Kaushal Joshi

👨‍💻 Full-stack Engineer
🥾 Trekker ✍️ Writer
🏃‍♂️ Runner 🚴 Aspiring Triathlete

Writing code, blogs & anything that fascinates me

[Kaushal Joshi @clumsy_coder]

@vijay_murugan_ @cneuralnetwork feeling so sorry for you man, if this is your order 😭

[Kaushal Joshi @clumsy_coder]

@DhiruCodes When i fail by bench press, i just pause at the bottom, brace myself, and push with all the remaining strength. It works everytime unless i am trying for PB or its my last set. Give it a try.

[Kaushal Joshi @clumsy_coder]

@ColdCoffeeEra Eat Soya Chaap Alt
Eat Desi Chineze Alt
Eat Vadapaav Alt
Eat Paav Bhaji Alt
Drink Cold Coffee Alt

Sounds good to me

[Kaushal Joshi @clumsy_coder]

@ColdCoffeeEra Arey ek video ahe aaj ch dupari jevtana pahili will share later please aathvan kar

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@Priyankarpal @SarvamForDevs @SarvamAI @Paytm regisssterreed thanks

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@VazeKshitij Every app is a dating app if you're Indian enough.

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@stonksqween What's a personal auto tho?? Not shared? Uber/Ola??

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@Agent_Oli Would love to have this in Mumbai some day.

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@markmeyourze Turned 25 yesterday and guess how many km i ran? 0. It's absolutely fine to not follow everything for the sake of it. Do what you love. Do what makes you happy. Even running 5k on your bday would be worthwhile and memorable.

[Kaushal Joshi @clumsy_coder]

Day 1, Again.

5km ez in Bandra

Satara Hill HM prep started. Very excited ✌🏽

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@DhiruCodes Amul blueberry protein milkshake + ~40g oats.

Either you'd love it or absolutely hate it. Worth trying. I can eat this all day every day.

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@GandhaliBP +++Very true. I've seen this in my friend group itself. They care more about Ganpati/Shimga sutti than actual job. Many won't work extra hours when needed, and they look down on blue collar work despite lacking qualifications for white collar roles. Feels sad, but kay karnar.

[Kaushal Joshi @clumsy_coder]

@nullbytes00 @Rounacc Interestingly this warning page is still hosted on twitter dot com.

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@DhiruCodes @badal_enginner Almost thought it's a beer fir dekha tumne sala hai

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@runkarthikrun me too, almost stopped using strava after tmm. the only serious run i ran was aapla Tilaknagar 5k :)

hoping to get back from June onward. gotta prepare for satara hm

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@bhaumikgowande @Kristinartz the what??? im curious what is it.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

You can see the Chicago skyline visible from nearly 50 miles away in the Indiana Dunes sunset.

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@smarika_17 read it again (please don't have a stroke while doing so)

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.