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
Doesnt matter how selective they are if the Budget of 1 MIT is $5 Billion while the budget of all 23 IIT is less than $1 Billion. There is a reason why so many Indian scientists move out of India.
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.
I thought they left India because other countries are so much better.
If you actually look at India, it's a giant heap of trash and feces.
You know those beautiful bridges across water in places like Paris and Bruges?
They have them in India too, except the river is all the garbage that all the citizens routinely through into the gulch.
So you're born into the shithole, and of course you want out.
But nowhere in the Indian mind is the ambition to actually improve anything. Say that twice: Nowhere in the Indian mind is any remote ambition to improve anything.
This particular lab happens to be primarily privately funded, donations, grants, etc,. Most big ticket research like this one at IITM are industry-funded or donation-funded. The public funds cover all the usual stuff and I don't mean to understate it.
The centre will power a large-scale multi-disciplinary effort to map human brains at cellular level. It is supported by Infosys co-founder and IIT Madras’ Distinguished Alumnus Kris Gopalakrishnan and his wife Sudha Gopalakrishnan. Since 2014, Gopalakrishnan has been involved in seeding research at the institute at the intersection of neuroscience and engineering.
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.
Not a fair comparison. IITs are a bottleneck given there aren't better (in terms of reputation and outcome) schools here. And plenty more apply simply because it's a rite of passage for every Indian kid. I'd guess less so for MIT given kids pre-reject themselves.
The article sometimes makes it sound like this is a diagnostic tool but am I wrong in thinking it's a reference constructed from a small number of individuals?
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/
"Anchor is not a diagnostic tool. Instead, its greatest value lies in the questions it could help answer."
and
"Users can zoom from the whole brainstem seen on MRI down to individual neurons while maintaining their precise spatial relationships."
Thats pretty cool. The diagnosis/evaluation is still in the hands of another entity (doctor/scientist/AI assistant). More samples (via end of life donations) would help understanding, early diagnosis, and hopefully/eventually cures.
I am sure this is great but it requires some depth in that field to appreciate this. I don’t understand if what they developed is a tech to do a live scan of any person or just a detailed map of one brain.
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[ 0.10 ms ] story [ 40.7 ms ] threadfuck yes. finally someone not gatekeeping lifesaving technologies so they can make shit ton of money out of it.
If you actually look at India, it's a giant heap of trash and feces.
You know those beautiful bridges across water in places like Paris and Bruges?
They have them in India too, except the river is all the garbage that all the citizens routinely through into the gulch.
So you're born into the shithole, and of course you want out.
But nowhere in the Indian mind is the ambition to actually improve anything. Say that twice: Nowhere in the Indian mind is any remote ambition to improve anything.
The centre will power a large-scale multi-disciplinary effort to map human brains at cellular level. It is supported by Infosys co-founder and IIT Madras’ Distinguished Alumnus Kris Gopalakrishnan and his wife Sudha Gopalakrishnan. Since 2014, Gopalakrishnan has been involved in seeding research at the institute at the intersection of neuroscience and engineering.
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.
Speaking anecdotally, of course.
"Anchor is not a diagnostic tool. Instead, its greatest value lies in the questions it could help answer."
and
"Users can zoom from the whole brainstem seen on MRI down to individual neurons while maintaining their precise spatial relationships."
Thats pretty cool. The diagnosis/evaluation is still in the hands of another entity (doctor/scientist/AI assistant). More samples (via end of life donations) would help understanding, early diagnosis, and hopefully/eventually cures.
https://iitm.humanbrain.in/project.html