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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:

Around 1986 I was postmaster at . I got an email from an incredulous correspondent who had received an error email from our mail server, which reported a 2-bit ECC error from LMFS (Lisp Machine File System) while reading from disk. /1

"How did South Asian American groups mark the 50th anniversary of the single largest genocidal event to occur in modern South Asia?

Not a word.

They’re celebrating a Hindu-genocide-denying white historian’s talk instead."

• @VamseeJuluri

@ItchyFeetComic

@hmvprasanna @karatalaamalaka It has a name: Gell-Mann Amnesia -

@bharathceegee maybe it's related to this: (read to end 🙊)

@btbytes @bharathceegee you are welcome

Langauge of Barbers in India
Barber नाई nāī (< नापित nāpita), knife छुरा churā (< क्षुर kṣura), nail-cutter नहरनी nahranī ( < नखहरणी nakhahraṇī), scissors कतरनी katranī (< कर्तरी kartarī), alum फिटकिरी phiṭakirī (< sphaṭikārī)...read more here

It is significant that on 3/23/21, the U.S. Congress recognized the 50th Anniversary of the Bangladeshi Hindu Genocide. This is an important step, although Congress doesn't get cookies for simply doing the right thing.

Weekend Film Recommendation: Although the English-language film The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo is okay, the original Swedish miniseries Män Som Hatar Kvinnor positively rocks with Naomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander, scourge of violent men who hate women.

@sagar__dubey Don't sell yourself short, Mr. Ocean

.@nntaleb talks with @sanjeevsanyal -- full of interesting observations & deep insights

Do you know how to translate “Soviet Union” into Indian languages? 😀 Very funny, it seems nobody translated that, including the prolific writers amongst the Indian comrades.

The funny thing is, the Russian word “Soviet” is related to a Sanskrit word.

The Indian experience is incomplete without knowing the contribution of Dalit personalities to the making of the Indian state. Time travel with us to know of their inspiring lives and work, and how they have impacted our times. Pre-order:

Lydian Nadhaswaram is probably the most versatile musician in India (or the world, for that matter)! He plays every instrument and musical form with astounding ease. Here is a superlative cover of Blackbird with his sister

"60 percent of boys in foster care grow up to become jail inmates...For every foster kid who obtains a college degree, 20 are incarcerated."

A child born into a poor family is 3 times more likely to get a college degree than a child who has lived in foster care

A child born into a poor family is 3 times more likely to get a college degree than a child who has lived in foster care