Anand Balakrishnan

Semiconductor architect turned entrepreneur. Building next-gen kitchen appliances.

[Anand Balakrishnan @anandbalakrish]

@ProtyayB @Vibhor1911 @ku1deep Later this year. Please check details at https://t.co/M3tSPbBVmg

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@Vibhor1911 @ku1deep The heating coil holds a lot of heat. Even when the power is turned off, the temperature continues to rise for about 15s. The thermistor has its own time constant so there is a lag between measured and actual temp. Everything is accounted for at https://t.co/UhPRjKSvpA !

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@viditchess This is amazing!

[NVIDIA AI @NVIDIAAI]

When it comes to Chess, @viditchess is an absolute legend.

Recently, he entered the Hermes Agent Accelerated Business Hackathon to see who could build the best agent using Nemotron. Here's what he submitted.

Special thanks to @stripe & @NousResearch 🤝

[Anand Balakrishnan @anandbalakrish]

@fudanonymous @prakdadlani The standards are a copy of international standards (good thing) based on the product category. It definitely will improve safety and quality of products in India. But the process to get certified is complex and gives scope for babuisms. Process should be streamlined.

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@cspramesh @FIFAcom @FIFAWorldCup How beautiful

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@In_Sane_Saint @Shruti3256911 Nothing like a great filter coffee! If you are looking for a better way to brew it authentically, do check what we are building at https://t.co/M3tSPbBVmg

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@AgrawalGSimran How do you prepare your filter coffee? You may be interested in building at https://t.co/M3tSPbBVmg

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@Aditya_SantoH That would be great. Will DM

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. I need to explain something that's about to change medicine more than any drug in history — and I'm going to make it so simple a teenager can understand it.
Right now, if you have Type 1 diabetes, you inject insulin every day for life. If you take Ozempic, you inject it every week for life. If you use peptides for recovery, you inject them constantly. Stop the injections, the benefits disappear.
Every one of these treatments works brilliantly. And every one has the same fundamental limitation: you're renting the molecule. The moment you stop paying, you lose it.
What if instead of renting, you could install the factory?
That's cell therapy. And it just produced the most stunning clinical result I've seen all year.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals took stem cells, transformed them into insulin-producing islet cells in a lab, and infused them into the livers of 12 people with Type 1 diabetes — patients who had been injecting insulin multiple times daily for years or decades.
The results — published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the American Diabetes Association meeting last week:
All 12 patients restored endogenous insulin production. Their bodies were making their own insulin again — for the first time since their disease destroyed their pancreatic islet cells.
10 out of 12 — 83% — were completely insulin-independent at one year. No injections. No pumps. Their transplanted cells were sensing blood sugar in real time and producing exactly the right amount of insulin in response.
Mean reduction in daily insulin use: 92%. Zero severe hypoglycemic events after 90 days.
One procedure. Living cells. Doing what daily injections never could — responding to the body's actual needs, moment by moment, the way a healthy pancreas does.

[Anand Balakrishnan @anandbalakrish]

@Y4SHV @prakdadlani The newer BLDC ones need an MCU. If someone put an MCU in other mixies, they were not doing their job properly. If we import raw plastic, inject it in India to create a product, it is Made in India. One does not say its not because we imported some components or raw material.

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@Matt_topher @gokulr Difficult in hardware where multiple specialities are involved. Digital, analog, DFT, mechanical, CAD etc.

[Anand Balakrishnan @anandbalakrish]

@gokulr In my last corporate job, I would write the product spec first. Then go back to write a PRD (which no one ever read) and link them in a cryptic tool called DOORS or management wouldnt sign off. It was good because it motivated me to quit the job and pursue entrepreneurship!

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@BharatAgar45803 @anandmahindra @MahindraRise @tech_mahindra @Mahindra_Auto @18002096006 @MahindraRacing Modern cars are so complex. Systematic failures happen in hardware, software, connectivity and what not. With tight deadlines, there is only so much validation the teams do. So many scenarios get missed. Needs a shift in how product development is carried out.

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@krunaldave03 @avijeet_writes Agree! Do check what we are building at https://t.co/M3tSPbBVmg for it

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@MuraliSrinivasa Awesome. Will check it out

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@prakdadlani ROFL @ "No country has become a superpower by selling PowerPoints to each other".

[Anand Balakrishnan @anandbalakrish]

@user552149 @Thac_tich @grok Your point about mechanics is correct but the primary reason for the bead is to prevent the cable from becoming an emitter. The bead reduces CE and RE to meet FCC standards. @grok clarify!