Ajay Pandey

Elderly often have troubles holding their urine. It’s a medical issue and not difficult to understand if one wants to. Prostrate issues, loose bladder n other complications often lead to episodes of incontinence. We need sensitivity and patience. Also, a lot of understanding. In India, bigotry and hate against minorities are add ons.

Today, India takes a defining step in its civil nuclear journey, advancing the second stage of its nuclear programme. The indigenously designed and built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained criticality. This advanced reactor, capable of producing more fuel than it consumes, reflects the depth of our scientific capability and the strength of our engineering enterprise. It is a decisive step towards harnessing our vast thorium reserves in the third stage of the programme. A proud moment for India. Congratulations to our scientists and engineers.

IR, please step up. No point in introducing shiny new trains if we can't maintain them well. Sincerely, a well wisher and a devoted user of your trains :)

We all knew this was coming… but today I heard about it actually happening. A seed stage company backed by a well known VC openly admitted (in a board deck) that their strategy is to get access to a large incumbent’s software from a customer, clone the entire thing using Claude Code, and offer it at 90% less. Not “build something better.” Just copy it and offer it for less. The VC endorsed this as the GTM strategy. And even wrote back in writing that it was a good idea. Using a customer’s licensed access to reverse engineer a product and clone it is ethically bankrupt. I don’t know how else to put it. It likely violates terms of service. It may violate trade secret law as well (but I’m certainly not a lawyer). And a reputable VC putting this in writing in a board deck is genuinely insane. But it’s going to happen anyway. Everywhere… all the time. I don’t know where this ends, but we all knew this was coming and now it’s here.

For decades, mathematicians could check if a number was prime, but only with a small chance of error/by taking a billion years. In 2002, Prof. Manindra Agrawal (Currently Director of IIT Kanpur & a very very humble guy) & 2 students, Neeraj Kayal & Nitin Saxena, published a 9 page paper called "PRIMES is in P." This was the 1st time in history anyone proved that determining if a number is prime is easy (polynomial) w/o relying on unproven assumptions. When the paper was 1st released, it was so short & elegant that world class mathematicians initially thought it was a prank. It settled a problem that had been open since the time of the Greeks. Neeraj Kayal & Nitin Saxena are now renowned researchers themselves (at Microsoft Research & IIT Kanpur respectively), and their AKS Test is a foundational pillar taught in every advanced cybersecurity course globally today.

Prime numbers are the reason your credit card is safe. When you buy something online, your payment information is encrypted using a system called RSA encryption, and its entire security rests on one simple mathematical fact: Multiplying two large prime numbers together is easy. However, reversing the process and figuring out which two primes were multiplied is effectively impossible. For example, it's trivial for a computer to compute: 12,451 × 18,637 = 232,048,387 But going the other way is much harder. If I hand you 232,048,387 and ask you to find its prime factors without telling you where to start, it becomes a genuinely hard problem. Now scale those primes up to numbers with hundreds of digits, which is what RSA actually uses, and even the fastest computers on Earth would take longer than the age of the universe to crack it by brute force. What makes this philosophically strange is that RSA encryption is built on a problem mathematicians haven't proven is actually hard. We believe factoring large numbers is fundamentally difficult. But nobody has ever proved that no shortcut exists. It is possible, however unlikely, that someone could discover a clever algorithm tomorrow that breaks all encryption instantly, exposing every bank account, every private message, and every government secret simultaneously. This is one of the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics, known as P vs NP. It asks whether problems that are easy to verify are always also easy to solve. If the answer is yes, meaning P equals NP, modern encryption collapses entirely.

Workday co-founder and returning CEO Aneel Bhusri this evening (earnings call): "You've all heard the narrative out there that HR and ERP will be replaced or relegated to the background by AI. I personally just don't see that happening. Our application domains are really, really hard to build. I've been working in the HR and ERP space for over 30 years. These are true systems of record that must process transactions with absolute accuracy and speed, enforce complex security models, and comply with statutory and regulatory requirements all over the world. That kind of complexity is very hard to replicate. No amount of vibe coding is going to produce an HR or an ERP system. Importantly, our underlying business processes are deterministic by nature."

Noida Greater Noida Expressway The lifeline of show window of UP and hottest commercial, industrial destination in NCR. This single stretch of 20 kms will be a $100 Bn economy very soon.

India’s most-wanted Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, Mohammad Qasim Gujar (aka Salman/Suleiman), was shot dead at point-blank range by unknown gunmen in Peshawar, Pakistan, yesterday.