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Sundar Pichai’s powerful message to the Stanford Class of 2026 🔥 “You have thousands of moments ahead of you. The important thing isn’t to get them all right; it’s to find a way to keep moving forward.” This 2-minute clip is pure motivation. Save it. Watch it when you feel stuck. What’s your biggest takeaway from this? 👇 Follow @aishivamx for more AI mindset productivity insights.
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Replying to @narendramodi
माँ तुझे सलाम 🇮🇳 ... वंदे मातरम 🇮🇳 ... 🔥!

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A Chinese mathematician spent 7 years making sandwiches at Subway after his PhD, and at 58 solved a 150-year-old math problem nobody thought was solvable. His name is Yitang Zhang. The problem is called the Twin Prime Conjecture. He was born in Shanghai in 1955 and knew he wanted to spend his life on mathematics by the time he was nine years old. That year he found his own proof of the Pythagorean theorem. Nobody taught it to him. He just worked it out. Then the Cultural Revolution arrived and took everything. The Chinese government closed the schools. Zhang's father had political troubles with the Communist Party, so Zhang was sent to the countryside with his mother to work in the fields. He spent 10 years as a farm laborer. No high school. No classroom. No teacher. He read math books in the fields when he could find them. When the revolution ended, Zhang was 23. He sat the university entrance exam and got into Peking University, one of the most competitive mathematics programs in China. He finished his bachelor's degree, then a master's. The president of Peking University personally recommended him for a full scholarship at Purdue University in the United States. He arrived at Purdue in 1985. He earned his PhD in 1991. Then the second wall hit. His relationship with his doctoral advisor collapsed. The advisor did not write him letters of recommendation. Without those letters, the academic job market was closed. Zhang applied. Nothing came back. He spent the years after his PhD working as an accountant, doing delivery work, sleeping in his car during the stretches when nothing else was available. A friend eventually opened a Subway sandwich restaurant in Kentucky and offered him a job. Zhang took it. He kept the books and made sandwiches. A man with a PhD in mathematics from Purdue, working a Subway counter because the academic world had no place for him. He did this for seven years. He was finally hired as a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire in 1999. Not a professor. A lecturer. The lowest rung of the academic ladder, with no research funding, no graduate students, and no institutional support. He taught calculus to undergraduates and worked on mathematics alone in whatever time was left. Most people would have stopped believing by then. Zhang did not stop. The Twin Prime Conjecture is one of the oldest unsolved problems in number theory. Twin primes are pairs of prime numbers separated by exactly two: 5 and 7, 17 and 19, 41 and 43. The conjecture predicts that these pairs never stop appearing no matter how far you go along the number line. Mathematicians had believed this for over 150 years. Nobody had been able to prove it. The deeper version of the problem asks something slightly different. Not whether twin primes are infinite, but whether there is any finite gap between prime numbers that appears infinitely often. This is called the bounded gap problem. The best mathematicians in analytic number theory had been attacking it for decades. A landmark 2005 paper by three researchers came agonizingly close and still could not close it. Zhang worked on it alone. No collaborators. No funding. No department seminars where he could road-test his ideas. He once said he would go to a friend's house and think in the garden for hours. In 2012, during a visit to a friend's home in Colorado, something unlocked. He submitted his paper to the Annals of Mathematics in April 2013. The Annals is the most prestigious mathematics journal in the world. Papers sit in review for months, sometimes years. The editors read Zhang's submission and immediately knew something was different. They sent it to the leading experts in analytic number theory for review. It was accepted in three weeks. The paper proved that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers separated by a gap of less than 70 million. Not two. Not the twin prime gap specifically. But a finite gap. For the first time in history, someone had proved that prime numbers keep coming back together, that the universe of numbers never lets them drift apart forever. Peter Sarnak, one of the most respected mathematicians at the Institute for Advanced Study, said: "He is not a fellow who had done much before. Nobody knew him. His result was spectacular." Zhang was 58 years old. Within a year he had the MacArthur Fellowship, the Cole Prize, the Rolf Schock Prize, and a full professorship at UC Santa Barbara. The man who spent seven years at Subway was now one of the most celebrated mathematicians alive. He said in an interview: "I was not lucky. Maybe it is more important for a person to make himself known to the public. But that was not so easy for me." He was not complaining. He was just being precise. The mathematics establishment has a quiet belief that great work happens young. The Fields Medal cuts off at 40. Most mathematicians who change the field do it in their thirties. Zhang proved his most important theorem at 58, after a decade of farm labor, seven years of sandwiches, and a decade of teaching calculus to freshmen with no one watching. He did not beat the deadline. He proved there was no deadline to beat.
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Two contradictions of #TVK: While the administration is trying to clean up the entrenched networks inside the system, the political party is recruiting the old-guards enmasse from outside. @Arun_Ram #storyboard
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Impressive @Stanford. Not hiring your grads.
Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly
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The stupidity of these @Stanford students to take the greatest opportunity for equality in humanity ever and to really free humanity and go walk out on @google and @sundarpichai that's pioneered that. Biased, idiotic, short-sighted and very selfish. Selfish because they ignored the bottom 3 billion people on this planet vs. the few million Palestinians who I also support. Get real! youtube.com/watch?v=wf74VXKT…
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RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on the Congress demand that RSS should register as an organisation says the move is political and aimed at creating doubt in people’s minds. “Many things are unregistered… even Hindu Dharma is unregistered. Those who need funds from the government register. The government knows we exist, it has banned us twice in the past,” RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said.
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The paternal uncle of my son in law and my namesake, S Ramakrishnan, the founder of Amar Seva Sangham, and his colleagues, Sankararaman and "Anbu" Ramesh met @CMOTamilnadu this morning at the Secretariat.
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TN govt carries out a major change to fast-track high-rise building approvals in Chennai. Tamil Nadu govt has authorised CMDA to directly issue planning permission for multi-storeyed buildings, ending the additional wait for final government clearance after committee approval. The move aims to cut delays and speed up project approvals while retaining existing building norms. #Chennai #CMDA #RealEstate #TamilNadu
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வீரதீர விருது வென்ற தமிழக ராணுவ வீரரை அழைத்து கௌரவித்த முதலமைச்சர் விஜய்... அவரது குழந்தையை கையில் வாங்கி மடியில் வைத்து கொஞ்சி மகிழ்ச்சி..! #KirtiChakra | #LanceNaikMeenatchiSundaram | #MeenatchiSundaram | #CMVijay | #PolimerNews
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Governor-appointed Vice-Chancellors must apologise for attending RSS event, says Kerala CM @vdsatheesan The VCs who attended the programme were Dr Mohanan Kunnummal of the Kerala University of Health Sciences; Dr D Mathew of Mahatma Gandhi University & Dr CR Prasad of Malayalam University. thesouthfirst.com/kerala/gov…
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#WATCH | Chennai | On former BJP leader Annamalai, State Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Tamil Nadu, Ashvathaman Allimuthu says, "...Few of the leaders of the party will surely go along with him (Annamalai)...All of them will come back to the BJP, as we are strongly committed to our ideology and are serving 'Bharat Mata'...They will come back when they hear "Bharat Mata ki Jai"..." (14.06)
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Power of 1 vote of Sanatanis👌👌 Jahangir “Pushpa” Khan saying sorry to people of Falta Abhishek Banerjee had boasted about Diamond Harbour model & threatened @AmitShah ji What happened? MODEL collapsed like a pack of cards after results🔥🔥🤨🤨

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VIDEO OF SYMBOL OF POLITICAL MUSCLE JAHANGIR KHAN ALIAS "PUSHPA" AND ABHISHEK BANERJEE'S CLOSE ASSOCIATE. Jahangir Khan alias “Pushpa” (for threatening IPS officer Ajay Pal Sharma) and TMC Diamond Harbour leader being led through the streets barefoot, in shorts, with a rope around his waist. Just before his arrest he pulled out of the Falta Assembly re-poll. Khan is facing allegations of extortion and criminal activity. Proximity to power doesn't always guarantee immunity.
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BELIEVE your eyes! Jahangir Khan of Falta Diamond Harbour is BEGGING on his knees—hands folded, barefoot, rope tied tight around his waist, ears pulled like a guilty schoolboy—saying SORRY to Hindus! ONE VOTE! Just ONE VOTE has FLIPPED Bengal upside down forever!
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To a second day, Pushpa Jahangir Khan has been paraded on road. This time both with folded hands & ears
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WATCH: We asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai for his reaction to 100 Stanford grads walking out of his speech today. @BBCWorld
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The Nationalist Citizens Party of India now has 20 Lok Sabha MPs. That's more MPs than: -Shiv Sena (UBT) – 9 MPs -NCP (Sharad Pawar) – 8 MPs -TMC - 8 MPs -RJD – 4 MPs -CPI(M) – 4 MPs -AAP – 3 MPs -JMM – 3 MPs -IUML – 3 MPs -SAD – 1 MP -BJD – 1 MP -BSP – 0 MPs With 20 MPs, the Nationalist Citizens Party of India has now emerged as the 5th-largest political bloc in the Lok Sabha. What's even more remarkable is that most of the parties listed above have existed for decades, built mass organizations, and even governed states. Yet a little-known party from Tripura now has a larger presence in Parliament than all of them.
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Just when I think I've started understanding .@AmitShah Ji a bit, he throws some surprises. An example how deep & futuristic he thinks. Preparation for 2026 started in 2023! Nationalist Citizens Party! Formed in Jan 2023! Who had even heard of it? It had contested some seats in Tripura, but not even locals know it. Now Rebel TMC MPs will join this 'party' to dodge all legalities & Mamata Bano can't even do anything. CHINDIs think they can ever beat this Chanakya! 😂
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Replying to @Mjr_LeeWeToddIt
I am not a great fan of Indira Gandhi but I admire her for Operation Bluestar.
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