Roshan Shankar

Thank you to @infinitchy for bring this to my notice. Much obliged. Their work are ideas I've been thinking and struggling with on my own in work and travels in India and it is great to see so many more high-quality high-energy high-integrity individuals with no ego work on it!

.@patrickc @tylercowen It would be useful for you and your ecosystem of high-agency individuals to check out the work of @NJHagens and @danielschmach and use your access to power and money in even more useful ways than you already do! Thank you for your attention!

Opening up Air Quality Data For Citizens in India to Measure and Abate Their Air Quality Please join and make suggestions and show your sensor and data too oaq.notf.in

@karpathy @gautambhatia88 :D <3

Andy Weir showing some of the spreadsheets underlying the calculations in the book youtube.com/watch?v=lYHCTE… i mean, it's not quality scifi if it doesn't come with a supplementary whitepaper

Had to go see Project Hail Mary right away (it's based on the book of Andy Weir, of also The Martian fame). Both very pleased and relieved to say that 1) the movie sticks very close to the book in both content and tone and 2) is really well executed. The book is one of my favorites when it comes to alien portrayals because a lot of thought was clearly given to the scientific details of an alternate biochemistry, evolutionary history, sensorium, psychology, language, tech tree, etc. It's different enough that it is highly creative and plausible, but also similar enough that you get a compelling story and one of the best bromances in fiction. Not to mention the other (single-cellular) aliens. I can count fictional portrayals of aliens of this depth on one hand. A lot of these aspects are briefly featured - if you read the book you'll spot them but if you haven't, the movie can't spend the time to do them justice. I'll say that the movie inches a little too much into the superhero movie tropes with the pacing, the quips, the Bathos and such for my taste, and we get a little bit less the grand of Interstellar and a little bit less of the science of The Martian, but I think it's ok considering the tone of the original content. And it does really well where it counts - on Rocky and the bromance. Thank you to the film crew for the gem!

Wait, so the founder of Anthropic is "Amodei," as in "loves god"? And he leads Anthropic, meaning "human-centered," which is being used in military strikes? And the creator of ChatGPT is "Altman," as in "an alternative to humans"? And he leads OpenAI, which is completely closed? And then there's "Gemini," meaning "two-faced," from a company that promised to do no evil? And the whole global AI arms race is being driven by people who claimed to be worried about AGI taking over the world? Either the universe is an extremely cliché writer, or has a brilliant sense of humor

Many life and work decisions will finally come a full circle one hopes😇

I'm often asked how to land a research job at a frontier AI lab. It's hard, especially without a research background, but I like to point to @kellerjordan0 as an example showing it can be done. Keller graduated from UCSD with no publication record and was working at an AI content moderation startup when he landed a cold call with @bneyshabur (who was at Google) and presented an idea to improve upon Behnam's recent paper. Behnam agreed to mentor him, which led to an ICLR paper. Sadly there's less open research today, but improving upon a researcher's published work is a great way to demonstrate excellence to someone inside a lab and give them the conviction to advocate for an interview. Later, Keller got on @OpenAI's radar thanks to the NanoGPT speed run he started. All his work was documented and it was easy to measure his success, so the case for hiring him was strong. Keller is one example, but there's plenty of other success stories as well: 🧵

Sheran di quam @ZohranKMamdani bhai. Badhai! Now please do good governance like Bernie did in Vermont and Kejriwal did in Delhi. Water, electricity, transport, housing, education and health done with competence will be useful along with any grandstanding gestures/statements.

My 2026 (and beyond) resolution is to be a Golden Retriever for family, friends and loved ones and German Shepherd for city, state and country❤️ Help me stay disciplined and please do call me out if I don't act my part! Happy New Year everyone!

Taiwan is a great place to look at for inspiration on several fronts, whether opening up air quality data or measuring dog-human child births to give insight on societal measures. nytimes.com/2025/12/18/wor…

India Tonight - a show curated to bring you the stories that matter! Check out what’s lined up for today- etnownews.com/live-tv @SumitaKareer @ShibaniGharat @roshankar @vimlendu

Important research and insights for Delhi @Saurabh_MLAgk @gupta_rekha @devendrayadvinc #gsc.tab=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">blog.theleapjournal.org/2025/12/an-ana…

About 40 startup founders and representatives from venture capital and private equity firms met at Central Park in New Delhi to discuss execution-led solutions to address the capital’s worsening air pollution as it heads into another winter of hazardous air quality. Key ideas shared * Mobility: @VLavti, Co-founder of @QuickRidein, highlighted carpooling and bike-pooling as immediate ways to reduce single-occupancy vehicles and emissions without waiting for new infrastructure or large-scale EV adoption. * Agriculture: @roshankar Shankar, Founder of @SarojaEarth , showcased decentralised processing of crop residue into fuel pellets, fertilisers, biochar, and other products to curb stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana. * Capital & scale: @Ish_mumbai, who runs a private equity fund with operations in Europe, Singapore, and India, emphasised investor-led collaboration to help pollution-focused startups scale beyond pilots. @SharmaShradha, Founder and CEO of YourStory Media and Founder of @BharatProjectCo, which organised the meeting, said the focus is on building capacity over the next 11 months so that the city is better prepared before the next pollution season. She added that a shortlist of viable ideas will be presented to city administrators to seek policy support and enable wider deployment of these solutions. Read more, link in comments. #DelhiAirPollution #ClimateTech #IndianStartups #CleanAir #Sustainability

ਆ ਚਲ ਮੇਰੇ ਨਾਲ ਛੱਡ ਝਰੀਟਣੇ ਅੱਖਰ ਆ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਕਵਿਤਾ ਪੜ੍ਹਣੀ ਸਿਖਾਵਾਂ ਸਮਝਣੀ ਸਿਖਾਵਾਂ ਜਿਊਣੀ ਸਿਖਾਵਾਂ ਥੀਣੀ ਸਿਖਾਵਾਂ

"Death is inevitable. It will come for us all Death is inevitable. It will come for us all. And that inevitability robs death entirely of its significance. What matters are the things that are not inevitable. The things we create. The things we find." youtube.com/watch?v=n-axho…

Turn that winter frown upside down. The problem is big, but solvable. Join us, bring your time / money / skills – and let’s make clear air in North India a reality in our lifetimes.

Benevity links: 1️⃣ Womenite: causes.benevity.org/causes/356-570… 2️⃣ Stubble Burning Reduction: causes.benevity.org/projects/694406 3️⃣ Air Pollution Action: causes.benevity.org/projects/694142

Clear air in North India is possible. It’s a wicked public problem, but solvable – and you can help solve it.🧵