Navin Kabra @NGKabra Twitter profile

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Navin Kabra

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AI is eating the world. If you are spending time every day trying hard to automate as much of your job/company as possible, you have a seat at the table. Everyone else is on the menu.

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Navin Kabra

@NGKabra

9 days

Achaar is not pickle. English doesn't have a word for achaar. Achaar is a glorious explosion of flavours. A pickle is a depressed cucumber that drowned in vinegar. They are not the same.

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Devanagari is an extremely elegant script. But this was never explained to us in school. A thread on the awesomeness that is devanagari. Let's start with the things that my teachers did *not* teach me in school:

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Just found out that Pune roads were designed for 140kmph speeds

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How the effect of speed prevents you from falling into a hole in the road

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3 years

Did you know that all the nuclear bombs we exploded in the '40s-50s-60s have permanently contaminated all the steel the world has produced since then? All steel in the world is divided into two categories: pre-1945 non-contaminated steel, and post-1945 contaminated steel. How?

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3 years

OMG. A person whose last name is "True" has been locked out of iCloud for 6 months because the code got confused between the last name and the boolean value!

Rachel True

@RachelTrue

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Anyone else getting this error from Apple iCloud ? In past or now? I’m 6 months deep freeze & looking for any help. I rem dead coding languages like kobalt.. & this seems like an Apple coding issue — not hardware

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3 months

Germany to Botswana: Stop killing elephants Botswana: Because of conservation efforts, elephant population has exploded. We'll send you 20000 elephants. You try living with them peacefully. Not a joke: this really happened.

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Navin Kabra

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4 years

As a child, I always wondered why Indian words like राम always got written as "Rama" in English. To me "Ram" seemed like a much better fit for the pronunciation. I thought it was because of British arbitrariness. Only recently I learnt the real reason for this. /1

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Navin Kabra

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2 years

Any time now I expect Mark Zuckerberg to step back and appoint an Indian guy named Shiva as CEO just so we can have a Satyam Shivam Sundaram of Indian CEOs at the top tech companies.

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Navin Kabra

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Two years back, the software industry hired a record 6L engineers. Last year it hired around 2.5L. This year (i. e. The year ending in March 2023) it looks like the number will be less than 1L. This is the worst job market in India in at least 20 years if not more.

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Indian software services companies will end FY24 having hired between 70,000 and 80,000 fresh engineers —the lowest intake in over two decades.

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6 months

Stop whining about the traffic jam on Mumbai-Pune Expressway. Even Mount Everest has multi-hour traffic jams The problem is that people want to do the same damn thing that everyone else does and on the same damn day

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Navin Kabra

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1 year

I no longer understand modern financing. I bought an appliance at Croma and was offered ₹5k discount only if I opted in for EMIs via credit card X. Paying 5k less for EMIs vs a lumpsum now makes no sense. I looked for gotchas, and there were none.

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Why do both श and ष exist? (The difference in pronunciation was never explained) Why do ङ and ञ exist? What is ऋ? Is it pronounced “ri” or “ru”, and in any case, why does it even exist if री and रु exist?

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If you read any row horizontally, you’ll notice that your lip position and tongue position remains the same, and only the method of expelling air from your voice box, nose and mouth changes.

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Navin Kabra

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For this and more in a convenient video format, see:

Mind-blowing Science of Indian Languages - Why Sanskrit is Amazing &...

Devanagari script is proof of why Sanskrit is one of the best languages in the world and inspired great linguists like Noam Chomsky. We've broken down the br...

www.youtube.com

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Much later in life, when I understood the meaning of the rows and columns in Devanagari, everything fell into place and I saw the beauty and elegance of it all.

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3 years

This is why the search for Dark Matter depends on sunken ships:

Why the Search for Dark Matter Depends on Ancient Shipwrecks

Errant particles from everyday radioactive materials are a major obstacle for particle physicists. The solution? Lead from the bottom of the sea.

www.theatlantic.com

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Navin Kabra

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Have you ever wondered why the alphabet is always written out as a 2-dimensional grid like this? The English alphabet a one-dimensional sequence without any organizational structure. Hint: say aloud the letters in any one of the horizontal rows. Notice any similarities?

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The entire क row has back of the tongue touching the back end of the palate. The च row has the middle of the tongue touching the palate. ट row = has the tongue curled back. त row = tongue touching teeth. प row = the lips together.

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Navin Kabra

@NGKabra

4 months

Did anyone else grow up reading Times of India editorials because that would "improve your English" (shows how old I am)

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Navin Kabra

@NGKabra

5 years

WhatsApp forwards and TV news have done to our parents what our parents thought video games would do to us

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FOX has done to our parents what our parents thought video games would do to us.

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Navin Kabra

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2 months

I bet Vishy Anand's greatest accomplishment won't be his own championship but the lasting legacy of world class chess he created in India. Vishy's Children.

Garry Kasparov

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Congratulations! The Indian earthquake in Toronto is the culmination of the shifting tectonic plates in the chess world as the 17 year old Gukesh D will face the Chinese champion Ding Liren for the highest title. The "children" of Vishy Anand are on the loose!

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Navin Kabra

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7 months

Ever wondered why "sin" (of trigonometry) is called "sin"? Today, I decided to find out, and the history is fascinating. It comes from the Sanskrit word for bowstring which somehow got translated to the Latin word for the "pallu" of a toga. Follow me down this rabbit hole 🧵

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Navin Kabra

@NGKabra

6 days

Now, read any column, and notice the similarities. The table in the previous tweet gives away the answer of course: in any column, the way air comes out of our mouth/nose/voicebox remains the same and only the tongue/lip position changes.

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Navin Kabra

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2 months

So, apparently, now RBI is mandating that banks disable copy-paste into the login/password fields!? No more password managers? God save us from the maai-baap government, which for our own good, implements strict rule (that will have the opposite of the intended effect)

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Navin Kabra

@NGKabra

6 days

In the next two tweets, I'll teach you the right pronunciation for ङ and ञ. First pronounce न and म a few times and understand where the air is coming from. They’re nasals, so the air is coming out of the nose, not the mouth.

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Navin Kabra

@NGKabra

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This is the original Sanskrit pronunciation of ऋ but modern languages decided that was too difficult and Hindi simplified it to री while Marathi picked रु. The original sound is no longer used by anybody and Hindi and Marathi have officially replaced it with cheap knockoffs.

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Navin Kabra

@NGKabra

3 years

Pre-1945 non-contaminated steel is called "low background steel". And when we need it, where do we get it from? We go, find pre-World-War-II sunken shipwrecks, and then salvage the steel (and lead) from those to build our instruments which need heavy radiation shielding.

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Navin Kabra

@NGKabra

3 years

1. I'm going to say this one more time: You do not get jobs by applying through company websites or by uploading your resume on naukri or monster or writing to careers @company .com You have to get your resume forwarded by someone in the company or known to the company

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Navin Kabra

@NGKabra

6 days

Now look at this image and you should understand the difference between श and ष. श uses the same tongue position as च except you force some air through the space between the tongue and the palate ("aspiration"). Similarly the tongue position of ट with aspiration gives ष

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Navin Kabra

@NGKabra

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Now pronounce क ख ग घ a few times and understand the tongue position. Now use this tongue position but try a nasal pronounciation (like न or म). The sound that comes out is the ङ. Similarly combining the च tongue position with a nasal sound gives ञ

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Navin Kabra

@NGKabra

2 years

If you're a STEM major, the US still remains the best place to go for higher studies. Based on discussions in social media, the US seems like a horrible place. But this is an illusion: the other countries aren't better; their problems are just less discussed.

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Navin Kabra

@NGKabra

5 years

Visitor from London forgot his eyeglasses at the other end of town. I got it picked up using @DunzoIt (delivered within the hour, cost <£2) and now he can't stop thinking of how backward London is compared to Pune 😁

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Navin Kabra

@NGKabra

3 years

I vaguely remember some TV serial where a forgery is detected because the steel used in the supposed-ancient-artifact was not low background steel. I don't know whether that's a real thing, or just fiction, but it's a great story. (We need more such stories in science teaching.)

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Navin Kabra

@NGKabra

5 years

1/n In about a month, Google is expected to announce that they've achieved Quantum Supremacy. If confirmed, this will be a historic moment, similar to the Wright Brother's first flight. Here's a thread with an over-simplified explanation of what that means.

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Navin Kabra

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The vowels also fall into the same rows. For अ आ start with the same tongue position as क ख ग घ but then take the tongue away from the top so that air flows unobstructed. (Vowel = unobstructed airflow.) And इ ई uses the tongue position similar to च. उ ऊ are related to प.

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Navin Kabra

@NGKabra

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Now start with the tongue position of ट (or र which is in the same row). But take the tongue away from the top of your mouth so there's unobstructed airflow. And try to say "अ" keeping your tongue curled. Congratulations! You just said ऋ correctly for the first time in your life

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Navin Kabra

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5 years

@mrgunn @vgr In the not-me-personally classics, my favorite is, “Dog hates Win3.1: is fine with DOS but goed crazy when I start Windows 3.1.” DOS ran monitor at 50Hz, Win3.1 at 60Hz, and damaged monitor produced a supersonic whine when running at 60Hz (audible only to the dog)

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Navin Kabra

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2 years

The size of an A4 sheet of paper is 210mm × 297mm. 297/210 = 1.4142 This is a special number. Let' see: A3 is 297×420. 210/148=1.414 A2 is 420×594. 594/420=1.4142 This true all the way up to A0: 841×1189. 1189/841=1.414 Can you guess why? (Answer in next tweet)

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Navin Kabra

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@AgentDesiBond

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Navin Kabra

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4 years

Now is the time to be *extra* careful with Covid safety. More so than March (remember those days?) If you're not convinced, consider what's happening in Pune: /1

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Navin Kabra

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3 years

Foreign celebrities talking about Indian issues is not really worrying. They're irrelevant and will fade in 3 weeks. What is worrying is that the Indian government routinely cracks its whip on Indian celebrities, and they snap to attention and perform like circus animals

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Navin Kabra

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3 years

Why do we care about traces of radioisotopes in steel? When making Geiger counters, or medical devices to check for radioactive contamination, or astronomical instruments, the emissions from the contaminated steel would interfere with the measurements. So we need pre-1945 steel

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Navin Kabra

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6 years

Random etymology for the day. खर means donkey in Sanskrit. khar means the same in Persian. घोष means sound in Sanskrit. Gush means ear in Persian. Combine those, and we get “animal with large ears like a donkey”—khargush=खरगोश=rabbit

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Navin Kabra

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5 years

Apparently, IKEA stores serve food because they realized that hungry customers don’t shop for long. So, they sell food at the lowest price on food within a 30-mile radius, so they sell food at a loss but they make it up in furniture

The Untold Truth Of The IKEA Food Court - Mashed

Admit it: You've pretended to need just one more BILLY bookcase for the sole purpose of noshing at IKEA's food court.

www.mashed.com

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Navin Kabra

@NGKabra

3 years

In fact, there are a lot of naturally occurring radioisotopes also. For example, Carbon 14 is regularly created naturally by cosmic rays. All of us are constantly breathing in all these radioisotopes. In fact, the entire concept of carbon-dating depends upon this.

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Navin Kabra

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3 years

Nuclear bombs (including the tests) create a lot of radioisotopes that are not found in nature. For example Cobalt-60 (a radioactive version of Cobalt-59). And since the 1945 Trinity test, these have all dispersed in the atmosphere. What does this have to do with steel?

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Navin Kabra

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4 months

New example of "correlation is not causation" just dropped.

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Navin Kabra

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5 years

1/ Did you ever realize that the avatars of Vishnu in Vedic mythology loosely track the theory of evolution? My grandfather pointed this out to me 40ish years ago, and it still blows my mind somewhat Thread.

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Navin Kabra

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2 years

Salaries of job-switchers rise faster than salaries of those who stay loyal to the company. Does this come as a surprise to anyone?

Job Switchers Are Earning a Lot More Than Those Who Stay

Even if you’re happy at your job, getting a new job for more pay is a good strategy.

www.wsj.com

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Navin Kabra

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3 years

The process of manufacturing steel uses atmospheric air (or atmospheric oxygen). Some of the radioisotopes like Cobalt-60 get pulled in too, and as a result, any steel produced after 1945 has embedded in it some of these radioisotopes, sitting there emitting gamma rays.

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Navin Kabra

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7 years

Why does Amazon sometimes ship tiny items in large boxes? “Because it is playing automated Tetris with packages” (Thanks @reddit /u/AgainIGoUnnoticed)

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5 months

PSA: In view of the construction work on University road, re-routing of traffic will be in effect until further notice: Those wishing to go from Aundh to Deccan should drive to Mumbai airport, take a flight to Kolhapur, and drive from there to Deccan. Inconvenience regretted

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Navin Kabra

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4 years

One of my favorite side stories from the Mahabharata is that of Yavakrita, the youngster who wanted to become knowledgeable without putting in the actual hard work of learning from a good teacher. But let's start from the beginning cc: @bibekdebroy /1

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@NGKabra

3 years

Apparently, the use of radioactive isotopes to test for forgery is a real thing (thanks @achillesHeelV2 ):

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@NGKabra Apparently, this Cesium-137 test is used in practice to detect wine and art forgery

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Navin Kabra

@NGKabra

7 years

Sample stats from privacy report on Indian apps: • 75% of apps know exactly where you are at all times • 52% read all your SMSes • 5 is the average no of 3rd parties parked inside an App • 94% share your data with at least one 3rd party by @arrka2

State of data privacy of mobile apps in india 2017 an arrka study

State of data privacy of mobile apps in india 2017 an arrka study - Download as a PDF or view online for free

www.slideshare.net

Rohit Srivastwa 🇮🇳

@rohit11

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Eye opening facts and stats on data privacy of mobile apps in india. Good job team @arrka2 for this one

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3 years

Just to be clear: the contamination of the atmosphere (and steel) with radioisotopes is not considered a health hazard (or even a significant environmental problem) because the amounts are really tiny.

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@NGKabra Does that mean the entire population of earth which is breathing this air for atmospheric oxygen is also inhaling Conalt-60?

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Navin Kabra

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2 years

Very soon, there will be more students in the US studying Computer Science than all the humanities degrees put together

Ben Schmidt / @[email protected]

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2 years

The downtick in humanities this year pushes up the ETA for when CS is larger than all humanities degrees together to one of the classes currently in college.

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4 years

If, like me, you're confused about the Oxford/AstraZeneca (Pune-walla!) vaccine, which is 70% effective, but also 90% effective, then here is an explanation. 🧵

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He was almost depressed when he first came to me. He used to get shortlisted for campus interviews but then fail in the technical interview rounds. The year ended without him getting a job, and he became one of those zombies going from walk-in to walk-in with little luck. /1

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3 years

In our apartment complex, we talked to AG diagnostics and organized a RT-PCR testing drive to get maids, drivers, watchmen voluntarily tested (at employer's expense). 8 out of 19 are positive. (Mostly asymptomatic.) FYI.

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Navin Kabra

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9 years

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes ~W Gibson

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7 years

O.M.G. All the old issues of Chandamama (चंदामामा), from 1954 to 1986 are available online. Free. In English, Hindi, Telugu. (Other languages (e.g. चंदोबा) coming soon.) So.much.nostalgia.there.

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The extra "-uh" sound which is the difference between गम and गम् is called a schwa And modern Indian languages like Hindi and Marathi all have an (unwritten) rule that the schwa at the end of a word isn't to be pronounced This is called schwa deletion /3

Schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Navin Kabra

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9 years

I'm also very impressed with Amazon's latest innovation. 3D printing their website

Navin Kabra

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9 years

I have On-Demand Hyperloop Style Water Delivery in my house in India.

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You don't have a fake news problem. You have a surrounded-by-idiots-who-forward-any-crap-that-reinforces-their-biases problem. And no, technology isn't going to solve that problem.

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1. Yesterday's budget announced that India will have a digital Rupee or a CBDC (central bank digital currency) However, nobody really knows what India's digital Rupee will really be A thread on why governments all over are considering CBDCs and what options RBI has looked at 🧵

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4 years

And now, because of twitter, you know an extra piece of information that will probably make no difference to your life at all. 😀

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3 months

Note to 12th std students: If you do badly in entrance exams, don't despair. As long as you're a hard-worker you'll do fine. Not getting into the colleges you desired is a setback in the short-term but you'll be fine in the long-term as long as you don't give up See thread...

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4 years

#Pune How it started How it's going

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Anyone remember Winamp? This guy created a *physical* Winamp player!

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7 months

Yesterday, I attended @KPIT 's unveiling of its Sodium-Ion battery technology, and I felt this was a big deal because it involves: 1. Batteries, 2. Alternative to lithium, 3. Solutions to lots of practical problems, and 4. And excellent use of Pune's resources. Quick thread 🧵

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Uh...What? "Liquid Death" is a fancy can, costing about $2, which is ... water. It allows you to participate in social activities where everyone is drinking beer without you having to consume alcohol...

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Thread of threads: I'm creating this (continuing) thread of twitter threads with ideas/information that have long-lasting value. Either book-summaries, or explanation of some important topic. (I'm calling it Long³: Long-lived Thread of Long Threads with Long-Lived ideas)

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Just realized that: 1. Assisted living (for old people) will be an increasingly huge business in India 2. I probably will want one of those at some point in the future, and the good ones will be expensive 3. I should find a way to invest in #1 to afford #2 Suggestions welcome 😂

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If your net wealth is more than ₹44 lakhs, then you are in the top 1% of Indians (by net wealth). In addition to money/stocks, this includes the value of your vehicles, home (minus outstanding loan). (source: )

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"My Journey from an Introvert to a Networker" My latest article is sort-of a personal story. But the last part has suggestions on how to improve your professional networking. Please forward to anyone you think might benefit, especially youngsters

My Journey from an Introvert to a Networker

Or How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love Networking

futureiq.substack.com

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Hasn't it occurred to people in the banking industry to send messages with normal words like "Rs 500 added to your account" or "removed from your account" instead of "debited" and "credited" which nobody really understands?

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Who among you actually want glass walls for the bathrooms in fancy hotel rooms? What is the attraction? It is because of you that we all have to suffer these monstrosities.

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9 years

Achievement unlocked. I actually completed an online course. Bitcoin/Blockchain course from Princeton on Coursera. Highly recommended.

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1. Just because Zoom is insecure, doesn't mean that all others are automatically secure 2. Zoom isn't going to steal your data; you're not that important. 3. If you're worried about random people breaking into your meetings, use meeting passwords.

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Life hack: quit all your large forward-filled WhatsApp groups because you're "switching to signal due to privacy concerns" ... and then don't join signal.

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I don't want to be internet famous for a snarky remark. I usually talk about more positive (and sometimes more serious) stuff... For example check out my YouTube videos:

Indian English is Weird & Britishers are to Blame - Schwa Deletion &...

Why Indian English is different? You might have noticed that many India-specific English words have inconsistent spellings for their sounds. Why does that h...

www.youtube.com

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4 years

Apparently, on matrimonial sites these days, you have to upload videos like these. My niece @prachi_ did this, and we're very proud. (Wait till the last sentence)

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4 years

I'm teaching a course for 12-16-year-olds on how to spot bullshit in the information they're constantly being bombarded with Our children are growing up in a world very different from the one we grew up in, and they need a new set of skills to survive:

Defense against the Dark Arts! An intro to Critical Thinking...

The information age is quickly turning into a 'mis'information age as we are increasingly being manipulated and lied to. Learn the skills to spot these, and 'defend' yourself against the 'dark art'...

www.genwise.in

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5 years

Parents please note. Let your children read whatever trashy stuff they want to read. If they continue doing that, they'll become book lovers and their choices will improve over time.

Naval

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Read What You Love Until You Love to Read

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@RjtAg222 Yes...!

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Navin Kabra

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3 months

Thank you, @IITBTrustLab and @iitbombay for this opportunity. I am excited about the possibilities, from collaborating on projects to drive trust, to guiding students/interns, and teaching.

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Congratulations @NGKabra for being appointed as a 'Visiting Professor of Practice' at @iitbombay ! Students, researchers and industry professionals will benefit tremendously from Dr Navin Kabra's expertise. @iitbtrustlab @shridharshukla

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People of India, the next two months are going to be dangerous. We are opening up, not because we have controlled the coronavirus, but because we wanted to revive the economy. We are not winning against the virus. (Thread)

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4 years

Retweet if you've ever had to put the Luna in "bicycle" mode and struggle to pedal it to the nearest petrol pump/repair shop/home

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3 years

PSA: Don't use VLOOKUP. Use MATCH followed by INDEX. (And if you don't know what I'm talking about, shame on you. Spreadsheet software is one of man's greatest inventions. Learn to use it well.)

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This situation has been pretty clear to me (and most campus placement co-ordinators) for at least 6 months: I'm not sure why it took the media so long to start doing stories on it. Anyway, now it is clear that the class graduating this year will have a terrible time

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5 years

"Before entering any argument, ask yourself “if I win this argument is it going to make any meaningful change to my life?” 9/10 the answer is no. If it’s a no, just shut up and move on, you’ll save yourself a lot of time, headaches and relationships" - via @reddit /r/LifeProTips

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4 years

If your child is in 12th std, and is unsure of what to do after 12th, then you should seriously consider a liberal arts degree. I've written a What, Why, and How article on this A few quick highlights below ( #India specific thread, others can skip) /1

If your child is unsure of what to do after 12th, consider Liberal Arts - Navin Kabra's Blog

This post is a work in progress, possibly incomplete, and might have some inaccuracies. If you have suggested additions improvements, please leave a comment. A Liberal Arts degree, which in the west...

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2 months

Q: Why learn trigonometry? I'm never going to use it in my real life. A: The most accomplished people I know have the most 'useless' knowledge. Do you think that's a coincidence?

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Recently, a student asked me why they have to learn trigonometry which doesn’t have real life applicability. My response wasn’t convincing. Here is Stanford alumni, Hamza Alsamrae, a math major, who responds as it should be…

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2 years

My brother just became the CEO of Sasken

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@NGKabra

2 years

DallE's illustrations for news headlines will be far better than the median stock photo used by most websites...

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2 years

Baby panicking about the stock market

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@UMNND I had an American room mate once who saw my mango achaar in the kitchen and asked me what it is. Pickle, I said. A few days later I heard him screaming in the kitchen. Turns out he had put a large chunk in his mouth, assuming it would be like American pickle.

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5 months

Conversely, I'm sure higher education (MBA, MS, MTech) is setting a huge uptick in applications (as students without jobs decide to study more). Any media stories on this topic (and the second order implications of it?)

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3 years

"I will not be able to attend the afternoon class because I have used up all my data for today for my morning classes" Actual message from a student. As a privileged person without such problems, I keep forgetting what life must be like for others.

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1 year

It happened. Yesterday, I used ChatGPT for work. Completed a 1-hour task in 15 minutes.

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