Suhas Mahesh

3000y old, but so so fresh. 220 masterpieces from Sanskrit and Prakrit. Advice, intrigue, flirtation, quarrels, laughs, yearning and letting go. OUT ON 14 FEB @HarperCollinsIN Get a copy, gift a copy. Links soon! @AnushaSRao2

“It’s incredibly exciting and unprecedented.” Schmidt Science Fellows Sebastian Musslick and Suhas Mahesh are exploring how AI can accelerate discovery, while keeping science anchored to society’s goals. Can Science Harness the Power of Machines? shorturl.at/3tiPE

@PhiloCrocodile @khoomeik HTR is a more general case that can also deal with handwritten text

@khoomeik @suhasm What is difference?

I’ve left OpenAI! Already miss everyone on the Training team & my friends ❤️ but very excited to soon announce what’s next Until then, I’ll be taking a break to solve OCR for Sanskrit so we can immortalize the classical Indian literary canon in the weights of superintelligence

my PhD advisor once told me that he can mould people in various ways in the 5 years they spend with him, but the one thing that simply doesn't move is their basal motivation level

Topic in the Book Club was Quarrel. Enjoyed reading from the translated Sanskrit poetry collection by @AnushaSRao2 & @suhasm , a delightful selection of poems. Stumbled upon it through the @bicblr Podcast. Worth a listen and the book is a must on every poetry lover's bookshelf.

@sridatta_a I recently drove by a building in JP Nagar called Sri Aurobindo Complex/ಶ್ರೀ ಅರವಿಂದ ಸಂಕೀರ್ಣ 😄

In newspaper- they had for ‘apply’ coconut oil, ಕೊಬ್ಬರಿ ಎಣ್ಣೆ ಅನ್ವಯಿಸು By in title/ subtitle was ok ಎಣ್ಣೆ ಹಚ್ಚಿ

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John Updike on neutrinos (great ending especially)

@myphysicsvoyage @WashUPhysics Congratulations Trevor!

Excited to join @WashUPhysics as an assistant professor in Fall 2025! My group will develop non-equilibrium statistical physics to study criticality in biology—biomolecular condensates, gene regulation & adaptive immune systems. DM for postdoc/grad openings! #myphysicsjourney

Can anyone explain: @internetarchive lost in court against Hachette, but books are still available to borrow on the website. How?

Similar: Steven Chu had no papers and no results from his PhD, but Berkeley hired him as faculty. Nobel in 1997 for laser cooling. Difficult to differentiate top 0.1% from top 1%, but the 0.001% just hits you in the face.

@nickeltingupta LoRs are now so exaggerated that they carry little signal. Everyone is now top 1%, everyone is a rising star

@suhasm Surely, that’s where LoRs and other aspects come in?!

the difficulty of identifying talent: John Jumper had no well-cited first author pubs or awards for several years after his PhD. Would have been ignored by most fellowships, awards. Now suddenly a Nobel less than 10 years after PhD.

An extraordinary personal story by my friend @jenniferilai on cancer, the triumphs of modern genetics and resilience asimov.press/p/family-future

the difficulties of epigraphists (D. Balogh's book on Aulikara inscriptions)

@PadhegaIndia_ A book with each poem a delight and as vibrant as love itself ❤️🧡💙 Thanks @suhasm @AnushaSRao2 for wrapping your book with this stunning cover! #padhegaindia #pigiveaway

@kmadathil Von Hinuber (I think) presents another etymology: nR-gara where gara is a word hypothesized to be a collection or a coming together, also seen in saMgara (coming together of two collections of people) which is parallel to saMgrAma (two villages coming together)

Kātyāyana says - do you even live in a city if it doesn't have tall buildings (today - skyscrapers)? "Nagara" is from "naga" (mountain) and means "that which has dwellings that are like mountains".

from @NaomiKanakia's cynical writer's guide to the publishing industry

"How do you say "I love you" in Sanskrit? You don't. That is not how the 'Sanskritic" mind works." I chatted with @suhasm and @AnushaSRao2 about their delightful book, "How to Love in Sanskrit" at the @bicblr youtube.com/watch?v=zUsqbd…

‘The overwhelming obsession of poets in Sanskrit and Prakrit has been love.’ At @IHCDelhi #Samanvay2025, authors @AnushaSRao2 and @suhasm join #ProfAnamika and #ProfSavitaSingh for a fascinating discussion on their book, #HowToLoveInSanskrit. The session unpacks the many languages of love—how words shape emotion, intimacy, and connection across time and cultures. #READWithHarperCollins