Quick notes: Abhyas | Waferscale integration...

• Drone or a destroyer?  Abhyas can act as a decoy aircraft and a high speed subsonic missile. If this system was available before the Balakote strikes, this drone could have worked as decoy aircraft to test the defence mechanism of Pakistan.



• Pest-fighter: China drone attack on crop-eating ‘monster’ shows 98% kill rate



• Trapped in traffic: Indians spend 7% of their day in office commute, Bengaluru travels slowest.



• Emulation of West can be deadly if you forget your roots:

Since 2009 till today I've noticed much changes of people in India. In just 10 years I've witness a dramatic western change in appearance, attitude & talk. Globalization doesn’t mean Westernization. Emulation of West can be deadly if you forget your roots. Keep Hindu Heritage 🙏

— Renee Lynn (@Voice_For_India) August 30, 2019




• Collectives vs. Individuals: (From the archives of this blog). . . Perhaps a reformed caste system is the best form of harmonious collective. Individuals - and indeed entire castes - would be free to change their collective characteristics, while continuing to bind themselves to the rules of the collective - and collectives binding with each other. All with the glue of a duties-based Dharma Just the right balance between rights-based democratic individualism and duty-based collectivism



• Waferscale Integration: Machine Learning chip breaks new ground.

1/ Cerebras just built a chip with 50x the transistor count, 1,000x the memory and 10,000x the bandwidth of Nvidia’s flagship GPU. One such 'chip' could replace an entire rack of Nvidia GPUs.

What the heck is going on? pic.twitter.com/Rs0FaAzLUS

— James Wang (@jwangARK) August 20, 2019




• China used iPhone hacks to target Uyghurs: Victims were tricked into opening a link, which when opened would load one of the malicious websites used to infect the victim. It’s a common tactic to target phone owners with spyware.



• In Kaangress' footsteps: High Command culture comes to BJP



• IndianRaga Fellows:




• "Healthy" rubbish:

This junk being sold in the name of health has 45% MAIDA. And how misleading is the picture! Says 5 grains and contains only 14% grains. The word ‘Whole’ used 4 times on side of the pack. Older generation, most of whom are diabetic, are a fan of this rubbish. @BritanniaIndLtd pic.twitter.com/4ItD9ZKJ0h

— V (@AnkitaDontSing) August 17, 2019