Prateek

26.7 billion years old• Tech Lead • Anime

[Prateek @debugchaos]

As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. But intolerant, narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host and continue to thrive. They are lost cause.

~Kafka on the shore

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Steel is approximately 99% iron.

The remaining 0.02–2% is carbon, and that tiny fraction is what separates a material that bends from one that can hold up a skyscraper.

More carbon: harder and stronger, but more brittle.
Less carbon: softer and more ductile, but weaker.

The entire history of metallurgy is the story of humans learning to control that 1%.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this is actually insane

> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”

one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.

we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

[Prateek @debugchaos]

@savesage_club @ashishlath @amazonIN Hi, I have shared my registered mobile number via DM. The required details were also sent over email yesterday for your reference. Please check. Thank you.

[Revant Himatsingka “Food Pharmer” @foodpharmer2]

Have a break but don’t have a KitKat because

I compared a KitKat sold in Australia with one sold in India, and the numbers are sadly not surprising.

The Australian version contains:

-Milk solids – 20%
-Cocoa – 22%
-Added sugar – 21.7g

The Indian version contains:
-Milk solids – 16.1%
-Cocoa – 4.5%
-Added sugar – 28.9g

Indians are getting a significantly inferior version compared to Kit-Kat abroad. This is not just limited to the Kit-Kat but most packaged food items like Cerelac, Lays etc.

This is because of 3 reasons.

1.India is a price-sensitive country, and as a result companies put low quality ingredients. But costing alone doesn’t explain the full picture.

2.Our regulations are weak and they don’t prevent companies from giving us inferior products.

3.We as consumers do not question what we’re being served. That is exactly why I started Label Padhega India. Because unless we read and ask, nothing changes.

Companies rarely change because they feel guilty. Companies change if consumers unite and ask for it.

So it’s our responsibility, together, to speak up and make sure our voices are heard.

Let’s Make India Healthy Again.

[Giselle//💥⏳ 💍💫 @giselleb1234]

The last few minutes were so amazing. Ser Duncan making that speech made him a true knight, the aura Baelor had coming to join Duncan’s side, and the OG theme song playing at the end PEAK CINEMA🙌🏽🔥#AKnightOfTheSevenKingdoms #AKOTSK

[Aravind @aravind]

90% of people's problems are caused by 10% of issues.

I asked Grok to find 100 tweets having over 100 likes that talk about issues with Indian customs and summarise the main grievances into five main points.

IMO, every ministry in GoI, like @FinMinIndia, must have an in-house AI tool creating reports of public grievances analyzing thousands of posts tagging govt departments everyday.

Even if nothing is done about everything, govt can keep a tab on what's ailing everyone and fix the top 10% of the issues which may solve 90% of people's problems.

[Poan Sapdi @Poan__Sapdi]

🚨 Travel hack most Indians don’t know: You can cancel or reschedule any domestic flight FREE within 24 hrs (if it’s 7+ days away)

[Aravind @aravind]

This doesn't seem good. TRAI must actually ensure that there is at least one sub Rs. 100 plan for India with the most minimum access - something like 60 mins of calls, 1 GB of data, and 100 SMS free a month. Some people can do a lot with this and will help them stay connected.

[Cipher @Cipher_twt]

you joined twitter.
↓
you didn’t understand.
↓
forgot about it for years.
↓
came back randomly one day.
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you got addicted.

[Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD @malpani]

https://t.co/sAvznkTOa2 is a citizen-led initiative . We are happy to improve - please share feedback !

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Midnight physics :

Imagine two twins, Puran and Poli, both 10. Puran stays on Earth, while Poli goes on a space trip in a spaceship traveling almost at the speed of light. Poli returns after what feels like 10 years on Earth.

When they meet again, Puran, who stayed on Earth, is now 20 years old. But Poli, who traveled so fast, has barely aged and is still about 10. Why? Because the faster you move, the slower time passes for you (Time dilation, Einstein’s theory of relativity). And if you could actually move at the speed of light, time would stop completely; you wouldn’t age at all.

In reality, this is a theoretical concept because anything that has mass, like people or spaceships, can’t reach the speed of light. But who knows, in the future we might build spaceships that get very close to it.

The main point here is: time is relative; it doesn’t pass the same way for everyone. In fact, in physics, time itself doesn’t really “flow.” It’s part of what’s called spacetime, which stays still like a giant map. What we call time passing is actually us moving along our path (called a worldline) in spacetime.

On Earth, we all feel time moving the same way because we’re all moving at similar speeds. But astronauts on the International Space Station orbit the Earth so fast that time slows down a tiny bit for them; they age about 0.01 seconds less over 6 months compared to people on Earth.

Interestingly, Hindu scriptures dated thousands of years back also describe time moving differently in different realms:

In the Bhagavata Purana, King Kakudmi and his daughter Revati visit Brahma’s realm to ask for a suitable husband. What feels like a short wait there turns out to be thousands of years on Earth, so when they return, everything on Earth has changed.

King Muchukund went to help Indra, the king of heaven, in a long war against asurs. Time in heaven moved slower for him, so when he finally returned to Earth, he discovered that many ages had passed and his family and kingdom were gone.

It’s fascinating that something we now understand and prove scientifically was thought of in ancient Hindu texts thousands of years ago.

[Shiina @ShiinaBR]

SUPERMAN IN FORTNITE IS INSANE 😭🔥

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

MNS workers are mostly idle, jobless men, the kind even their families have stopped taking seriously, having given up on them doing anything meaningful.

The outfit gives them a sense of purpose by convincing them that their only skill, knowing the local language, makes them special, and that anyone who doesn’t is a cultural threat.

Individually, they couldn’t hurt a fly. Even in groups, they only go after soft targets, the poor, elderly, women, or those alone. They vent their frustration on them and walk away feeling manly, important, even heroic. Social media now gives them few local cheerleaders who believe they’re ‘civilizational warriors.’

But they’d never dare try this at a rich man’s house, like Ambani’s, or in Muslim localities, we know why.

Ruling parties usually look the other way, scared of being seen as anti-local for acting against these gladiators.

When criticised, they hide behind Maratha lineage and play victim, claiming their ancestors fought for those now questioning them.

What they fail to grasp is this: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj would’ve punished them for attacking a poor Hindu over language. The Marathas fought for Hindavi Swarajya, reclaimed large parts of North India from Mughals, restored temples, and protected Hindu culture.

They never demanded North to learn Marathi or punished anyone over language. Their fight was civilisational, not linguistic. So before calling them your ancestors, try living by their values, not just misusing their name.

Yes, people living in Maharashtra long-term should learn Marathi for better integration, it’s in their own interest. But harassing or assaulting them for not doing so is completely unacceptable.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The first teaser for Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY’ is now playing in theaters.

[Sameer @BesuraTaansane]

This policeman is highlighting a perpetually massive nuisance on every highway

All these trucks forcefully occupy the right most lane, mess up traffic & also cause accidents

Levy heavy fines on them @MORTHIndia @nitin_gadkari

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Robert Pattinson will reportedly play Hermes in Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY’

[Sourav @Dutta_Souravd]

Mumbai
Average salary: ₹7LPA
Average home price: ₹1.5Cr
Multiplier: 20X

Amsterdam
Average salary: €55K
Average home price: €500K
Multiplier: 9X

Overpriced real estate in India due to corrupt municipalities and builders.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

One of the best starts to a Quantum Mechanics lecture ✍️

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

the Milky Way is not only flying at 600 km/s, but also “flapping its wings” like a butterfly🦋