Common Citizen @Human0169

The silence surrounding the brutal five-day gang-rape of an innocent 13-year-old girl by 30 men in Ganganagar is absolutely deafening. There are no protests, no mainstream news broadcasts and no trending topics on X for an act so monstrous. It raises a disturbing question: is the public and media look the other way purely because this happened under a BJP administration? Everything is allowed under BJP watch?

@indicrealist @the_hindu @parakala Re bsdk you think that 16 cried people are illigal, they came from Bangladesh? Lodu

Stanford professor Judy Fan went on stage at MIT and broke down why humans are so good at making the invisible visible... And why AI hasn't actually learned to "see" the way we do. It completely changes how you think about Human Intelligence v/s Artificial Intelligence: 1. Nature never gave us straight lines or sharp corners. The number line, the coordinate plane, even basic geometry are all human inventions. We created tools that do not exist in nature simply because we needed a way to think more clearly. 2. The coordinate system Descartes invented solved a problem that had stumped mathematicians for centuries, doubling the volume of a cube. Once invented, this tool became so indispensable that virtually every math curriculum on Earth still depends on it. 3. Humans have been doing this for at least 30,000 to 80,000 years. The story of human progress is inseparable from the story of marking up our environment, from cave walls to Galileo's telescope to Feynman diagrams of particles we will never see with our own eyes. 4. Every major scientific breakthrough relied on a visual tool that made something invisible visible. Darwin needed side-by-side illustrations of finches to see variation that was otherwise too subtle to notice. Cajal needed detailed drawings of neurons under a microscope to map how the nervous system was wired. 5. Fan's research group studies something deceptively simple: how people decide what to put into a drawing and what to leave out. When two people played a drawing game, sketchers used far more detail when the target object had close competitors than when it stood alone, all the way down to using fewer strokes and less time when more detail was not necessary. 6. People are not just copying what they see. They are making constant judgment calls about what level of detail actually serves the goal of communication, and they do this naturally without ever being taught the theory behind it. 7. There is a real difference between drawing something so someone can identify it and drawing something so someone can understand how it works. In one study, participants drew explanatory diagrams that emphasized moving, causal parts of a machine while depictive drawings emphasized background and overall appearance, even though both were drawing the exact same object. 8. Explanatory drawings were genuinely better at helping someone figure out how to operate a machine, but worse at helping someone identify which machine it actually was. You cannot optimize a single drawing for both goals at once. Communication always involves tradeoffs. 9. AI vision models trained on photographs generalize surprisingly well to simple, sparse sketches, suggesting that resemblance based recognition is not just a story we tell ourselves. It is something modern neural networks can replicate with real accuracy. 10. But there remains a large, measurable gap between how confidently AI models recognize sketches and how confidently humans do, even when both groups answer the same questions about the same images. Humans are simply far more reliable and far more consistent in their judgments. 11. When researchers compared human-made sketches to AI-generated sketches under tight stroke budgets, both were similarly recognizable at higher budgets, but diverged sharply as the budget shrank. Humans and AI systems simplify drawings in fundamentally different ways once resources get scarce. 12. Reading a graph is not one single skill. It involves perception, knowing where to look, mapping that visual information onto the actual question being asked, and then translating that mapping into an answer. Each of these steps can independently break down, and people fail for very different underlying reasons even when they land on the same wrong answer. 13. When tested directly against humans on graph reading tasks, leading multimodal AI models, including GPT-4V, showed a meaningful performance gap. Even when a model's overall accuracy approached human levels, its pattern of mistakes looked nothing like how humans actually get things wrong. 14. People choose entirely different types of charts depending on what specific question they are trying to answer, not out of a generic preference for bar charts or scatter plots. Their chart choices closely tracked which visualization would genuinely help someone answer that specific question correctly. 15. Two of the most widely used graph literacy tests in education research turned out to correlate strongly with each other, suggesting they measure overlapping skills. But when researchers dug into the actual error patterns, the standard categories used in textbooks, like "find the maximum" or "identify a cluster," failed to explain why people got things wrong nearly as well as a more basic, underlying four-factor model did. 16. The deepest goal behind all of this research is not just academic curiosity. It is to eventually help students and everyday people develop genuine literacy with the visual tools that science and modern decision-making increasingly depend on, because every generation should be able to see further than the last by standing on the visual tools the previous generation built. Follow @yasminekho for more ideas on thinking better, becoming clearer & building a more intentional life.

@NareshAggarwal0 @naeemalvik Thik hai bhai bina kaam kiye muft ka rashan khate rah tu, jinda rah aur khus rah.

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Every programming language was created to solve a problem. Fix the problem → create a language: • C → Building operating systems was too difficult with assembly • C++ → C wasn’t ideal for large, complex software • Java → Software needed to run on any platform • Python → Programming was too verbose and difficult to read • JavaScript → The web needed interactivity • C# → Microsoft wanted a modern language for its platform • Go → Large backend systems became too complex to manage • Rust → Memory safety bugs kept causing crashes and vulnerabilities • Swift → Objective-C had become outdated and cumbersome • Kotlin → Android development needed a better language • PHP → Websites needed dynamic server-side content • Ruby → Developer productivity and happiness mattered more • TypeScript → JavaScript needed safer, more predictable code • SQL → Databases needed a simple way to query data • R → Statisticians needed a language built for data analysis • MATLAB → Engineers needed powerful numerical computing tools • Dart → Cross-platform app development needed a single codebase • Solidity → Smart contracts needed to run without intermediaries • Assembly → Developers needed direct control over hardware • Objective-C → Object oriented programming came to the Apple ecosystem

He taught machines to learn. He won a Turing Award. Now he says we're building AI all wrong. "We want a path towards intelligence that isn't limited by human abilities." In 71 minutes at MIT, Richard Sutton reveals what comes after the chatbot. Self-taught + play + abstraction + superintelligence Worth more than a year of AI roadmaps on your timeline

@GGururajan20945 @PriyankKharge Bsdk ab ye mat bol dena ki tere bete ko tere baap dada ne kiyu nhi paida kiya tujhe hi kiyu paida karna hoga tere bete ko

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This is @aakashibhatt and @shantanubhatt95 Dearest Dad, This is the 8th Father’s Day we are spending torn apart from one another. When people hear the word father, they often think of a provider, a protector, a parent. But to us, you have been infinitely more than that. You have been our friend, guide, mentor, our biggest inspiration, fiercest supporter, our moral compass, our strength … our very soul! Everything we are today, every value we hold, every conviction we carry, every ounce of courage we possess, begins with you! Long before we understood the complexities of the world, we understood that if we wanted to know what courage looked like, we only had to look at you … If we wanted to know what integrity looked like, we only had to look at you … If we wanted to know what it meant to stand up for others, to defend those who needed defending, to speak when silence was easier and to persevere when surrender seemed tempting, we only had to look at you! In these past years, Shan and I have watched lesser men, drunk on power make decisions that have profoundly and painfully altered the course of countless lives. We have watched men entrusted with responsibility choose self-preservation over courage... We have watched Men bending their principles to pressure and greed, choosing convenience over conscience, obedience over integrity, silence over truth and self-interest over justice. And often, as I watched them, I found myself wondering: What legacy will these men leave behind? When history strips away their titles, their influence, their power, what will remain? When their kin are old enough to understand, what will they tell themselves? What will they think when they look back upon their choices? Will they speak proudly of men who remained silent when they should have spoken? Will they admire men who bowed when they should have stood? Will they celebrate men who traded integrity for advancement and conscience for comfort? who watched injustice unfold and chose silence because it was safer? Or will they feel the unbearable weight of knowing, that when the moment came to stand for what was right, these men chose instead to kneel before what was expedient? I do not know. But what I do know beyond any doubt is that they will never know what Shan and I do … They will never know the immeasurable privilege of being the children of a man whose character cannot be compromised, whose conscience cannot be intimidated, and whose spirit cannot be broken! They will never know what it feels like to draw strength from a father whose life is a testament to courage! They will never know the pride that surges through our veins when we speak his name! They will never know what it is like to have a father who is not merely a hero to us, but to tens of thousands... A man who chose principle over comfort... A man who stood when others knelt... A man who spoke when others remained silent... A man who chose truth over safety... A man who paid the heavy price for doing what was right! Dad, you have always led by example … You taught us that courage is not a dramatic act performed in a single moment of heroism, rather it is a habit … a way of moving through the world, a quiet refusal to compromise one's principles, even when compromise would make life easier. It is the willingness to stand alone when standing with the crowd would be safer. It is the ability to look adversity directly in the eye and refuse to surrender your humanity to it. From you, we learned to never remain silent in the face of injustice, to fight for what is right, no matter the consequences, to face adversity with our heads held high, to walk into storms rather than run from them and to never allow the fire in our hearts and the courage in our souls to be extinguished. You taught us that hope is not naïveté, rather it is defiance. It is the refusal to allow injustice the final word … it is the belief that truth survives even when buried, that justice survives even when delayed, and that goodness survives even when punished. Children often search for heroes in books, films, and legends, but Shan and I never had to, because we were fortunate enough to grow up with ours … A hero in flesh and blood! A hero whose voice guided us …Whose example shaped us … Whose love sustained us. A hero we have the immense honour of calling our father! Dad, you have, and you continue to inspire us, shaping our lives indelibly and forever. Since we were little, you filled our childhood with laughter, warmth, books, music, art, culture, curiosity, and wonder, unwavering in your efforts to introduce us to extraordinary role models. As you guided us through these incredible years of our lives, I wonder whether you ever realised that the person Shan and I have most wanted to become, ever since we were young, has always been, and will always remain, you! For eight long years, we have been torn apart by cowardly, spine-less men. They’ve stolen away our precious years, celebrations, ordinary moments, memories, and irreplaceable time.But they have failed in the one thing they truly sought to destroy…They have failed to break your courage, spirit and resilience! People often say greatness is measured by the lives one touches and the principles one refuses to abandon …. By that measure, Dad, you are a giant! The names of those who abuse power will eventually fade into oblivion. But the names of those who stood against them will echo across generations. Because, in the end, good, though battered and bruised, must triumph over evil. Justice, though trampled by politics and power, must ultimately prevail Truth, though persecuted, must emerge. And it is my belief that you, Dad, will emerge from this stronger than ever! Dad, you are not only our father … You are our hero … our NorthStar … Our Cornerstone! Here's to a future where people find the strength to choose courage instead of subservience! A future where conscience matters more than convenience, where integrity matters more than power, where truth matters more than fear! Enough lives have been shattered, enough dreams have been trampled and enough futures have been sacrificed at the altar of political expediency! The time for silence has long passed …. The time for courage has arrived. And if there is one thing you have taught us, it is this: That a single voice speaking the truth can echo louder than an army of cowards. Here's to the day when these years are finally behind us, when distance is no longer measured in years, when celebrations are no longer marked by absence, and when we can simply sit together again, in the warmth of our home. Here's to the day our family is whole again .... To many more years of laughter, love, arguments about books, terrible jokes, shared meals, listening to music and, as you would say, continuing to "build character." Happy Father's Day, Dad! We love you to infinity and beyond and we are immensely proud to be your children!! Lots and lots of love, Aakashi & Shantanu #justiceforsanjivbhatt #FreeSanjivBhatt #EnoughIsEnough

@ProfKapilKumar @RahulGandhi Rahul Gandhi ji Modi je ke upar??

READ BANNED BOOKS, THERE'S A REASON WHY THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO READ BANNED BOOKS. Here’s list • 1984 • Animal Farm • Paradise • Huck Finn • To kill a mockingbird • Anne franks diary • project 1619 • Atlas Shrugged • Brave New World • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

@ProfKapilKumar @RahulGandhi Abe prof to hata le naam ke pahle, agar aise hi likhne hai to.

@partha2019LS Throw your degree bro, if you still believe elections in India are fair and based on what people think and vote for.

India's Biggest Economic Challenge Is not Inflation, Oil, or War - It is an Unskilled Population Addicted to Distraction. Every time oil prices rise, economists panic. Every time a war breaks out in the Middle East or Europe, television studios declare that India's economy is under threat. And yes, both matter. But neither represents India's greatest economic challenge. The real crisis is unfolding much closer to home. It is a generation that spends more time consuming content than creating value. A workforce that debates geopolitics without mastering spreadsheets, artificial intelligence, coding, welding, precision manufacturing, sales, finance, communication, or even basic problem-solving. An economy where attention has become the most wasted national resource. India is one of the youngest countries in the world. That should have been our greatest competitive advantage. Instead, we risk turning our demographic dividend into a demographic liability. The Age of Endless Consumption Never before has information been so accessible. Yet never before have so many people spent so much time learning so little. Hours disappear into political debates, celebrity gossip, cricket controversies, influencer reels, conspiracy theories, and outrage cycles that have absolutely no impact on an individual's earning potential. Ask someone how many hours they spent on social media last week. Then ask them how many hours they invested in acquiring a new professional skill. For many, the answer is uncomfortable. We have become experts at commenting on the economy while contributing very little to it. Degrees Are Not Skills India has no shortage of graduates. It has a shortage of employable graduates. Companies repeatedly report the same problem: vacancies exist, but suitable candidates are difficult to find. Not because people lack certificates. Because many lack practical skills. The world is rewarding competence, not credentials. - Can you solve problems? = Can you communicate effectively? - Can you sell? = Can you lead a team? - Can you analyze data? - Can you use AI to improve productivity instead of merely asking it amusing questions? - Can you create something that another person is willing to pay for? Those are the questions that determine economic success. Not the number of degrees hanging on a wall. Attention Is the New Currency The biggest theft today is not of money. It is of attention. Every notification fragments concentration. Every endless scroll delays mastery. Every hour spent consuming outrage is an hour not spent building expertise. Modern economies reward deep work, specialized knowledge, creativity, and disciplined execution. Algorithms reward emotional reactions. Unfortunately, millions choose the algorithm. The Coming Divide Artificial intelligence is not replacing everyone. It is replacing people who refuse to learn. The future will belong to workers who continuously upgrade themselves. Those who combine human judgment with technological tools will become dramatically more productive. Those who stop learning will find themselves competing for fewer opportunities at lower wages. The divide will not be between rich and poor. It will increasingly be between skilled and unskilled. National Growth Begins With Individual Discipline Governments can build highways. Businesses can build factories. Universities can build campuses. But none of them can force an individual to develop skills. Economic transformation begins with personal responsibility. Spend one less hour arguing online. Spend one more hour learning. Read instead of scrolling. Build instead of complaining. Acquire one valuable skill every year. Become indispensable. If millions of Indians made that simple choice, the country's economic trajectory would change more profoundly than any fiscal stimulus, any election promise, or any temporary fall in oil prices. Wars will end. Oil prices will rise and fall. Markets will recover. But a nation that neglects skill development while surrendering its attention to endless distraction will struggle long after those headlines have disappeared. The strongest economy is not built by the loudest voices. It is built by the most capable people. #JaiHind

@Sydusm @jhinukcjhinuk CJI called the term "cockroach" across country supreme court, high court and lower courts are giving biased judgement, these cockroaches aren't asking resignation of cji or fixing of judiciary yehh aren't asking resignation of FM, or any other ministers strange.

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began. The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start. Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have. If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

@DrSanjivGoenka Barbad kardo isko bhi sirLSG me le aao

@Freenore @FakeerHun Re bsdk everything is fixed how can opposition win, if g@@&d me guda hai gobhi ji ko bolo ki wo free and fair election karwaye aukaat pata chal jayegi aur Sikandar banne ka ghamand bhi chur hojayga. Tab enjoy kar

Trump and the US government wasted $50 billion to blow up Iran and murder children on behalf of Israel, and now will pay $300 billion to rebuild Iran (as it should). Like all US wars, the entire purpose was to funnel billions of dollars to weapons makers and make the rich richer. As Julian Assange astutely pointed out over a decade ago, the end goal of the US military industrial complex is not to actually win the war, but to keep waging them so it can launder money into the hands of the elites.