Prashant Mudgal

A human being

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

Long before the applause, awards, and blockbuster films, she taught him three lessons that would quietly shape the course of his life:
• Never hurt anyone deliberately.
• Never be dishonest in money matters.
• Treat every person with respect.

Simple words. Yet powerful enough to guide R Madhavan for a lifetime.

These aren't lessons taught in classrooms or learned on film sets. They are passed down through conversations at home, through the example set by parents, and through the choices we make when nobody is watching.

Perhaps that's why Madhavan's story resonates with so many people.
His journey reminds us that while talent can open doors and hard work can create opportunities, character is what determines who we become once we step through them.

Which of these three lessons do you think the world needs more of right now?

@ActorMadhavan

#LifeLessons #InspiringStories #ValuesMatter #Madhavan #PadmaShri

[R Madhavan, Life Lessons From Parents, Padma Shri, Inspirational Success Story]

[Ministry of Culture @MinOfCultureGoI]

This 4,500-year-old terracotta dice from the Indus-Saraswati Civilization is a powerful reminder of India’s living heritage. Dicing is also mentioned as a popular game in Rig and Atharva Vedas (two of the four sacred Vedic scriptures).

From symbols and craftsmanship to rituals, yogic practices, and collective memory, numerous elements of ancient Indian civilization continue to thrive in the daily social and religious life of Indian society across regions and communities.

Civilizational inheritance is not just about geography or ruins, it is defined by living customs, symbols, rituals, and unbroken cultural consciousness. India is the enduring living continuity of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization.

#IndusSaraswatiCivilization #AncientIndianHeritage

[Ministry of Culture @MinOfCultureGoI]

One of the most powerful symbols of India’s unbroken civilizational continuity!

Discovered at Mohenjo-daro in undivided India this steatite seal, about 4,300-year-old, shows a seated figure in yogic posture (widely seen as Shiva-Pashupati) seated in Mulabandhasana, surrounded by animals.

While ancient sites may lie across modern borders, India remains the living custodian of this heritage. The yogic posture, Shaivite symbolism, and spiritual ethos seen in the Pashupati Seal continue to thrive in India’s temples, daily worship of Shiva, yogic traditions, and cultural life even today.

From the Vedic period to contemporary Bharat, this civilizational thread has remained alive and unbroken — deeply embedded in our philosophy, rituals, and collective consciousness.🇮🇳

#PashupatiSeal #IndusSaraswatiCivilization #LivingIndianHeritage

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The Pashupati Seal, excavated from ancient ruins of Mohenjo-daro, remains one of the most enigmatic and intriguing artifacts of the Indus Valley Civilization. Discovered during the Archaeological Survey of India's 1928–29 exploration, this steatite seal, dating back to Intermediate I Period (2350–2000 BC), offers a rare glimpse into the religious and cultural milieu of one of the world's earliest urban societies.

At the heart of the Pashupati Seal is a depiction that has sparked considerable debate among historians and archaeologists: a seated, possibly tricephalic figure, surrounded by animals. This figure, adorned with a horned headdress, has led to various interpretations, one of the most significant being its potential representation as an early form of the Hindu deity Shiva, known as "Pashupati," or Lord of Animals.

The depiction of the figure, potentially ithyphallic—a characteristic attributed to fertility or cosmic potency—was supported by the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) specialist Jonathan Mark Kenoyer in 2003. However, this interpretation has not been universally accepted, with some scholars questioning the hyperbolic nature of the figure.

What makes the Pashupati Seal particularly fascinating is its complexity and the prominence of a human figure, which is atypical in the context of the thousands of seals unearthed from the Indus Valley, where animals usually dominate the imagery. This uniqueness has fueled the theory that the seal may represent one of the earliest known depictions of Yoga, pointing to a possible ancient origin of this spiritual and ascetic discipline.

However, contemporary scholars lean towards viewing the Pashupati Seal through a broader lens. Rather than seeing it as a direct precursor to later Hindu deities or yogic practices, it is increasingly considered part of a larger tradition of "Lord of the Beasts" or "Master of Animals" motifs, prevalent in Eurasian Neolithic mythology and ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean art. This interpretation aligns the figure with a wider array of horned deities prevalent in various ancient cultures.

Important from a religious point of view are also the representations of fish, both on seals and on the ceramics of the specific era. The Sumerian god of waters, Enki, had the fish as his sacred symbol, while in Indian mythology, Varunas is the god of all water creatures. The connection between alligator fish and the deity Shiva, as known in this particular seal, also exists in later Hinduism.

This perspective broadens our understanding of the Indus Valley Civilization's religious beliefs, suggesting that they might have shared cultural and mythological elements with contemporary civilizations. It underscores the interconnectedness of ancient societies and the diffusion of religious and symbolic motifs across regions.

In conclusion, while the Pashupati Seal continues to be a subject of academic debate and intrigue, its value in providing insights into the religious life and artistic expression of the Indus Valley Civilization is indisputable. Whether it represents an early form of Shiva, a precursor to yogic practices, or a more universal archetype of a horned deity, it stands as a testament to the complexity and sophistication of one of humanity's earliest urban cultures. The seal not only invites us to delve deeper into the enigmatic world of the Indus Valley but also to appreciate the rich tapestry of ancient mythologies and religious practices that have shaped human civilization across millennia.

📷 : Description of the Pashupati Seal - a steatite seal that was discovered at the Mohenjo-daro archaeological site of the Indus Valley Civilization. The seal depicts a seated figure that is possibly tricephalic. It was once thought to be ithyphallic, an interpretation that is now mostly discarded. (📷© Indiashastra)

© @DimosthenisVas
The Archaeologist

#archaeohistories

[Dhairya @dkare1009]

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[Ruben Hassid @rubenhassid]

Prompting is the worst way to use Claude.

Here's what the top 1% do instead:

1. Open the Claude desktop app.
2. Click "Cowork" (not Chat).
2. Point it to a folder with your context files.
3. Create 3 files: about-me, my-voice, my-rules.
4. Use this setup guide: https://t.co/uWTpOI3Woc

Claude now reads your brain. Every session.

But here's where it gets powerful:

Before you prompt, change these 2 settings:

1. Turn on "Extended Thinking"
It forces Claude to think before answering.

2. Select "Opus 4.6" model.
It is the best model for deep, multi-step work.

Then stop writing prompts. Paste this instead:

"I want to [TASK]. Read all files first. Ask me questions using AskUserQuestion before you execute. Do not guess."

Claude generates clickable buttons. It executes.

The secret was never the prompt.
It was the setup. But to go even deeper,
use my full playbook: https://t.co/uWTpOI3Woc

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Thank you Sarah, my pleasure to come on the pod! And happy to do some more Q&A in the replies.

[Deedy @deedydas]

Karpathy says "I haven't typed a line of code since December" in his latest podcast.

Here are the 10 most interesting things he said:

Industry-level thoughts:
1. The new way to code is the Peter Steinberg (OpenClaw) way. Have 10 Claude Code / Codex windows open in parallel. The skill is now more how to manage a small org of agents. You need to know how to carve up a codebase into parallel non-conflicting workstreams, write good specs so agents don't go off the rails, and tune when you should review code output.

2. Open source started 18mos behind frontier and is now 6-8mos behind. He thinks this equilibrium will last. He's worried about centralization

3. Two-minded on the future of engineers. On one hand, Jevons paradox could apply where the ease of building software means more software demand than ever (like ATMs allowed more bank tellers, not less). At the same time, in the long run, recursive self-improvement could remove humans from the loop entirely.

4. Interesting startups are at the intersection of physical + digital. The interface between intelligence and the real world is with "Sensors" for reading and "Actuators" for doing. Data for AI is just using humans as sensors. He cites Periodic Labs using lab equipment for material science as sensors. Talks about Daemon by Daniel Suarez.

5. Education will shift from humans to teaching agents. He's writing markdown for agents to teach microGPT.

Personal projects:
6. Autoresearch found things he missed after two decades of experience, citing NanoChat where it found weight decay on value embeddings and insufficiently tuned Adam betas jointly interacted to create improvements.

7. "Dobby the Elf Claw" runs his entire home. Overproduction of bespoke apps. Reverse engineered Sonos API and now controls his entire home (lights, HVAC, shades, camera) through WhatsApp.

Takes:
8. Claude Code personality better than Codex, but uses both. Finds himself trying to present better ideas to earn Claude's approval, which is a feedback loop that actually improves the quality of his input.

9. Token throughput is the new GPU utilization. If you have tokens left, you haven't maximized leverage.

10. He's not at a frontier AI lab because financial misalignment compromises your independence, social pressure to stay on-message, and as an employee you don't have much sway on decisions.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Despite his teacher’s opinion that he couldn’t learn simple biology, John Gurdon went on to receive a #NobelPrize, for his classic frog experiment, which showed that the DNA of mature frog cells has all the information needed to develop all cells in its body.

#WorldFrogDay

[Prashant Mudgal @prashantmdgl9]

Rest in peace, Jane Goodall. Your perseverance won't be forgotten. #JaneGoodall

[Prashant Mudgal @prashantmdgl9]

#earthquake in Delhi? #Delhi

[BALA @erbmjha]

Life is deeply unpredictable.
Just moments before the Air India Boeing crash, two UK nationals recorded a video, smiling—unaware of what lay ahead.

A haunting reminder: every moment counts. #planecrash

[Prashant Mudgal @prashantmdgl9]

#earthquake was there one?

[Prashant Mudgal @prashantmdgl9]

@BluSmartIndia @BluSmartHelps What a pathetic service these folks are running. They charge for even 1 meter or 1 minute of cab's service but when they assign wrong vehicles, there are massive delays of 45 minutes, they offer to give you 50 rupees.
@consumercourtin

[Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward]

Current LLMs max out at 2% accuracy in trying to solve really hard math problems.

[Towards Data Science @TDataScience]

Take a deep dive into the world of quantum machine learning by following along @prashantmdgl9's tutorial, which attempts to identify dark matter based on open data from CERN. https://t.co/8pYc1Cw2rn

[Prashant Mudgal @prashantmdgl9]

#earthquake
Was there an earthquake just now?
My chair was shaking for a while.
#Delhi

[Prashant Mudgal @prashantmdgl9]

Earthquake in Delhi! #earthquake #Delhi

[ISRO @isro]

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
'India🇮🇳,
I reached my destination
and you too!'
: Chandrayaan-3

Chandrayaan-3 has successfully
soft-landed on the moon 🌖!.

Congratulations, India🇮🇳!

#Chandrayaan_3
#Ch3

[Prashant Mudgal @prashantmdgl9]

And it has landed! 🙂😀
#Chandrayaan3 #Chandrayaan3Landing