Rahul Menon @rmenn.bsky.social

On M.N.Roy's birthday, I'm very happy to reveal the cover of my forthcoming book. It will narrate Roy's attempts to bring down the British Empire & the rise of global imperial intelligence networks in response to the dark spectre of global communism. hurstpublishers.com/book/one-man-a…

this might become the new pencil in space story

trivy supply chain attack arstechnica.com/security/2026/…

@TerribleMaps Indian uncles get ideas from this.

A realistic plan to bypass the Strait of Hormuz using existing bodies of water

@ravihanda hope you are following the news about aviation turbine shortages

Planning a solo trip this summer to Ireland. 2-3 weeks. AI suggested Doolin, Dingle, Killarney for the bulk of the trip. London / Dublin for flying in / out.

@btbytes im running the qwen3.5-4b on my ryzen 5560U

what is the smallest, but useful llm that anyone has running all the time in the background on their laptop? I'm thinking maybe i should have a 9B model running on my Linux desktop which I can hit over tailscale.

@ThadiMeesha bad day for those who know how to read

What the fuckk!!!

If only this was done here

@sidin just run rm -rf / to fix everything

What is npm? What npmnmp? What is uv? What is brew? What is bun? What is vvs? Why does installing all software require you to install some other nonsense with some nonsense three letter thing that sounds like Telugu person initials?

kinda crazy how VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaLogs came out of nowhere and got popular. I have no idea where they rank as an APM. what are primary reasons people are choosing this solution? is there a better scalability story?

Hi all, I'm heading to Udupi this weekend. Please share your best travel tips and favourite eateries in the place. Thanks

non-forkable repos were promised to vercel 3000 years ago, don't u know

Introducing 𝑨𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒔: Rethinking depth-wise aggregation. Residual connections have long relied on fixed, uniform accumulation. Inspired by the duality of time and depth, we introduce Attention Residuals, replacing standard depth-wise recurrence with learned, input-dependent attention over preceding layers. 🔹 Enables networks to selectively retrieve past representations, naturally mitigating dilution and hidden-state growth. 🔹 Introduces Block AttnRes, partitioning layers into compressed blocks to make cross-layer attention practical at scale. 🔹 Serves as an efficient drop-in replacement, demonstrating a 1.25x compute advantage with negligible (<2%) inference latency overhead. 🔹 Validated on the Kimi Linear architecture (48B total, 3B activated parameters), delivering consistent downstream performance gains. 🔗Full report: github.com/MoonshotAI/Att…

Therein lies a tale. It was not just east v West. Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) defined it as a line a certain distance West of Cape Verde in Africa, where Portugal already had a colony. That meridian passes through Brazil. So Cabral claimed Brazil for Portugal per the treaty.

@gauravsabnis was it a line? IIRC east is you, west is me

Christ Redeemer is by far the most underwhelming experience in Rio. But I guess it's important because Brazil only speaks Portuguese because of a random storm and some random Pope 5 centuries ago drawing a line on a map. Christ created Rio.

@frontierindica the 1 MYR note is also polymer

The reason that Australia can have Polymer printed notes and India can't is because the economics of printing the notes won't be viable with India's low value notes in their current denominations. Australia's highest value note is $100 which is worth roughly Rs 6,500. Even their cheapest note ($5) is worth Rs 325. India's highest denomination, Rs 500, converts to barely $7.7. Polymer costs roughly $0.25 (Rs 16) per note to produce. India currently spends around Rs 2.3 to print a Rs 500 note. Polymer would push that significantly higher. And India circulates over 100 billion banknotes vs Australia's 2 billion. At Indian denomination levels, the polymer premium per note eats into a meaningful share of the note's own face value, especially for smaller denominations like Rs 200, Rs 100, Rs 50, etc.

@li_s_h_a @Aakar__Patel pinky swear ?

@Aakar__Patel He died

any todays latest news

@mriduljacob pls dont insult cats

Netanyahu is now Schrodinger’s cat, alive and dead until verified.

@sahilk its like the lolly you give a crying todler

WTF is a FIFA Peace Prize in the first place?!

@theliverdoc trying hard not to laugh, eh ?