As the pandemic ends Indians who must exit India periodically to survive life await their vacation. Russia, Ukraine are open to Indian tourists but the West is more alluring. What Indians enjoy about the West is the whole spectacle of the West. My latest:
RT @penberg: An interesting talk from Michael Stonebraker on "big data" from 2016 (). According to Stonebraker, big data consists of at least three different problems: big volume, big velocity, and big variety. (1/)
@razibkhan Have you read Iravati Karve’s yugAnta? It is a commentary on Mahabharata stripped down to historical and humanistic elements. I found it to be intriguingly consistent with what we now know about migrations into India. Here’s an essay on it:
My company is hiring—looking for a senior language implementer to work on the compiler and runtime for our programming language #Glow — remote work, our meta-language is Gerbil Scheme. We love macros, prototype object-orientation and dependent types.
If you’ve not heard about the Antikythera mechanism before, your mind will be blown.
Such technology existed by 150-100 BC, but the knowledge was subsequently lost. Similar machines with equivalent complexity didn't appear again until the 18th century.
RT @montes_narayana: The most incredible thing I've come across in a while: there is a partial translation of the Spanish classic El Quijote into Sanskrit डान् क्विक्षोटः !!! A project initiated by Schlegel in the 19th century!!!
It is criminal that no Indian film director has made a historical epic about Malik Ambar yet. Kidnapped from Ethiopia, sold into slavery in India, eventually freed and leads a mercenary army in a guerilla resistance against the Mughals
"Therefore it is well not to be too indulgent or charitable with anyone. You may take it as a general rule that you will not lose a friend by refusing him a loan, but that you are very likely to do so by granting it" -Arthur Schopenhauer
Sobering reminder to folks in the EU who laugh at US dysfunction. The EMA is little better. Needlessly hyping mRNA tech (this tech will come good in the future, but is overkill for Covid), treating AZ as some bargain basement vaccine. Now left scrambling.
The epilogue of my book shows how Wu’s radical transparency and strategic conferencing, besides his antipandemic measures, could serve as critical lessons for present-day Chinese policymakers. To read more, please buy my book here: @stanfordpress (7/7)
@btbytes @i_contemplate_ @hamsanandi @dhruvabatni @TheOriginalCSP @ShrikaanthK @tmnagaraja The problem is there are large no of manuscripts etc in homes, mathas, temples, manuscripts libraries. The first preference is given towards their catalog, conversvation etc,then publish as books Many are recently studied and published too.
This will be a game changer if successful. Covid will likely not go away for some time yet, this necessitating booster doses in select populations/clusters. A single dose infra nasal vaccine will enormously simplify such future vaccination drives.
Humans use 30%-50% less water than other great apes, possibly due to our prominent noses. Might not sound like much but it potentially increased human ranges away from water sources. Very helpful when crossing savannas or deserts.
They came, they saw, they left no trace...except for all of Western Civilization I focus on 1000 BC to 1000 AD & what genetics can tell us about the rise & fall of the people of Italy, & how Imperial Romans were different from those who came before & after
“There’s a reason why you’re more interested in eating familiar foods when you’re sick; unfamiliar foods might have pathogens that will compete for access to your immune system, and could be more costly to digest” @sentientist @ChrisWillx
“All his life he drove a four-door family sedan but when motorcyclists roared past him on his left, he felt that life had passed him by as well.” Happy people focus on "eulogy virtues" rather than "résumé virtues"
I think I need to update this with a version specifically about data infra. Most organizations outside of what you read on Medium are still about 3 years away from getting permission to run Airflow.
@1coolaka @sidhant Tibetan refugees living in India have the same level of access to welfare schemes as any Indian citizen. They can even vote in elections . These chamges were made in 2014
This map is more interesting than I first thought. It’s a minimalist take on the US and shows a simplified average colour pattern across the nation based on satellite images. Source:
Much like the iPad recovered the use of pointy finger to write & create, after a short detour through keyboards and mice, @joinClubhouse and similar social apps might restore a most human characteristic - voice, to the digital world.
@sagar__dubey It was a strong dichotomy when lots of the world was illiterate. & you can see echoes of it now. But it's not quite what you're describing here.
This is a pretty good recent review of the idea, its history, how it might still possibly apply somewhere:
Freeman Dyson wrote and enthusiastically recorded this thought-provoking piece on six pioneering figures of evolution. At the age of 95. Using GarageBand. Read it, or better still, listen to it for an hour.