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2021 is Year of the Ox 牛. "Oxen Sensitive to Spicy Food, from the series Comical Twelve Signs of the Zodiac" (道化十二支からしききの牛). Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861).

India's 'Pickle Queen' Preserves Everything, Including the Past

Some notes on the 'karmanyevadhikaraste....' shloka of the Gita

A Bhagavadgeeta book I am forever grateful to is the @ACKComics . An amazing version that keeps the interest of any kid. A version that can be told as a bed time story to kids.

Indian public health authorities taking no chances with “Britishers carrying mutant strains @Neoavatara @venkmurthy @purviparwani

@ShriramKMurthi @atishayokti @joyopal Walter Kaufmann.. with IU Bloomington connection..

When you have multiple lua installations, installing libraries for one of those using luarocks: luarocks --lua-dir=/usr/local/opt/lua@5.1 install say To install into a custom location, use the --tree /dir/locn option mkdir -p lenv luarocks…

@IamMaya00

what will be interesting to read is the concepts explained in a framework agnostic way.

AFAICT, this idea is already in use by Elixir/Phoenix LiveView etc -

i registered back in 2015, but never did anything with it, and let it expire jan this year. maybe i should have kept it?

@inancgumus , it’s a structured logging package designed to scale with your needs

The System of Governance before Independence (Part 2)

@naonome Mine is ee pariya sobagu, as sung by BMK

Media critics debating whether new UK variant is 70% more transmissible, or 40% more, or 52.5% more, are missing the point. If multiple data sources point towards substantially increased transmission, it suggests we have big problem. (Below from: )

RT @stevenstrogatz: In honor of Srinivasa Ramanujan's birthday and India's National Mathematics Day, here’s a video of an event I did about Ramanujan and the nature of genius, with mathematician Manjul Bhargava, filmmaker Matt Brown and journalist Lynn Sherr via @YouTube

Related reading: English translation of DVG's jnapakachitrashaale – Vol. 4 - The Dewans of Mysore

"I'm interested in the power of language to protect, vividify & dignify life, people & ecologies."
Pls read/share this beautiful, vital essay by my friend @Yuvan_aves: naturalist, teacher, activist & among the most important voices on Indian nature today.

Unpopular opinion:

Aurobindo wasted away his life in Pondicherry! His non-spiritual writings are much better and shows amazing clarity. Currently reading 'India's Rebirth' which is a collection of his notes, letters, speeches, etc!

#kshatraparampara

Linux: Convert File Encoding with iconv

Cornel West and Suraj Yengde continue the old "Indology tradition" of Western academia and intellectuals, writes B V Rudhraya. #CornelWest #SurajYengde #Indology #Harvard

"“I only speak English,” they would declare loudly as if it were a badge of honour. Perhaps it proved that they were modern, progressive, assimilated – no longer tethered to the quaint customs of their immigrant families."

@sarah_cone Trolls take cheaper route and making one route costly is them finding alternate cheap routes .. premise of disputation arenas is not having vacuous arguments but more like having Purva Paksha n uttar Paksha .. but that's where I see a fallacy

That means I'm going to now try to do my own email hosting and comply with all the following standards as best I can:

1. SPF
2. DMARC
3. DKIM
4. BIMI .... whatever that is.

I'm using the tool to help me diagnose the configuration.

CA Legislator 1: "Successful CEOs are fleeing California. How can we attract new CEOs?"

Leg 2: "What if we tax them for 10 yrs for visiting CA to open offices, close deals, or take breaks?"

Leg 1: "OMG that may work! Esp. if enforcement costs are huge."

RT @_sh4: Bhāvanā magazine is turning out to be a fantastic find! This was a very good read on the life and work of CR Rao. One thing I love about this magazine is that articles describe the math/science and the research process in some depth.

@hamsanandi Bhaṭṭākalaṅkadēva Kannada grammarian ಹೆಸರು ಕೇಳಿದ ನೆನಪಿಲ್ಲ.. ಒಂದೆರಡು ಪೇಪರ್ಸ್/ಚಿಂಪೋಚಿಯಮ್ ನೋಡಿದೆ ಇವತ್ತು:

@hamsanandi Bhaṭṭākalaṅkadēva Kannada grammarian ಹೆಸರು ಕೇಳಿದ ನೆನಪಿಲ್ಲ.. ಒಂದೆರಡು ಪೇಪರ್ಸ್/ಚಿಂಪೋಚಿಯಮ್ ನೋಡಿದೆ ಇವತ್ತು:

Anways. He became a good friend, and insisted after that on being called Tom, but I just couldn't call him Tom.

It wasn't until after his death that I realized what an awful childhood he had. He wasn't one to talk about what he went through. 5/5

@btbytes Looks like a competitor to Panini in brevity :) Full book here:

@Zarmanochegas Within a most minimalistic conceptual substratum with just Time, Space, Matter and Consciousness, each in turn is identified as the conceptual focus of the Bauddha-s, Jaina-s, Lokāyata-s and Vedāntin-s respectively by Svāmī Akhaṇḍānanda here.
38:53-45:10

This is a case study in the truthy claptrap that's now standard in American subscription-driven journalism (as well as parochial American projection).

As we'll see, not only is the headline argument unsubstantiated, it's likely the opposite of true.

I demur with the conclusion.

My niece's work:

Dec 17, 2020 was the birth centenary of Ken Iverson.

”... If it’s a clause, turn it into a phrase. If it’s a phrase, turn it into an adjective or an adverb. If it’s an adjective or an adverb, omit it. And you apply these recursively.”

This io_uring landing in Linux is going to be awesome.

@Kadi_khichadi

Mada’in Saleh, in the north of present-day Saudi Arabia, was settled by the Nabateans from the second century B.C. Although few visible traces remain of their ancient city, they left behind tombs carved out of the surrounding rocky outcrops.

@btbytes @hamsanandi @calm_sutra Bit dated but this debate shows so much. With @swapan55 in top form vs the goon @profvarshney

@SeanBlanda @tomcritchlow This website-in-one-file thing:

Although attention has been understandingly focused on the dire situation in US, the situation in Canada seems to be spiralling out with 7k new cases per day (popn adjusted India equivalent 250k/day).

@MatthiasGalvin yes

Super disturbing story. Dont read the first thing in the morning. But surely read it later sometime.
So much history left untold.
(My obsessive googling on west coast history throws up such pieces)

(Eastern-most extent of the spread of Brahmic script)
The Laguna Copperplate Inscription
Early Kawi script
Mainly Old Malay, technical terms in Sanskrit
900 AD
Found c.1987, Province of Laguna, Philippines

"The oldest calendar dated Philippine "document""

Germany is now the Covid hotspot of EU with 45k/day cases (popn adjusted equivalent for India would be 720k/day). Reminder that past success is no guarantee of future performance. Meanwhile, US saw 250k new cases & 3.7k deaths yesterday.

They have 30k+ employees.

Fatal drug overdoses increased 18% in the 12 months ending May 2020, rising to the highest level in US history.

I will not be surprised if more people die from drug overdoses than COVID-19 in 2021.

via @CDCgov

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Integrates with AWS Lambda – You can invoke Lambda functions directly from within an Aurora database via stored procedures or user-defined functions. This was previously available only for Aurora MySQL. #AWS #Database #Serverless

resonance magazine.

Roddam Narasimha's Nature piece on Aryabhatta. Sines in terse verse:

On proof in (and the general epistemology of) Indian science and math: