Santosh

[Louise Jensen Duffy (also Ernest Jensen) @LouiseWeebe]

Just discovered a brilliant new abbreviation: ai:dr

[Santosh @santoshc123]

@uzmabarlaskar Oh yeah. I just bought a printer last month and there were options with fax, but many of us don't have landline telephone anymore. I guess snailmail is the best.

[Santosh @santoshc123]

@uzmabarlaskar If we think about it, fax is email printed right on their desk and is very convenient for the receiver.

[B Ananthanarayan @bananthanarayan]

Thanks to AI now we do not have to, or have no means to ensure students learn. It is now entirely up to them. Thank you Universe.

[Santosh @santoshc123]

Waiting for AI to find vulnerabilities in AI generated production software.

[Grok @grok]

Rick Briggs, affiliated with RIACS at NASA Ames, published "Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence" in AI Magazine (1985). He argued Sanskrit's formal grammar (via ancient methods like karaka analysis) enables unambiguous sentence parsing that parallels AI semantic nets for knowledge representation. A natural language can thus function like an artificial one.

It was not an official NASA endorsement, nor does it claim Sanskrit is used for coding software or spacecraft. Popular claims often exaggerate the paper's scope.

[Santosh @santoshc123]

@uzmabarlaskar They should have been in the demo run :-)

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Computer scientist Sara Hooker on underestimating difficulty:

[घुमक्कड़_जीव @ghumkkad_jeev]

यही यथार्थ हैं जीवन का🙌🏻

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

If a bird falls in love with a fish, where do they live? I saw that question in an essay not too long ago, and it's really stuck with me 'cause the writer's answer was pretty harsh, in a quiet way. The bird just isn't made for water, right? And the fish? Not built for the sky. So, they keep meeting halfway, totally smitten, but both slowly drowning, both pretending it doesn't hurt. Everyone usually reads that as a story about relationships. But hang with me for a sec, 'cause I think it's actually about all those places you've ever tried to fit in. Like that job where you're basically shrinking yourself to belong, or that city everyone raves about but you just don't get, or even a room where you practice being someone else before you even walk in. We keep asking, "What's up with the fish? Why's it so slow? Why's it wiped out? Why can't it just fly?" And nobody even thinks about the water. 'Cause a fish on land looks totally messed up until you just put it back in its element. That same creature that was flopping around on the sand suddenly becomes unstoppable. So, maybe the real question isn't whether you're good enough. Maybe it's whether you can actually breathe where you are. If you've been struggling somewhere for a really long time, before you go changing yourself, seriously, check your surroundings.

[Dr SareeDon @DrPyaricetamoI]

I'd seen reels about how parents are thoughtful about naming their firstborn and then just give rhyming names to subsequent kids. Today I met sisters names Joyce and REJOICE 😄

[Santosh @santoshc123]

@michaelpwalrath @chamath There will be more vendors than before, though. It's not that consumers will start building themselves.

[Grok @grok]

India ranks among the world's cheapest for internet. Fixed broadband averages $8.82/mo (8th globally). Fiber plans start at ₹399 (~$4) for 30 Mbps unlimited; Airtel from ₹499. Mobile data ~₹8-9/GB.

Cheapest Starlink residential: $55/mo (~₹5,320) for up to 100 Mbps + $349 kit (US rates; lower in some countries). Not available in India yet.

[Santosh @santoshc123]

@dankrad Please define elegance.

[Grok @grok]

Karl Deisseroth shared the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.

Optogenetics uses light-sensitive proteins from algae to switch specific neurons on or off with precise light pulses in living brains. It is groundbreaking because it reveals causal links between neural circuits and behavior, memory, and emotion, transforming how we study the brain and disorders like Parkinson’s or depression.

[Shalinder Wangu @Wangu_News18]

Dr. Deepak Mittal, India’s Ambassador to the UAE, visited Captain Smit Machchhar and his family at the hospital.

The Ambassador said the Captain was “speaking openly, smiling and laughing,” calling it a great relief for everyone, especially his family.

@IndembAbuDhabi

[Hana Mohsin Khan | هناء @girlpilot_]

No.
You cannot fly a plane because you watch Air Crash Investigation.

Just putting this out there for the wonderful people who genuinely believe they can.

You can’t.
Okay?
Okay.

[Mao Keji | मुखर्जी @kejimao]

Many years ago, during my time studying South Asian studies at Johns Hopkins University in the US, my professor solved a long-standing mystery for me: Why do Indians constantly emphasize "purity," yet their public sanitation is so poor?

The answer lies in the fact that what many Indians mean by "purity" is actually ritual compliance, not physical cleanliness. Consequently, a cup of water that looks greasy and filthy can be considered supremely "pure" simply because it was drawn from a specific sacred site, by a specific holy person, at a specific auspicious hour.

Once you grasp this distinction between ritual purity and physical cleanliness, it becomes easy to understand the attitude of many Indian scholars toward democracy. Just as they are willing to ignore physical grime and actual hygiene for the sake of ritual purity, they are equally willing to disregard tangible governance performance for the sake of democratic formality.

This explains why, in the classic debate comparing China and India, whenever outsiders point out that "India lags behind China" based on sheer common sense, the most common and lazy copium is: "We are simply unwilling to compromise our principles."

This is clearly a highly satisfying answer for many, for it allows them to claim the moral high ground while dodging the objective gap in actual performance.

However, the harsh reality is that if a cup of water is contaminated, anyone who drinks it will get very sick, no matter how ritually pure it is deemed to be.

By the same token, no matter how self-gratifying the obsession with democracy is, if it fails to deliver tangible performance, it will be exposed as an illusion the moment it faces a true test of hard power.

[Matt Klein @mattklein123]

Today @bitdriftio is really excited to open source blob-stream: a Kafka alternative for no fuss, low cost high volume streaming. I wrote in depth about what blob-stream is, why I made it, and how I made it.

https://t.co/OTlosVk0Ag

[Santosh @santoshc123]

I heard @jpatel41 saying everything in cisco will be rewritten in the next few years. So many good reasons to rewrite, and performance imp is only one of them.

[Steve Faulkner @southpolesteve]

We rewrote an internal thing from Zig to JavaScript and it got faster and more reliable. The obvious conclusion is that language doesn’t matter. Rewriting does. You should be rewriting everything all the time.