God Emperor I 🇮🇳 retweeted
> be Sam Zeloof
> decide that making computer chips shouldn't require a billion-dollar factory
> turn your parents' garage into a semiconductor laboratory
> start making individual transistors while still in high school
> then attempt something almost nobody has done at home
> manufacture an actual integrated circuit from scratch
> in 2018, build the Z1 with six transistors
> not buy a chip, not assemble a kit
> actually manufacture the silicon chip yourself
> use chemicals, furnaces, microscopes, and ultraviolet light
> build your own machine to print microscopic patterns onto silicon
> because commercial photolithography machines can cost millions
> finish the entire first chip using 66 steps
> then go back and make something 200 times more complex
> build the Z2 with 1,200 transistors
> use salvaged equipment and machines he repairs himself
> even buy a broken electron microscope for $1,000
> a machine that originally cost $250,000
> design chips, fabricate them, and test whether the transistors actually work
> all from a garage in New Jersey
> for perspective, Intel's first commercial microprocessor had 2,300 transistors
> Sam is using technology inspired by the semiconductor industry of the 1970s
> his chips aren't competing with modern processors
> he's proving that making silicon isn't exclusively a billion-dollar industry's privilege
> imagine what happens when more people can build their own chips
God Emperor I 🇮🇳 retweeted
The sensitive young man has accepted that his single era might be permanent
Five months into his first posting, a 26 year old lieutenant was shot in the head by terrorists. He kept firing, killed one more of them and dragged a wounded soldier to safety.
His name was Lieutenant Navdeep Singh, from Gurdaspur in Punjab.
His father served 30 years in the Bengal Sappers. Navdeep was a third generation soldier. He studied hotel management, then did an MBA, then joined the Army.
In March 2011 he was commissioned and sent to the Gurez sector in Kashmir as a Ghatak platoon commander with 15 Maratha Light Infantry.
On 20 August 2011 his team laid an ambush for terrorists crossing the Line of Control.
Navdeep waited until they were a few metres away. Then he opened fire and killed three of them.
As he moved to a better position, a bullet hit him in the head.
He kept firing and killed a fourth terrorist. He pulled an injured soldier to safety and kept firing until he lost consciousness.
He died that day. He was 26.
On 26 January 2012 he was awarded the Ashok Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry award.
An unarmed army doctor charged at a suicide bomber in Kabul and held on to him until the vest exploded.
His name was Major Laishram Jyotin Singh, from Bishnupur in Manipur, a doctor in the Army Medical Corps.
In February 2010 he was sent to Kabul to work with an Indian medical team. He had been there 13 days.
On 26 February 2010, around 6.30 am, suicide bombers attacked the guarded compound where the Indian officers were staying.
A car bomb killed three guards at the gate. A terrorist entered the compound, fired into the rooms and threw grenades.
Five unarmed officers were hiding in one room. A grenade hit it. The fire spread to a bathroom where five more were hiding.
Jyotin crawled out of the debris of his own room when he heard them shouting.
With bare hands, he charged at the armed terrorist and pinned him down. He held him until the terrorist set off his suicide vest.
Both died. Jyotin was 37.
The Ministry of Defence said his sacrifice saved 10 of his colleagues.
On 26 January 2011 he was awarded the Ashok Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry award.
God Emperor I 🇮🇳 retweeted
Replying to @st_louis_stan
100%. Acceptance and inclusion are just indescribably intoxicating if you've spent much of your life being denied them.




























