“Women should learn martial arts to defend themselves against sexual harassment..” “But then what about the international wrestlers who are protesting against sexual harassment?” “Um..”

Had an amazing time with kids of class 8 from Chennai High School, Kottur thanks to Teach For India and @Full_Meals. We spent an hour deconstructing a Chicken Biryani down to first principles - all the way from how the chicken’s ancestors were dinosaurs to how onions defend

Proud to inform that Swecha Telangana | స్వేచ్ఛ తెలంగాణ has signed an MoU with Telangana government to lead the Telangana Vaibhavam initiative in the presence of our Hon CM Telangana CMO & Minister Sridhar Babu & Jayesh Ranjan. #AI4India #AIglobalsummit #Hyderabad

"In this new generative-AI paradigm, uncertainty reigns over certainty, speculation dominates reality, science defers to faith [...] while the technology consumes unprecedented amounts of energy." An amazing piece from Karen Hao about AI and climate: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

More such programs are to be implemented to popularize science and its wonders.

Another highlight of our #NeurIPS2024 workshop on Sunday will be a panel discussion on small vs big models in ML for climate impact, featuring Chris Bretherton, Anamika Dubey & Bistra Dilkina. Stream the whole workshop live & for free via our website: climatechange.ai/events/neurips…

Gave a nice and detailed podcast with Headrock Show . Shared so many facts about me, my personal lifestyle, journey as Telangana Weatherman & many more. Definitely do have a look guys 😉😀. Thank you Jignesh sir, it was pleasure interaction with you 😀 youtu.be/EY2IA7WUtaI

So, after global wheat, the new journey started ^^ We have never forgotten our staple food, rice, which is also a staple food in many Asian countries. We are honored to present the Global Rice Multi-Class Segmentation Dataset (RiceSEG): arxiv.org/abs/2504.02880

Terence Tao on working hard: “Relying on intelligence alone to pull things off at the last minute may work for a while, but generally speaking at the graduate level or higher it doesn’t. One needs to do a serious amount of reading and writing, and not just thinking, in order to

Can people in power/ authority kindly stop with this absolute BS on "fasting killing cancer cells" and citing religious nonsense to appeal to peoples emotions? Fasting is really quite dangerous for cancer patients in real life. Let me explain and bury this myth once and for all,

A 1 crore earning techie's life has no value in Bengaluru. And if you're not earning that much? Your life has even less. My sister and her friend were driving home in my car. They stopped at a red light - the logical thing anyone does. A drunk driver in a mini-truck didn't feel

Here's the draft release of dataset license by Swecha Telangana | స్వేచ్ఛ తెలంగాణ VISWAM.AI | A Joint Initiative of Swecha and IIITH and others. The license is aimed at preserving dataset integrity and ensuring safety use.

We are excited to announce Open Day 2026! 📷 Visit our campus on March 7th between 9 am and 5 pm. Explore the exciting research demos, displays, exhibits and experiments! Use the hashtag #IIScOpenDay2026 to share what you see! Details: openday.iisc.ac.in

Nowhere were the promises and hypocrisies of AI clearer than in India this week. Catherine Thorbecke explains from New Delhi 🎥

THE DIRTY SECRET THEY WON’T TELL YOU DATA CENTRES GUZZLING YOUR DRINKING WATER 💥 • India's Data Centres will suck 150 BILLION litres of water in 2025 → 358 BILLION litres by 2030 (BBC + Mordor Intelligence 2026). That's more than DOUBLE in 5 years. • 60–80% of these

An article that'll help frame the issue well. Do read.

While waiting for DeepSeek V4 we got two very strong open-weight LLMs from India yesterday. There are two size flavors, Sarvam 30B and Sarvam 105B model (both reasoning models). Interestingly, the smaller 30B model uses “classic” Grouped Query Attention (GQA), whereas the

Most women PhD holders in STEM in India find themselves unable to access long-term, lucrative, and prestigious research jobs. On #InternationalWomensDay, I write for The Hindu on WHY inspite of boasting of the largest number of women STEM graduates - social, structural and

Organ on chip and agentic AI powered autonomous personalized drug discovery is revolutionary!