Girish Mithran

[Girish Mithran @GirishMithran]

@Teknium @horbunovdima Didn’t know this. Is there a way to remove the sessions from the desktop sidebar while still keeping them queryable?

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Tomorrow, 4th July, is a very special day for the people of Jodhpur. The New Terminal Building of Jodhpur Airport will be inaugurated. Jodhpur has a very important place as far as tourism in India is concerned. This upgraded infrastructure will encourage more tourists to come to Jodhpur. It will boost commerce as well.

[Nihal Sarin @NihalSarin]

I would like to dedicate this win to @GmNaroditsky. It was one of his favourite tournaments. We have played endless bullets and hyperbullets, which definitely contributed to my growth as a player.

[prathosh A P @prathoshap]

A 15-year-old dream has come true today. I started a PhD with the dream of creating a system that chants any Sanskrit shloka perfectly.

And here I am opening sourcing 𝐕𝐚𝐠𝐝𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐮 - 𝐀 𝐯ṛ𝐭𝐭𝐚 (𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫) 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 ś𝐥𝐨𝐤𝐚-𝐭𝐨-𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 (TTS) 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐤𝐫𝐢𝐭. This is the world's first vrutta-aware, open-source TTS for Sanskrit Chanting.

[Girish Mithran @GirishMithran]

@Teknium Am using FluidVoice. Runs locally and it’s free. https://t.co/S7qHR4yTUw

[Girish Mithran @GirishMithran]

@SachaSucha @Teknium @Mechbest You can. Use remote gateway on desktop app from your laptop. Details in the docs

[Girish Mithran @GirishMithran]

@AusHCPak It is not Pakistan’s history. Pakistan was formed explicity to turn its back on this history.

[ChessBase India @ChessbaseIndia]

Team MGD1 takes home the silver medal at the FIDE World Rapid Team Championships 2026. All the players of the team are from India including the coach of the team GM Narayanan Srinath. MGD1 was the defending champion as they had won last year. This year they came very close and tied on the same points with Dragon Chilling (18/24) and Hexamind and had to be content with the 2nd place.

Here is how each of the team members performed during the event:

1. Arjun Erigaisi (2741) 8/12
2. Nihal Sarin (2689) 6.5/10
3. Abhimanyu Puranik (2535) 2.5/6
4. Pranav V. (2564) 5/10
5. Leon Mendonca (2544) 6/10
6. D. Harika (2410) 7.5/12
7. Aryan Shah (1932) 10.5/12

It's amazing that not all the players of this team are world class or very high rated, but the team bonding is excellent and each of the player backs themselves to beat the best in the business. Arjun Erigaisi, Harika and Aryan (on below 2000 board) played all the games and performed really well. The team goes home richer by €70,000 (around Rs.70 lakh).

In the picture the entire MGD1 team is with the Consul General of India to Hong Kong Rajesh Naik.

Photo: Sagar Shah/ChessBase India

#chess #chessbaseindia #mgd1

[Girish Mithran @GirishMithran]

@rpraggnachess Welcome to Hong Kong! Good luck for the tournament.

[Girish Mithran @GirishMithran]

@viditchess @NousResearch Are you using Hermes for chess prep?

[Girish Mithran @GirishMithran]

@viditchess Welcome to Hong Kong! Good luck for the tournament. Weather is terrible here this week so I doubt you will be able to do much here other than chess.

[Girish Mithran @GirishMithran]

@VishnuNDTV @Neetivaan @KSingh_1469 Rafale with GaAs radar is not obsolete but the upcoming Tejas Mk1A with GaN radar is obsolete. Stellar analysis.

[Skyroot Aerospace @SkyrootA]

The first pictures from the spaceport of India’s first privately built orbital rocket.

For those following closely: Vikram-1's Stage 2, Kalam-250, is now fully integrated inside SHAR, Sriharikota. Flex nozzle, actuators, and Interstages 1_2L & 1_2U mounted and assembled. Our first complete integration. Final assembly of remaining components and stages is underway—we're steadily progressing toward launch.

#Vikram1 #SkyrootAerospace

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

This is big: all access to Mythos and Fable AI models disabled for everyone outside America.

First thoughts:

1. Technology is the ultimate weapon. National sovereignty, national security, all of it is now about technology.

2. Globalization is dead and Bharat must find her own way ahead.

We must keep these two ideas in mind.

What can our government do right now? Ensure that orgs in India embrace smaller models, both Indian and Chinese open source ones. With a bit of effort, we can make them work. Anyway, why pay money to people who don't even want to sell to you?

We must deepen our R&D. Sarvam has been on it and we have been on it but remember that the latest models cost not only huge GPU budgets to train, the GPUs themselves are restricted. So we can't afford the scale of money (of the order of $100+ billion to even get in the game!) and even if we could come up with the money, we can't get all the GPUs. I would not like to ask the government to fund tens of billions of dollars on this anyway - the money has far better uses.

Zoho has been pursuing alternative R&D approaches that are far, far less expensive but by its nature cutting edge R&D takes time and we are patient. I am confident we will get there.

Any remaining people in India who have delusions about globalization should wake up now.

[Alpha Defense™🇮🇳 @alpha_defense]

🇮🇳 India’s defence space is aiming a new capability leap through DefSpace Challenge 6.7.

The objective: develop a monolithic Silicon Carbide (SiC) telescope that reduces satellite payload weight by ~66% (from 600 kg to 200 kg), enabling more agile and cost-effective EO satellites.

✅ <0.5 m Panchromatic imaging for high-resolution reconnaissance
✅ 4-band Multispectral imaging at 1 m resolution
✅ 8-band SWIR imaging for camouflage detection and material identification
✅ MWIR thermal imaging for night surveillance and heat-signature tracking

Vetted by ISRO-SAC, the project aims to create a sovereign capability that does not currently exist within India’s defence space ecosystem.

[Girish Mithran @GirishMithran]

@VishnuNDTV We have this never ending desire to fund other countries defence industry at the cost of our own. Why would we be able to get work share / tech access from the French that the Germans could not?

[yajnadevam @yajnadevam]

AI poisoning is a thing. Gemini basically confessed that
whenever my name comes up, it uses fallacious arguments.

[Girish Mithran @GirishMithran]

@GaRudan_S अण्णामलय

[Ashley Rindsberg @AshleyRindsberg]

For years, major institutions have framed India and Hindus through the lens of nationalism, extremism, and suspicion. But what we've uncovered on @Wikipedia raises a deeper question: who gets to write the public record?

Our investigation found that a small cluster of anonymous editors controlled more than 80% of the @HinduAmerican page. Among the findings:

Blatant Conflict of Interest: The editors aggressively shaping HAF’s page were the exact same people controlling the Wikipedia profiles of HAF's legal adversaries and academic critics.

Inserting False FARA Allegations: Editors laundered complaints from HAF's opponents into "facts," using demands for a DOJ investigation to falsely brand HAF as a foreign agent

Administrative Silencing: An admin with supreme platform permissions deleted quotes from HAF's leadership, stripping the organization of its right to reply to allegations.

Over four years (2021-2025), editors systematically erased HAF’s identity as an American civil rights group, transforming its Wikipedia page into a heavily curated dossier of accusations. Our report from @npovmedia documents how it happened. 👇

[Girish Mithran @GirishMithran]

@Teknium @NousResearch How does this work? Do I need to use tailscale serve?