Aditya Asopa
@adityaasopa
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Veterinarian turned neuroscientist @NCBS_Bangalore . Philosophy, brain, machines, mathematics, and languages. Twitter fr bookmarks. Insta: @ iofadityaasopa
Bengaluru
Joined April 2011
Bombshell: Oliver Sacks (a humane man & a fine essayist) made up many of the details in his famous case studies, deluding neuroscientists, psychologists, & general readers for decades. The man who mistook his wife for a hat? The autistic twins who generated multi-digit prime
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The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
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1. Trust the Pakistanis to make a pigsty even out of the @OxfordUnion. And as always, they are genetically incapable of being truthful. So here's the complete story of how this so-called debate played out.
Tonight’s Debate at the Oxford Union: “This House Believes India’s Policy Towards Pakistan is a Populist Strategy Sold as Security Policy” Organised by MT25 President Moosa Harraj.
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Bahaj excavation in Deeg district, Rajasthan has unearthed 5 cultural layers, going as deep as 23 meters: - Yajna Kunds (15+) - Terracotta Shiva - Maa Parvati idols - Metallurgical furnaces - Copper coins - Brahmi seals mark Proves the point that Indus-Valley civilisation
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Immense planning and technical precision was required for this absolutely preposterous (but real) view: I captured my friend @BlackGryph0n transiting the sun during a skydive. This might be the first photo of it's kind in existence. See a video of this moment in the reply 👇
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There’s no BJP, RSS, Zionism, or Israel in Sudan and Nigeria — yet the violence persists. So, who is killing whom? The attempt to justify terrorism as a mere response to “oppression” collapses under its own hypocrisy. The root cause lies deeper: a toxic mix of supremacy,
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because some want to be part of the solution, no matter what...
A lot of people ask why so many Indians run abroad the first chance they get? Why some states have temples dedicated to foreign country visas? Why some people are so desperate to get away that they even risk death by drowning or freezing to illegally enter other countries? Why
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Three years ago, a man made a 15 year old girl elope, had nikah in a mosque (both Muslims) and impregnated her When the girl’s parents found her whereabouts, they filed a case of kidnapping and rape against the man. Police booked him under POCSO Delhi high court quashed POCSO
A Major Civilisational Pushback by Sewa Nyaya Utthan Our fight against attempts to lower the age of sexual consent from 18 to 16 through Supreme Court - a move that would have endangered millions of minors - has seen remarkable impact. 11 counter petitions have now been filed
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The brain is all about dimensionality reduction. The limits of falsifiability: Dimensionality, measurement thresholds, and the sub-Landauer domain in biological systems https://t.co/JOwiAlXea4
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Once virtue is measured by victimhood, truth becomes hate speech. Tyranny begins not with power, but control of narrative, in disguise of competitive grievances — the louder the lament, the quieter the merit.
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Gavai’s comments should be a case study of bad logic. Here are 7 flaws in his commentary - 1. Red herring / non-sequitur “Go worship the Shiva linga” doesn’t address the legal prayer (restoration of a Vishnu Murti). An alternative place/deity of worship is not prayed for and
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This is to all the software developers that have reached out to me on how to contribute to manufacturing: Build CAD/CAM/CAE alternatives to the industry benchmarks we have out there (SolidWorks, Fusion360, Siemens NX and many more). This is what helps build our manufacturing
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@Kaju_Nut ++ the ridiculous restriction of switching fields. I cant go back to any medical college as a faculty or researcher: system can't process a graduate from veterinary Sc, PhD in experimental neuroSc, worked in BCI startups, and want to come back to do research on neuroprosthetics
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Last week, China barred its major tech companies from buying Nvidia chips. This move received only modest attention in the media, but has implications beyond what’s widely appreciated. Specifically, it signals that China has progressed sufficiently in semiconductors to break away
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The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, China barred its major tech companies from buying Nvidia chips.
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For thousands of years, Theravāda Buddhism—an ancient tradition with origins in India—has described what is considered the highest meditative attainment, called nirodha samāpatti, regarded as deeply connected to nirvana/enlightenment. For the first time, we have been able to use
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Was reading Adam Smith's "The Wealth of the Nations". Look at this excerpt about *Protectionism* Imposing trade tariffs is a false promise and a known pitfall. Can any better be expected from the US? CC: @sanjeevsanyal
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मैं, हमारी universities के Vice chancellors, Deans और प्रोफेसर्स से यह कहना चाहूँगा, कि हम क्या ऐसे structural changes कर सकते हैं, हम ऐसे क्या Incentives दे सकते हैं, कि दुनिया भर में फैला हुआ, हमारा Indian talent, हमारे पास, हमारे लिए काम करने आए। क्या हम ऐसी कोई व्यवस्था कर
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Can ancient wisdom promote moral behavior in LLMs? Published with new data! Contemplative insights improve alignment (d = .96) AND boost cooperation + joint reward on the iterated Prisoner’s dilemma task (d = 7+) using GPT-4o + 4.1 Here’s the basic logic 1/x
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