Arnav Bansal ⠕ (@itsarnavb) / X

Arnav Bansal ⠕

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Arnav Bansal ⠕

@itsarnavb

supporting young talent at @_lagrangepoint. Interests: Computing history, Talent, Education, Industrialization ex: @replit (2020-2024)

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Joined January 2018

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Arnav Bansal ⠕
@itsarnavb
Mar 12
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
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Arnav Bansal ⠕
@itsarnavb
Dec 17, 2022
Current human quests summed up: - create and enslave a God - create and control a Sun - cheat Death
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Arnav Bansal ⠕
@itsarnavb
Feb 9, 2025
Today's nerd snipe: > boiled eggs suck because yolk and white are best cooked at diff. temperatures > talented chefs try to do this by cooking eggs sous-vide between 60°C and 70°C, but still not good enough unless they use complex techniques to separate white and yolk > Nature
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Arnav Bansal ⠕
@itsarnavb
Nov 12, 2024
Last week, I built a Faraday cage with friends We built this to unlock hearing aids mode on the  AirPods for grandma, geoblocked in India for regulatory reasons This cage is in Koramangala, Bangalore 🇮🇳. But inside the cage, your phone thinks it's Menlo Park, California 🇺🇸
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Arnav Bansal ⠕
@itsarnavb
Nov 13, 2024
we made it to @WIRED magazine!
Arnav Bansal ⠕
@itsarnavb
Nov 12, 2024
Last week, I built a Faraday cage with friends We built this to unlock hearing aids mode on the  AirPods for grandma, geoblocked in India for regulatory reasons This cage is in Koramangala, Bangalore 🇮🇳. But inside the cage, your phone thinks it's Menlo Park, California 🇺🇸
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Arnav Bansal ⠕
@itsarnavb
Feb 26, 2024
they’re called “Stuart Littles”
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Arnav Bansal ⠕
@itsarnavb
May 18, 2025
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
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Arnav Bansal ⠕
@itsarnavb
Mar 4, 2024
time for a satyagraha hackathon where we all train models and break this rule
Aravind Srinivas
@AravSrinivas
Mar 3, 2024
Bad move by India.
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Arnav Bansal ⠕
@itsarnavb
Sep 28, 2023
> extremely sleep deprived, trying to rebook a flight itinerary on call > spelling out my booking reference code letter by letter: "P for Paris, S for Singapore..." > reach the letter 'Y' > for whatever reason, the first word I think of is Yttrium > should I say "Y for
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Arnav Bansal ⠕
@itsarnavb
Oct 14, 2023
Replying to @GoHomestay and @makemytrip
wow the ad already sucked, and then you guys made it worse are you in competition with makemytrip for the greater self-own?
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Arnav Bansal ⠕
@itsarnavb
Nov 17, 2024
we also got covered in the Times of India today, on page 2!
Arnav Bansal ⠕
@itsarnavb
Nov 12, 2024
Last week, I built a Faraday cage with friends We built this to unlock hearing aids mode on the  AirPods for grandma, geoblocked in India for regulatory reasons This cage is in Koramangala, Bangalore 🇮🇳. But inside the cage, your phone thinks it's Menlo Park, California 🇺🇸
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Arnav Bansal ⠕
@itsarnavb
Apr 4, 2025
Replying to @kitto
“das ist perfekt” i felt that
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Arnav Bansal ⠕
@itsarnavb
Sep 21, 2025
The distaste for apartments would disappear if they had big balconies as a rule The buildings themselves would look far less monotonic: you'd see variety and individualism Some people will build elegant gardens, some will make it a space for a group to hang out, and some will
Jason Smith - 上官杰文
@ShangguanJiewen
Sep 21, 2025
Newly approved Chinese apartments now include large balconies. Mandated.
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Arnav Bansal ⠕
@itsarnavb
Feb 6, 2025
Replying to @GrantSlatton
I stumbled across this in the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna It was gigantic. I very audibly gasped and spent a good deal of time just staring at it
Arnav Bansal ⠕
@itsarnavb
Jun 8, 2024
it was really quite something to see this IRL
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