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The Big Int retweeted
From my WIP, titled "Exodus"
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2 Jul 2025
Vivid, exciting and superbly crafted tale of and about ancient India that takes you on a fascinating ride through several countries. From India's master storyteller @ashwinsanghi. amazon.in/dp/9369896449
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If this was the cover of a book of short stories in the science fiction genre, would you be intrigued or curious? What emotions do you feel?
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20 Mar 2025
ॐ नमो भगवते रुद्राय । ॐ सरस्वत्यै नमः ॥ Indus corpus is 100% translated. Some observations: 1. Grammatically correct Sanskrit throughout. 2. Consistent themes. A huge percentage (approx 90% relate to Rudra. Other gods like Indra and Vishnu are mentioned by their other names). 3. Rare missing anusvara, visarga as in later Brahmi inscriptions 4. Almost all inscriptions are R>L. Very few are L>R, most of L>R have the directional marker. 5. There is only one word रल in only one inscription M-1701 that is not officially in the dictionary. Related words do exist in the dictionary. All in all, the translation effort has been a spectacular success and validates the decipherment. I'd like to give a shoutout to all who have helped with the website, Sanskrit grammar, many suggestions. Especially thanks to the early critics, who tried to falsify my work. Your work improved the decipherment because my direction was generally right. The list of people to acknowledge is very long and impractical to list here. Now enjoy! indusscript. net (remove the space before net)
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That's a wrap for #BGM1! After downlinking more than 119 GB of data, including 51 GB of science and technology data for @NASA, we're beyond proud to say Firefly met all our mission objectives. fireflyspace.com/news/firefl…
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#BlueGhost signing off with one final message from the Moon. Thank you for the unforgettable journey. 💙 #BGM1
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Coming in for a landing 🚀🌕 During last week's Moon landing, our SCALPSS cameras captured first-of-its-kind video of the lunar lander’s engine plumes interacting with the Moon’s surface. Read more: go.nasa.gov/4huTkVd
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Tien Nguyen -Chief Engineer at NASA JPL posted this today on Linked In. This is an image from the mastcam on curiosity. MARS
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This is Daphnis, one of Saturn's moons. This image shows its unusual gravitational effect on Saturn's rings.
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23 Feb 2025
This is Betelguese, ~650 light-years away.

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The impact probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 has dropped from 2.8% to 0.16%. Thanks to new observations, Earth is now at the edge of our shrinking ‘uncertainty window.’ If this trend continues, the risk may soon reach 0%.
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I proudly present my most detailed photo ever of an extragalactic object: a 400 megapixel photo of the Andromeda Galaxy. Captured over a period of 3 months using 2 telescopes and thousands of photos. My favorite part is the core, which I’ll zoom into in the reply for you.
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A couple reflections on the quantum computing breakthrough we just announced... Most of us grew up learning there are three main types of matter that matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Today, that changed. After a nearly 20 year pursuit, we’ve created an entirely new state of matter, unlocked by a new class of materials, topoconductors, that enable a fundamental leap in computing. It powers Majorana 1, the first quantum processing unit built on a topological core. We believe this breakthrough will allow us to create a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years. The qubits created with topoconductors are faster, more reliable, and smaller. They are 1/100th of a millimeter, meaning we now have a clear path to a million-qubit processor. Imagine a chip that can fit in the palm of your hand yet is capable of solving problems that even all the computers on Earth today combined could not! Sometimes researchers have to work on things for decades to make progress possible. It takes patience and persistence to have big impact in the world. And I am glad we get the opportunity to do just that at Microsoft. This is our focus: When productivity rises, economies grow faster, benefiting every sector and every corner of the globe. It’s not about hyping tech; it’s about building technology that truly serves the world.
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Microsoft's supporting paper, published in Nature, does not support the claim that they have created a topological qubit. nature.com/articles/s4158… Peer reviewers of the Nature paper expressed concern that the paper misleadingly implies that a topological qubit was demonstrated or otherwise achieved: static-content.springer.com/esm/art:10.1…
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The collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies...
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25 Jan 2025
This Republic Day, we're thrilled to make history together: introducing the first-ever Arduino UNO एक R4 Made in India! 🇮🇳 blog.arduino.cc/2025/01/25/t…
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3 Feb 2025
Grab it now :- amzn.in/d/90zQhaB
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TATA STEEL CHESS 2025 CHAMPION 🏆 - Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa 🇮🇳
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