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A joyous moment for every Indian! Chola Copper Plates dating back to the 11th Century will be repatriated to India from the Netherlands. Took part in the ceremony for the same in the presence of Prime Minister Rob Jetten. The Chola Copper Plates are a set of 21 large plates and 3 small plates and largely contain texts in Tamil, one of the most beautiful languages of the world. They relate to the great Rajendra Chola I formalising an oral commitment made by his father, King Rajaraja I. They also showcase the greatness of the Cholas. We in India are immensely proud of the Cholas, their culture and their maritime prowess. I thank the Government of the Netherlands and Leiden University in particular, where the Copper Plates were kept since the mid-19th century. @MinPres

@Fintech03 We are still buying our supercomputers from the US. In fact we import almost everything that's needed to make ordinary computers ! Patriotic "science" is useless. It doesn't even serve the patriots !

1987. A room in New Delhi is thick with the smell of old files & cold tea. The United States has just delivered a stinging slap to the face of the Indian Republic. They have officially refused to sell India the 'Cray X-MP' Supercomputer, the most powerful machine on Earth, claiming that India would use it for nuclear weapons. The American officials mockingly suggest that India does not even have the electricity to keep such a machine running. In the middle of this national humiliation, a young, soft-spoken engineer named Vijay Bhatkar is asked by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: "Can we build our own?" Bhatkar does not hesitate. He looks at the No of the West & says: "We will not just build it; we will build it faster than you can ship it." The Americans did not just stop at refusing the sale; they actively lobbied other nations to ensure India remained digitally blind. They believed that w/o their Logic Gates, India would remain a 3rd world backwater. Bhatkar realized he could not replicate the Single-Processor behemoth of the Cray. Instead, he turned to Parallel Processing. He decided to stitch together 1000s of low-cost, off-the-shelf microprocessors. It was like building a giant's brain out of the neurons of ants. In 1991, while the West was still celebrating its monopoly, Bhatkar unveiled the PARAM 8000. It was not just a computer; it was a Gigaflop monster. To prove the PARAM was real, Bhatkar ran a standard global benchmark test. The results were sent to an international conference in Zurich. The PARAM 8000 was ranked as the 2nd most powerful supercomputer in the world, behind only the American machines. But there was a twist: the PARAM cost a fraction of the Cray, performed better in tropical heat, & was built in just 3 years. When the PARAM 8000 was 1st turned on, the team did not have a high-tech cooling system like the Americans. They used industrial-grade desert coolers & adjusted the airflow manually. It was the ultimate Jugaad that defeated the most sophisticated tech embargo in history. A major US newspaper ran a story with the headline: "Denied supercomputer, Angry India does it!" The ghost of the Native Engineer had officially entered the silicon temple. Vijay Bhatkar’s history is the story of how India became the IT Capital of the world. Bhatkar founded the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). He did not just build a machine; he built an ecosystem. Every software engineer in India today stands on the shoulders of the man who proved we did not need the West's permission to compute. Bhatkar was the 1 who realized that if computers only spoke English, 90% of India would be left behind. He led the development of GIST (Graphics & Intelligence Based Script Technology), allowing computers to work in Indian languages. He gave the Machine a local tongue. Today, Bhatkar is a Padma Bhushan awardee, but he lives a life of deep spirituality & simplicity. He vanished from the corporate headlines to become a philosopher of the digital age. The West thought they could freeze India’s future by withholding a single machine. They forgot that the Indian mind does not need a 'Cray' to think; it only needs a 'No' to ignite. Forget building a supercomputer; Bhatkar built a mirror, & for the 1st time, the West had to look into it & see that the primitive colony had become the master of the code.

@oprydai that's how math is learnt everywhere. Don't waste time reading this. Want to really learn how to learn math? Read Polya's How TO Solve

most people think being good at math is talent. wrong. it is training culture. how chinese learn mathematics by lianghuo fan et al. looks at how chinese students build mathematical ability from the inside. not through shortcuts. through: repetition worked examples deep practice teacher guidance conceptual variation problem solving discipline the important pattern: they don’t treat math as something you “get” instantly. they treat it as something you grind until structure appears. first you imitate. then you understand. then you generalize. western education often worships creativity too early. but real creativity in math comes after fluency. you cannot make elegant moves if you don’t first master the basic forms.

@JayantBhandari5 What exactly concerns you here? Do you think what he is saying is not correct or just talking about the accomplishments of ancient Hindus makes it demagoguery ?

This moron is the Foreign Minister of India. He knows he is not impressing any foreigners. He is engaging in demagoguery for the so-called educated Indians who suffer from an inferiority complex.

“Kids of Indian billionaires are making fancy ice-creams and cookies and call themselves startups.” “There’s growth in Semiconductors and AI, what do Indians want to do, sell ice-creams or chips?” - Piyush Goyal. April 2025. And now we have Vantara Ice-creams by Ambanis 🤷🏻‍♂️

Sometimes the most beautiful love stories unfold in the most unexpected places. While on the train, a little boy noticed that his mother was tired. Gently, he held her steady as she slept. No attention, no praise just a child making sure his mother could rest, and rest easy.

@JayantBhandari5 How are such "submissive" Indians leading global corps ? I agree we need to reform , but that's a perpetual process of self improvement and reflection. Try to teach a teen to be submissive and and he will rebel and make you submit. Such generic labels don't hold !

Indians are taught to be submissive. Their will is broken. Every social interaction is to measure who is superior and who is inferior. Every relationship is an oppressor-oppressed one. That is why Indians use "sir" three times in a sentence.

ये है भारतीय पुलिस जो सिर्फ कमजोरों और मजलूमों पर अत्याचार करती है.... यही पुलिस पैसे वालो और दबंगों के सामने घुटनों के बल चलती है.... बाप और बेटे दोनों को थ*"प्पड़" लगा रहा है ये दरोगा... अगर उस लड़के की जगह मैं होता तो इस पुलिसवाले के साथ क्या होता वो तो सिर्फ भगवान ही जानता क्योंकि बेटे के सामने कोई बाप को हाथ लगा दे तो लानत है बेटे की जवानी पर.....

Salute to the bravery & prompt action by this RPF jawan! 🫡

Naval Ravikant's full reading list in one place: ◆ The Almanack of Naval Ravikant — Eric Jorgenson ◆ Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari ◆ Meditations — Marcus Aurelius ◆ Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman — Richard Feynman ◆ Skin in the Game — Nassim Taleb ◆ Poor Charlie's Almanack — Charlie Munger ◆ The Sovereign Individual — Davidson & Rees-Mogg Books Links 1. geni.us/YriQ 2. amzn.to/3OU48Er 3. amzn.to/3QWzL0J 4. amzn.to/4wcx2QK 5. amzn.to/4dm8BrB 6. amzn.to/3R0hakk 7. amzn.to/3PzU1Vo Naval's rule: read what you love until you love to read. Save this. Start with one.

🚨 रेल में शिकायत की कीमत इतनी भारी पड़ेगी… किसी ने सोचा भी नहीं था.! 😱 ट्रेन में सफर कर रहे एक यात्री ने सिर्फ इतना किया कि उसने कैटरिंग स्टाफ द्वारा extra चार्ज लेने की शिकायत कर दी… शिकायत के बाद यात्री का PNR और सीट डिटेल्स आगे भेजी गईं फिर कैटरिंग वाले आए और यात्री को बुरी तरह पीट दिया! कपड़े फाड़े, थप्पड़-लातें चलीं। वीडियो वायरल होने के बाद IRCTC ने ठेकेदार का कॉन्ट्रैक्ट खत्म कर दिया, ₹5 लाख जुर्माना लगाया और FIR दर्ज हुई। लेकिन सवाल ये है कि अगर शिकायत करने पर यात्री को ही पीटा जाएगा, तो कौन शिकायत करेगा?

Nothing beats the revenge of having a granddaughter when you were a strict father. 😂

Prof B Mahadevan pulled me into giving a keynote lecture at Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology when I would have gladly preferred to sit in the audience. The occasion was a conclave on Indian Knowledge Systems. When I protested mildly, the Prof said "Your time must be put to good use!" So I spoke on the topic "Beyond Degrees: How Indian Knowledge Systems Build Real-World Skills". In today’s world, employability is often reduced to a checklist of coding skills, communication skills, internships, certifications. But beneath all these lies a deeper question: What makes a human being truly capable of navigating complexity, uncertainty, and change? Ironically, the answers to this question were explored in extraordinary depth in Indian Knowledge Systems long before the modern job market existed. My speech was well appreciated by the educators and I also spent some time talking to the Principal of the Institute who told us about the mad rush to join the degree course on Computer Sciences while the core engineering disciplines of Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering were not getting much response. It was wonderful to meet friend Anuradha Choudhry who has been selflessly working in the IKS space for a long time now

Born without her right forearm, Kajal Raju was told limits existed for people like her. She proved everyone wrong. From IIT Madras to cracking UPSC while working a full-time job, she cleared the exam with AIR 167 — writing every answer with one hand. Today, her journey is giving countless disabled aspirants the courage to dream bigger. #UPSC #IASOfficer #DisabilityInclusion #WomenInLeadership #Inspiration [UPSC Success Story, IAS Officer Kajal Raju, Disability Inclusion India, Women Empowerment Stories, Inspirational UPSC Journey]

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Research papers you must read for AI Engineer interviews: 1. Attention is all you need (Transformers) 2. LoRA (Low rank adaption) 3. PEFT ( Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning) 4. VIT (Vision Transformers) 5. VAE (Variational Auto Encoder) 6. GANs ( Generative Adversarial Networks) 7. BERT ( Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformers) 8. Diffusion Models (Stable Diffusion) 9. RAG (Retrieval Augment Generation) 10. GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformers)

"Algebrica" is a free and open mathematical knowledge base. All entries are progressively being released in Markdown format on GitHub for anyone who wants to study mathematics freely and openly. Alongside the texts, the individual SVG illustrations are also made freely available. They are minimal, mathematically accurate, and designed to be easily reusable in notes, lecture material, or educational resources. Since they are vector-based and code-driven, they can also be modified or improved simply by editing the source. Another step toward making the knowledge base more open, transparent, and genuinely useful over time.

For me personally the cognitive enfeeblement that comes with AI is the biggest concern. We keep saying that when the tedious work gets outsourced to AI the experts can focus on the important work. But how did they become experts in the first place? By doing the tedious work. Nothing good comes easily, especially deep expertise. Our challenge is going to be to develop this expertise with AI in the mix.