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Copy this. The debate format is broken. It's geared toward winning arguments rather than understanding them. It serves the purpose of competing but not sense-making. So we debuted a new-old format for high-quality discussions based on the purva paksha tradition. /thread
Mona Lisa is hidden. She is visible when you squint, when you move the image, or when you contract the image.
By trying to get rid of H-1bs and brutally raiding a Korean-owned factory, the Trump administration is signaling that it thinks America has too many Asians. noahpinion.blog/p/indians-and-…
To all who are saying that the H1B Visa tariff is a blessing in disguise…I have just one question, why are all the blessings we get disguised & not just direct blessings…
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Naya standup video from my 90-mins special Nothing Makes Sense. Full special dropping soon on YouTube. Tab tak ye dekh lo. youtu.be/pV6nw040l4c
Pictures from a lecture on "What is History?" delivered at IISER Pune a few days ago. The full video is here: youtu.be/_vGm7nqvMEY
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Come join us for a #Colloquium / #PublicLecture by historian and author Dr. Manu Pillai @UnamPillai on “What is History?” Dr. Pillai will address the question of what constitutes history and its study. Venue: C.V. Raman Auditorium, IISER Pune Date and Time: August 19, 2025, 5:30…
Congratulations Dr @anoopsmahajan ,ScF, @iitmpune -recognized as winning National Champion for Argentina in 3rd ed. of the Frontiers Planet Prize! -as contributing author: Natural short-lived halogens exert an indirect cooling effect on climate,Nature,2023 nature.com/articles/s4158…
RIP Tom Lehrer, one of the funniest and cleverest men who ever lived. nytimes.com/2025/07/27/art…
I found out that I can finally refer to myself as 'Professor'. It took this long to get the job with no qualifier of assistant, associate, without tenure, without ambition, without kidney etc. Had I become a cricketer, I would be a retired commentator a decade and a half ago.
People—teachers, students, parents—have been complaining for a century that memorization is pointless when ”you can just look it up“. This complaint predates AI, it predates Google, it predates this internet. But it’s wrong. Here’s Pauling on why he gave closed notes exams:
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Mali's "Automatic Story Writing Machine" from Malgudi Days was snake oil back in 1988. Now with AI, it's a reality.
An attempt to explain (current) ChatGPT versions. I still run into many, many people who don't know that: - o3 is the obvious best thing for important/hard things. It is a reasoning model that is much stronger than 4o and if you are using ChatGPT professionally and not using o3…
The full text of the first essay in the 'Mechanics' sub-series on 'A Global History of Physics' is online I will post two other essays in the coming days. My hope is to compile each sub-series into an open-source book Comments welcome links ⤵️ 1/
In a major push for transparency, the Supreme Court to publish the entire process of judicial appointments (High Courts & SC) from Nov 2022 to May 2025 — including names, sources (Bar/Service), recommendation dates, appointment status, and even familial links to sitting/retired…

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