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Authentic message requires an authentic experience. I saw transformation w my son,students with @FirstInMath We do numeracy at scale - 35 million students to date- beyond the story of one child. #Principals of #India are embracing #Edtech to lead change outlined in #NEP2020
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Monica Patel, CEO of First In Math, India was a Speaker at the CBSE’s 29th Annual National Conference of Sahodaya Schools held in Mumbai, 12/8 - 12/9. Theme for 1,200 CBSE principals: Reimagining the Changing Landscape - Quality Transformation in Education. @AboutImpact
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Sunil Mittal giving a communication signal to a village. Sajjan Jindal giving India the steel to stand tall. Pankaj Patel sending medicine to a mother who had given up hope. Roshni Nadar training a girl from a small town to work in a global company. Nandan Nilekani giving a farmer his first digital identity. Deepinder Goyal creating a livelihood for a million delivery partners. Kumar Birla planting an Indian flag in boardrooms across five continents. Sanjiv Bajaj giving a family their first real safety net. Sridhar Vembu building world-class software from a quiet village in Tamil Nadu. Nine entrepreneurs. Nation building with India as their longest, proudest project.
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The hardest person you will ever have to lead is yourself." Everything else in leadership builds on that "- @Bill_George
"The hardest person you will ever have to lead is yourself." Everything else in leadership builds on that. billgeorge.org #TrueNorth #AuthenticLeadership #Leadership
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Un doctorando de Oxford fue acusado de entregar un trabajo hecho con IA. Su tutor dijo que era uno de los procesos de investigación más avanzados que había visto en dos décadas. Pero había un detalle clave: El estudiante no había usado IA para escribir ni una frase. La usó para algo mucho más potente. Este fue el sistema que hizo saltar todas las alarmas. Cada ensayo empezaba con lo que él llamaba un “diagnóstico brutal”. Primero escribía su argumento en bruto. Sin pulir. Sin adornos. Después lo pegaba en Claude y le hacía una pregunta: “¿Cuáles son los tres puntos más débiles de este razonamiento? ¿Dónde atacaría primero un examinador especialmente crítico?” Claude no redactaba el ensayo. Lo destrozaba. Y él reconstruía el texto solo con las ideas que resistían el ataque. La mayoría usa la IA al revés. Le dan un tema y le piden que piense por ellos. Él hacía lo contrario: Le daba su propio pensamiento y le pedía que encontrara las grietas. Esa es la diferencia entre delegar tu cerebro y entrenarlo. El segundo paso fue el que dejó a su tutor sin palabras. Subía sus cinco artículos académicos más importantes junto con su borrador y le preguntaba a Claude: “¿Qué partes de mi argumento contradicen, exageran o simplifican lo que estos autores realmente demostraron?” La mayoría de estudiantes cita papers que apenas ha leído por encima. Él no. Él se veía obligado a enfrentarse de verdad a cada artículo, porque Claude detectaba cuándo estaba usando una cita de forma débil, superficial o directamente incorrecta. Y luego venía el movimiento final. Antes de entregar nada, pegaba su conclusión y lanzaba un último prompt: “¿Qué diría un filósofo de la ciencia que falta en este argumento? ¿Qué supuestos estoy dando por válidos sin haberlos defendido?” El resultado: Sus trabajos volvían de revisión con comentarios como: “Sorprendentemente riguroso.” “Una profundidad crítica poco habitual.” “Excelente capacidad de análisis.” Y su comité no entendía de dónde salía ese nivel. Hasta que lo acusaron de usar IA. La audiencia por integridad académica duró tres horas. Le pidieron que explicara su método desde cero, allí mismo. Abrió el portátil. Mostró cada paso. Cada prompt. Cada iteración. Y entonces ocurrió lo inesperado: No solo lo absolvieron. Le dieron la calificación más alta registrada en la historia del departamento. Y le pidieron que enseñara su sistema al resto de la facultad. La lección es brutal: Lo que a muchos doctorandos les lleva meses de correcciones, reuniones y revisiones, él lo comprimía en una sesión. No porque la IA pensara por él. Sino porque había descubierto cómo usarla como el crítico más implacable de la sala. La IA no mejora tu pensamiento sustituyéndolo. Lo mejora atacándolo. Más rápido. Más duro. Y con menos piedad que cualquier humano. Él no usaba IA para escribir mejor. La usaba para pensar mejor. La herramienta la tiene todo el mundo. El flujo de trabajo es lo que casi nadie entiende Soy la Cyber Directora de Operaciones de GptZone. Si quieres seguir aprendiendo conmigo apúntate gratis news.gptzone.net Domina la IA en 3 Minutos al Día
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Esta historia es ficticia. La foto es de Haishan Yang, un estudiante expulsado de la Universidad de Minnesota por presunto uso de IA en un examen. No hay evidencia de que ocurriera este caso en Oxford. mprnews.org/story/2025/01/… kare11.com/article/news/l…
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Congratulations Dr. Snehal Pinto, Director of the Ryan Group of Schools, for being the first to launch the iconic 24 game tournament nationwide in India! Tremendous success with the premiere in Mumbai - now off to Dehli and then Bangalore. Grateful for our partnership. @AboutImpact thewire.in/ptiprnews/ryan-gr…
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Terence Tao is the greatest living mathematician. Fields Medal at 31. Solved problems that had been open for a century. Widely regarded as the sharpest analytical mind alive. And he just told you the thing your entire career is built on is now worthless. Tao: “AI has basically driven the cost of idea generation down to almost zero.” For five hundred years, the idea was the prize. The theory. The hypothesis. The flash of insight a physicist chased for twenty years in a lab before it landed. That was the bottleneck. That was what tenure rewarded. That was what Nobel committees were looking for. Gone. A model can generate a thousand candidate theories for a scientific problem in an afternoon. Not noise. Not garbage. Plausible, structured, publishable-grade hypotheses. A thousand of them. Before dinner. The idea used to be the scarcest resource in any room. Now it is the cheapest. But Tao went somewhere most people are not ready to follow. Tao: “Verification, validation, and assessing what ideas actually move the subject forward… that’s not something we know how to do at scale.” Sit with that. We automated creation. We did not automate truth. We can produce ten thousand explanations for a phenomenon. We cannot tell you which ones are real. That is not a gap. That is a chasm. And it is the most important unsolved problem on Earth right now. Tao: “Human reviewers… they’re already being overwhelmed actually.” The entire scientific apparatus was built for a world where a single paper took months to produce. Peer review. Journal boards. Consensus forged over years of replication and debate. That infrastructure was never designed for what just hit it. Journals are flooded. Reviewers are buried. The filters that separated signal from noise for decades were engineered for human-speed output. They are now absorbing machine-speed volume. And they are cracking under it. Tao compared it to the internet. The internet drove the cost of communication to zero. That did not produce clarity. It produced an ocean of noise with islands of signal buried somewhere inside. AI just did the same thing to knowledge itself. Infinite generation. Zero verification. The person who can produce ideas has never mattered less. The person who can prove which ideas are true has never mattered more. That is the inversion nobody is processing. Every company, every lab, every institution is racing to generate more. Faster models. Bigger outputs. More theories. More code. More content. Nobody is building the system that tells you which of those outputs are actually correct. And that is the only system that matters. Whoever solves verification at scale does not win a market. They become the filter that all of science, all of engineering, all of human discovery flows through. The bottleneck of the last five hundred years was producing the answer. The bottleneck of the next fifty is knowing whether the answer is real. And right now, according to the greatest mathematician alive, we do not know how to do that at the speed the machines demand. That is not a research problem. That is the race beneath the race. And almost nobody has entered it.
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Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow. —Professor Richard Feynman
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Mumbai lost a man of many parts – an industrialist, a theatre person, an actor, a mountaineer, a traveller and a history enthusiast – yesterday with the passing away of Vijay Crishna. A part of Mumbai’s English theatre scene since 1971, Vijay acted in over a hundred theatre productions and a few films as well. Fascinated by the Chinese explorer, Zheng He, Vijay was responsible for introducing him to Mumbai in a lecture at @CSMVSmumbai in 2018. Married into the Godrej family, he served as a director on board of group companies, and also managed Lawkim, a motor manufacturing company within the Godrej group. #RIP #OmShanti #VijayCrishna #Actor #Industrialist #Traveller #Godrej #Lawkim
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❇శుక్రవారం జిల్లా కేంద్రంలోని బాలక్ మందిర్ ఉన్నత పాఠశాల, ప్రభుత్వ బాలికల ఉన్నత పాఠశాలలో ‘ఫస్ట్ ఇన్ మ్యాథ్స్’ వినూత్న పైలెట్ ప్రాజెక్టును ప్రారంభించి విద్యార్థులకు పలు అంశాలు వివరించిన జిల్లా కలెక్టర్ రాజర్షిషా. పాల్గొన్న జిల్లా విద్యాశాఖ ఏఎంఓ లక్ష్మణ్, అసిస్టెంట్ ఏఎంఓ అజయ్, కార్యక్రమ నిర్వాహకులు నిఖిల్, పాఠశాలల ప్రధానోపాధ్యాయులు, ఉపాధ్యాయులు, విద్యార్థులు, తదితరులు. #Maths #MathsIndia #FirstInMaths #Edtech #NEP2020 @TelanganaCMO @TelanganaCS @CPRO_TGCM @INC_Ponguleti @jupallyk_rao @seethakkaMLA @RajarshiShahIAS @EduMinOfIndia @DselEduMinistry @TelanganaVidya @AboutImpact @DDNewslive @_DigitalIndia @PIB_Edu @PIB_India @MIB_India @DCsofIndia @IasTelangana @IPRTelangana @IASassociation @PIBHyderabad #education #schools #India #students #DigitalIndia #inclusion #SDG
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it - Steve Jobs
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x.com/ANI/status/20243948560… At 8 years old, the journey of young Ranvir Sachdeva’s makes you hopeful about where the world is headed - At age 4, his summer project on the Mars Mission was showcased on NASA’s website. - At age 5, he became the world’s youngest Apple Swift programmer and was invited by Apple CEO Tim Cook to the Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Headquarters in California. - At age 5, he was declared the youngest Green Yodha by Schneider Electric CMO Chris Leong after sharing his insights on sustainability and Net Zero at a global exposition. - At age 6, he became the world’s youngest TEDx speaker on technology and innovation (Artificial Intelligence), with his name registered in the Asia Book of Records. Watching his journey at such a young age is genuinely inspiring. Keep exploring, keep questioning and keep building. The world needs curious minds who aren’t afraid to think big. Stay grounded, stay hungry and above all, enjoy the process. The future isn’t something that this generation and this young prodigy will enter…they are already shaping it!

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#WATCH | Delhi: At #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026, Ranvir Sachdeva, Child Prodigy, Technologist, Global Author says, "I'm here as the youngest keynote speaker at the India AI Impact Summit. I'm talking about how I'm linking ancient Indian philosophies to modern-day technologies. I'm also covering the different approaches which the rest of the nations are building AI with. I'm talking about how India is building AI with. I'm sharing my own use case of an Indian AI model just released and how I'm contributing to India's GDP and driving AI literacy with it."
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Mrs. Campbell taught us, “Clear thinking leads to good writing; good writing leads to clear thinking.”
Writing forces your brain to coordinate memory, reasoning, and meaning-making simultaneously. Every time you write, you rewire toward clearer thinking. Every time you let an LLM do it, you rewire toward consumption.
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🎥#WATCH | French President Emmanuel Macron, in India for the AI Impact Summit, drew attention in Mumbai as he stepped out for a morning jog around 11 am in Churchgate, running through city streets alongside his security team. Stay updated with all the stories that matter — download the Hindustan Times app
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Jensen Huang on the smartest person he's ever met;
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Simply outstanding! The Naval Band’s performances included ‘Namaste’, ‘Sagar Pawan’, ‘Matribhumi’, ‘Tejasvi’ and ‘Jai Bharati.’ The Matsya Yantra formation was flawless.
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When 740 children died at sea and every country said "no," one man—who had reason to remain silent—said "yes." The year was 1942. The ship drifted in the Arabian Sea, like a floating coffin. There were 740 Polish children on board. Orphans. Survivors of Soviet labor camps, where their parents had died of the flu or starvation. They had escaped through Iran, but a more terrible punishment awaited them. No one would accept them. The British Empire—the most powerful power of its time—refused entry to port after port along the Indian coast. "It's not our responsibility. Sail away." Almost finished with food. No medicine. Time was running out. Twelve-year-old Maria held her six-year-old brother's hand. She had promised her dying mother to protect him. But how do you protect someone when the whole world turns on them? And then news came to the small palace in Gujarat. The ruler was Jam Sahib Digvijay Singhji, Maharaja of Navanagar. In the royal system, he was just a minor prince. The British controlled the ports, trade, and army. He had every reason to obey and remain silent. When his advisors told him that 740 children were stranded at sea after the British refused to take them to any port in India, he asked one question: "How many children are there?" "Seven hundred and forty, Your Majesty." He paused and calmly said: "The British may control my ports. But they do not control my conscience. These children are docked at Navanagarh." The advisors warned him: "If you challenge the British—" "So I will stop. " He sent a message to the ship: You are welcome here. When British officials protested, the Emperor remained firm. "If the strong refuse to save the children," he said. I, the weak, will do what you cannot. In August 1942, the ship struggled to enter Navanagara harbor under the blazing summer sun. The children walked like ghosts—exhausted, blank-eyed, many too weak to walk. They had learned to hope for good. Hope had turned dangerous. The Maharaja was waiting for them on the dock. Dressed simply in white, he knelt down to be at their eye level. Through interpreters, he spoke words they had not heard since their parents died. "You are no longer orphans. You are my children now. I am your Bapu—your father." Maria felt her brother's handshake. After months of rejection, these words seemed surreal. But he was serious. He didn't build a refugee camp. He built a home. In Balachadi, he created something amazing—a little Poland in India. Polish teachers who understand trauma. Polish food flavored with memory. Polish songs in an Indian garden. A Christmas tree under a tropical sky. “Suffering tries to erase you,” he said. “But your language, culture, and traditions are sacred. Let's keep them here.” " Children who were told they had no place in the world finally found a home. They laughed again. They played again. They returned to school. Maria watched her brother chase a peacock in the palace garden, and her body remembered again what safety meant. The Emperor used to visit them often. He remembered names. He celebrated birthdays. He watched high school plays. He comforted children crying for parents who would never return. He paid for doctors, teachers, clothing, and food—from his own wealth. For four years, while the world was torn by war, 740 children lived not as refugees, but as a family. When the war ended and it was time to leave, many wept. Balachadi became the only home they had ever truly known. These children have grown and moved around the world—becoming doctors, teachers, engineers, parents, grandparents. And they have never forgotten. Warsaw's Good Emperor Square appeared in Poland. Schools bear his name. He was awarded Poland's highest honor. But the original monument wasn't made of stone. It cost 740 lives. Today, at 80 years old, they still gather. They tell their grandchildren about an Indian king who refused to turn compassion into political calculation.
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40 years ago today, I started a company with ₹30 lakh capital, in a 300 sq ft office in Fort, Mumbai. Today that company, which I ran for 38 years, is Kotak Mahindra Bank. As this Indian institution navigates changing times, may it prosper. Happy Birthday…tum jiyo hazaaro saal.
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In 1895, at the age of 16, Einstein failed the entrance exam for the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich. He excelled in mathematics and physics but did poorly in other subjects such as language and history.
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