Elisa Mohanty

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Samanta Chandra Sekhar (A) College, Puri;
Past: Central University of Odisha; Alumnus: University of Hyderabad, IIT Roorkee

[Elisa Mohanty @recluverse]

Dr. Triveni Goswami Mathur reflects incisively on the changing role of media with the advent of GENAI. Really thankful to RC-14 Convenor Prof. Deepthi Shanker for the opportunity to summarize a lecture I thoroughly enjoyed listening to 🙏 @societyinsoso
https://t.co/AoQT30bKwM

[Rossst.03 @Rossst_03]

Terence Tao, UCLA professor and the most decorated mathematician alive:

"Funds pay $750K to combine weak signals into one real edge. I proved the thing that makes it work and makes it dangerous: in any long enough sequence, hidden structure is unavoidable. it always accumulates. the whole job is telling the real structure from the noise that only looks like it."

this free lecture is the most decorated mathematician alive on the exact problem sitting underneath every factor model, and it costs nothing.

at the board it's simple. Tao's lifelong theme is the line between structure and randomness. The Erdős discrepancy problem asks a deceptively simple thing: can you write an endless string of plus-ones and minus-ones that stays perfectly balanced forever? Tao proved you cannot. No matter how cleverly you try, imbalance, hidden structure, is forced to accumulate as the sequence grows. There is no such thing as a long stream of pure, structureless noise. That's the whole idea, minus the jargon.

Which is exactly why a multi-factor model can work, and exactly why it can kill you. Stack enough weak signals and real structure will appear, because at scale structure is unavoidable. But so will fake structure, patterns that exist only because the data is long enough to force them. Same point as the post above: finding structure is guaranteed. Knowing which structure is an edge is the rare and expensive part.

the mathematics is free and public. what nobody can sell you is the judgment to tell the structure the market will pay you for from the structure that exists only because you looked hard enough. That judgment is the alpha, and it takes years to build.

[OTV @otvnews]

#WATCH | Puri | A devotee’s melodious voice touches hearts.

The soulful devotional rendition has added to the spiritual fervour surrounding the ongoing Rath Yatra celebrations. #Odisha

[Bengal's untold tales @Gramergolpo]

Mom said don’t talk to strangers.😂😂
Best video 📷 📷

[thehillnews.in @thehill_news]

अहा ! इस मानसून में इससे प्यारा नज़ारा नहीं देखा।

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Nobody has ever made the dark feel as real as old Disney did.

In these films the night isn't an absence of light. It's a color, and someone mixed it by hand…

Disney had its own paint laboratory, built by a woman named Mary Weiser, the first of its kind in animation. Its job was to invent shades that did not exist yet. In the early thirties, when the studio was still making shorts, there were around eighty shades on the shelves. By the time they finished Snow White there were fifteen hundred.

Every one of them went on by hand, cel by cel, and each cel needed hours to dry before it could be photographed.

The Ink and Paint department was almost entirely women. According to the Walt Disney Family Museum, the paints were sometimes named after them, and to have a color carry your name was considered an honour.

So the dark of Bambi's forest, the lamplight in Geppetto's workshop, the blue at Cinderella's attic window: none of it is a filter or a setting or a dimmer turned down. Each is a specific colour that a specific person mixed in a jar, and some of those jars had her name on the label.

That is why these scenes still feel more alive than anything made since. We went from hands, to computers, to AI, and at every step there is a little less of the person left in it…

The author Joanna Maciejewska said it better than anyone: "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."

[Astropics @astropics]

Fireflies glimmering in the dark are like stars sparkling in the sky ✨

[The Rocket Media @TheRocketMediaX]

An Indian physicist won $3 million, nearly three times the Nobel Prize. He donated much of it to support science in India and then cycled to work the next day. His name is Ashoke Sen, and very few people outside physics know who he is.

Sen was born in Kolkata in 1956, the son of a physics professor. He studied at Presidency College, took his MSc at IIT Kanpur, and earned his PhD from Stony Brook University in 1982. After postdoctoral stints at Fermilab and SLAC, the two most prestigious physics labs in the United States, he had every reason to stay, but he came back to India.

In the early 1990s, string theory had a fragmentation problem. Five separate versions existed, seemingly describing different mathematical universes, with physicists increasingly unsure which one, if any, was correct. In 1994, Sen proposed S-duality: the idea that two string theories that appeared completely different were actually the same theory viewed from opposite mathematical perspectives. Strong coupling in one corresponded to weak coupling in the other. They were the same object, seen from different angles.

That single paper ignited what became known as the second superstring revolution. It gave Ed Witten, widely considered the greatest living theoretical physicist, the foundation to propose M-theory in 1995, the first serious candidate for a unified theory of everything.

In 1998, Stephen Hawking personally nominated Sen for Fellowship of the Royal Society. In 2012, he received the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He holds the Padma Shri (2001), Padma Bhushan (2013), and Dirac Medal (2014). He spent most of his career at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute in Allahabad, not at MIT or Princeton.

He chose India. He stayed in India. He did work from India that Stephen Hawking noticed, that Ed Witten built upon, and that earned him a prize with monetary worth three times the Nobel.

Then he cycled to work like just another day.....

[IIT Madras BS Programs @iitm_bs]

This IIT Madras BS learner helped build the mission critical software behind India’s first private orbital rocket mission Vikram -1!!

Now, she’s heading to the Netherlands for her Master’s.

Meet Spatika Prasad. Read her full story below👇

[Elisa Mohanty @recluverse]

"The rest of those who have gone before us cannot steady the unrest of those to follow." - Finding Forrester

[Pawan @PawanKChandana]

Reaching orbit on the maiden flight of a new launch vehicle is extraordinarily rare. Even SpaceX, which went on to redefine the global space industry—and continues to inspire us—reached orbit on its fourth attempt.

A powerful reminder of just how hard this is, and why Vikram-1 reaching orbit on its very first flight means so much to all of us.

Despite a zillion ways a rocket can fail- 1000’s of complex systems in Vikram-1 worked like clockwork for the very first time in real flight to make this possible.

More than 95% of people at @SkyrootA never worked on any space mission before and their average age is 28. It’s just Freshness, Passion and Grit that made them the scientists and engineers that launched a rocket to orbit in the very first attempt.

A bow to this incredible team that made it all possible. 🙇🚀

#Vikram1 #IndiaWithVikram1 #MissionAagaman

[Learn Something New @HorifyingPeople]

China is very advanced in the field of baby products 😳

[Parimal @Fintech03]

India just finished joint World No. 1 at the 58th International Chemistry Olympiad. All 4 Indian students won individual Gold Medals, scripting India's best ever performance in the competition's history

Just days before the chemistry victory, the Indian Physics team secured a flawless 5 Gold sweep, topping the global table.

Indian talent is ready to rule the world.

[Mahesh M Goudar @IamMGoudar]

#Karnataka

This video was recorded just three days before the passing of Smt. Chennamma. It beautifully captures the unforgettable and deeply emotional moments she shared with her husband, former PM @H_D_Devegowda.

Their extraordinary bond of 72 years of #togetherness stands as a testament to enduring love, companionship, and unwavering support through life’s journey.

@hd_kumaraswamy @Nikhil_Kumar_k

[Kushan Mitra @kushanmitra]

Driving through the Zanskar valley is like getting a crash course on geology. You can see the layers of the ancient Tethys sea all folded up thanks to the massive crash between India and Eurasia.
And what a road by the @BROindia

[Yunus Khan @yunusrj]

बीते दिनों जानी मानी फिल्मकार और नाटककार सई परांजपे विविध भारती में आई थीं और दो दिन तक मैंने उनसे उनके जीवन और फिल्मों पर लंबी बात की थी। अब इस बातचीत को सुनने का समय आ गया है। आज से हर रविवार चार हफ्तों तक आप सुनेंगे यह आत्मीय बातचीत,
फोटो क्रेडिट : Tejashri Akshay IK

[Aviral Bhatnagar @aviralbhat]

India won 4 gold medals at the International Chemistry Olympiad

This is the highest InChO gold tally ever, 14 years after 3 in 2012

With 5/5 in Physics and 4/4 in Chemistry, the 9/9 this year is the best ever

Top tier global talent

[Madhav Chanchani @madhavchanchani]

So India is the third country in the world with private orbital launch capability after US and China as Skyroot’s Vikram 1 has completed all four stages completed as planned 🚀 🇮🇳

[TIMES NOW @TimesNow]

Actress Jennifer Winget shares glimpses of her wedding with Singapore-based businessman William Ishmael

Captions it...
"... and finally our stars aligned! ✨"

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

In case you weren't paying attention -

a new hydrogen powered train and the first private space orbital launch... both happened this week in India.