Virendra Patil

Engineer
Proud Indian.
Passionate about sports.
Foodie.
Options Engineering...!!!

[Virendra Patil @OptionsEngr]

What a start to the new year🥹🥹🥹
Thank you @atul_kulkarni .
मी नटरंग २ वेळा पाहिला होता थिएटर मध्ये.

[Virendra Patil @OptionsEngr]

+1
#Bringbacktheredtable
@cricbuzz

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

@gauravkapur I can tell you, no one ever forgot the Red Table.

@cricbuzz should really put the miniature version of it on sale. Better if it somehow has autographs of you, Harsha, and Joy.

Too much to ask, but that's how fab 2018/19 shows were.

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

@gauravkapur I can tell you, no one ever forgot the Red Table.

@cricbuzz should really put the miniature version of it on sale. Better if it somehow has autographs of you, Harsha, and Joy.

Too much to ask, but that's how fab 2018/19 shows were.

[Sparsh Sehgal @sparsh_sehgal]

Recently I joined a family run fund as their first hire in the investment team. Now I'm looking for the second hire – a rockstar investment analyst:

1. 0-2 yoe; eagerness to learn + agency > college degree. CA/CFA will help but don't really matter.

2. Excel ninja, comfortable with numbers/data.

3. Genuine passion for investing as a craft, whether it's any asset or instrument.

Perks:

1. I'll ensure you become the most well read person in your peer group.

2. Opportunities to meet amazing people.

3. Build the investment function at the fund alongside me and the family.

Location: Delhi

DMs open.

[Virendra Patil @OptionsEngr]

Starting a petition to bring back the red table 😉😉😉

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

Always loads of fun when I get the opportunity to chat with @joybhattacharj and @gauravkapur on @cricbuzz. Do watch last evening's curtain raiser to the #TATAIPL2025.

[TheReviewPicker @TheReviewPicker]

AI/MLमधे मला सर्वात जास्त आवडणारे क्षेत्र म्हणजे Data Engineering
SW engला जवळचे शिवाय Kafka,Big Data,Java/Python,MySQLह्या शैक्षणिक कोशल्यांची गरज
आत्ताच prod Kafka चे migration उरकले,मजा येते live system वर काम करताना
#म #मराठी #नोकरी
या क्षेत्राच्या थोडक्यात माहितीचा🧵👇

[Virendra Patil @OptionsEngr]

True that..!!!
I miss the red table.
@cricbuzz should have a red table merchandise. I guarantee it will break the Internet
@gauravkapur @bhogleharsha @joybhattacharj

Never missing a cricbuzz show with this TRIMURTI.

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

no better trio than this.

It has been ~7 years, and more than the IPL itself, I'm more excited to watch the Cricbuzz Curtain Raiser! :)

[Virendra Patil @OptionsEngr]

Thank you joy da for pointing this out.
Instagram influencers are little too much cringe this time around .

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

Asking a player to choose his most heart breaking defeats is not in great taste, though David Miller was stoic enough to sit through it.
My question, would an Indian anchor ever have done a series of questions on emotional defeats with an India star?

[Pune Mirror @ThePuneMirror]

CCTV footage of the shocking fire incident in Hinjawadi showcases the vehicle driver Janardan Hambardikar allegedly setting the vehicle on fire. Initially, travelers believed the fire was accidental. However, as the travelers attempted to help him exit, a sudden explosion erupted, leading to the tragic deaths of four individuals. 6 to 7 others managed to jump from the moving vehicle and survive, while others perished in the flames.

#FireIncident #CCTVFootage #TragicExplosion #Accident #DriverSetsFire #PassengerLivesLost #MaharashtraNews #Safety #ExplosionTragedy

(Vehicle, fire, explosion, Janardan Hambardikar, CCTV footage, tragic death, survivors, accident, vehicle fire, passenger death)

[Michael Thrower Chowdhury @BevansAdvocate]

Here are some recommendations

[Sanket @sankulyaa]

रंगपंचमी पारच संपुष्टात आलीये पुण्यात. धूलिवंदन is the new रंग पंचमी. उत्तर भारतीयांचा प्रभाव मराठी संस्कृतीवर दिसायला लागलाय.

[Prayag @theprayagtiwari]

Best video on internet, best best best ❤️

[Aviral Bhatnagar @aviralbhat]

Many of AJVC's portfolio founders are looking for talented people to join their rocketships

Many talented people reach out to me to work with startups

Bringing the two in a job board is a natural outcome, which we have launched at AJVC as a 30s form below

RT/Like for Karma 🙏

[Aadit Sheth @aaditsh]

Jeff Bezos literally dropped the best advice on how to build a trillion dollar company.

[Quant Science @quantscience_]

JP Morgan's Python training.

Available 100% for free:

[Grace Gym🏋️‍♀️ @GraceGym_]

5 Minutes Of Tibetan Exercises Beats An Hour Of Running💯

Monks call these movements the key to longevity! Just 5 mins a day can bring incredible health benefits!💯😁

Skip the long workouts - try this ancient method instead!💪🔥

[Grace Gym🏋️‍♀️ @GraceGym_]

Grandma's Secret: Simple Games That Make Kids Smarter! 🎓

Unlike gadgets that drain focus, these simple activities train the brain - making kids sharper, faster, and smarter after just a few sessions per week!💯👏

[Liv Boeree @Liv_Boeree]

Struggle with procrastination? Here's a trick that master procrastinator Tim Urban @waitbutwhy uses to defeat his 👇

[David Perell @david_perell]

The education system is broken. Costs are rising. Outcomes are falling. Kids are bored, parents are frustrated, teachers are over-worked and under-appreciated.

The Wall Street Journal just profiled the most promising solution I've seen.

Their results are so good that you're not going to believe me when I share them with you. But by the end of this, you'll understand what they're doing differently.

The results:

• Alpha students are top 1% in the USA in every class and every subject (except for one: 5th grade math, where they're “only” in the 93rd percentile).

• Alpha kids are learning 2.5x faster than the average American student.

• They crush standardized testing too. Only 2% of Texas students score above 90% on the Texas STAAR test. Every Alpha student scores above 90% and the majority of their students are over a grade level ahead.

• Alpha has more kids who score 100% on the Texas STAAR test than one entire school district of 100,000 people (Alpha has ~250 students).

And here's the kicker: Alpha School students only spend two hours on academics per day — just two hours from K-8 and three hours in high school.

The time they save gives kids back the rest of their day to learn life skills like socialization and public speaking instead of twiddling their thumbs during soul-crushing lectures or waiting for the bell to finally ring.

Sounds too good to be true, I know. So let me break down what they're doing differently.

For starters, the founders simply took learning science seriously. They reimagined how a school could function instead of following the standard school playbook. The research showed them that maximizing learning outcomes means building something that looks nothing like our existing school system—which has basically stayed the same for 200 years.

Here are three things they do differently:

1) Mastery Learning

Knowledge is like a Jenga tower. The higher blocks depend on the stability of the lower ones. If you pull a crucial block at the bottom, like knowing your multiplication tables, the whole structure can collapse. For example, good luck doing algebra if you don't know your multiplication tables by heart.

The problem with traditional schools is that because every student in a grade has to move at the same pace, whether they know the material or not, kids end up with holes in their knowledge. This conveyor belt approach sets them back forever. Not knowing multiplication won't just stop you from crushing algebra. It'll stop you from crushing statistics and calculus, and entire career paths once you’re an adult.

Mastery learning simply means that you don't move onto the next level until you know the material from the previous one.

It's the opposite of how schools work right now. In traditional learning, time is fixed (everyone gets exactly one school year for algebra) while learning is variable (some kids get A's, others get C's). In mastery learning, it's flipped: learning is fixed (everyone masters the material) while time is variable (some finish in three weeks, others in three months).

2) Personalized learning plans

If you want to learn fast, you need challenges that are tailored to your skill level. If the material is too easy, you’ll be bored; if it’s too difficult, you’ll get frustrated and quit. What you need is the sweet spot of content that’s challenging but doable. It’s the Goldilocks Principle for school: not too hot, not too cold.

Learning researchers call this the Zone of Proximal Development. It’s why 1-on-1 tutoring works so well. The problem with traditional lectures is that teachers need to teach to the average, which means that most students don’t get what they need.

Visit a struggling charter school and you'll see this in action. Ask a 6th grade teacher what they're teaching and they'll say: "Sixth grade material. That's my job." Meanwhile, half the class can barely read at a 2nd grade level. Teachers know this, but because going back to the basics could cost them their job, they plow ahead, which leaves students behind. The cost of these perverse incentives is showing up in the declining test scores we’re seeing across America.

3) Change what teachers do

Picture the typical classroom: one teacher at the front, 25 kids of wildly different abilities, and 45 minutes to get through the material before the bell rings. Meanwhile, teachers are stressed during the day and overworked at night from all the papers they have to grade and lesson plans they have to write.

And for what? For 40 years, research has shown that passive lectures are just about the worst way to learn anything. It’s an established fact. But our education system is so fossilized that it’s incapable of adapting to new knowledge and the better way of doing things that we’ve already discovered.

So what does Alpha do? They’ve transformed teachers into coaches and motivators. The apps and AI handle the information delivery and customize it for each student, leaving teachers to do what they do best (and signed up for in the first place): connect, inspire, mentor, and motivate students.

The bottleneck isn’t information anymore. It’s student motivation. You can have the world’s greatest curriculum, but if the student doesn’t give a damn, they ain’t gonna learn squat.

Everybody talks about EdTech, but it’s only part of the solution. Motivation plays a far more important role, which is why the people I know at Alpha are always asking: “How can we get kids to love school?”

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The Science Behind Alpha's Approach

These strategies are inspired by Bloom’s Two-Sigma Model, which is arguably the most important education finding of the past century. When researchers combined mastery learning with 1-on-1 tutoring, 98% of the tutored students outperformed the average student from a traditional classroom. Here’s the key point: Mastery learning, paired with 1-on-1 tutoring, is better for the very best students and the very worst ones.

1-on-1 tutoring isn’t some futuristic approach. Descartes, Feynman, and John Stuart Mill all learned through tutoring. The problem with tutoring, of course, is that it’s always been reserved for the elite. It’s too expensive and there simply aren’t enough master tutors to go around.

Enter modern technology: AI and learning apps have changed what’s possible. Every student can have a personalized learning plan now. Digital tutors never get tired or cranky, and they’ll certainly never roll their eyes and say: “Come on, kid… we’ve gone over these fractions twelve times already!” They’ll work all night with a kid who wants to memorize their fractions or learn the capitals of every country in the world. With each question, the software develops a laser-precise understanding of what concepts each kid knows / doesn’t know. Once again, that leaves the teachers to focus on the human side of learning: motivating students and helping them when they get stuck.

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Science fiction author William Gibson once said: “The future is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed yet.” And that’s exactly what Alpha School represents: a future of education that already exists, and not some pipe dream vision of a distant tomorrow.

I know because I’ve witnessed it first-hand. While running my own adult writing program, one of our paid editors raved about a participant’s killer writing skills. “Peyton has serious talent,” she wrote. That talented writer, Peyton, was a 15 year-old Alpha student at the time who was out-writing many of the adults in the program.

I’m obviously fired up about what Alpha is doing, but if the idea of kids learning through apps and AI makes you uncomfortable, I get it. But unlike our current one-size-fits-all system that’s failing millions of kids, Alpha isn’t trying to be the universal solution to education. Their message goes something like this: “We’ve built something that works very well but looks nothing like the school you went to. We’re not trying to be conventional. We’re trying to be effective, and that means doing unconventional things. If that resonates with you, great. If not, that's okay too.”

There’s something here. The data speaks for itself. The most untapped resource on the planet is human potential, and transforming the education system is just about the best way to unleash it.

[neural nets. @cneuralnetwork]

Random Summer Research Internship Links

IIT Jodhpur
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NIT Calicut
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IIT Dharwad
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NIT Trichy
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IIIT Hyderabad
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NIT Rourkela
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NIT Bhopal
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IIT Indore
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NIT Rourkela - Summer Internship
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IITGN - Research Internship
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IIT Palakkad - Internship
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IITK Surge
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For Girls Only - TIFR Maths Program
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IIT Hyderabad
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IIT Tirupati
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IIT Ropar
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[Starter Story @starter_story]

She built a $100K/year AI app (while working full-time job).

Now she’s a full-time founder. And her process for launching AI tools is simple and efficient.

She broke it all down for me:

– Finding and validating ideas (2:51)
– Market where your customers are (5:51)
– Subscription vs. one-time payments (7:57)
– Costs to run the business (9:07)
– Competing in a space dominated by dudes (10:57)
– Don't wait. Ship fast. Be consistent (11:40)