Atul Arora

[Architecture & Tradition @archi_tradition]

Terracotta tiles embody the warmth and tradition of old world architecture.

Let’s take a look at the most beautiful red roof cities - a thread 🧵

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Blume Benefits (YC W24) is building the back-office workflow automation platform for health insurance brokerages - starting with billing, quote comparison, and enrollment auditing.

https://t.co/cVgfIFBIAT

Congrats on the launch, @adityaj101, @tranquilvarun, and @ethan_hou10!

[Exabeam @exabeam]

As the sole electricity supplier for 1.7M people in South Australia, the security stakes are high for @SAPowerNetworks. 🔌They turned to #Exabeam to modernize their threat management strategy—with great success. Learn more: https://t.co/bYv70PBRbq #TDIR #cybersecurity

[Marco Lancini @lancinimarco]

🔖 Introducing CloudSecGPT: Your Go-To AI for Cloud Security Insights

CloudSecGPT is a custom-built generative AI model that specializes in cloud security.

https://t.co/6WqX38ZOLc

[Mufaddal Vohra @mufaddal_vohra]

Celebration from Uganda after qualifying for 2024 T20 World Cup.

- Cricket is beautiful...!!! 👏❤️

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

NASA managed to record the sound of a black hole. This sonification is unlike anything done before, what we are hearing is quadrillions' of times louder than its original frequency.
https://t.co/cOsFAc5ngA

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

The bootstrap paradox is a type of time travel paradox that occurs when an object, information, or person is sent back in time and becomes the cause of its own existence in the present. This creates a circular loop of causality, where the origin of the object, information, or person is unknown or self-created. Here are some examples of the bootstrap paradox:

In the movie Somewhere in Time (1980), a man travels back in time to meet a woman he fell in love with after seeing her portrait. He gives her a pocket watch that she had given him in the present, which he later realizes was the same pocket watch he had seen in the portrait. The pocket watch has no origin, as it was passed from the present to the past and back again.

In the TV series Doctor Who, the Doctor receives a transcript of a conversation he will have in the future from Sally Sparrow, who got it from a DVD that the Doctor recorded in the past. The Doctor then reads the transcript into a camera in the past, which becomes the DVD that Sally finds in the present. The transcript has no origin, as it was created from itself.

In the book A Journey Through Time by H.G. Tannhaus, which appears in the Netflix series Dark, the author writes about time travel and wormholes based on a copy of his own book that he received from a time traveler. The book has no origin, as it was written from itself.

The bootstrap paradox is also known as an ontological paradox, because it involves questions about the nature and origin of being and existence. Some possible ways to resolve or avoid the paradox are:

The Novikov self-consistency principle, which states that any event that causes a paradox cannot happen, and that time travelers can only act in ways that are consistent with their own history.
The multiple worlds interpretation, which states that every time travel event creates a new parallel universe where the paradox does not exist, and that time travelers can never return to their original universe.
The causal loop theory, which states that time is not linear but circular, and that events are predetermined and fixed by their own existence in the loop.

[Brett Usher @UsherNBA]

Wemby did all this in 90 seconds 👽

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

I always wonder how does seniority work out in Cricket. You could be a 21 yr old and totally outclass a 33 yr old on field. A 33 yr old who’s a senior, who demands respect. How does ego play out off field. This is a great example of harmony: https://t.co/2vnPuSkHbk

[Claire E. Aubin? @ceaubin]

Deeply obsessed with this tiny Irish child’s trolley problem joke

[Google AI @GoogleAI]

The weather forecast is improving… literally! Introducing WeatherBench 2, a benchmark for the next generation of data-driven, global weather forecast models, providing data, tools, & an evaluation platform. Learn how to use it and check out the website →https://t.co/xDUZ3pfLvX

[Matt Wolfe @mreflow]

I watched the entire 90-minute Google Cloud Next event this morning. What Duet will be able to do is pretty impressive!

To save you some time, I made this 18-minute SuperCut. If you watch at 2x, you can get all the details of the event in 9-minutes. :)

Enjoy.

[LOVELY SPAIN @_LOVELYSPAIN_]

Today, the Tomatina takes place.

150 "metric" tons (>165 "imperial" tons) of tomatoes are used as weapons for a massive fight in Buñol (Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana).

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The theater/temple of San Nicola near Caserta, Italy, was rediscovered by chance in 2000 by a paraglider. It's 2100 years old and hosts a theater and a temple on the same hill 520 meters on the sea level, dominating the evocative panorama on the plains below

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay has received a whopping Rs 160 crore in donation from an anonymous donor.

https://t.co/YpWvdvOODv

“This is a rare occurrence in Indian academia that a philanthropist wishes to stay anonymous," Professor Subhasis Chaudhuri, Director, @IITBombay, said.

The amount is meant for the establishment of a Green Energy and Sustainability Research Hub, the premier institute said on Thursday.

[Ben Hawkes @benhawkes]

How can you show that a bug is exploitable without actually writing an exploit? Exploit equivalence classes. https://t.co/IvzRTkUBm8

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Seceda is a mountain in the Odle/Geisler Group situated in South Tyrol in Northern Italy.

The summit of Seceda (2518 m) is a dearly loved destination in the Dolomites because of its unbeatable view of the Odle/Geisler Peaks.

[📹 timothy_fpv]
https://t.co/oOCVumEpmu

[Ryan Hurst @rmhrisk]

You would be amazed at what a modern web application can do with JavaScript and WebCrypto. Check our https://t.co/JwPaIlPtil

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Messi going through the Marvel Universe 🔥

[Ryan Hurst @rmhrisk]

Happy to see this work get to the next step in its evolution! Check out https://t.co/6wyFwlk5IN to better understand how Pixel Binary Transparency, Go Checksum DB, and SigStore approach bring verifiability to the software supply chain.