Jithu Gopal

product @scripbox. previously writing code @c42engineering and @nilenso.

[Jithu Gopal @poxypen]

Pure gold.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my conversation with Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy), a legendary AI researcher, engineer, and educator, and former director of AI at Tesla. This chat was super fun, technical, and inspiring. https://t.co/1CA6jtfvNg

[Jithu Gopal @poxypen]

Man, the bus factor on this Musk guy.

[Jithu Gopal @poxypen]

Gulp.

[B.F. Randall ⚛ ⛏ ⚡ @Mining_Atoms]

COPPER🧵redux. I live near one of the largest copper mines on earth (Kennecott Utah Copper - KUC). I helped manage a smaller copper mine for 8 years. Observation: Wind/Solar/Battery Proponents & ESG bean-counters are completely out of touch with copper mining & production.

[Jithu Gopal @poxypen]

@vgr Minas TSMC 😂

[Jithu Gopal @poxypen]

Sometimes design twitter sends me searching for my eyeballs that have popped from their sockets.

[Abe @abeyang]

Sprinkled in some motion magic for an already magical site. ✨

@diagram ⨉ @framer ⨉ @rive_app

[Jithu Gopal @poxypen]

@Carnage4Life If goods don’t cross borders, armies will. - Bastiat

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

Random etymology for the day. खर means donkey in Sanskrit. khar means the same in Persian. घोष means sound in Sanskrit. Gush means ear in Persian. Combine those, and we get “animal with large ears like a donkey”—khargush=खरगोश=rabbit

[Jim O'Shaughnessy @jposhaughnessy]

"A common mistake is to view elites as a unified block...They are not. Elites are constantly trying to get ahead of one another."
~@robkhenderson

Revolutions Occur When a Significant Portion of Elites Defect From the Existing Regime, by @robkhenderson https://t.co/zZkAZr9IY5

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

A guide to the vocabulary of classical architecture:

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

This is how globes were handmade in the 1950s

[Jithu Gopal @poxypen]

"Could we have used commas instead of em-dashes in the preceding examples? Sure. Why did we choose an em-dash instead of a comma? Feel. Art. Experience."

Good read on Technical Writing - https://t.co/ELFRqz43CL 💯

[Jithu Gopal @poxypen]

Didn’t realise how important a role calcium plays in our interpretation of gravity.

[Jithu Gopal @poxypen]

"As cool as being an astronaut baby sounds, the jellies didn't develop the same gravity-sensing capabilities as their Earthly relatives.") Which may not bode well for the vertebrate organisms that may be born in microgravity—space-faring humans among them

https://t.co/tq75vJ8zQm

[Jithu Gopal @poxypen]

Do we have a Tinkering school equivalent in Bengaluru? https://t.co/2JoFSe1GAe

[Jithu Gopal @poxypen]

The parent’s lament.

Props to the amazing book ‘How to raise an adult’

[V Vinay @ainvvy]

0. On Independence day, I look briefly at how some of the current states came into being. Some of them I had not even heard before.

This is now India looked before partition.

[Jithu Gopal @poxypen]

Georgism and Singapore. Strong land acquisition act > extract land value via land ownership > subsidise public housing and lower income tax> pour money into mega sovereign funds and turn the flywheel. https://t.co/YWBdH4NH4m

[Sajith Pai @sajithpai]

I really liked this concept of echolocation. Ties up with a concept i coined - The fastest learning comes from 'taking intellectual risks in public".

[Dr Becky Good Inside @GoodInside]

Our job is not to help our kids feel happy.

Our job is to help our kids feel at home with themselves.

Happiness naturally finds kids (and adults) who've learned to be exactly who they are.