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PSA: our projects and events are meant to be accessible to anyone in the country If you believe you (or someone you know) should have a seat at the table, but circumstances make it difficult for you to be in Bangalore, we’d love to help with flights and accommodation Reach out to @itsarnavb or @nithinexe!

The ECI started a country wide cleanup of the electoral rolls (SIR) to rebuild voter lists. But the data is full of typos, OCR issues & often written in native languages. I built a search w @thel3l on the ECI's data to handle this Find your record at oldvoterlist.com!

PSA: our projects and events are meant to be accessible to anyone in the country If you believe you (or someone you know) should have a seat at the table, but circumstances make it difficult for you to be in Bangalore, we’d love to help with flights and accommodation Reach out to @itsarnavb or @nithinexe!

This applies to the upcoming @PopVaxIndia @_lagrangepoint event on Wednesday (July 8) as well! Reach out to @itsarnavb & co. Event website: blr.popvax.com

I'm excited to announce that @PopVaxIndia & @_lagrangepoint are hosting a mixer in Bangalore on Wednesday, July 6, for people building deep tech in India, especially in robotics, machine learning, and biotech. Come and say hi! blr.popvax.com @itsarnavb @pbshgthm

@datavorous_ 🫡

A few days of summer and a bye! We are half way across 2026, and I speedran it a lot. I suffered from two tropical illnesses (typhoid and dengue) within a span of 4 months. Skipped meals in weekends because time not spent on studying felt like time being wasted. Skipping the details, I felt the butterfly effect in real life -- went from a cold, sorry piece of iron to somehow getting me foot in various places which carry a lot of potential. I spent a very adventurous June researching on graph schedulers and determinantal point processes; apart from that, I was fortunate to meet a lot, and I mean A LOT of brilliant people from india and apac. Very humbled, very grateful that I did so. Explored Hyderabad and Bengaluru, places which are miles away in nature (pun intended) from the silent town from north bengal where I'm from. I striked off all my new year resolutions for the first time in my life. I worked for a diverse set of startups ranging from moderation risk engines to hw/sw codesign (and surprisingly interviewed for a company who are into space tech). They were fun and respectable, but not the type of work I want to direct my attention towards. I've finally made peace with the fact that I am autistic (my diagnosis was cut short due to covid lockdown), and it's a double edged sword in every way: what TPOT calls "agency", that comes naturally to me because novelty is addictive, and my baseline for that has always been very high. I have been repeatedly called as the "ideal" corporate poster child or something akin to an "ideal" silicon valley crusader. If you had talked to me irl, chances are high you'll remember me for years to come. I was underselling myself all the time. But the engine and the me separated without a noise being made. I am no longer searching for more opportunities, I have decided to focus only the work I have in my hand. To everyone who saw something in me before I could prove it -- thank you. The next chapter, I'll mostly be writing that in private. See you on the other side.

We’re in BLR at @_lagrangepoint—come hang!

We're hosting the Engineering Guild today evening at Lagrange Point, along with @icyphox of @tangled_org! Our guests are people tinkering with version control, distributed systems, and collaboration primitives There's a couple spots open, especially if you have a cool demo!

There is nothing like the feeling of discovering talent from parts of the country I can’t even pronounce Mavericks and savants hidden all over the country, a day’s journey from the nearest airport I’m commissioning a map of India at Lagrange Point soon, without the usual Bangalore, Bombay, Delhi, but with all the towns and villages where Lagrangians come from

Samarth is hosting a nuclear engineering reading group at Lagrange Point this weekend Beyond excited for this!

your college didn’t offer nuclear engineering as an elective? mine didn’t either, so i had to fix it.

I AM COMING to BENGALURU this weekend! Thanks to @_lagrangepoint for sponsoring my trip ;) i am a research engineer who works on ml inference and hw/sw codesign. p.s. take a glimpse of the stuff I was into when I was 10 years old in 2017 hi new people, let's meet!

If you're NOT in Bangalore and working on the public good on any of our favorite problem areas, come to Bangerlore We at @_lagrangepoint will help with flights and accommodation, and help you meet fellow practitioners. Just DM me! - urban quality of life / civic tech - food toxicity - deep tech talent If you know someone that fits, send them my way, and I will gift you some really nice socks

Join us this weekend!

Today at @_lagrangepoint: A friend got wind that a young founder is building rockets using solid fuel boosters She then rushes at peak hour through Bangalore traffic to visit and warn him against going down that dark path Cue rocketry gore from the last century of building rockets and "are you sure you have the safety protocol down"

session went well, was fun to whiteboard with people again after a while. thanks @itsarnavb and @_lagrangepoint for hosting us, and everyone who joined. you’re og quick summary of what we talked about: started by sketching a crude version of how we’d integrate force as a modality ourselves. image tokenised through ViT, proprio, and text encoded into a pretrained VLM, latent flowing into an action head in the same policy. also talked about action chunking on the decoder helping with inference latency and temporal coherence within a chunk, though long chunks risk drifting from the world then started picking apart the paper. the action head is actually a separate altered transformer that ingests numerical force as input and outputs (delta_p, f), directly fed into the robot’s impedance controller which converts to motor torque and makes the arm respond to feedback. different from the usual IK-based position controller logic discussed that the improvement over pi0 might have come from the model being steered to produce a force vector as output, not the MoE in the action head. paper doesn’t show with/without MoE ablations so can’t say also briefly touched on interrupts for robots. training time we feed deliberately bad demos and recover. inference time we use DAgger and add a human intervention label and retrain. model has no internal knowledge of whether data came from human intervention or general teleop some questions that branched off from our discussion: - apart from force, what other modalities of input and feedback would make action policies more aware and accurate? - slow and fast moving policies and how they get baked together at high frequency of operation? - flow inpainting as an inference time optimisation for cloud based vlas? (under explored)

it was great to host an incredible group of folks at the @AltCarbonIndia office, brought together by their curiosity and shared interest in frontier science advancement. what better place to do it than @iiscbangalore-- an institution built by JN Tata, a man who believed that India's most urgent need wasn't more capital — it was more science. pleasure to host friends from @ARIA_research @lossfunk @_lagrangepoint @AccelIndia @karya_inc check out ARIA's call for program directors here: aria.org.uk/about-aria/our… also check out the new AI Scientist Conference that @paraschopra spoke about at the event: caisc2026.github.io for those asking, here's the reading list we started the evening with: notion.so/ARIA-x-Alt-Car…

HEY! I'm hosting a panel on accelerating deep tech and manufacturing in India 🇮🇳 at IISc This Tuesday I'm at @AltCarbonIndia HQ alongside @ARIA_research ARIA is the UK government agency that enables high-risk research and moonshot projects. They're on a mission in India to support and invest in the frontier. If that's you, DM me! Looking forward to seeing familiar and new faces! Many thanks to team Alt Carbon! @adadithya @ananyabananyaa @SparshAgarwall

Karan has done some incredible work on uncovering the scale of DNS censorship in India!

If you enjoy obsessively figuring out how protocols, APIs, and machines work under the hood, DM me with your past work You'll work alongside some *excellent* collaborators at @_lagrangepoint over a retreat