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from Central Sanskrit University. Lectures delivered in Hindi.

Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to replace every year. The movable frame above the surface contains the month needed.

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Go poolside in these archival images from the photographer-king of warm-weather leisure.

Permacomputing asks the question whether we can rethink computing in the same way as permaculture rethinks agriculture. Is there even place for high technology (such as computing) in a world where human civilizations contribute to the well-being of the biosphere rather than destroy it? Permacomputing wants to imagine such a place and take steps towards it. It is therefore both utopian and practical.

interesting advice on writing

Pretty Good House provides a framework and guidelines to focus on the core issues that should be front and center when designing and building a high quality home or renovation.

I used every day, we’d start seeing fewer McMansions and more high-quality homes with character, perfectly suited to the lives of their inhabitants.

An alternate to Google hosted fonts

Tools for better thinking. Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.

@Austen Damodaran is the gold standard text on Wall Street. Took a course from him when I was at GS.

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Sahitya Samputa ( Kannada) Mysore Government Text Book

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There’s already loads of articles out there on git internals, so what’s different about this one? Two things:

1. We’re going to avoid the lower level ‘plumbing’ git commands and limit ourselves to the five most common ‘porcelain’ commands: git {init, add, commit, branch, checkout}. All other work will be done using standard command line utilities.
2. Using the R packages git2r and tidygraph, we’ll dynamically build up a picture of the connections between git’s objects to help understand how they are tied together.

Full course video on machine learning. I liked the instructor's style.

a 2022 refresher for the Getting Things Done method made famous by David Allen.

Soul of Japan: An Introduction to Shinto and Ise Jingu (2013) [pdf]

A newly polished floor shines pika pika. But after all that hard work your stomach might be peko peko. These are just a few examples of Japanese onomatopoeia: an element of the language that makes it so richly nuanced. The Japanese language is said to have over four thousand, making it the most onomatopoeia-heavy language in the world. An ambitious new book has compiled one hundred of the most-common onomatopoeia, alongside illustrations from artists all around the world.

Introduction to programming using the Nim Programming Language

Dive into Systems is a free, online textbook that serves as a gentle introduction to computer systems, computer organization, and parallel computing. The book is intended for an audience that has only a CS1 background. It guides readers through a vertical slice of a computer to develop an understanding of a variety of systems topics, including:

how a computer runs a program, from a program expressed in a high-level language to low-level binary representation and circuits

programming in C and Assembly, assuming a CS1 background

introduction to operating systems and the systems costs that affect program performance (the memory hierarchy, caching, and code optimization)

introduction to parallel computing with shared memory and pthreads

New #book on Sanskrit theology: Goddess Traditions in India
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This is a scholarly book that can be understood by everyone & I recommend everyone interested in Indian Kavyas,history & specifically the #Mahabharata to read this"Evolution of the Mahabharata" by Sri S R Ramaswamy.The English translation is impeccable. https://t.co/EVCJRNMHKR👇 https://t.co/zpmu58UH7s https://t.co/iBZjK1daOI

Released a new tool this week: google-drive-to-sqlite, which authenticates against your Google Drive account and builds a local SQLite database containing metadata about all of your files https://t.co/phLOn658rO