Vardan Maheshwari

Boy Next Door

[Dr Singularity @Dr_Singularity]

This is absolutely incredible

This is what will give us 1000s x (short term) acceleration in medical progress.

This is what will enable us to solve almost all (or potentially all) currently known diseases by the 2030s.

It’s happening

Stanford built a virtual biotech company with 37,000 AI scientist agents, and it’s already producing real drug discovery results.

It’s an AI virtual biotech company.

The agents analyzed about 50,000 clinical trials in under a WEEK, uncovered biological signals linked to better drug success, and independently designed a B7-H3 lung cancer therapy strategy that a pharma company later developed separately and advanced into human testing.

37,000 AI scientist, just in a small startup. This could scale to millions soon, even for relatively small startups.

Bigger, richer companies could eventually have TRILLION+ AI scientist workforces.

This is why we could have Star Trek level technology during the 2030s, not the 2300s. This is the kind of acceleration digital workforces of BILLIONS/TRILLIONS 200+ IQ workers could deliver very quickly.

[Modern Caesar @ModernCeasar]

Rome fell when nobles stopped reading about their ancestors. Here are 7 biographies every man must read to avoid same fate:

- Life of Sulla by Plutarch
- Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
- Napoleon by Andrew Roberts
- Augustus by Adrian Goldsworthy
- The Confessions of St. Augustine
- Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman
- Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse

What else would you add?

[World Economic Forum @wef]

Low-emissions #metals are becoming a key focus area for #decarbonizing industry. Here are five crucial strategies used by the First Movers Coalition to keep their supply chains green. @VolvoGroup

https://t.co/1FQy2pKHGm

[World Economic Forum @wef]

Scaling #quantum computing efficiently is key: smarter algorithms and hardware could cut #energy use while tackling complex global challenges. #wef26

https://t.co/Jnbr1lSqJm

[Vardan Maheshwari @marwadicowboy]

@Airtel_Presence Hi. I have recently moved to the Netherlands. I took the 798 plan for international roaming and turned on the data roaming option in phone settings. However, I hav been in Netherlands for more than a week, & the pack still says that it will activate once I reach.

[Vardan Maheshwari @marwadicowboy]

@HDFCBank_Cares Hi. I had a flight frm Mumbai Airport Terminal A2 to Amsterdam. During waiting hours, I tried to access Adani Lounge using HDFC Regalia Forex Card, but my entry was denied. And ur card brochure claims it lets u access any lounge on international airport. See Pic

[Vardan Maheshwari @marwadicowboy]

@setu_ai_expert Excel

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

Alexander the Great envisioned himself as Achilles.

Caesar idolized Alexander.

Napoleon looked up to Caesar.

Who you admire shapes who you become.

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

Young Julius Caesar was captured by pirates. When they demanded a ransom of 20 talents, he laughed and told them to raise it to 50 because he was worth more.

After his release, he returned with a fleet, hunted them down, and had them crucified.

Exactly as he had promised. ⚔️

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

Crazy to think that 10 of Caesar's assassins had previously been pardoned by him, some even promoted into high offices.

Caesar's clemency was one of history's greatest backfires.

[Art Gallery @X_ArtGallery]

Michelangelo at 26

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

For centuries, Rome ruled the world — except in the East.

Across the Euphrates stood Parthia, the empire Rome could never tame. From Crassus to Julian, they all tried, and all failed.

This is the story of Rome’s greatest rival. ⚔️🧵

[World Scholar @WorldScholar_]

Your daily reminder that the Romans flooded the Colosseum to stage mock naval battles for fun.

Ancient entertainment was something else...

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

October 31, 1541: Michelangelo completed his painting The Last Judgement on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.

[Historical Chronicles @HistoriaJack]

The Entrance of Joan of Arc into Orleans

[Hellenist ☀️🏺⚡️ @RealHellenist]

Analytics of The Iliad.

Which scene strikes you most?

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

The Emperor Who Bought Rome

When Emperor Pertinax was cut down by his own Praetorian Guard in 193 AD, Rome was thrown into chaos. The Roman empire suddenly had no master.

The men who should have restored order instead decided to sell it.

The Praetorians, drunk on their power and greed, barricaded themselves inside their camp. From behind the walls, they announced that the imperial throne would go to the highest bidder. The most esteemed position in Rome was reduced to a prize to the highest bidder.

Word spread through the city like fire. Two men came to make an offer.

One was Sulpicianus, the father-in-law of the slain Pertinax. He was a seasoned senator who hoped to stabilize the empire. The other was Didius Julianus, a wealthy noble with more ambition than wisdom.

As the bidding rose, the voices of soldiers called back and forth from the ramparts. Sulpicianus offered 20,000 sesterces per man. Julianus shouted higher. The guards cheered the number like gamblers at a race.

When he promised 25,000 sesterces per man, an absurdly astronomical sum, the gates opened. The Praetorians hailed him emperor.

That is how Didius Julianus bought the Roman Empire.

But he had purchased nothing more than the hatred of the people and the envy of generals. Across the provinces, the legions refused to recognize the auction. Three commanders — Septimius Severus, Pescennius Niger, and Clodius Albinus — each marched on Rome.

Severus reached it first. The Praetorians, who had once sold the throne, now sold out their buyer. Julianus was deserted, condemned by the Senate, and executed after a reign of only sixty-six days.

He had won the empire with gold, and bought his own death in the process.

The price: 25,000 sesterces per man. 💰
The return: sixty-six days as emperor. 💀

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

When Octavian returned to Rome from Egypt in 29 BC, he didn’t just come home — he came to celebrate.

He staged three triumphs in three days: one for Illyricum, one for Actium, one for Egypt. The spectacle was a clear display of his dominance.

Octavian had conquered the world⚔️

[Muse @xmuse_]

Jacques-Louis David - The Coronation of Napoleon, 1807

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

Julius Caesar conquered by the sword and ruled by mercy.

He spared defeated enemies and forgave traitors. Rome called it clementia, the noblest trait of a victor.

This is the story of how Caesar's clemency cost him his life — and how his heir refused to make the same mistake🧵