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I should have clarified that I was defining selectivity as the ratio between applicants and accepted candidates. Getting in this school requires someone to be among the top 250k takers of a specific exam (JEE main) typically, it’d be taken by around 1.5 million students. If one is among those 250k, one can choose to do the advanced test.. which in 2025 was cleared by 56 880 students .. from which, 18,188 students were admitted.

And yes, if you have more than .. 84 candidates, your process would be more selective. However, I think the fair comparison would be .. say .. the MIT?

On the same year, the MIT got 29,282 applications and admitted 1,324 students

So if you apply to the MIT you’re more than 3 times likelier to get accepted.

I think it’s good for people outside of India (myself included) to know how competitive life is over there. Indian research institutes seem to be truly top notch and they deserve due respect. That was my reason to share.

Oh, I could find just the founding statement of the project stating it was funded by the “Principal Scientific Advisor” of the government of India https://acr.iitm.ac.in/iitm_in_news/iit-madras-launches-sudh... did you find something different?

Edit: it seems you were right. Apparently they have received big donations from ex-alumni including the co-founder of infosys and the founder of Fairfax Financial Holdings. Pretty cool!

I just thought it was a cool fact :)

Hey, I’m sorry for the delay, had to take a train yesterday (how fitting). I think you have a point. I got the German statistics from the official site https://zbir.deutschebahn.com/2025/en/interim-group-manageme... and yep.. I missread, dbahn marks passenger trains as delayed after >5 min. Only cargo passengers are marked delayed after >15min.

It seems that India doesn’t really release this data officially but it can be obtained from third parties. In this specific case, I got my figure from a news article. I am not entirely sure about the primary source, they just quote a gov. official statement.

However, It seems that somebody released a public dataset to Kaggle https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/rxydenxd/indian-railways-del... but it’s older than the news I read.

From what I read, the main criticism is that the 80% just takes into account the delay at the last station, not the intermediate ones and 15 min is indeed a lot.

I believe this is how most publicly funded research and some private research institutes work. This research was conducted by a public Indian university (IIT Madras). Which, by the way is literally more selective than IVY league universities

my understanding is that they took 3 specimens, aged 25 gestational weeks, 9 and 54 years old.. did “800 serial histological sections” and manually tagged them. But you can check out the information yourself here: https://anchor.humanbrain.in/

I’d argue that most residents would likely have access to better offers locally. As for the age limit, I think it just lets you get a cheaper inter-rail, which is subsidized by the DiscoverEU. AFAIK, you can always buy a full interrail pass for all countries. And yes, non eu people can buy eurail.: but that one is much more expensive than the equivalent interrail, I think. Maybe I’m wrong about the last one tho

I guess it depends on what you expect. If you expect the train to be on time .. yes, India is much better than Germany. ~80% trains delayed 15 min or less vs Germany 36% trains delayed 15 min or less. It can get pretty bad when your train is delayed so you miss your connection and now you’re stranded in a random town waiting for the next train .. which is coming .. at 5am the next day. Or you can take the regional and hopefully make it in 12 hours with 3 connections instead of your original 4 hour leg. :D

If you expect a comfortable and quiet experience, then I’d agree with you, Germany can be a much nicer experience.

So it’s really about what you value, I guess

Interrail is sometimes cheaper, specially as a student. Otherwise it’s usually still cheaper if you want to go to multiple stops

OMG.. are we really doing this? T_T It’s just the marketing term….

“Interrail One Country Pass allows unlimited rail travel within one participating country, excluding the holder’s country of residence.”

It’s a way of reinforcing eu identity.. they call it interrail because it connects you to other cultures or societies or whatever you want to call it

Not all countries have a rail pass and not all countries offer a 100% discount pass. And even less offer a 100% discount on all trains and for non residents

TIL mm:hh is a thing o_O

I remember a professor once told us “democracy might not be the best kind of government. It’s just the best we have found to organize a peaceful power transition”. And .. to this date .. I agree .. it’s not about making the best decision.. it just allows us to come to a decision on a seemingly fair process.

From my understanding, the state or community owning the means of production (in this case, ai labs) is one of the central thesis of communism.

This is an experimental feature. Not part of the standard yet .. imho.. shouldn’t be included (yet)

The steam engine, for example

Correct, and I am saying the Luddites were a group of people that suffered mass unemployment following a technological change. Specifically, the luddites were a group of 19th century textile workers that were left out of work due to the introduction of automated machinery in the textile industry. In other words, they are a perfect example of what GP claims hasn’t happened.

It has happened. There is a related term we use which is related to a historical fact .. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

If you find the list of projections interesting, check out also the wiki page of the map projections topic itself here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection

It’s a fascinating rabbit hole ^^

Inspired by

This map is not upside down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292694

You should totally check this wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections

For a list of alternative projections

And also this one for a whole deep dive in the topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection

People have gotten very creative about the topic .. also.. the UN actually uses a north-centered view of the world to compromise on this.. it’s really cool

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Sm...

I remember when I was studying for an MBA.. a professor was talking about the intangible value of a brand .. and finance.. and how they would reflect on each other .. At some point we were decomposing the parts of a balance sheet and they asked if one could sell the goodwill to invest in something else .. and the answer was of course .. no… well.. America has proven us wrong .. the way you sell the goodwill is to basically enshittification.. you quickly burn all your brand reputation by lowering your costs with shittier products .. your goodwill goes to 0 but your income increases so stock go up .. the CEO gets a fat bonus for it .. even tho the company itself is destroyed .. then the CEO quickly abandons ship and does the same on their next company .. rinse and repeat… infinite money!

I think you forget to take into account how centralized Japan is. Tokyo is not only the biggest city in the world. It’s also extremely centralized in terms of its infrastructure and as much as other Asian cities have developed similarly, they have also developed more recent and with a different urban model. It’s unlikely that the hub system used in Japan will be replicated somewhere else on that scale.

It still happens from time to time Claude found me this examples :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Luogeng

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Friedberg

https://www.quantamagazine.org/decades-old-graph-problem-yie...

I believe this refers to the fact that, before Jupiter, the most powerful computer in Europe was HPC6, which is owned by Eni S.p.A, a private company, and the following most powerful computer was the Alps system, located in Switzerland. So, in this context, this new supercomputer is owned by Europe, “the public” and it’s located in the European Union sovereignty within Europe, the continent.

Edit: I found the full quote in the website of the Jülich Development Center and I guess it makes sense why it was editorialized for the eu-wide website.

“This is a historic milestone. With JUPITER, Europe is reaching the highest level of high-performance computing. JUPITER is also a testimony for Germany's long leadership in HPC. Today, it became the home of the most powerful computer in Europe and the fourth most powerful in the world. From European perspective, JUPITER is a pioneer. It shows that when we combine national vision with European cooperation, we can achieve global excellence.”

Source:

https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2025...

Agreed, it got me for a few seconds

It was net positive in all the studies I found. Here’s some for Germany

https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/topics/latest-news/20...

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/306683/1/GLO-DP-1530...

In Canada, economic immigrants are net positive while refugees and sponsored (family reunion) immigrants are net negative.

https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/102505/1/MPRA_paper_102505.p...

Germany actually uses their own card system .. or cash. They are very much against visa/mastercard due to their “high commission fees” and “privacy concerns”

Girocard charges a 0,3% fee vs visa/mastercard 3%

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girocard

https://web.archive.org/web/20250707213532/https://www.reddi...

Afghanistan was almost never a democracy tho. It was mostly monarchies until 1973.. then a totalitarian state from 1978-ish until 1989… then mostly in civil war until 1996.. when it was again mostly a totalitarian state.. then it got invaded by the US in 2001.. until 2021 when it got again under a totalitarian state.