Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty

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@IITKgp @Suman_iitkgp He did his PhD from IISc, not his post-doctoral research.

A blue moon event: A reddit thread where people are gushing with love and respect for Indians instead of the usual racism. Wholesome thanks for the countless tutorials made by Indians in so many niche things on YouTube. reddit.com/r/meme/s/lNXvG…

How to use an orange to show the surface area of a sphere is 4πr² ? Beautiful demonstration.

The Maha Ashtami Pushpanjali mantras seem different to me every year and in different Puja Mandaps. Are there no standard mantras? Or do they depend on the Purohit leading the Pushpanjali?

An extremely important article on "Swadeshi software" by someone who's contributed to OS dev himself. In this day and age of libraries/modules, can any software even be 100% Swadeshi. Is that even necessary? Perhaps it is the ecosystem around the software that matters more.

Faculty Opportunity at IIT Kharagpur! Apply by: Oct 4, 2025 Email CV: head@ai.iitkgp.ac.in Join us in shaping the future of AI! @EduMinOfIndia

@HimanshuS_kgp My simple advice: Don't. I have seen your writing. It is more than good enough. Try to incorporate authenticity instead of cookie cutter sentences.

@jeevanjyoti Right around the time I am writing my SoP for the PhD applications, and facing this dilemma of whether to use such tools or not, and to what extent.

You can use all the AI you want in writing. But what about speaking? You're on your own! ✍️ An essay in my new blog post on: ➡️Why it is still important to learn the art of composition? ➡️How it can help speaking/presentation? jchakraborty.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/you…

Will be grateful for corrections in my estimates.

Many students choose Mech Engg after JEE, but never go on to Mech Engg professions. Are there enough opportunities? Should we perhaps consider reducing the number of seats? I deliberate on these in this blog piece: jchakraborty.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/sho…

@flyingcakes85 Thank you!

@jeevanjyoti Happy teacher's day! 💐

Among the lovely Teachers' Day wishes I have been receiving since morning, I received one where the student wished it in the form of a poem:

@NikhiIDesai Happy Teachers' Day to you too! (I don't know if there is officially a Teachers' Day in the UK though.)

@jeevanjyoti this is beautiful! :) Happy Teachers' Day Jeevan Da! :D

I am going to teach the course "Design of Machine Elements" this semester. Haven't watched "3 Idiots" ever. But, just watched this famous clip on "What is a machine?" youtube.com/watch?v=-MlkAS…

Candid, heart-to-heart, at times outright funny - that's how the new Director of IIT Kharagpur, Professor Suman Chakraborty (@Suman_iitkgp) addressed the entire IIT KGP family including alumni. youtube.com/watch?v=IzNN4W…

@Kaju_Nut Very clearly put. Seen this happen to myself. In lectures, I am fairly confident and definite. But in my advice videos on YouTube, I am slow, halting, and hedge my sentences. A few times, people have commented asking me to speak more confidently!

Under-appreciated fact: in low-transparency, low-objectivity areas like geopolitics or self help, confidence is a signal of phoniness. In high-transparency high-objectivity areas like math, confidence signals authority because in these areas anyone bullshitting is caught and punished. The more performatively authoritative someone is in an uncertain field, the more likely they are to be a phony. Real experts in such areas are tentative because they are aware of the limits of their knowledge.

Learnt about Dunbar's Number. It is about 150 for humans. Would be a fun(?!) exercise to figure out who these 150 are in each of our lives.

@flyingcakes85 He told me that he had manually summarized it. He didn't use any automated system. My respects to him for that.

@jeevanjyoti I've read the original on your website and that felt more engaging. The title is same as yours even in the quoted post.

Someone made, using some note-taking system, a summarized version of a blog post I wrote a few years ago. I thought at first glance, it was my actual post!

@dadaboltahai In case you are interested in the original blog: jchakraborty.wordpress.com/2022/07/02/the…

@jeevanjyoti Going to read it soon sir...