things to research when you have nothing to do:
the great filter
boltzmann brains
the library of alexandria
the black knight satellite
simulation hypothesis
the toba catastrophe
gödel's incompleteness theorems
the antikythera mechanism
the dyatlov pass incident
why octopuses seem so alien
the silk road
pareidolia
the great attractor
the bloop
buena suerte 👍
🚨Breaking : Indian scientists have invented time travel. I wonder why media is so bad at doing their job and not reporting this achievement.
Hyderabad based Scientists have invented a machine which could take you to the past.
I live in the centre of new age Hyderabad. Every day people in hyderabad are being taken to 1980s when power was supplied only for few hours.
Incredible experience of how people used to live with only a few hours of power. We can’t study, work or do anything.
I think the scientists in Telangana Power department are doing this to get padmashri. Request @revanth_anumula sir to give them the award they deserve and stop make citizens travel to 1980s every day.
Request media to please cover their achievements 🙏
Area :Kondapur
Everyday multiple time power cuts since 2 months.
Hamara Ghar me bijli bhej dijiye 🙏
Mera Bharat Mahaan.
Jai Hind. 🇮🇳🇮🇳
The physical copy of Under the Hood arrived. 934 pages. This thing can genuinely double up as a pillow when it gets boring lol 😃
Every layer of an LLM, built from scratch and broken on purpose. 36 projects. I did not expect it to be this thick tbh.
🇮🇳 India Kindle: https://t.co/Jxe7zFDaFM
🌎 US Kindle: https://t.co/kB69AhjYp0
🌎 US Paperback: https://t.co/hs3orA0PzJ
Leanpub: https://t.co/9hANb7VaLc
Claude Shannon, a juggler, a tinkerer, the Einstein of communications - the man is an inspiration on how to live a life full of curiosity.
Reading this #book, it’s clear that Claude never boxed himself into a category. He will build things with his hands, prove theorems, and dream of a future (full of AIs and robots).
When a journalist asked about his secret for living an easy life, he replied: “I don’t care for being useful. I do whatever comes naturally to me”.
This modest attitude from someone who dropped the bombshell that information theory is unmatched against other scientific giants who took themselves way too seriously.
Read the biography. It’s a detailed glimpse into his inspiring attitude towards life.
The unique quality of Elon musk I observed is that he is the one and only one , I ever saw in any interview , where most of the time he looks like he started thinking about the question after it was asked .. he also looks like he’s thinking while talking , trying to find words for his thoughts to express while still thinking ..This is in sharp contrast to all in his kind of position who blurt out their answers even before the question is finished
In a large percentage of his interviews and long form conversations, there is a noticeable lag between the question landing and the beginning of a coherent answer. That lag is not emptiness. It is the visible onset of actual reasoning. He appears to treat many questions as live problems rather than conversational cues. You can watch him assembling the thought in real time: evaluating assumptions, discarding weaker framings, searching for the most precise formulation, and only then converting the internal thoughts into language.
Even while speaking, he often continues refining. Sentences restart, and he will sometimes correct or sharpen a point he made only seconds earlier. The thinking does not stop when the talking begins.
This is in sharp contrast to Politicians, most CEOs, media figures, and even many scientists in the public eye who always sound decisive ..
Speed of response often is thought as mastery. Elon’s slower, more visibly constructive process rejects that theory . It suggests that he is often doing the work of thinking in front of the audience rather than merely expressing the results of prior thinking.
Also while talking about the effects of A I on humanity his face has a strange mixture of hoping for the best , but accepting the inevitability . He appears fearless because he has already run the probabilities further than most people ever can .. The expression is not the practiced optimism of a CEO selling a future, nor the performative dread of a public intellectual signalling concern. It is the face of someone who has internally modelled both the upside and the downside at a depth that makes ordinary emotional reactions feel inadequate.
Hope remains, but it is no longer naïve because it coexists with a clear eyed recognition that certain trajectories, once set in motion will develop their own momentum.
The fearlessness does not come from confidence that everything will turn out well, but It comes from having already absorbed the full range of possible outcomes , including the irreversible ones and deciding to act anyway. The result is a composure that looks like courage, but is closer to something much more austere as in the refusal to look away from the actual problem. https://t.co/7jR4KxJYxh via @YouTube
The older I get the more I realize, calm is the real wealth. Living a very private life. Away. Alone. Observing. Thinking. Learning. Being bored. Creating something meaningful. A quiet day, sunlight, coffee, music, books, and stillness. That'll do.
It took Rajan and me over 7 years to build Topsail.
One of us spent decades understanding customers.
The other spent decades on the shop floor mastering manufacturing.
Together we've 60+ years of experience combined.
That combination shapes every decision we make.
We don't just ask, "Can we make this?"
We ask, "Can we make this consistently, economically, and at scale (without compromising the quality) for the next 10 years?"
That's the difference experience makes.
If you want a reliable OEM partner, DM.
Here's more about our story:
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An Indian institute filmed a professor teaching classical physics with no notes, no slides, and a green board. Almost nobody outside India watches it.
This is Classical Physics, lecture 1, taught by V. Balakrishnan at IIT Madras, published free by NPTEL, India's national open courseware programme.
Balakrishnan taught at IIT Madras for decades. Students who sat in that room describe the same thing: the whole subject held in his head, delivered in order, no paper on the podium.
Lecture 1 is the introduction. What classical mechanics claims, where the claims hold, and the exact points where they stop holding and quantum takes over.
Watch how he speaks. Complete sentences, no filler, each idea finished before the next begins. Rare in any lecture hall on any continent.
A physicist I know worked through the whole NPTEL series and rates it above the western courses he paid for.
Free on YouTube, 17 years online, low resolution, no marketing.
The teaching was never concentrated in the famous universities.
First, the wars slowed us down.
Now the flood is trying to finish the job.
Day 2 and still no electricity.
Yesterday was spent clearing mud, debris and sludge.
Today, we finally began separating what's good, what's salvageable, and what has to be scrapped.
The insurance survey is complete.
At the same time, we're updating every buyer and asking them to immediately collect goods that are still in perfect condition.
It protects their inventory.
And gives us the space to keep clearing what's left.
The biggest question still remains.
The machines.
Once the power returns, we'll know whether they still work.
If they do, we could be back on our feet within weeks.
If they don't, we're looking at months of rebuilding.
Some things are outside your control.
All you can do is keep showing up.
हमारी ज़िंदगी का एक लंगर है, जिसका नाम है आस्था।
जब आप इसे पहचान लेते हैं, तब समझ आता है कि आपके आसपास जो कुछ भी हो रहा है, उस पर आपका नियंत्रण कितना सीमित है। आप हर परिणाम तय नहीं कर सकते और न ही जीवन के हर मोड़ का अनुमान लगा सकते हैं। आपके हाथ में केवल एक चीज़ है, आपकी प्रतिक्रिया।
आस्था उसी प्रतिक्रिया को सही दिशा देती है। यह आपके भीतर धैर्य लाती है, आवेगों को शांत करती है और जीवन के शोर में आपको डूबने नहीं देती। जब सब कुछ बिखरा हुआ लगता है, तब आस्था आपको भीतर से स्थिर रखती है। वही आपको याद दिलाती है कि हर परिस्थिति पर नहीं, लेकिन हर परिस्थिति में अपने व्यवहार पर आपका अधिकार है।
દક્ષિણ ગુજરાતમાં ભારે વરસાદને કારણે અનેક વિસ્તારોમાં જળભરાવની સ્થિતિ સર્જાઈ છે અને જનજીવનને પણ હાલાકીનો સામનો કરવો પડી રહ્યો છે.
આ પરિસ્થિતિમાં સૌ નાગરિકોને અપીલ છે કે જરૂર વિના ઘરની બહાર ન નીકળો અને પાણી ભરાયેલા રસ્તાઓ પરથી વાહન પસાર કરવાનું જોખમ ન લો.
જો વરસાદી પાણીમાં વાહન ડૂબી જાય તો ઇન્શ્યોરન્સ ક્લેમ માટે વાહનની સ્થિતિ દર્શાવતા જરૂરી ફોટા અને વીડિયો સુરક્ષિત રીતે લઈ રાખો. ખાસ કરીને પાણીમાં ડૂબેલા વાહનને ચાલુ કરવાનો પ્રયાસ ન કરો અને તાત્કાલિક તમારી ઇન્શ્યોરન્સ કંપનીનો સંપર્ક કરો.
તંત્ર દ્વારા આપવામાં આવતી સૂચનાઓનું પાલન કરીએ અને મુશ્કેલીના આ સમયમાં એકબીજાના સહયોગી બનીએ.
સાવચેતી રાખીએ, સુરક્ષિત રહીએ.
Today is my 52nd birthday and we've suffered an estimated loss of ₹8 crore.
Yesterday, our factory flooded.
3 of our staff were trapped with no communication.
Our first priority was getting them out safely.
Today we were finally able to enter and assessed the damage.
Over 3 feet of water entered the factory.
Every machine, PCB and servo motor went under water.
We're expecting at least 30 days of downtime.
But instead of panicking, we:
• Informed our insurance company and started claim process
• Told every customer the truth about their orders
• Called every vendor before rumours reached them
• Started sourcing replacement machinery
The responses reminded me why trust matters.
Every customer said:
"We're with you, don't worry."
Several vendors said:
"Forget the payments for now. Tell us how we can help."
Friends called and said:
"Do you need any funds to hold you over?"
Moments like these show what you've really built.
Relationships.
This is yet another major setback.
We'll honour every commitment, rebuild and get back to work.
There is no Plan B.
The Indian student is so tormented, so abused, so uncared for, so subject to the grind, so used to rejection, so familiar with lack of opportunities that when they finally get a release valve, years of frustration and suffering comes gushing out. Impossible to stop it.