Joonu Thomas

@Grady_Booch wishing you speedy recovery and good health Guru! 🙏

A story. I had surgery today - nothing life-threatening, don’t fret - and I do so celebrate the advances of modern medicine that made it and a rapid recovery possible. But that’s not the story. In consultation with my anesthesiologist before he put me under, we had a most engaging discussion regarding the role of anesthesia in severing the thalamus-cortex connection. Telling him of my work in AI, I asked him how his profession defined consciousness. His reply: we really have no clear idea how to define it; we know what anesthesia does but we don’t fully under the mechanism of how it does. I found his observation strangely comforting. And that is the rest of the story.

@Fintech03 there is only 1 Ramanujan, people like him take birth once in a thousand years, maybe more! #ramanujan

People always wonder who after Ramanujan? Modern India is a powerhouse of mathematics, but because these minds work in the abstract upper atmosphere of logic, they do not always make the evening news. In the world of Algebraic Geometry, there was a haunted problem called the Zariski Cancellation Problem, posed in 1949. For 65 yrs, the world’s best minds failed to solve it. In 2014, Neena Gupta (from ISI Kolkata) provided a Negative Answer that stunned the global community. She proved that we can have 2 different geometric objects that look identical if we add a dimension to them...effectively proving that adding information can actually hide the true identity of an object. At just 35, she became the youngest recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize & won the Ramanujan Prize in 2021. Her breakthrough continues to be celebrated globally.

@svembu just curious sir, did you try to get into the IAS back then? 😃

In the 1980s, most IITians would go abroad. In 1989, when I graduated from IIT Madras, I remember feeling extremely dejected about our country. Punjab, Kashmir and Assam were all burning. My heart was not in engineering. I was mostly reading books in Economics and Philosophy - we had a good library. The burning question in my mind was "Why are we so poor?" Some of my classmates and I wrote an article in the IIT campus newspaper in late 1988-early 1989 (there were two newspapers, Focus and Spectator, and I believe we published in Focus, they were reproduced using "cyclostyling" machines - please look them up!). In my vague recollection, the thrust of the article was that the IIT system was failing to serve the needs of the country and the country itself was facing a profound stagnation (I wish I could get that article now - a copy may be in some dusty basement in IIT). I want to know what I thought and said as a 21 year old in 1989 that I agree with and what I disagree with today. By 1989, I had become a committed anti-socialist, having lived through the socialist stagnation of India. By 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union was on, and China was in turmoil - the Tinananmen student protests and their forced suppression. By 1991, India needed an emergency IMF loan. The 1991 economic reforms by Shri Manmohan Singh happened due to pressure from the IMF. So you can imagine the mood in 1989. That was the India I left in 1989. I was feeling miserable to leave but hopeless to stay. In 1990, I came home for a visit and thought of dropping out of my PhD and staying home. I was home sick. I started to study Singapore and Japan during 1990-94 in my PhD years - the "Why are we so poor" question. By 1994, I decided I would be in the private sector and took up an R&D job in Qualcomm.

@san_x_m my hunch is that Indian workplaces are toxic by default ... I've tried hard to convince myself otherwise but failed quora.com/Are-Indian-wor…

Her name was Anna Sebastian Perayil. 26 years old. From Kerala. Cleared her CA exams in November 2023. In March 2024 she joined EY’s Pune office. First job. Four months in. She was dead. Her father Sibi Joseph said this. She used to cry on the phone that she could not work with so much tension and stress. We asked her to resign and come back. She said she was getting more exposure. She decided to stay. On July 20 2024 she collapsed in her room and died before reaching hospital. Not a single person from EY attended her funeral. Her mother Anita Augustine wrote a letter to EY India chairman Rajiv Memani. My heart is heavy and my soul is shattered. Anna experienced a backbreaking workload from her very first week. She was overwhelmed physically emotionally and mentally. Her pleas were dismissed. She was told many colleagues had quit because of the same workload. I am writing in the hope that no other family has to endure this pain. The letter went viral across India. The Labour Ministry launched a probe. The National Human Rights Commission took suo motu cognisance. EY said they did not believe work pressure caused her death. Her manager reportedly reviewed her work around his cricket schedule. Anna sat late every night. Reached her PG room. Continued working. No time to sleep. No time to eat. She was 26. First job. Four months. She gave everything. The company could not give her one seat at her funeral. Her name was Anna Sebastian Perayil. Every office in India must know her name. Follow for real stories about systems that fail ordinary Indians.

@BBCNews O God, this isn't the first time they are doing it! grokipedia.com/page/Plastic_k…

Iran using children in security roles in war, reports and witnesses say bbc.in/4s9i0YW

@RdnckGroyperDlx @har777 @rkofficial527 @Schandillia yes there's a complex calculus of things surrounding the history of states we see in that part of the world today however the only sovereign state that ever stood where Israel stands today has been Israel itself, even if 3000 odd years ago

@joonu75 @har777 @rkofficial527 @Schandillia It only amounted to anything bc ww2, Britain reneged after ww1 and Hitler sent 2 million jews there anyway under havaara

In 1939, a woman in full hijab in Lebanon crossed the border into Iraq. She would later end up in Germany, shake hands with Hitler, and help build a dedicated Muslim regiment (the Waffen-SS) for the Nazis. That woman was this dude. Yes, the brave warrior of Allah ran away in a hijab like a bitch. But why? Because there was an arrest warrant for him in Palestine for a long string of crimes, among them the famous Hebron Massacre in which more than 60 Jews (including children) were slaughtered while praying. If you ever wondered about a “taqiyya,” this here is an example.

@RdnckGroyperDlx @har777 @rkofficial527 @Schandillia but without San Remo the Balfour Declaration wouldn't have amounted to anything

@joonu75 @har777 @rkofficial527 @Schandillia Balfour was prior. Rothschild promised to bring in the americans on the side of the British in exchange for "israel"

@har777 @rkofficial527 @Schandillia though the legal framework for the founding of modern-day Israel, as well as modern-day Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Iraq were laid down by the San Remo Resolutions grokipedia.com/page/San_Remo_…

@rkofficial527 @Schandillia The Israeli project starts with the Balfour declaration by the British. The jews who always lived there, Mirazhi are a minority even in today's Israel. Ofc i don't condone or blame Bose.

Pairs of atoms observed existing in two places at once for the first time phys.org/news/2026-03-p…

@Pvsindhu1 @Pvsindhu1 @CarolinaMarin @nozomi_o11 you, Carolina and Nozomi were the queens of the badminton court in the late 2010s, thank you all of you for the thrilling rallies! ☺️

Some rivals become part of your journey forever. Carolina was one of them. We first played each other when we were 15 or 16 year old girls in the Maldives, and from then on we went on to share so many battles. To be honest, you were also a complete pain on court. The constant shouting, the intensity, the little tricks, they would get to anyone. But your skill, speed and fighting spirit were second to none. People remember the big matches and even the ugly spat we had in that third set over picking the shuttle. I’ll admit I was completely infuriated that day. But a few months later we sat across from each other over coffee in Madrid, talking and laughing, and in that moment there was nothing but respect. That’s the Carolina I’ll always remember. I’ll also always be grateful for the incredible camaraderie our generation built. Our batch of girls made women’s singles such a special place to compete in, and I honestly don’t know if badminton has seen something like it before or will again. Thank you for every battle, every lesson and most of all the friendship. I wish you the happiest retirement, Carolina 🤗 Badminton will miss you. And so will I ❤️ @CarolinaMarin

"Heavy Proton" particle discovered at LHC #LHC #CERN #HeavyProton #ParticlePhysics physicsworld.com/a/heavier-cous…

@PahlavanAli @sanaz_kashmari hope you guys are doing good 🙏 please take good care, and stay safe! God be with you, and all the people of Iran 🙏

@PahlavanAli @sanaz_kashmari hi Ali, Sanaz, I greatly loved your song gol-e-man! lovely melody, amazing lyrics! please pass on my warmest regards to everyone in your band! :-) youtu.be/EDFP4YQfajM

@PRINCE0879 @Wikipedia @jimmy_wales I stopped since October 7, 2023

@PRINCE0879 @Wikipedia yea many times, helping @jimmy_wales with preventing his endeavour from falling into the clutches of advertisers!

Has anyone donated for @Wikipedia ?

@Govindtwtt can Alan Turing, Claude Shannon and John von Neumann be considered as 'software engineers'?

Greatest Software Engineers of All Time 1. Dennis Ritchie Built the C language and co-created UNIX. His work directly shaped Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. 2. Alan Turing Laid the theoretical foundation of computing. Turing Machines defined what computation even means. 3. Linus Torvalds Created the Linux kernel and Git. Powers servers, cloud infra, and modern dev workflows. 4. Grace Hopper Pioneered compilers. Helped move programming from raw machine code to human-readable languages. 5. Donald Knuth Deep work on algorithms and analysis. The Art of Computer Programming influenced generations of engineers. 6. Ken Thompson Key architect of UNIX. Introduced core ideas like pipes, processes, and elegant system design. 7.Claude Shannon Father of information theory. Compression, networking, and data transmission rely on his work. 8. John von Neumann Designed the stored-program computer architecture still used in most systems today. 9. Edsger Dijkstra Revolutionized algorithms and structured programming. Focused on clarity, logic, and correctness. 10. Brian Kernighan Shaped software engineering practices. Known for clarity in systems design and programming education. any legends you’d add to this list?

@real_lord_miles there are no 'friendly' intelligence agencies even if their nations are friendly, isn't it?

@creationnews right! x.com/i/status/18518…

Evolutionists claim that given enough time, random chance can produce Shakespeare (and life itself). 🕒🐒 So, researchers put it to the test. They gave six monkeys a computer for a month. They didn't get a sonnet. They got a smashed screen and five pages of the letter 'S'.  "The first thing the lead male did was to find a stone and start bashing the computer with it. Subsequently, the younger ones came and pressed some of the keys. But most of the macaques’ time was spent sitting or jumping on the computer, or using it as a toilet." Here is why the "Time + Chance" argument for evolution fails the reality test: creation.com/articles/monke…

@aakashgupta and in 2009 Ryan Dahl (@rough__sea) took JavaScript out of the browser to make it usable for all purposes, apart from browser automations alone

Brendan Eich’s story is wild. He built JavaScript in 10 days. May 1995, almost no sleep, because Netscape needed a scripting language before Navigator 2.0 shipped in September. He was 34. The prototype was called Mocha. For all of 1995 and most of 1996, he was the only developer working full-time on the engine. That 10-day sprint now runs 98.8% of all websites on earth. JavaScript has been the most-used programming language for 13 consecutive years. 66% of all developers use it today. Every time you open Gmail, YouTube, or Netflix, you’re running code that traces back to those 10 sleepless nights in Mountain View. He co-founded Mozilla in 1998 and helped spin it into an independent foundation after AOL gutted Netscape in 2003. Firefox went from zero to 30% browser market share. He proved browsers didn’t have to be a Microsoft monopoly. Then Mozilla made him CEO in March 2014. Eleven days later, he resigned under public pressure over a political donation from six years earlier. The board tried to keep him in a different role. He walked entirely. Here’s where most people’s story would end. He was 53, wealthy, had nothing left to prove. Instead he started Brave from scratch, raised $2.5M from Founders Fund, and built a browser that blocks every ad and tracker by default. He ran a $35M ICO for Basic Attention Token in 2017. He built his own search engine doing 20 billion queries a year. Brave crossed 100 million monthly active users in September 2025 and hit $100M in annualized revenue. Desktop market share doubled in a single year, from 0.8% to 1.3%. Against Chrome’s $20 billion search deal with Apple alone, and Google sitting at 65% global share. The pattern across 30 years is the same every time. Eich builds something, gets told it won’t work or won’t scale, and then the thing he built becomes infrastructure that outlasts the people who doubted it. The 10-day prototype became the language of the internet. The open-source side project became the second most popular browser on earth. The post-cancellation startup just crossed 100 million users. Absolute legend.

@NOTICE_4639070 @blargblargb @vik1364 @grok fact check please

Speed of Quantum Entanglement measured for the first time #QuantumEntanglement earth.com/news/quantum-e…

@Jatiquedev @nalinrajput23 and JS itself is written in C, C++ or another language x.com/i/status/86634…

Node powers backend servers — JS Every browser on earth? Runs JS Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook? JS everywhere React is JS Next.js is JS Vercel runs on JS VS Code is built with JS Discord’s desktop app? JS Slack? JS Figma? JS Chrome extensions? JS AI dashboards & SaaS tools? Mostly JS Web3 frontends? JS Mobile apps with React Native? JS Desktop apps with Electron? JS Even your toaster probably wants to run JS -and still, you haven’t learned JavaScript?

>Linux is C >Git is C >Python interpreter (CPython) is C >Ruby interpreter (MRI) is C >PostgreSQL is C >SQLite is C >Redis is C >MySQL is C++ >MongoDB is C++ >Unreal Engine is C++ >Chrome is C++ >Firefox is C++ >Windows kernel is C >macOS kernel (XNU) is C >Photoshop is C++ >VMware is C++ >TensorFlow (Core) is C++ -still, you are not convinced to learn C and C++