Kailasham_R

Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering.
// Numerical simulations, stochastic thermodynamics, active matter, rheology//
Views are my own.

[Kailasham_R @dynscientist]

'The solution of polymer models with fluctuating HI and IV would require “complicated matrix operations that may well be impractical unless preaveraging of the matrices is introduced.” [Macromolecules 19, 1195 (1986)]'

Challenge accepted 😎 #rheology

https://t.co/zsHMMOXNkK

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

After he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Albert Camus wrote a letter of thanks to his favorite childhood teacher, whom he'd never forgotten. It's beautiful.

[Kanika @DalRotiForLife]

Caught in the IndiGo flight mess? We're taking legal action (PIL) regarding these systemic failures.

We need 250+ passengers to join before Dec 10. Let's raise our voices together for better rights.

Support the case here: https://t.co/r0M1jlDQfW

[Brij Singh @brijbhasin]

A 19-year-old from Jodhpur just built something the Indian government should’ve built… using @QwikBuild

Aadhya is a first-year student who asked a simple question: How can Indians access government schemes without confusion?

Government schemes can change lives.

But most people don’t know which ones they qualify for, or how to apply.

She decided to fix that.

She heard of QwikBuild and created SahayAI, an assistant that:

1. Explains schemes in plain language 
2. Gives personalised recommendations
3. Simplifies documents for every citizen

Yesterday, she told us, “I want this platform to be accessible to every Indian.”

Her next step? Adding voice and regional languages so anyone, anywhere can use it.

And we’ve already promised she won’t be building it alone.

Stories like hers remind us why we started.

To give power to the person.

[Renuka Jain @RenukaJain6]

@theskindoctor13 I have filed a legal notice. Will share with everyone if anyone wants to join

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Everytime I get mad at people in the cheap seats criticizing founders in the arena, I remind myself of what Giannis said. Arguably my favorite response to a reporter ever.

[Aravind @aravind]

Much respect to whoever is this man in this DRDO test going at 800 km/hr to test a fully indigenous ejection seat system. Also, only three countries could do tests like these, now India joins them. Kudos to DRDO scientists.

[Vishakh Ranotra @VishakhRanotra]

Aequs, an Indian aerospace manufacturing giant has a 250 acre facility in the town of Belagavi, Karnataka.

They supply to Airbus, Boeing, Safran and many other aerospace companies around the world.

It’s also the only company in the world to have facilities like forging, 3,4,5 axis machining and surface treatment within the same campus.

These are the companies that are building India’s manufacturing heft.

Wishing many more companies like this build in Bharat. 🇮🇳 💪🏼

[Gareeb Scientist @gareebscientist]

@ISRO recently conducted a NO-GPS Mars Drone challenge, it was intense.... ⚠️
- Crashes everywhere
- Drones not landing
- almost all teams using expensive intel cameras

but one team won, without using expensive sensors, full video linked below

[Piyush @CatAstro_Piyush]

used to solve them when I was in class 11. summer holidays were fun solving these :)

[Arun Krishnan 🇮🇳 @ArunKrishnan_]

This is the part where we, Mysore Polymers' played our squirrel-like role, when the Payload Faring /heat shield separated!

Congratulations @isro!!

Video credit; DD India

[Rahul Raj @x_rahulraj]

Piyush is BTech from IIT Kanpur. He was placed at Deutsche Bank at a very good salary. He quit his job to start a hardware startup in India. Vecmocon builds some of the best EV hardwares in India today. It has a super strong team. Piyush wants to make it Bosch of India.

[Kailasham_R @dynscientist]

Writing, Structure, Content, AIChE! https://t.co/27BGRfU0bT

All the best to everyone in the job market!

[Aviral Bhatnagar @aviralbhat]

Norway and Canada require extremely high-quality fishing cages and nets, which they surprisingly import from Pune

Garware Technical Fibres has global patents, an astonishing 1,200 Cr revenue, and 7,500 Cr market cap

Pretty crazy high-tech material manufacturing happens in India

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

New breakthrough quantum algorithm published in @Nature today: Our Willow chip has achieved the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage.

Willow ran the algorithm - which we’ve named Quantum Echoes - 13,000x faster than the best classical algorithm on one of the world's fastest supercomputers. This new algorithm can explain interactions between atoms in a molecule using nuclear magnetic resonance, paving a path towards potential future uses in drug discovery and materials science.

And the result is verifiable, meaning its outcome can be repeated by other quantum computers or confirmed by experiments.

This breakthrough is a significant step toward the first real-world application of quantum computing, and we're excited to see where it leads.

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

Interesting... 'Why do Stanford math professors still use chalk?'

https://t.co/d8XK10gdDm

“if the speaker tried to use slides, people don’t retain as much because [the speaker] goes much faster. Whereas if you write on the chalk, you are forced to slow down.”

Academics on my timeline... what do you use in your classes?

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Columbia CS Prof explains why LLMs can’t generate new scientific ideas.

Bcz LLMs learn a structured “map”, Bayesian manifold, of known data and work well within it, but fail outside it.
But true discovery means creating new maps, which LLMs cannot do.

[Sahil @sahilypatel]

The deeper you go into the semiconductor supply chain, the less believable it becomes.

> TSMC, a company on a small island, produces over 90% of the world’s most advanced chips
> TSMC relies on dutch company ASML for EUV lithography machines
> ASML depends on German Company Carl Zeiss, the only firm in the world capable of making mirrors precise enough for ASML’s requirements.
> The light source for ASML’s EUV machines is produced by a single company in San Diego.
> The photoresists used to print transistor patterns are produced by Japanese firms like JSR and Tokyo Ohka Kogyo.
> The ultra-pure quartz needed to make silicon wafers comes entirely from a single mine in Spruce Pine, North Carolina.
> The copper and rare-earth materials inside chips are mined and refined across Chile, the Congo, and China.
> The specialized gases used in chipmaking, like neon and fluorine, largely come from Ukraine and Japan.
> The design blueprints for these chips often come from American companies like NVIDIA, AMD, and Apple, which rely on software tools from U.S. firms like Synopsys and Cadence.

Remove any single piece and the whole system collapses.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Remembering today on his birth anniversary GN Ramachandran, the genius who should have got not one or two but three Nobel prizes - for Collagen; ΦΨ plot; and Tomography. Forget Nobel or Bharatratna, he wasn't even awarded a Padma - any Padma.

A Forgotten Hero of Indian Science.

[Indian Right Wing Community @indianrightwing]

Sorry for breathing the same air. @rpraggnachess

[Anantha Narayan @ThisIsAnantha]

THE MONK WHO HACKED REALITY

At 32, most people are settling into a job. Maybe they've made it to Vice President. Maybe they've started a company. Made a few crores if they're lucky. Got married, bought a flat, working on those EMIs.
And then there was this guy from Kerala.

Adi Shankara had walked across an entire subcontinent on foot, defeated every scholar he encountered in debate, unified a splintering religion, founded four monasteries that still stand today, written the definitive commentaries on Hinduism's holiest texts, and cracked the code to exit the simulation of reality itself.

All by 32. Then he died.

1,200 years later, we're still trying to process what this man accomplished in three decades....

The world he was born into was falling apart intellectually. Buddhism was crushing every debate. Hindu philosophy had splintered into a thousand contradictory schools. The Vedic tradition was fragmenting like a Wikipedia page with 50 editors all contradicting each other.

Then this kid from Kerala shows up. Age 8. Already fluent in Sanskrit. Already realized that everything people thought was real... wasn't.

What he saw was this: the phenomenal world is Maya. Not fake, but rendered. Like VR. It feels real, but it's code on top of something deeper. Underneath the simulation is Brahman, pure, formless, infinite Consciousness. The quantum field. The cosmic server. Existence-awareness-bliss.

And here's the kicker: Your true self (Atman) IS Brahman.

You're not a player logged into the game. You're not even the avatar. You're the CPU running everything. Your body? A skin. Your mind? A user interface. Your ego? A temporary account. But the core you, the "I AM" before thoughts, that's the source code itself. "Tat Tvam Asi" = You Are That.

Long before Elon Musk and Nick Bostrom, Shankara was telling us we're in the Matrix. And he had the exit strategy.

So he walked. Over 3000 kilometers just from Kerala to the Himalayas, then crisscrossed India multiple times. Town to town. Temple to temple. University to university. Challenging the top scholars to debate with one rule: loser converts to winner's philosophy. Your entire life's work on the line.

He went undefeated.

The most famous? Mandana Mishra, a legendary scholar who had spent his entire life mastering Vedic rituals. They debated for days. His own wife was the judge. Shankara won. Mandana became his disciple.
What made these men abandon everything? Shankara showed them that liberation (moksha) isn't going to heaven. It's realizing you were never trapped. You just forgot the root password. Avidyā. We forgot we're admins. We think we're just users.

He taught the "Neti Neti" method, the great elimination: not the body, not the mind, not the thoughts, not the emotions. Strip away every layer until only pure witnessing awareness remains.

But here's where Shankara separated himself from every other enlightened master in history. He didn't just achieve moksha and disappear into the Himalayas. He didn't just gather a few disciples and call it done. This man built a franchise for enlightenment that's still operational 12 centuries later.

While walking tens of thousands of kilometers and winning debates, he somehow found time to write the most authoritative commentaries ever produced on the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and Brahma Sutras. These weren't casual blog posts. These were surgical deconstructions of reality itself. Every scholar who came after him had to contend with Shankara's interpretations. He basically set the terms of the conversation for the next millennium.

Then he planted four monasteries at the four corners of India like spiritual anchors, assigned his best disciples to run them, and created the Dashanami Order to ensure the knowledge wouldn't die with him. It's still running. Same lineages. Same teachings. 1,200 years.

And because he apparently had time to spare, he wrote poetry that makes you weep and wake up simultaneously. Nirvana Shatakam strips your identity to nothing in six verses. Bhaja Govindam slaps you awake from your philosophical overthinking. Saundarya Lahari reveals that consciousness without energy is inert, that Shiva without Shakti can't even blink. Pure awareness needs the rendering engine. The CPU needs the GPU. He understood the architecture of existence and wrote hymns about it.

He spoke of parallel realities (lokas) centuries before multiverse theories. He described the universe as cyclically rebooting long before cosmologists proposed it. He taught that the observer and observed are entangled, that consciousness collapses reality into form, predating quantum mechanics by over a thousand years. He said OM is the primordial vibration, the command that boots up existence itself.

When Hinduism was tearing itself apart over whether Shiva or Vishnu or Shakti was supreme, Shankara said: they're all the same. He promoted Shanmata, six paths to the same truth, and ended centuries of sectarian violence with one elegant insight. He traveled everywhere, reactivated temples, reset rituals, and gave a fragmenting civilization its center back.

Today we're obsessed with simulation theory. We debate whether we're living in base reality. We wonder if consciousness creates the universe or the universe creates consciousness. We're trying to hack our way to happiness, productivity, enlightenment.

Shankara solved it 1,200 years ago while walking barefoot across an untamed subcontinent.

His answer? You're already what you're seeking. You just forgot. The game was always optional. The prison was always unlocked. You're not trapped in the simulation. You ARE the simulation experiencing itself.

Alexander conquered land and died at 32. His empire collapsed before his body was cold.

Shankara conquered minds and died at 32. His empire runs stronger today than it did in the 8th century.

One left behind crumbling monuments. The other left behind a manual for reality itself.

1,200 years later, we're still reading the instructions.