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A wonderful new site on the Upanishads:

Guess which country has been using RAT from the beginning of the pandemic with its apex body citing that RAT in combo with RT-PCR is a very powerful tool?
India.
The ICMR was unfairly criticised for this by experts outside the council.

@santalum_aurum @nntaleb talks about this often in his works. One short intro:

Actually now thinking this is Residence Oasis in Hang Hau (2 bedrooms going from about $900k to $1.3m US)

All star performance of Beatles favorites led by Paul McCartney (Phil Collins on drums, Knopfler & Clapton on guitar, etc. with George Martin conducting)

Challakere brothers's pronunciation of Sanskrit is so good, that I am going to invite the wrath of all Tamizhians by claiming that it better than the gold-standard rendition by M.S.Subhalakshmi.

And I'll restate this one more time in case someone claims this is impossible:

ONE person created a replica of Docker in bash. If you're telling me it's impossible then shut up. Docker is incredibly complicated so here' ~100 lines proving you wrong.

@_sh4 @BurntOutCase just in time ..

@davidcrawshaw @bradfitz Cool! You should try @noteworthyIM for plug and play decentralized messaging powered by Matrix and Wireguard

Rust after the honeymoon:

Daughter is #1 @imVkohli fan in the world. She's getting unreasonably excited that I have papers at a conference in Koli, Finland. Can't mention the conference at home without interruption. Pipe down, kid!

#parenting

That is accelerating a trend I document in my book: the erosion of local community health & a sense of place

it is also part of a larger trend of the working class & middle class losing institutions they have a stake in, both economically & culturally.

I gave into the latest Valley book fad, and I'm reading the Netflix book.

It's surprisingly good, though it's a playbook for turning yourself into an upbeat and efficient capitalist soldier (while at work at least).

Around 11,000 migrant workers found employment via MNREGA reviving around 400 water bodies in the drought-prone Jhansi district.

It's got everything. #cybersecuritymonth, #halloween... anyway have a good weekend everyone. And if you get some time and are curious about how #TLS 1.3 works with some real examples, check this out.

Fantastic. My stupid idli comment has now been connected - ever so tenuously - to the US election. For the record: I love Indian food... and especially south Indian food! (Just not idlis).

@btbytes @_sh4 This op-ed's gloss on the #Barbell Strategy is "Hedge for the worst possible outcome while progressing step-by-step with a Bayesian updating of information." What to you is a beginner-friendly description that relates more strongly to the barbell picture?

@btbytes Saturday songs are the best songs :)

RT @prathgodbole: Absolute gem of a book, covers the history of the India from 1770-1800, but more importantly, covers the transition from a feudal continent to nascent ideas of a nation state and a republic of elected officers ( even if by a small %) long before Brits

another version of Brindavana Saranga

excerpts from a verse composed during the Sangam era, 100 CE to 300CE, reimagined by the genius of Anil Srinivasan (piano) and Sikkil Gurucharan (vocals)

Red Earth and Pouring Rain

@vboykis Here You go

"Tesla dissolves entire PR department"

This is so great: the old model of pushing news to journos is dead: regular media is removed as the middle men as you can now just tweet out a post on your own site to tell your story

Article 19 rights are for "citizens", unlike rights under Article 14 or 21 which are for "persons". What's the difference?

Does this mean companies don't have rights under Article 19?

Watch this video for the answer-

#Python 3.9 is now officially available! Get it here:

Released on time, on budget, great features and optimizations, a million household uses! Easily our best release ever!

That is until 3.10 next year. But you go pester the new RM @pyblogsal for THAT!

@longhandnotes @veejaysai @KS1729 Anyway, coincidentally, R.Ganesh has just started a new 12-part lecture on the same yesterday.

Do watch.

"Human rights experts say it is troubling that the US talks so strongly about human rights abuses in China, but is willing to engage in deeper...strategic ties with India where similar situations are occurring."

Similar situations?? You're drunk, NYT.

Saaya, the 120 lbs male panther, stands in the shadow of his 89 lbs female leopard mate, Cleopatra, at Kabini Reserve, India.

Photos by Midhun Hunugund.

One of the best exchanges on #YesMinister

I actually agree with Sir Humphrey in this.

South Asian patient population genetics reveal strong founder effects and high rates of homozygosity - new resources for precision medicine

Thank you Carmel! Three trailer loads of bikes had been donated for #Freewheelin and more were arriving with 2 hours to go. Kids earn bikes by learning to repair their own bike. . @CITYOFCARMELIN @peopleforbikes @BikeCarmel #CarmelIN #CarmelBikeSaturday

@Scholars_Stage Scholarly websites should aim at longevity & take precautions against bit rot/broken references/links. As many have mentioned, is probably the most well known website that is doing this right. It will be hard to replicate that immediately; take inspiration

@I_aparajita_ @pulchar_papanna ಕುಮಾರವ್ಯಾಸ ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿ ಇರೋದು ಗೊತ್ತಿರ್ಲಿಲ್ಲಾ.. ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಶ್-ನಲ್ಲಿ ಇದು ಇದೆ -

When people talk about "simple/boring/junior Haskell," we're not saying "Don't ever do anything cool or fancy"

We're saying "Do the simplest thing that works"

"Finally Tagless, Partially Evaluated" is a paper that absolutely nails this:

"The West tends to glorify these people as defenders of Hong Kong’s freedoms, but they have done great harm to the city by going against its constitutional order and stirring up chaos and disaffection toward our motherland."

The NYT has lost its mind.

Huge Study of Coronavirus Cases in India Offers Some Surprises to Scientists

One Nation, One Subscription

"The Indian government is pushing a bold proposal that would make scholarly literature accessible for free to everyone in the country.

Rough estimates ~ research institutes in India spend > $200 million on subscriptions/year

@btbytes @TheAgeofShoddy

Fun game on Steam

If you want to learn more about this extraordinary man, you can do no better than pick up my friend @dschwa8059’s superb biography of him.

The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age

The flu is nowhere to be seen.

Pandemic responses—lockdowns, social distancing, etc—have been so effective at reducing the spread of diseases that influenza activity remains at record low, in both hemispheres.

WHO flu activity map is... blank😯

Source:

VMWare to acquire SaltStack

Thus great consolidation of Config management tools is complete. RIP

PZEV is actually a regulatory category created by the California Air Resources Board, referring to a vehicle with zero evaporative emissions. Subaru is simply the only automaker who doesn't find it too overwhelmingly Orwellian to use in marketing.