There is nothing like the feeling of discovering talent from parts of the country I can’t even pronounce
Mavericks and savants hidden all over the country, a day’s journey from the nearest airport
I’m commissioning a map of India at Lagrange Point soon, without the usual Bangalore, Bombay, Delhi, but with all the towns and villages where Lagrangians come from
Nuclear energy powers cities, industries, submarines, and spacecraft.
Yet, most of us have never learned how it actually works. Let’s change that.
Firefly Reading Circle 001
Bengaluru, this Saturday.
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I AM COMING to BENGALURU this weekend!
Thanks to @_lagrangepoint for sponsoring my trip ;)
i am a research engineer who works on ml inference and hw/sw codesign.
p.s. take a glimpse of the stuff I was into when I was 10 years old in 2017
hi new people, let's meet!
If you're NOT in Bangalore and working on the public good on any of our favorite problem areas, come to Bangerlore
We at @_lagrangepoint will help with flights and accommodation, and help you meet fellow practitioners. Just DM me!
- urban quality of life / civic tech
- food toxicity
- deep tech talent
If you know someone that fits, send them my way, and I will gift you some really nice socks
if you’re new to bangalore looking to make some friends, evaluating moving soon or just looking for an excuse to visit - make it around 6th june and come meet 250 of us oneshot. drop your emails for an invite please and TY
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If you're NOT in Bangalore and working on the public good on any of our favorite problem areas, come to Bangerlore
We at @_lagrangepoint will help with flights and accommodation, and help you meet fellow practitioners. Just DM me!
- urban quality of life / civic tech
- food
Today at @_lagrangepoint:
A friend got wind that a young founder is building rockets using solid fuel boosters
She then rushes at peak hour through Bangalore traffic to visit and warn him against going down that dark path
Cue rocketry gore from the last century of building rockets and "are you sure you have the safety protocol down"
session went well, was fun to whiteboard with people again after a while. thanks @itsarnavb and @_lagrangepoint for hosting us, and everyone who joined. you’re og
quick summary of what we talked about:
started by sketching a crude version of how we’d integrate force as a modality ourselves. image tokenised through ViT, proprio, and text encoded into a pretrained VLM, latent flowing into an action head in the same policy. also talked about action chunking on the decoder helping with inference latency and temporal coherence within a chunk, though long chunks risk drifting from the world
then started picking apart the paper. the action head is actually a separate altered transformer that ingests numerical force as input and outputs (delta_p, f), directly fed into the robot’s impedance controller which converts to motor torque and makes the arm respond to feedback. different from the usual IK-based position controller logic
discussed that the improvement over pi0 might have come from the model being steered to produce a force vector as output, not the MoE in the action head. paper doesn’t show with/without MoE ablations so can’t say
also briefly touched on interrupts for robots. training time we feed deliberately bad demos and recover. inference time we use DAgger and add a human intervention label and retrain. model has no internal knowledge of whether data came from human intervention or general teleop
some questions that branched off from our discussion:
- apart from force, what other modalities of input and feedback would make action policies more aware and accurate?
- slow and fast moving policies and how they get baked together at high frequency of operation?
- flow inpainting as an inference time optimisation for cloud based vlas? (under explored)
planning to host a few people for a paper reading session in Indiranagar on 30th April. the discussion will be anchored around contact rich manipulation. we’ll mostly discuss the recent ForceVLA2 paper, but I’ll curate a few more reading resources around it.
keeping the first
it was great to host an incredible group of folks at the @AltCarbonIndia office, brought together by their curiosity and shared interest in frontier science advancement.
what better place to do it than @iiscbangalore-- an institution built by JN Tata, a man who believed that India's most urgent need wasn't more capital — it was more science.
pleasure to host friends from @ARIA_research@lossfunk@_lagrangepoint@AccelIndia@karya_inc
check out ARIA's call for program directors here: aria.org.uk/about-aria/our…
also check out the new AI Scientist Conference that @paraschopra spoke about at the event: caisc2026.github.io
for those asking, here's the reading list we started the evening with: notion.so/ARIA-x-Alt-Car…
HEY! I'm hosting a panel on accelerating deep tech and manufacturing in India 🇮🇳 at IISc
This Tuesday I'm at @AltCarbonIndia HQ alongside @ARIA_research
ARIA is the UK government agency that enables high-risk research and moonshot projects. They're on a mission in India to support and invest in the frontier.
If that's you, DM me!
Looking forward to seeing familiar and new faces!
Many thanks to team Alt Carbon! @adadithya@ananyabananyaa @SparshAgarwall
Excited to share “Poisoned Wells,” which presents the largest point-in-time study of website blocking in India to date. I tested the blocking of 294 million apex domains across six Indian ISPs, sending 1.76 billion DNS queries in total.
If you enjoy obsessively figuring out how protocols, APIs, and machines work under the hood, DM me with your past work
You'll work alongside some *excellent* collaborators at @_lagrangepoint over a retreat
Aspera Industries was born from a frustration and a single lingering question: why are airplanes not built in India? 🧵
Grateful to @RahulSanghi1 and @AaryamanVir for helping me bring a voice to this mission. Link to the full piece below!
@Mankaran32@pr0t0_01@rt_2422@AdithyaDsilva@itsarnavb 5/ Khushi Mittal @khushhhi_ is working to manufacture autonomous, medium-sized cargo aircraft in India, with the long-term goal of launching the world's first autonomous airline. observv.co
Over the next six weeks, she will be developing the flight stack for a
In India 🇮🇳, students in colleges prepare to enter the real world by doing fake things:
- meaningless resume padding projects
- endless interview prep
- placement politics
We can do better. Introducing @quest_sh:
A set of hard but tractable *real world* problems you can solve
Hey! We're meeting Sunday (tomorrow) at 3 PM to talk about education and alternate career paths over coffee and croissants
Looking to talk to high school and college students (and drop outs!)
If that's your thing, please reply or DM me, @khushhhi_ or @shruthibadri!
if you're going to be in hyderabad this weekend, please dm me or @itsarnavb !
planning to host a small gathering of folks in high school and university to talk about education and deep tech
I’m launching a project with @shruthibadri
We’re addressing issues deeply personal to us: education, early career paths, technical talent, and neurodiversity in India 🇮🇳
Hosting an event in Bangalore this Sunday.
We’re looking to talk to students thinking about questions of career, and show what we’re building
DMs open! 💌
Looking for folks with Parkinson's or other motor disabilities to test and iterate on clothing adaptations I designed!
Intend to make it possible to dress again with dignity.
Please DM/share with anyone who might benefit from this!
Protos are ready, just need more feedback.
AQI has been a pressing issue in India but we only seemed to obssess over it after @bryan_johnson walked out of the podcast with @nikhilkamathcio@Nithin0dha talked about how AQI should be corelated to factors like real estate prices.
We at @_lagrangepoint wanted to verify
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