I've used em-dashes my whole life — they add rhythm and grace to writing. But now they're an AI tell. Can we get a grandfather clause for those of us who were fluent in em-dashes before ChatGPT launched in November 2022?

One thing academia does extremely well and startups and companies massively screw up is hiring. Hear me out! A friend of mine, PhD in Astrophysics, solved a tough problem for their PhD: when light from stars travels through the Earth's atmosphere, the turbulence and density

The heart of a Guru GM R.B. Ramesh is one India's and world's finest chess trainers. He has been the coach of Vaishali and Pragg since they were around 2000 Elo strength. From there to now bringing them to this stage, he has played a big role! When both the siblings were going

India’s AI Moment Needs Ownership, Not Just Adoption In an interview with Governance Now on “AI: Code, Control, Conquer,” Prof. B. Ravindran, Head of Wadhwani School of Data Science & AI, IIT Madras - underscores the structural gaps that India must urgently address to achieve

Excellent, deep discussion of the Dwarkesh-Jensen podcast

We had room for 2,000 people at Startup School India. More than 25,000 applied. No Startup School anywhere in the world has ever had this many people apply. Not SF, not NYC, not London. India blew them all away.

On 20th of April 1976, R.B. Ramesh was born! 50 years ago! He became a GM at the age of 27 years in 2003. In 2002, he had won the British Championships, and in 2007 he became the Commonwealth Champion. In 2008, he took a bold step in his chess career. He gave up playing chess

Glad to share my piece in The Indian Express on the CBSE CT & AI curriculum: CT must come before AI, and why an AI-ready generation needs to understand the black box, not just admire/use it. indianexpress.com/article/opinio… #AI #Education #CBSE

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 -

4-5d We have been poor because we waste our talent on a truly massive scale. Zoho is built by very ordinary Indians from very humble backgrounds. That kind of talent pool is there everywhere in India. We have to tap it to create tens of thousands of companies like this. At that

Many would. They tell us we are a low trust society. Tell that to the small shopowners who have a credit system for goods they sell. Or who sell their wares on a vague promise of "kal de denge". We don't celebrate ourselves enough.

Open letter to Indians in America. -- Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat: Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must

Next in who after the Ramanujan Series? He is the reason we can find a needle in the digital haystack of the world. Meet Dr. Rajeev Motwani (1962-2009), the Ghost who built the logic of the modern world. A boy from Jammu who went to IIT Kanpur & ended up teaching 2 kids at

3 days. Nearly 14,000 words as I document our Trans Siberian trip. Along with Russian History, social mores etc. This enforced divorce from the digital space.. brought about by a lack of network connectivity is brilliant. No information overload. No being bombarded constantly

Anurag Ramdasan It's not chest thumping, there is real work happening in India (in my own team to advance frontier models, in startups like Sarvam, and academic institutes like IITM). What has held India back is low investment in research by Indian industry and a lack of ambition.

This is 8-year-old Tamizh Amudhan (born on 2nd of September 2017). He is sitting in his home in Sivakasi. The electricity was not there so he had to use a candle. In the first round of Freestyle Friday, he was pitted against world no.7 Vincent Keymer (2759). Not only is Vincent

The Indian conversation on AI has settled into a fatalistic mood. We are told the country fell behind, that the frontier is now a closed shop between Silicon Valley and Hangzhou. Sarvam AI's Vivek Raghavan, who built Aadhaar's biometric stack, disagrees. 🧵

Important message from the Director of IIT Madras for students who have cleared JEE Mains! Read more below...