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Suhas Mahesh
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I play with photons & electrons @SchmidtFellows @UofT Prev: @OxfordPhysics @rhodes_trust Married to science. Affair with literature. Flings with philosophy
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    Suhas Mahesh
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    Jan 21, 2024
    3000y old, but so so fresh. 220 masterpieces from Sanskrit and Prakrit. Advice, intrigue, flirtation, quarrels, laughs, yearning and letting go. OUT ON 14 FEB @HarperCollinsIN Get a copy, gift a copy. Links soon! @AnushaSRao2
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    Suhas Mahesh
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    Jan 11, 2022
    Academic Life ~1100 CE (Original Sanskrit next tweet)
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    Suhas Mahesh
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    Dec 17, 2023
    King Bhoja hears news of war as he's composing his champu-ramayana. He decides to finish the yuddha-kanda after taking inspiration from battle. He never returns. (champu-ramayana is still incomplete)
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    Suhas Mahesh
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    Aug 4, 2024
    these guys think hardware means building a juicer, friend. early in my PhD, I did 500 nm UV lithography to study photon recycling in semiconductors; experiments would only work in winter because of weird thermal expansion/humidity effects. this is hard stuff.
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    bayes
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    Aug 3, 2024
    so asml makes 25 machines a year at like $300M each, every good fab is completely dependent on them, and you're telling me no one in the startup world is crazy enough to try to compete? this is one of the main ai supply chain bottlenecks
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    Suhas Mahesh
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    Aug 3, 2023
    The midwit meme in ~1000 CE (Sanskrit original follows)
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    Suhas Mahesh
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    Dec 9, 2023
    In the 1950s, Raghuvira compiled the granddaddy of all English-Sanskrit dictionaries on little cards. He died in a car accident in 1963; it was never printed. 60y later, it's being printed in 9 vols 🎊🎉 Should be available in march.
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    Suhas Mahesh
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    Dec 17, 2023
    Kashmiri poet Bilhana cries bitterly at the gates of Dhara nagara after realizing king Bhoja passed away before he could meet him (~1000 CE)
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    Suhas Mahesh
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    Sep 9, 2022
    "This idea came out of his ass" Delightful when 21st century slang pops up in 1000 year old texts.
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    Suhas Mahesh
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    Dec 10, 2023
    our only window into how the streets of ancient india sounded: bazaar scene in prakrit novel kuvalayamala (800 CE) some 20 langs are featured, including tajika (=arabic)
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    Suhas Mahesh
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    Oct 31, 2020
    My interview in Sanskrit on DD News today
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    डीडी न्यूज़
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    Oct 31, 2020
    मिलिए ऑक्सफोर्ड के युवा भौतिक विज्ञानी सुहास महेश से जो संस्कृत में रचते हैं रसपूर्ण कविताएं #Sanskrit ▶️youtu.be/tvB_ZM1WAic
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    Suhas Mahesh
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    Feb 3, 2022
    Training a machine learning model to write like the Ramayana
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    Suhas Mahesh
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    Apr 27, 2023
    When Nazi prisoners outsmarted the guards with letters in Sanskrit 📜🔥
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    Suhas Mahesh
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    Aug 13, 2023
    Think yourself a Zen person? Visit one of these manuscript libraries to unlock unknown levels of blinding rage 🧵from experience.
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    Śrīdatta
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    Aug 13, 2023
    thehindu.com/news/national/… Government plans law on protection of Indian manuscripts
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    Suhas Mahesh
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    Dec 10, 2023
    "Prakrit was the language of the common people, while Sanskrit was the language of the elites." Both were the language of elites for most of history.
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