Sunir Manandhar retweeted
fruit fly can control a robot now
For the first time, scientists have mapped the complete brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly — a key model organism in science. 🪰
Working alongside HHMI Janelia Research Campus and the scientific community, @GoogleResearch scientists and researchers used AI to combine millions of 2D images into 3D neural shapes, reconstructing a record-breaking 166,000+ neurons. This foundational map of the adult male fruit fly brain can help accelerate our understanding of the brain, and is a major milestone in neuroscience.
ALT Vibrant 3D digital reconstruction of a fruit fly brain against a white background, displaying a dense, intricate network of multicolored neural fibers and cell bodies in shades of blue, cyan, orange, and purple.
ALT A complex 3D visualization of a fruit fly brain, featuring a dense, symmetrical network of thousands of tiny, multicolored neurons and fine, interconnected fibers in shades of blue, magenta, orange, and green against a solid white background.
Sunir Manandhar retweeted
From stealth, privileged to introduce American Turbines.
We're building a new class of small, highly manufacturable gas turbines for rapid-to-deploy energy generation.
Abundant energy is the soil from which everything else grows: intelligence, industry, the next century of work.
The only way forward is energy generation we can scale by orders of magnitude. We're building that here at American Turbines.
Hyper manufacturable, by design.
@amturbines
Fuel to do what makes you Alive.
Launching the Alive Prize. $100K to build what makes you come alive.
I've been fixated on a quote from Howard Thurman lately: "Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
We want to help more people find that feeling.
aliveprize.com/
Sunir Manandhar retweeted
pov: back in 2021 you responded to an instant message on your Bloomberg Terminal from a user you didn’t recognize located in Hangzhou, probing you about the Multifractal Lévy-Stable Process Adversarial Graph Neural Network Covariates Copula-Driven Spatial Autocorrelation Smoothing algorithm that only you and two other quants in New York were supposedly working on for hyper-optimized trans-Pacific drone-freight routes, leveraging
stratospheric UAVs with real-time wind shear adjustments and machine-learned port congestion predictors.
The message contained a date and the coordinates of a Tsim Sha Tsui dive bar in Singapore, where you exchanged the algos architecture under the table for $30M in Bitcoin private keys split three ways, then went ghost for 4 years.
Now it’s 2026, you’re living in Hong Kong in the summer, Seoul in the winter, views of Victoria Harbour, doomscrolling on 𝕏 every night.
Sunir Manandhar retweeted
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued a permit for construction of an all-new ocean container terminal on the site of a former steel mill that could eventually double container traffic through the Port of Baltimore.
freightwaves.com/news/army-c…
Human will is powerful.
For the first time in history, over 1 in 3 startups were started solo this year.
Introducing The State of Solo Founding: exclusive data from Carta + commentary from top founders and investors.
solofounders.com/report
Solo founders seem odd today.
Soon they'll be the default.
Long Beach Container Terminal in Action.
America’s most advanced container terminal.
This time legally in.
It was great to be in @EdgeEsmeralda
Powerful month.
Sunir Kishan Manandhar (@SunirKM) came to @EdgeEsmeralda to build a container tracker for autonomous systems for ports, and left ready to bulldoze a broken industry.
He shipped the tracker, hosted a hackathon judged by Space Force & @ycombinator, and learned to bring his full self into the world.
Sunir Manandhar retweeted
In less than 48 hours Gen Z protest in Nepal did the following:
- Burnt down multiple politicians' houses
- Increased the protest even during curfew and firing around multiple cities
- made the Prime Minister resign
- entered parliament and burnt it.
This is the generation that doesn't forgive, doesn't forget.
#Nepal #GenZProtest
