Aloke Kumar

@aalokelab

Associate Professor @ Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. Personal and Lab related tweets.

kumarlab.com Joined February 2017

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U wud expect environmentalists to be very very vocal against parali burning. No major interviews, no street marches …. just silence. You cannot talk against a Marxist protectorate. Irrelevant how much data exists …. once u r protected u can do no wrong (remind u of smthng?)

Aloke Kumar @aalokelab Nov 2

Add to this that the manufacturing PMI has been >50 for many dozen months straight now. Change is happening …. slow n steady.

Bloomberg Verified account @business Oct 31

India saw about 496 million people lifted out of poverty between 2011 and 2023 in one of the world’s fastest declines in this metric, the World Bank said, although the gains remain uneven. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Aloke Kumar @aalokelab Oct 28

At IISc, one prof’s lab specialises in lighting that will resemble solar irradiance. We need a deeper academia-startup collab.

Swarajya Verified account @SwarajyaMag Oct 28

A Bengaluru space startup rented a lamp from a film-lighting firm to play the sun in a test. Because nobody in India had tried the thing it is attempting, it had to invent the tests too.

Indian deep tech needs many more engineers who can invent new tests.🧵

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Aloke Kumar @aalokelab Oct 20

Does innovation occur in podcast talks? So if I listened to an English podcast an innovation will occur in the podcast?

Asking for a friend

Mogambo Verified account @Netajinonsense1 Oct 20

Two hours of Sanskrit AI talk, and somehow the biggest innovation is that the conversation happened in Sanskrit. 💀
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Aloke Kumar @aalokelab Oct 20

The prof is question is a founder of an AI startup. Same old trick being played here where celebrating our heritage is given a negative spin.

Shashank Bhardwaj Verified account @bhardwajshash Oct 19

America: we'll develop the best frontier models.

China: we'll develop the cheapest frontier models.

India:
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