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"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:

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

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

@longhandnotes Prof. Roddam Narasimha's "Epistemology and Language in Indian Astronomy and Mathematics"

Reading the flimsy “story” from the stables of @nytimes yesterday reminded me of this article I had written when NYC was reeling under the 1st wave.

And not surprisingly India was the object of the western media’s white gaze.

Revisiting Orientalism👇🏽

"Indu Viswanathan (@indumathi37) puts this point beautifully in her Medium article, where she explains how American educational institutions are designed to strip children of immigrants of their roots and supplies them with Western critical theories."

great article re: Hindu Americans

As promised, this is the full recording of my discussion with NYT journalist Suhasini Raj about the Indian response to the Covid19. Conversation starts at 1:50
2/n

Subhas Chandra Bose in Tokyo University, 1944, “To understand India, this fundamental fact needs to be understood, India of the past is not dead. India of the past lives in the present and will live in the future”. This was his civilizational nationalism

14 years using F# and only today do I learn that it has match!

For example: How often do you have a file size in bytes that you want to see in "human friendly" format (ie., MB or GB).

Here's a Boop script to do that using a popular Stackoverflow solution.

Vidya Vachaspati Bannanje Govindacharya - A Tribute

I will take short digression from jokes about COBOL and point out a pair of delightful works from Merigoux et al.:

A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code:

The Catala Language:

I will take short digression from jokes about COBOL and point out a pair of delightful works from Merigoux et al.:

A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code:

The Catala Language:

A case for @deno_land ?

import { client } from "";

An excellent interview with Prof. Manjul Bhargava on the origin of the right triangle theorem.
"Written for the first time as a theorem for a general triangle in the Shulba Sutra of Baudhayan. At least, that's the first recorded instance."

#BaudhayanaDay

Of course.

Tomorrow is Baudhayana Day for us whereas the world is calling the Pythagoras day!.

Please join the celebration by listening to Prof. M. D. Srinivas. Pls use the following link:

#pythagoras #indianmath #Math #mathematician