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NY is shutting down a perfectly good nuclear plant

Critical as I am, I generally give Tesla credit for their powertrains and Superchargers... but this 739-page thread about loss of range and/or charging speed and/or increased "vampire drain" makes me wonder. Some (understandably) angry owners.

😳... ok, ok, he was a disruptor. sometimes overlap btwn madness & disruptiveness is fuzzy.

Shorn of the cloak of its colonial tuxedo, this is the Lutyens Idea of India: whether one eats with one’s hand or uses a spoon and a fork.

Commentary on the recent interview between Karan Thapar and Sanjaya Baru.

Just came out with a new video on the languages of the Indian subcontinent. It's a bit more detailed than my other videos on linguistics, so I thought I should share it and maybe get some opinions from academics.

Retroflexes: The linguistics of South Asia

That NCAA Tournament fall didn't kill referee Bert Smith. It saved his life:

"Dr. Kariko was convinced mRNA could be used to instruct cells to make their own medicines, including vaccines. But her career at UPenn was fragile & she migrated from lab to lab & never made more than $60,000/year."

[give her a Nobel Prize and more...]

the 2007 film mongol: the rise of genghis khan is underrated

pamela sargent's Ruler of the Sky: A Novel of Genghis Khan is excellent. khasr actually comes off as the most sympathetic and underrated character imo

"In America men often work long hours even when they are already well-off...they dislike leisure even for their sons...The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake"

@SuspiciousPleb @karatalaamalaka

This is a black-and-white photo; only the lines have colour. 😮

Great illustration of a general truth: Your perceptual system fills in the gaps in the incomplete data from your senses.

Sixth continuous night of violence. But of course this has nothing to do with oppression.

#oldpost from one year ago.

Personally in this one year, I have learnt many things about #Panini's grammar that I did not know about. I don't know if I have to make some amends to my article, based on these learnings, but that can wait. :-)

I’m saving all of my bushcraft pennies for this premium knife. #want

"By erasing Quechua knowledge and claiming its “discovery”, the story of modern European pharmacology often became one of narrative parasitism...."

If you have had malaria, you'll have heard of 'quinine'. Fascinating histories of a wondrous tree bark.

Nemam Ghafouri, Doctor Who Aided Yazidis in Iraq, Dies at 52

@RiskIQ are launching their new flagship platform Illuminate on 14th April. RiskIQ Illuminate® helps security teams understand and contextualise threats unique to their organisation. Attend the launch event!

How did words transfer with commerce across the Silk Road? @IranChinaGuy of @PennHistory traces the linguistic connection from the Sino-Persian trade.

"rationally you should believe whatever it is most advantageous to believe, both in terms of how the beliefs affect your behavior and in terms of the signaling value to be wrung from them."

Today I learned that I probably wouldn’t have been very happy at my dream job of being a writer for the Economist anyway

A reminder from Knuth that endless breakage and churn is not the only possibility...

The problem of the general public misunderstanding the "demarcation of science from non-science" (even in areas where the demarcation is obvious) is not limited to India.

Internalizing Karl Popper's arguments is not easy.

The problem of the general public misunderstanding the "demarcation of science from non-science" (even in areas where the demarcation is obvious) is not limited to India.

Internalizing Karl Popper's arguments is not easy.

Good elaboration of @David_Goodhart's framework...

ಲಾರಾ ಇಂಗಲ್ಸ್ ವೈಲ್ಡರ್ ಬರೆದ ಲಿಟಲ್ ಹೌಸ್ ಸರಣಿ ಜಗತ್ತಿನ 40 ಭಾಷೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಅನುವಾದಗೊಂಡಿತ್ತು. ಈಗ ಈ ಸರಣಿಯ ಎಲ್ಲ 9 ಇಬುಕ್ಸ್ ಮೈಲ್ಯಾಂಗ್ ಅಲ್ಲಿದೆ. ಚಿಕ್ಕಂದಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಇದನ್ನು ಓದಿ ಥ್ರಿಲ್‌ ಆಗಿದ್ದ ತೇಜಸ್ವಿ ಅವರ ಮಗಳು ಕೆಪಿ ಸುಸ್ಮಿತಾ ಈ ಕುರಿತು ಇಂದಿನ ಪ್ರಜಾವಾಣಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ತಮ್ಮ‌‌ ಅನುಭವ ಹಂಚಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ

some endearing nerd kid hijinks :)

Huike Offering His Arm To Bodhidharma, by Sesshū Tōyō (1420-1506)

#inkpainting

@Austen Blade Runner/BR2049
Lawrence of Arabia
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Big Sleep
Ghost in the Shell (the anime movie)

Also, courtesy of @primalpoly:

The chance that I'm not giving @3blue1brown a big high five whenever I meet him for the first time is basically 0.

unsurprisingly, @balajis' 1729 project is an intriguing inversion of the usual incentives

screencapped the bits that I'm most excited to watch play out 👀

SuperCruise has seen 5.2 million "incident free" miles, according to @Cadillac. Not just no deaths, no crashes. Amazing what a good driver monitoring system and operational design domain limits can do!

Not an April Fool's Joke. Do not attempt to adjust your monitor. This is in fact a six-wheeled Kei vehicle, meaning it boasts a masculine 110cc of displacement per wheel. It can also be equipped with treads. I love it so much.

If you have not read this article by @c_aashish about her, do it as soon as you can

Karnāṭaka saṅgīta is popular in all the five major states of South India, not just in Karnataka. So the question arises - Where is Karnataka in Karnāṭaka saṅgīta? @hamsanandi takes us through the history of Karnāṭaka saṅgīta: #Music @IndicAcademy

@hmvprasanna @hamsanandi @karatalaamalaka @talekaayi interesting find when I searched for it .. ಚೊಟ್ಟೆ

Shout-out to all the senior developers out there who take time and help people level up. ❤️

@normonics The objective of the mRNA vaccines (and perhaps adenovirus vaccines as well?) was not to prevent infection per se but only to reduce severity of symptoms:

RT @vboykis: I can confidently say that the biggest boost to my technical skills has been actively pairing with people who are better than me. Which is why I'm so sad that we as an industry don't have a formalized culture of apprenticeship.

I grew up disconnected from Hindu thought and tradition.

For the past two years, I've been working to remedy that.

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@lilastories

You have been asking for it! The compiler from Part I of the book is now ported to OCaml.

1/6 Major USDC news today - @Visa has become the first major payments network to support USDC as a native currency and settlement system on its network. This is massive news, and marks a major turning point in mainstream adoption of crypto.

@tomcritchlow emacs org-mode:

It has a table editor that can also evaluate formulas in cells.

embed the output of external programs incl. graphics (eg: R, Python)

Web publishing:

@tomcritchlow emacs org-mode:

It has a table editor that can also evaluate formulas in cells.

embed the output of external programs incl. graphics (eg: R, Python)

Web publishing:

@tomcritchlow emacs org-mode:

It has a table editor that can also evaluate formulas in cells.

embed the output of external programs incl. graphics (eg: R, Python)

Web publishing: