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Hetal Rach retweeted
A new metro line is an opportunity for another #PuneMetroMeetUp, but missing the organizer @Gautaamm this time ☹️
Hetal Rach retweeted
Everytime a new #Pune metro line or segment was inaugurated , @Gautaamm would enthusiastically organise a metro meet up.
A ride, tea, bun maska, few laughs, many memories, new friends- the journey continues.
Awaiting the date and final program for Line 3.
@nnpgg
Everytime a new Pune Metro line open ups, I arrange a #PuneMetroMeetUp.
The idea is simple: meet at Garware station, go to the last station now open and come back and have tea and bun masks at either end.
This is the 4th such Meet up and is always a lot of fun.
In attendance today were: @heytal @pnqiad @ayadwad @sschivate @shinils (who comes all the way from Kalyani Nagar for each meet up) @GodboleSandeep @AswadPune @thatsabhijeet .
Hetal Rach retweeted
The Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything: a trip to Chennai airport.
Hetal Rach retweeted
Philip Crosby, in 1992, wrote a book titled Completeness, extending his famous "Quality is Free" and Zero Defects philosophies.
In the mid-nineties, he visited India often and wanted to do for India what Deming was credited with doing for Japan - start a quality revolution.
Deming passed away a few years later. Whether he would have been successful in his mission for India or not, we do not know. But the principles of quality he taught, especially 'Completeness ', should be a must-read for all involved in building India's infrastructure.
This is sad. @metrorailpune allows bicycles, rather, encourages them, but @MetroPuneri doesn't allow them. Somewhere, it shows absolute lack of co-ordination and standard practices across providers and doesn't paint a good picture. Needs to be worked upon. @mohol_murlidhar @Dev_Fadnavis @narendramodi
Hetal Rach retweeted
Pune Metro Line 1 & 2 @metrorailpune : "Bring your bicycle, go green, ride into the future! 🚲🌱"
Pune Metro Line 3 @MetroPuneri : "Bicycle? What is this, a gym? Leave it outside for a safe and smooth journey".
अरे बाबांनो, एक काहीतरी ठरवा ना आपापल्यात!
Hetal Rach retweeted
In 2000 a Cambridge professor published a paper in Nature about this desk toy. 26 years later physicists are still arguing about how it stops
It's a heavy steel disk on a mirror. As it loses energy, it spins faster and louder, and then it stops dead, all at once. Turn the sound on
The professor was Keith Moffatt. His math said the wobble speeds up toward infinity in a finite amount of time, the kind of infinity physicists usually only talk about inside black holes
Something has to stop it first. Moffatt blamed the thin cushion of air under the disk. Others spun it in a vacuum and blamed friction instead
In March 2026 a team from Harvard posted new measurements and sided with the air, at least for the final moments
The toy was invented in the late 1980s by Joseph Bendik and named after Leonhard Euler, who worked out the math of spinning bodies in the 1700s
A steel disk, a mirror, and 26 years of disagreement over the last second of its spin
Hetal Rach retweeted
Those interested can go through the chapters for themselves. ncert.nic.in/textbook.php?ie…
Hetal Rach retweeted
There is also a chapter on entrepreneurship in the Grade 9 Social Science Part 2. It explains basics of profit & loss account, business plans and so. Most importantly, it presents risk-taking, innovation and business as a positive activity - quite different from how previous textbook portrayed it (with emphasis on "hoarding" and "black-markets"). 2/2
Hetal Rach retweeted
The economics segment of the recently introduced NCERT textbooks for Social Science (Grade 9, Part 2) now has a chapter on personal finance. Students are taught basics about fixed deposits, mutual funds, EMI, taxes, risk-return and so on. The idea is to provide them with useful life skills. 1/2
Hetal Rach retweeted
Thank you - workers, contractor, designers, engineers, police, PMRDA, PMC, PCMC, state and central govt, CM, PM, minister, social workers Siemens, Tata, Alstom, Keolis and of course Pune Citizens. All of you have played your parts. This is the day for gratitude. We can always ask for more but lets keep it for another day. @MetroPuneri
Hetal Rach retweeted
STOP EVERYTHING!!!! 16-YEAR-OLD DHINIDHI DESINGHU HAS JUST MADE HISTORY! 🥹🇮🇳
India’s FIRST-EVER swimming medal on the Global stage across ANY age group!
A Bronze Medal at the Youth Olympic Games! 🥉
THIS NEEDS TO BE CELEBRATED, FOLKS! ❤️
Hetal Rach retweeted
Weekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5:
hackertube.org/
- Excellent recs without any logins (state is kept in local browser session)
- Thumbnail is a representative frame from middle of the video instead of the super duper A/B test hyper-optimized user uploads
- Underlying data from the comment analysis as one zip file, point your Claude at it and ask for your own version
- HackerTube Longs ✊
A bit more on the process:
I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac), Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I only talk to Claude and have it do everything, the only "manual work" I helped with in tandem was in the browser (reminiscent of MenuGen): 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box for serving and 3) I bought the domain name. Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, secure, harden, deploy and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.
Many awesome projects that would have normally taken weeks/months even can now be few-shotted for breakfast. What else are we not thinking of.
Hetal Rach retweeted
En route to become one of my favorite stories to explain how messy the energy transition is proving:
Coal mine shifts to EV trucks to save on diesel.
📄: wsj.com/world/asia/these-tru…
Hetal Rach retweeted
As a neurosurgeon, let me tell you how frightening this injury actually is - an occipital compound depressed skull fracture treated with a WIDE craniotomy (outer staple line).
What's scary isn't the fracture; it's what's adjacent to the damaged skull. The axe blows (that tree-branch scar at the center) hit right over the posterior superior sagittal sinus, a large vein that runs lengthwise between the 2 cerebral hemispheres and carries blood from the brain to the heart.
Penetrating injuries to the sinus can carry upwards of a 40% morbidity/mortality - partially because a transection of the sinus can be difficult to repair and can result in extreme blood loss, venous air embolism, or thrombosis - all of which can be fatal.
There's scary, and then there's the "you go to elevate the fracture and risk unroofing the sinus, losing 2 liters of blood in a minute" scary.
The surgeons likely had their hands full and did an amazing job. Divine providence called many heroes into service that day. Damn fine work.
धन्यवाद
Hetal Rach retweeted
अन्नं न निन्द्यात् is what our culture tells us. When some on social media, out of convictiction or for eyeballs and reach, use words like 'terrible', 'mediocre' for food, purely based on their tastes and nothing more, it is infurating. In one stroke they not only demean food but also the choice or compulsion of those who consume it to nourish themselves.
Hetal Rach retweeted
This resonates fully with everything i learnt about food (as a child).
This is the reason food material decorations, food fights, cake smashing seems terrible to people of my vintage.
It is not just wasteful. It shows arrogance towards food, food producer, life taken away (even for veggies) and efforts of all those involved.
As Mahatma Gandhi said somewhere, "In next incarnation God must take form of bread (Bhakri)"
Whenever you watch a Japanese movie with English subtitles, translators almost always turn the word "Itadakimasu" into "Let's eat" or "Bon appetit."
That translation erases one of the deepest truths in Japanese culture.
Every human being on Earth has to face a quiet reality three times a day: for us to stay alive, another living thing has to give up its life.
Fish are pulled from the cold sea, cattle are raised and slaughtered, and rice stalks are cut down after months in the mud.
In Japan, before a single grain of rice touches their lips, every four-year-old child and eighty-year-old executive presses both palms together, bows slightly toward the plate, and says "Itadakimasu."
Literally, it means: "I humbly receive onto the crown of my head."
Children in Japan are taught that you are thanking the fish and plants that gave their lives to become your strength, along with the farmer, the fisherman, and the cook.
And when the bowl is wiped clean to the last grain of rice, you bow again and say "Gochisosama deshita."
Written in kanji, "Chiso" means riding a horse at a full gallop to gather ingredients for a guest.
When you say thank you for every life on your plate, you never waste a single bite.
