The creator of GPT doesn’t have a PhD. The creator of PyTorch doesn’t have a PhD. The research lead at Cursor dropped out of NEU. You don’t need a PhD or a top school to become a great researcher or engineer. You can just do things!

Iconic from Steve Smith. 😂

Remarkable story of high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days

The uncomfortable truth is: everyone has to go through a phase of intense hard work at least once in their life. For some, it's during school. For others, it hits in college. And for many, it comes later during their first job, first switch, second switch, or even beyond. The

Sir Isaac Newton's insane study routine ✍️ “He worked seven days a week, 18 hours a day, and he pushed himself even further” Newton got admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge in the year 1661. In the year 1664, he got a scholarship to study for four more years to finish his MA

If you’re in science, learn math and coding. The advantage is absurd. Many scientists are bottlenecked by weak quantitative or programming skills. If you have them, you eliminate your own limitations AND instantly become in high demand. Never underestimate the benefits of

The hardest mathematics problem on the hardest exam…

Any serious Indian student preparing for JEE doesn’t study organic chemistry from NCERT, except for inorganic chemistry. For organic chemistry go to books for all my friends including me who were preparing for JEE Advanced were Solomons, MS Chauhan (for practice), Peter Sykes

This man who grew up in middle class India literally built the only startup outside US/China/Japan that sent rockets to space. Here's the never-before-shared crazy story of Pawan Chandana: > be middle class kid growing up in Vizag > terrible student, get 51 marks in maths >

Hot take: Kohli will hit 15 more ODI tons till the WC 2027 Final and finish on 99. In 2027 Sachin will tweet asking him to play the 2028 Olympics, Modi will retweet it, and Kohli will return, bring up his 100th ton at the Olympic Finals in a gold medal winning cause.

This interview with Nathan Lyon on 7Cricket has understandably gone viral. Rarely do you get such raw emotion & feeling from a current cricketer & all credit to Melanie McLaughlin & her incredible interviewing skills

Virat Kohli should play ODIs after 2027 ODI WC also, if his total number of 100s at end of WC stands at around 95. Why should we assume that he is retiring at WC? Sachin played ODIs after 2011 WC just to get his 100 hundred, Virat should play till his 101th hundred. Period.

IIT placements are shifting gears. Hedge funds, prop-trading desks, algo trading firms and investment shops are driving placements . Early offers range from ₹90 lakh to ₹3 crore, and institutes report record Day-1 tallies. With AI, data, semiconductor, core eng demand rising,

The world searched and cricket delivered 🤩

NeurIPS 2025's top 50 paper contributors show China and the US neck-and-neck. In the US, corporate labs—Google DeepMind, Meta, Microsoft—now rival top schools like Stanford, CMU, MIT, showing a major shift to industry-led AI research. China’s leaders remain academic: Tsinghua,

Barmy Army member Tommy - who is travelling to Australia to watch the Ashes WITHOUT catching a plane - is currently stuck. He is in Singapore and needs to board a boat heading to Australia. It can be from anywhere in south east Asia, to anywhere in Australia, though ideally to

IIT hai bhai, Hogwarts nahi. Most of the IIT lectures are available on Public Platforms nowadays. I have friends in both Tsinghua and Peking. The output and research Quality in China vs India is not a talent issue but a culture problem. Aunties in China don’t swoon over

NSF is launching one of the most ambitious experiments in federal science funding in 75 years. The program is called Tech Labs, and the goal is to invest ~$1 billion to seed new institutions of science and technology for the 21st century. Instead of funding projects, the NSF

this physics student is right on point, intelligence isn’t something you’re born with, it’s a muscle you grow by enduring the tough unbearable moments that makes you want to quit. everyone you admire battles with frustration at some point but shuts it off.