PremPrasad Mirthinti @premmirth

Her name was Neha Shoree. She was a drug inspector in Punjab. In 2009, while posted in Ropar, she raided a chemist shop run by a man named Balwinder Singh. During the inspection, she found dozens of types of tablets commonly misused by drug addicts. According to official records, he could not produce the required documents for them. She cancelled his licence. Then she moved on and continued doing her job. By 2016, Neha Shoree had become the zonal licensing authority at a government drug laboratory in Kharar, near Mohali. She was thirty six years old. She had a young daughter at home. Her father was a retired Army captain who had fought in the 1971 war. The man whose licence she had cancelled never forgot what had happened. On the morning of March 29, 2019, Balwinder Singh walked into her office in Kharar carrying a licensed revolver. He shot her inside her workplace. Neha Shoree was rushed towards a hospital but died on the way. The gunman then turned the weapon on himself and died soon afterwards. According to the police, she had been due to testify against him in court. Ten years had passed since the raid. Ten years after she enforced the law, he came back for revenge. Her father later said that his daughter had lived under pressure for years because of her work, but she never compromised and never backed down. She was killed for doing exactly what the job had asked her to do. Follow for verified stories every Indian deserves to know.

Every medical science communicator must help prevent pseudoscience from infiltrating credible science databases. theprint.in/feature/liverd…

Important for public information! I would like to update that the third paper on cow research, funded using India's public money under the SUTRA-PIC (Scientific Utilization through Research Augmentation - Prime Products from Indigenous Cows program) has undergone exhaustive post-publication peer review. The paper was published in Biochemical Engineering Journal this year. The authors are from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dhanbad (Jharkhand). This is the paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… This study was done in Jharkhand and the total amount of public money given was INR 36,16,859/- (~38500 USD). As per the study, the researchers transformed ordinary cow dung into a specialized carbon material that highly effectively soaks up toxic chromium pollution from water. Instead of throwing away this metal-filled waste, they successfully reused it to build a working, long-lasting energy storage device called a supercapacitor. Well, they did not. They made it all up. Here is a plain-language summary of the fatal flaws found in the paper: 🟡The authors claim their material successfully absorbed a massive amount of toxic chromium—roughly 22% of its total weight. However, their own chemical scan shows the final product contains almost zero chromium (0.09%), making their main conclusion physically impossible. 🟡After testing this material in a battery setup that contains absolutely zero chromium, the reported amount of chromium inside the material mysteriously multiplied by 47 times (from 0.09% to 4.24%). Elements cannot spontaneously generate out of thin air, which strongly indicates the data was fabricated. 🟡The fundamental thermodynamic math used to prove how the material captures pollutants is entirely broken. The reported numbers for energy, heat, and entropy literally do not equal each other when plugged into standard physics equations, heavily suggesting the results were manually made up. 🟡The paper claims hard statistical proof that one type of cow dung is superior to another, but the actual difference between them is a fraction of a percent and mathematically insignificant. Furthermore, the statistical "p-values" they reported are mathematically incorrect for the tests they claim to have run. And one more point which requires professional image manipulation software for checking - which me or the helping team did not have access to)... 🟡The photos intended to show the physical "coated" battery electrodes appear to be digitally faked. The frayed edges and tape cuts match the uncoated metal so perfectly that it looks like solid black boxes were simply photoshopped over the original image (this is only a basic allegation, needs confirmation). With this review, I am stopping further such analysis on these so-called cow-research science papers glorifying Indian tradition. These "researchers" and "scientists" should be ashamed of themselves. Real science requires truthful validation, not beggarly applause or promotions from the hands of the "agenda-driven" masters that feed you. All three papers criticisms have been uploaded to Pub-Peer and official notifications sent to the respective journals and their research integrity teams. Two papers are already under investigation by respective journal. Please see here: x.com/theliverdoc/st… and here: x.com/theliverdoc/st… The science community in India must fight tooth and nail to prevent AYUSH pseudoscience infiltration into their revered STEM institutions. This is not a good thing, moving forward.

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Good morning. This is urgent, for public information. The second paper on cow research funded using India's public money under the SUTRA-PIC (Scientific Utilization through Research Augmentation - Prime Products from Indigenous Cows program) has undergone exhaustive

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If you are serious about knowing the history of quantum mechanics, you cannot miss Jagdish Mehra and Helmut Rechenberg's opus. Unlike many other authors, Mehra knew almost every quantum pioneer personally and conducted interviews with them, and the volumes contains fascinating anecdotes in footnotes and first-person quotes that are not found anywhere else. The series had glowing reviews from the likes of Dirac, Feynman, Bethe and Chandrasekhar. Unfortunately, the set is either unavailable or expensive; I collected my volumes over several years.

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A free MIT guide to key computer vision concepts: bit.ly/43Tn1vW

Happy to announce my new book, with Alex Townsend. It's about the math behind enormous systems (medical scans, AI, etc.) and what happens when they outgrow our ability to understand them. More info (and pre-order for 25% off) at: barnesandnoble.com/w/big-math-ste… @littlebrown @BNBuzz

With all the forced pseudoscience projects with questionable outcomes emerging from Indian Institutes of Technology across India, degrading decades of scientific credibility, mostly from political and religio-cultural agenda from the BJP and the Ministry of Ayush, this is a timely piece. Never before seen kind of "secret war" for those who really love this nation. Science community in India needs to be stronger than ever and come together to fight this spreading blight and growing rot. The hapless public deserve our candles in the dark.

I have been spending most of my non-clinical hours looking at the Modi government's public funded published studies on Cow-based product research that are published in pre-clinical journals [thank you to everyone who sent me those full papers]. I am truly dissapointed to notice that most of these publications have been poorly peer-reviewed. I do not know how they got through such journals of repute. Various papers from 2025 and 2026 from BITS Pilani, IIT Dhanbad, IIT Varanasi and IIT Roorke have clear evidence of fabrication, data falsification, data misinterpretations and duplications. The IIT Roorke cow-urine paper is now under active investigation (see pic below). I believe more will follow, once official notifications of concerns are sent to each journal's integrity office. This is public (tax) money spent on fraud and deception to uphold a whole pseudoscience industry in India. Shameful.

I relate so much with this. There's a lot to appreciate in ancient Indian knowledge. But it's critical to throw out pseudoscience. IITs, if they continue down this path, are destined for irrelevance. Faculty, students and alumni need to speak up.

Hats off to Tamilnadu Police ❤️👏

@DavidLinthicum total world wide installed power capacity=10000GW Data center power capacity=100GW that's 1 % of total capacity for an infrastructure used by all human activities from banking and advertisement to automotive and steel , healthcare, space, pharma, materials

I agree that exam rules & reporting times must be followed. However, since this was a re-exam, allowing a grace period of just 1–2 minutes could have saved years of hard work for many students. Discipline is important, but so is compassion in exceptional situations. #NEET_ReExam #NEET

In 2020, DST allotted Rs 98 crore to a grant for research on desi cows. Researchers from several IITs are working on the topic. Planning to write a proposal myself: “Consider a spherical *desi* cow…”

@ShamikaRavi So Is AI is a bubble ? It is predicting cancer, new drugs and materials, optimizing traffic flow and war strategies, and transforming education, product design, factories, and media. It's just less than a decade old, advancing rapidly, and yet to reach its peak capabilities.

@ShamikaRavi Will it be a bubble burst or a correction ? Corrections are a natural part of evolution of any product. Bubbles are hype crash landing when reality strikes. 1/

Motor control from biology to machines! 🧪 We've covered a few courses from top universities in the US. 🇺🇸 Now it's time for University of California, Berkeley, which is renowned for producing incredible roboticists. A few of them include @Ken_Goldberg, @pabbeel, @svlevine, @ancadianadragan and many, many more! So let's have a look at a course straight from UC Berkeley called 'Robots that learn'. This is a course about building robots that emulate how humans and animals actually move and interact with the world by @JitendraMalikCV. Legs over wheels. Multi-finger hands over parallel-jaw grippers. Rich visual and tactile sensing over minimal sensors. Three parts: (1) Biological motor control basics, how do animals actually do it? (2) Robot motor skill acquisition paradigms, how do we teach robots? (3) Case studies: locomotion, navigation, manipulation. Inside you can find stuff about robot kinematics & dynamics grounded in mechanics, proprioception and touch for dexterous hands, vision directly linked to control, and much more. There's tons of RL fundamentals applied to robots, and imitation learning and behavior cloning. It's mechanics + perception + learning + biology integrated into a framework for actually building capable robots. Malik is a legend in vision and robotics. This course treats motor control as a coherent problem. Here's full course for free: youtube.com/playlist?list=… Share with your robotic friends! ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news → ziegler.substack.com

@Bulvarpress with this lesson on taking revenge and cruelty, the child will hit back where he can

@maahirahaan @thekaipullai We need to start somewhere, but I think we are obsessively service model oriented which leads to the misconception that academic research, industry -research partnership, and private investment in research can be by passed by mastering python coding and APIs.

@maahirahaan @thekaipullai No body has sovereign AI if one goes by the standards proposed @thekaipullai, but the West and it's allies - South KOrea, Japan, Taiwan, and China own the IP and manufacturing capabilities that makes them on dependent on one another. India depends on all of them. None on us. 1/

I received a random DM from a young fresher (@Chsnn1f) from maybe a Tier 3 engineering institution (Honestly, I do not know). No big institute/big connection, just pure hustle. He asked me to check his project idea WaveNet. While I am not a hard core techie, whatever I understood has me truly impressed. For me, this kid is a real cockroach ( in a good way). He saw a disaster chat app (DisasterNet) & immediately spotted its biggest flaw: it only works if everyone is on the same 30m WiFi hotspot. The best part is that he looked at the problem as a graph theory puzzle & turned people with phones into a network that moves & can carry a SOS message from a place with no internet to the nearest place with internet. What really surprised me: - Fixed location of the victim (not the relay phones) - Smart "Seen" list to stop infinite loops - The message stops when it reaches the 1st phone that has internet - Pure distributed BFS running on actual humans walking around He basically reinvented parts of Delay-Tolerant Networking on his own. Of course it has real challenges (battery drain, privacy, malicious nodes, Apple/Google restrictions) but the thinking is shockingly mature for his age & background. This is exactly the kind of talented cockroaches India needs. If you are into networking/mesh systems/disaster tech/just love spotting early talent... please check out his work. (Medium link in comment below). Drop your honest feedback for him. Let us show this cockroach some love & see how good he actually is. I know a few "Maha Talented" people will say this is nothing but for a "Low IQ" guy like me, this is a remarkable work & needs to be appreciated.