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#RandomThoughts AI is only as intelligent as the quality of training Data, we still can beat it!

Let me explain what just happened today because it deserves so much recognition. GalaxEye is a Bengaluru startup founded in 2021 by IIT Madras engineers. Today they launched Mission Drishti on a SpaceX Falcon 9. It is India's largest privately built satellite at 190 kg. And it carries a technology that no commercial satellite has ever carried before. Normal satellites take photos of the Earth using optical cameras. Like your phone camera, but from 500 km up. The problem is obvious. Clouds. Night. Fog. Smoke. If any of these are in the way, the photo is useless. India has monsoon cover for 4 months a year. That is 4 months where optical satellites are partially or fully blind over large parts of the country. The alternative is SAR. Synthetic Aperture Radar. Instead of taking photos with light, it sends radar waves down and reads what bounces back. Radar goes through clouds, through darkness, through smoke. A SAR satellite can image a flooded village at 2 AM during a cyclone when no optical satellite can see anything. The problem with SAR is that the images look nothing like photos. They look like grainy black-and-white radar maps. A military analyst or a trained geospatial engineer can read them. A farmer, a disaster response team, or a city planner cannot. Until today, if you wanted both optical and SAR data for the same location, you needed two different satellites, passing over at different times, at different angles. Then someone had to manually align and fuse the two datasets. Expensive, slow, and the data never perfectly matched because the satellites saw the same spot minutes or hours apart. GalaxEye put both sensors on one satellite. Optical and SAR, fused into what they call OptoSAR. Three times more information than a single sensor. Processed onboard by an NVIDIA AI chip at 1.8 metre resolution. Now in practice, during the next cyclone hitting Odisha, one satellite pass gives you a clear image of which villages are flooded, which roads are cut, and which buildings are standing. Day or night. Cloud or clear. In near real-time. For defence, it means you can monitor a border area 24/7 regardless of weather. For agriculture, it means tracking crop health across an entire monsoon season without a single cloud gap. For infrastructure, it means monitoring construction progress on highways and bridges without waiting for a clear day. GalaxEye tested their SAR tech on ISRO's POEM orbital platform. The satellite was tested at ISRO facilities. IN-SPACe provided regulatory clearance. NSIL, ISRO's commercial arm, will distribute the imagery globally. And it launched on SpaceX because ISRO's PSLV doesn't have the right orbit slot for this mission. Yes, four IIT Madras graduates built a world-first satellite in 4 years in Bengaluru. Take a bow!

From bringing our hands together in devotion to bringing them together to... hold a smartphone! Never fails to amuse (though not surprise) me - year after year! It's almost like we have been fully conditioned to not soak in any moment without trying to also capture it for posterity. This is from Thrissur Pooram 2026, at the Vadakkumnathan Temple - pic via a friend on WhatsApp.

#realization People when asking, are not looking for your feedback or opinion: they are looking for validation for their choices.

The casting director of Dhurandhar deserves Oscar 19 Perfectly casted role.. A thread 🧵 1. khanani.

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Several years ago, engineers at a major Indian OEM wanted to add a simple valve to their own engine. They knew how to do it. The problem: the software running inside their own vehicle's ECU was locked. The key was in Germany. Three years later, the problem remained unsolved. 🧵

Why is India not a tourism superpower ? 1. Unsafe roads, no pavements, stray animals 2. Dirt, garbage, and lack of hygiene 3. Petty corruption 4. Traffic chaos 5. Poor global branding and perception management 6. Tourism stuck in state-level red tape 7. Pollution 8. No proper city or tourist site infrastructure 9. Inconsistent service standards 10.Biggest of all- lack of civic sense We have everything- mountains, deserts, beaches, history, spirituality. Yet Malaysia, Turkey, Singapore, Thailand and even the UAE attract more tourists each year than we do. So the issue isn’t what we have. It’s how we manage it. Potential is not our problem. Execution is. 🇮🇳

Our fighter jets are from France and Russia, our computers and software are from US, Phones made in China, cars made in Japan, Medical research from abroad... AI from everywhere.. but be scared of hospitals. #MedTwitter

India is a place where you can learn a lot of life lessons. The difference between how you are treated is often decided by what you wear/ride, How you look! The biggest example is the set by Five star Hotels, try riding a bike anywhere in any of those fancy hotels and see how you will interrogated, asked if you have bookings etc however if you have car, no one will bat an eye beyond the usual check! Irrespective of what’s the bike worth, it may be more expensive than the car next to it but “its a bike” which is generally connected in India to something only who doesn’t have enough will opt for.

Apparently, car indicators are now sold as a "premium luxury subscription" that most in the city can't afford. 🙄 My brakes are tired of surprises 😮. #trafficobservation

Appreciate you publishing your thoughts on Policy/Politics @tushar15 . Always learn something new from your writing. 🧲Subscribe to Polity and Policy by Tushar Gupta politypolicy.substack.com/?utm_source=na…

Parents, please put the phones down at Sports Day/Annual Day! 📵 Most are so busy chasing the perfect photo/video, they miss the moment entirely and stand right in front of everyone else's view. Just enjoy watching your kids shine! ✨ #Parenting #SchoolEvents #LiveInTheMoment

Math in Sanskrit: Quadratic formula Did you know that the quadratic formula—widely used in mathematics, science, and engineering—was explicitly stated for the first time in a Sanskrit verse by the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta? Watch to know more.

youtu.be/GGKxuSEAjmM?si… This idea can be a game-changer for the mental health of the students. Please support it. My son, Dishaarth Mahajan, a Class 4th student, has reached the top contestants in the National School Youth Ideathon 2025. I am sharing the link of his video in which he has explained the concept of his app "My EQ Coach" briefly. I would request you to kindly watch the video, like, comment and share it as these views, likes and comments will help him gain more points for final selection.

Noticed how mall/hospital security guards are often extremely polite and helpful to drivers in cars but are distinctly less patient or courteous with people on scooters and motorcycles? Everyone deserves respect, regardless of their vehicle. #observation

It's not about learning everything or becoming an AI developer overnight. It's about becoming an AI Augmenter in your current role. #job #ai

Watching #TheYearEarthChanged on #AppleTV. It's incredible proof that when humanity pauses, nature rushes back. We don't have to choose between a thriving world and human progress. Let's make the quiet changes last. 🌎🌱

#Todays_observation The look people leaving the gym give 'normal' people is a crime in itself. 💀

Watch my conversation with @kushal_mehra where I try to explain why the government started ethanol blending and moved to E20 - Energy Security. This becomes quite interesting because of the fact that Trump wants Indian to buy corn-derived Ethanol from America (albeit not that expensive). One interesting fact that I bring up is that sugarcane will play a smaller and smaller role in ethanol production going forward, in fact Gen -2 Ethanol will largely be produced from newer types of Biomass such as Bamboo for example. Incidentally, would you drink Bamboo Vodka? The big 'mistake' if one could call it that was the rapid speed with which the blending was implemented and the fact that a lower blend was not made available. Do watch our really interesting conversation, because I do feel that a lot of the aspects of the Ethanol debate have not been covered by one side or the other. youtube.com/live/PgESKK_Us…