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Btw, this is his family CV
An Indian institute filmed a professor teaching classical physics with no notes, no slides, and a green board. Almost nobody outside India watches it.
This is Classical Physics, lecture 1, taught by V. Balakrishnan at IIT Madras, published free by NPTEL, India's national open courseware programme.
Balakrishnan taught at IIT Madras for decades. Students who sat in that room describe the same thing: the whole subject held in his head, delivered in order, no paper on the podium.
Lecture 1 is the introduction. What classical mechanics claims, where the claims hold, and the exact points where they stop holding and quantum takes over.
Watch how he speaks. Complete sentences, no filler, each idea finished before the next begins. Rare in any lecture hall on any continent.
A physicist I know worked through the whole NPTEL series and rates it above the western courses he paid for.
Free on YouTube, 17 years online, low resolution, no marketing.
The teaching was never concentrated in the famous universities.
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John Tukey the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) inventor, who coined both "bit" and "software" died exactly 26 years ago today.
The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), one of the most important algorithms in signal processing and data analysis, was introduced by Tukey & Cooley in 1965.
In 1805, Gauss - studying the orbits of asteroids Pallas and Juno - came up with a method to interpolate their trajectories from discrete samples. What he came up with was mathematically very close to the modern FFT but Gauss never published that work, and didn’t analyze its computational complexity. It predated even Fourier’s 1822 work on heat diffusion - but without the framing or generalization that Cooley & Tukey would bring 160 years later.
In 1965, Cooley & Tukey published their now-famous algorithm that reduced the cost of computing a Discrete Fourier Transform from 𝑂(𝑛²) to 𝑂(𝑛 log𝑛). This leap made real-time signal processing and digital media compression feasible.
From radio telescopes to JPEGs, from audio codecs to quantum mechanics - the FFT is everywhere. It’s one of the most important (and elegant) algorithms of the 20th century - rooted in the genius of Gauss, but brought to life in the computer age.
N-th reason why India doesn't really need to build its own LLM.
A strong and secure open ecosystem is important for the world to benefit from AI. We’ve always supported and contributed heavily to open source and science from Jax to Transformers to AlphaFold to Gemma open models which have now been downloaded 300M+ times. And the standards framework we’ve proposed supports responsible deployment of both open and proprietary models.
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Who would have thought that a remark by a sitting Chief Justice on India's young people would lead to a sitting minister resigning
What an incredible chain of events powered by the same young people
Hoping that there is more done to fix the educational system from the ground up
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ALL EYES ON JANTAR MANTAR 🔥✊
#dharmendrapradhanresign #saveindiandemocracy #saveindia #cockroachjanataparty
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What a F*CKED UP society we Indians have created for ourselves.
Two men got into an accident when a policeman suddenly opened his car's door without looking at the traffic.
Instead of helping and asking if they were injured, the policeman started beating them up. 😡
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A satirical Gen Z-led movement called the Cockroach Janta Party has gained momentum across India as citizens demand educational reforms and government accountability from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration.
While the protests were sparked by repeated exam paper leaks like the NEET medical entrance exam, the movement stems from a history of unemployment and limited economic opportunities for India’s youth.
