Why you should care about the Uttarakhand floods
There is a complex interplay of factors at work, and it's important to understand each one for a few reasons.
You already know why. We all do.
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'You don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about'
Recently had a chance to rewatch Good Will Hunting, and thought Robin Williams's heart-rending speech to Matt Damon on the bench in the park is something we could also recount to AI, and to ourselves so that we remember what AI really is, and have it be
AI and the risk of catastrophe
Isn't it wild that we've reached a situation where people who are most ❊pro❊ AI say “this technology we love and build has like a 10% chance of killing us all” and the people who are ❊anti❊ AI reply “there's no way this figure
An explosive study
My sister Swathi Murali has her first peer-reviewed paper out, expected in print in the December 2026 edition of Forensic Chemistry. Excerpt from the abstract: Electrical tapes may be submitted to forensic laboratories for analysis concerning their utilization in the construction of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). However, post-blast
Computation that computes
While I was recently browsing the web for interesting physics papers, I came across one in Nature titled ‘A thermodynamically favoured molecular computer’. The work itself seemed interesting but what caught my eye was a pair of lines in the abstract: “… computation can be embedded in a system relaxing to