Vasu(dev)

computer science grad. software creator. into movies and quizzing. likes puns. born BLR. lives SJC.

[Sann @san_x_m]

His name is Ranjitsinh Disale.

He wanted to be an engineer. When that did not work out, his father suggested he train as a teacher instead.

In 2009, he was posted to a government primary school in Paritewadi, a small village in Solapur district, Maharashtra. The school was a crumbling building wedged between two storerooms, one of which had been used as a cattle shed.

What he found there troubled him.

Girls were being married off young instead of being sent to class. Attendance was poor. The textbooks were written in a language many of the children, who spoke Kannada at home, could not properly read.

He decided to fix all of it, starting with the books.

He learned the children’s mother tongue and rewrote their textbooks in a language they could actually understand.

Then he did something no one in India was doing at the time.

He printed unique QR codes inside the textbooks, allowing students with access to a phone to scan a page and instantly access audio poems, video lessons and practice questions.

A village school in Solapur had built a digital classroom out of paper and printed squares.

The results changed the village.

Girls’ attendance reached nearly one hundred percent. Teenage marriages in the area stopped. His QR code idea worked so well that the Maharashtra government adopted it across the state.

The following year, the national education body embedded QR codes in textbooks across the country.

In 2020, Ranjitsinh Disale won the Global Teacher Prize. He was chosen from more than twelve thousand nominations across roughly one hundred and forty countries and was the only Indian in the top ten.

The award carried one million dollars, around seven crore rupees.

Then he did something no winner had ever done before.

He announced that he would give away half the prize money, dividing it equally among the other nine finalists so that their work could continue as well.

He said teachers are the real change makers.

He meant all of them, not just himself.

A man who became a teacher only because engineering did not work out changed how an entire country learns, and then gave half his fortune to the people he had competed against.

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[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

“ Peace is always beautiful.”

Walt Whitman.

[Vasu(dev) @vasu_man]

C.R.E.A.M. by El Michels Affair https://t.co/p0AsPcMh2S

[Soleio @soleio]

California, look at the western sky:

Jupiter and Venus are putting on a lovely twin performance this evening.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Logo Concept “Avocado“

If you're looking for a logo: https://t.co/DGbv76xKVl

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Eid ul-Adha greetings! May this occasion deepen the spirit of brotherhood and happiness in our society. Praying for everyone’s success and good health.

[Vasu(dev) @vasu_man]

Travelling Song (feat. The Combo Bárbaro) by Quantic & Alice Russell https://t.co/t2HlJL8KTr

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A Himalayan monal

[Earth @earthcurated]

Golden Hour in Paris ✨(Tap to open)

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Manhole cover in Japan

[Naida | Inscendence @OInscendence]

"Darjeeling by Night", Kisory Roy (1 May 1911 �� 17 December 1965), Indian

[Pragyan Mohanty @PragyanM]

It took me a moment to realise that the statutory warning for smoking/alcohol here is because the dogs are smoking and drinking. In a painting.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Logo for Paris Tennis School

[Vasu(dev) @vasu_man]

Breathe

[Noctara @rumilyrics]

First word you see

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

"Urban Development" by Christophe Vorlet

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This is from an IBM presentation

In 1979

[UxG @UxGsol]

This guy literally hacked Polymarket with a hair dryer 💀

Happened in Paris.

On Polymarket, temperature bets were settled using a single sensor near Charles de Gaulle Airport.

He figured out the exact location, showed up in person, and placed a bet on an “impossible” outcome 22°C when the market expected 18°C.

Then he pulled out a hair dryer and heated the sensor.

The artificial spike got recorded as the daily high → market settled → he cashed out.

Did it twice.

Walked away with ~$34K.

While everyone’s arguing over indicators and alpha, this guy is out here doing IRL market manipulation.

[Vasu(dev) @vasu_man]

@hindolheroic i had a similar thing going on with Nandini flavored milk.
the glass bottled one tasted better than the plastic one for some reason.

[It's FOSS @Itsfoss]

True story 🤣