Hari Viswanath @_HarryVish

Adobe Founders: "David Hockney came down and learned Photoshop [in 1989]. He was smoking almost the whole time and he had these two little dogs that he brought with him… it was our first attempt at putting the tools in the hands of really creative people…"

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On David Hockney's Pursuit of the Digital Image (1985-2026) Of all of the 'famous' contemporary artist's of the era, Hockney (as well as Keith Haring) would engage the computer most persistently, sustaining acute interrogations of the digital medium across time. More Below.

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On December 27, 1968, Apollo 8 needed to fire its engine to leave lunar orbit and return to Earth. If the burn was wrong, the crew would never come home. In Mission Control, a 25-year-old mathematician named Frances Northcutt, known as Poppy, had prepared the return-to-Earth calculations. She was the first woman to work in Mission Control in a technical role. When the burn data came back, something was off. The numbers didn't match the expected trajectory. She had 4 minutes to determine whether the deviation was within tolerance or whether Apollo 8 was in danger. She ran the calculations by hand. They were within tolerance. She gave the go. The crew came home. She later went to law school and became a prominent civil rights attorney. When asked about her time at NASA she said: "We were just doing our jobs. Nobody thought it was unusual except the reporters." The people who kept the astronauts alive were largely anonymous. Most of them were young women with slide rules.

Stephen Hawking was an avid rower in his college days. He joined the Oxford Rowing Team as a coxswain, the person who steers the boat and motivates the crew. He enjoyed the sport and the social life that came with it.

ALMOST FAMOUS | NEW EPISODE OUT NOW It's all happening. We dig into Cameron Crowe's love letter to 70s rock, from Penny Lane to the golden god himself. Insight, laughs, and that soundtrack. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. alltherightmovies.com/podcast/almost…

A powerful new way to memorise a number that's existed for ages, courtesy @TalentedAgency in today's @the_hindu.

Rajiv Bajaj on how homeopathy and yoga shaped Bajaj Auto’s growth strategy thehindubusinessline.com/companies/raji…

I got a lot of flack when I said this before, but I continue to think that model providers will end up being a lot like airlines: Critical for the global economy but highly commoditized, with huge capex requirements and low (and often negative) margins.

The Wall Street Journal @WSJ

4 days ago

OpenAI is considering drastic price cuts as it seeks to win over customers from archrival Anthropic on.wsj.com/4aldd0k

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"Sob story." "Gatekeeping." Read the piece. They lifted a year of my reporting whole, the sources, the discoveries, the structure, my prose read back as their script, then monetised it and badged it as their own research. And what moved you to type was that the guy who did the reporting should stop whining. Waah. The word you're working this hard to avoid is plagiarism.

Anand Sankar @saybwala

5 days ago

When I started out in newspapers back in the day I learnt within the first month - my today's story is tomorrow's bonda paper. Any story getting any recall greater than bonda paper is a win. I read through this sob story. The YouTube channel made a narrative video out of this

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@js_kaplan Hi Josh, the reports on billions in profits were incorrect. We had done some research and published this article last year. Financials indicate to the contrary thehindubusinessline.com/portfolio/why-…

Agnikul Cosmos, GalaxEye , ePlane, Mindgrove , Ultraviolette , Qnu Labs, AstroGate Labs, and many more.. These are just a few of the startups that VC firm @SpecialeInvest backed before deep tech became a buzzword in the startup world with a lot of FOMO around it.. For a new episode of @businessline #DigitalPlaybooks, I sat down with @visheshrajaram of Speciale to get the low down on deep tech investing , the new Rs 1 lakh cr RDI fund they have applied for, and the strategic tech areas for entrepreneurs to focus on .. Don’t miss the rapid fire at the end 😅 Catch the full chat here: youtu.be/1o2NAmyqW8Q?si…

Today we celebrate the birthday of J. E. Littlewood (9 June 1885 – 6 September 1977), a brilliant British mathematician. His close collaborator, G. H. Hardy, once had a fun way of comparing mathematicians. He rated them on a scale from 1 to 100. Hardy gave himself 25. He gave Littlewood 30. He rated David Hilbert at 80. And the highest score of all—100—went to Srinivasa Ramanujan.

WW2 Started from a Fake Attack #shorts youtube.com/shorts/F5sS-BW… via @YouTube

A warning or a new normal? Last Friday was a day when the logic of investing in uncorrelated assets broke down in the US markets thehindubusinessline.com/portfolio/the-… @kumarsroy & @_HarryVish ✍️ in @businessline @BlPortfolio

I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth. — Stephen Hawking

Sir Isaac Newton on atheism ✍️ Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowels) & just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore leggs or two wings or two arms on the sholders & two leggs on the hipps one on either side & no more? Whence arises this uniformity in all their outward shapes but from the counsel & contrivance of an Author? Whence is it that the eyes of all sorts of living creatures are transparent to the very bottom & the only transparent members in the body, having on the outside an hard transparent skin, & within transparent juyces with a crystalline Lens in the middle & a pupil before the Lens all of them so truly shaped & fitted for vision, that no Artist can mend them? Did blind chance know that there was light & what was its refraction & fit the eys of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These & such like considerations always have & ever will prevail with man kind to believe that there is a being who made all things & has all things in his power & who is therfore to be feared.

𝐀 𝐨𝐧𝐞-𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐍𝐏𝐒, 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬! The National Pension System (NPS) has undergone significant changes in recent years. The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has revamped several aspects of the framework, including the entry age, investment choices, pension fund options, equity allocation limits, tax benefits, withdrawal rules, and retirement income options. The introduction of the Multiple Scheme Framework has further expanded investment flexibility for subscribers. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, with nearly 1,000 extra words of insights and explanations. It provides a comprehensive look at NPS, covering account opening, investment choices, withdrawals, annuities, taxation, retirement planning, and more. Read here: thehindubusinessline.com/portfolio/big-…

I'm not surprised the oil market could handle 100 days of the Strait being closed without significant disruption. I am very surprised the oil market would remain so complacent after 100 days and with zero visibility on reopening.

On June 6, 1944, a 56-year-old general with a secret walked onto Utah Beach under fire, armed with a cane and a pistol. The secret: his heart was failing. He had hidden it from the army doctors so they wouldn't pull him from the mission. His name was Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Son of the President. He had begged three separate times to lead the first wave ashore at Normandy before his commanders finally said yes. When his landing craft drifted 2,000 yards off course, every instinct said redirect the following waves to the correct zone. Instead, Roosevelt walked the beach himself, alone, under artillery fire, cane in hand, reading the terrain. His verdict: "We'll start the war from right here." He then stood on that beach and personally greeted every regiment that landed after him, pointing them inland, cracking jokes under shellfire, steadying 18-year-olds who had never seen combat. He did this for hours. Years later, Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic act he had ever witnessed in combat. His answer, without hesitation: "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach." Roosevelt's son, Captain Quentin Roosevelt II, also landed at Normandy that same morning. He was named after his uncle, Quentin Roosevelt, who had been shot down as a fighter pilot over France in World War I. Three generations. Three wars. One family. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep 36 days later. Heart attack. The thing he had been hiding finally won. He never learned he had been awarded the Medal of Honor. He was buried at the Normandy American Cemetery. In 1955, his family had his brother Quentin, killed in WWI, exhumed from where he fell in France and reinterred right beside him. Quentin is the only World War I soldier buried there. Two brothers. Two world wars. The same French soil. Their father had once said: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Both of his sons did exactly that.

Today, June 6, 1944. The largest seaborne invasion in history was hours away. And the man responsible for stopping it was in Germany, carrying a pair of grey suede shoes. Erwin Rommel, the "Desert Fox," commanded the Atlantic Wall defenses. He alone understood what was coming. He had been screaming for months that if the Allies hit the beaches, the Panzer divisions had to be right there at the waterline to crush them in the first hours. Any later and Allied air power would make movement impossible. But the weather was brutal. German meteorologists said no invasion was possible in these conditions. So on June 5th, Rommel left Normandy and drove home to surprise his wife with the shoes for her 50th birthday. He was not there when it started. At 2am on June 6th, Allied paratroopers began dropping behind German lines. Reports flooded in. Field Marshal von Rundstedt, commanding all German forces in the west, recognized immediately what was happening and ordered the two reserve Panzer divisions, the 12th SS and Panzer Lehr, to move toward the coast. They were parked outside Paris, 120 miles away. Every minute mattered. OKW overruled him. Only the Führer could release those Panzers. And the Führer was asleep. His aides had standing orders: do not wake Hitler. Not for anything. Several generals tried. They were turned away. The fear of delivering wrong information to an unpredictable man in the middle of the night was enough to paralyze the entire German high command. So they waited. While 156,000 Allied troops crossed the Channel, while men drowned in the surf and burned on the beaches, the two armored divisions that could have changed the course of the war sat completely idle, engines cold, waiting for one sleeping man's signature. Hitler woke around noon. They finally told him. He was not angry. He was not panicked. He was almost relieved. Hitler had been expecting this. Allied deception operations had spent months building a fictional army group under Patton in southeast England, leaking fake radio traffic pointing to Pas-de-Calais as the real target. Hitler was totally convinced. Normandy, he told his generals, was the distraction. The REAL blow was still coming further north. He held the Panzers back and waited for an invasion that would never come. At 4pm he finally gave the order to move. Six hours after the beaches were stormed. But by 4pm the clouds had broken. Allied fighters and bombers owned the sky over Normandy and annihilated anything that moved on the roads. The Panzers were forced to pull into roadside forests and wait under cover until dark, crawling forward hours too late to matter. Rommel, meanwhile, was speeding back through Germany in his staff car, having heard the news mid-morning. Witnesses say he barely spoke the entire drive. Just kept repeating quietly to himself: "How stupid of me. How stupid of me." The window to throw the Allies back into the sea was about six hours wide. It closed while one man slept and another bought shoes.