own ignorance, allowing them to speak first, demand authority, and never second-guess their decisions.

meanwhile, the actual experts suffer the exact inverse.

top performers in the study consistently underestimated their rank. because a task was easy for them, they falsely assumed it was easy for everyone else.

they hesitate. they obsess over nuance. they assume they have nothing unique to add.

we are biologically wired to confuse confidence with competence.

the loudest person in the room gets promoted, gets funded, and gets the microphone, not because they know what they are doing, but because they are physically incapable of seeing what they don't.

the only defense mechanism is building systems that stop rewarding absolute certainty and start demanding proof of work.

[Katelyn Lesse @katelyn_lesse]

software engineers are going to have to tackle a new set of problems to unlock powerful multiagent systems to solve the world's hardest problems - right now is one of the most interesting moments in history to be an engineer. https://t.co/YsQ0xta4KR

[Varun Torka @thevarun]

@Tesla 's Roadster is gonna be revolutionary for Bangalore traffic.

Experience it yourself -

🔗 https://t.co/6QAI7HCAN5

#bangaloretraffic #TeslaRoadster

[Vipul Mathur🐧 @VipulMathur]

After 14 years this happens! Does that mean my वनवास is over now? 😉 @fifthel

[Dr. Swapna Sarit @drswopysarit]

2 years & ~50,000 km with my Curvv.ev ⚡🚗

22 Aug 2024 → 22 Aug 2026 ❤️

The first Curvv.ev in Odisha, and 2 years later, I’d still make the same choice.

🔋 Charging: ~₹30K
🔧 Maintenance: ~₹22K
💰 Total: ~₹50K
📉 Running cost: ~₹1/km incl. maintenance

[Dr. Swapna Sarit @drswopysarit]

One great Curvv.ev family across cities in India @Tataev #CurvvEvOwnersClubIndia #Curvv #EV
Join our Curvv.ev Owners Club https://t.co/ssWRuEaw01 (Admins verify before adding to the group)

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

the brilliant concluding paragraph of the Dunning-Kruger paper

[Ferrari Rules @ferrarirules86]

⚡️Delhi draft EV policy for 2026-2030 is out.
⚡️While some states try to make money from EVs, Delhi is going all in on EVs

Salient points
⚡️₹1,00,000 scrappage benefit for EV 4W for first 1,00,000 buyers
⚡️RTO waiver 100% for EVs and 50% for Strong Hybrids for vehicles up to ₹30,00,000
⚡️2W to get maximum ₹30,000 subsidy and 3W to get maximum ₹50,000 subsidy (Details in images)
⚡️All new government vehicles will be EVs only

➡️ The government is asking for feedback on the policy for the next 30 days. Feedback can be submitted to [email protected]
Policy link - https://t.co/6HSk4Iq6nq

[Vipul Mathur🐧 @VipulMathur]

Respect for @BMW taking the hard path to do this recall.

We need more recalls from Indian OEMs. We all make mistakes. What makes a good OEM is when they own up and FIX those mistakes in good time.

Fixing only for customers who complain does NOT count. https://t.co/rcrNdePbUQ

[Vipul Mathur🐧 @VipulMathur]

So who here remembers what these are? Bonus points if you recall what the black stickers on the right were for!

[Asheesh Arora @AsheeshAroraEV]

The Global EV Driver Survey 2025 is live! 🌍 Your EV stories = better policies, stronger infra.
Take 5 mins to share:

https://t.co/vVzl2hRpVp

Let’s make every EV driver’s voice count.
@evelectree @BunnyPunia
@ferrarirules86 @PlugInIndia @VAkrayon @EVZindabad @evreporterin

[Asheesh Arora @AsheeshAroraEV]

A big thank you to all the participants for making this #worldevday2025 special. Grateful to @teriin and @MGMotorIn for organizing such a meaningful event that brought together EV owners, experts, and industry voices to share and learn from each other.

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

Honestly, we should rename "unsafe" keyword to "relax" to promote chill programming.

[Vipul Mathur🐧 @VipulMathur]

Can’t believe that the last McLaren 1+2 at #HungarianGP was 25 years ago in 1999! I remember watching that race with Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard taking the top of the podium. Great race today with Piastri and Norris at the top spots and Hamilton with his 200th podium!

[Vipul Mathur🐧 @VipulMathur]

How about a scavanger hunt where we try to put together a pre 2000 era PC and get everything working for a museum of some sort?

[Vipul Mathur🐧 @VipulMathur]

If you can "hear" this picture... You are old and awesome 😎

[Vipul Mathur🐧 @VipulMathur]

What to do with all these old gadgets that still work but shall never be used again? I have CD Writers, parallel port trackball, floppy drives, PATA HDDs that still work and a lot more from pre 2000 era. Of course I should recycle them via e-waste but any other ideas?