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Last week's supply chain numbers: Aldi passed 2000 stores in the US, A 3.8m sqft facility in San Antonio, XYZ Robotics raises $17m, Nike cuts ties with 9 wholesale accounts, Pepsi opens a 205k sqft DC in Indiana
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Really enjoyed this @amitvarma interview of @DinyarPatel on his recent book about Naoroji

Okay so here are ours and by the looks of it, chaps have been taking pics in situ already

Still, would be a cool though short trip

@JamesMarsh79 Looks like they hide it by default on the right click menu. But you can turn it on

Warren has the mental sharpness of a 30-year-old, the mischievous laugh of a 10-year-old, and the diet of a 6-year-old. He once told me he looked at the data and discovered that first-graders have the best actuarial odds, so he decided to eat like one."

@vjgtweets @McClanJr81 @atul3515

"Cloud Solution Architect and travel enthusiast Emaad Paracha just went backpacking across provinces and photographed all the landmarks printed on Pakistani notes"

"I remember one of the first times Warren stayed at our house and he opened up a package of Oreos to eat for breakfast. Our kids immediately demanded they have some too."

I know I just said I don't like promoting my work, but this time I would like to listen to your opinion about this attempt to explain #Maṇḍana's theory of motivation in less than 3000 characters. Let me know! You can read it here:

BREAKING: 'Black Panther' actor Chadwick Boseman dies at 43 after 4-year fight with colon cancer, representative tells AP. Find updates here:

Bo Jackson was one of the most talented multi sports athlete, no doubt.

But this "run out" is nothing compared to what men and women cricketers do everyday.

Watch and enjoy!

@btbytes @vikasargod Gormint agrees (from DOE EIA RECS)

@svat The device is fairly "open" by default. I was planning to try some of these software -

So far I'm enjoying writing/sketching on it. Kids are having fun with it too. I have found the PDFs rendered for A5/6x9in size look the best on re2

RT @wtgowers: Here's an attempt at an answer to the question "How would anyone think of algebra?" (a genre of question that I very much like).

Suppose I'm a certain number of miles away, and I come back at a certain number of miles per hour. 1/

RT @mwotton: given The Discourse around how terrible it is that a young person is asking where mathematics comes from, a repost of Lockhart's Lament seems in order.

For my newsletter, I write about biographies and Michelangelo, Mathias Enard and the history of Indian book publishing in 19thC, which included a magazine called 'dilbahalan'.

August 27th '2020

@mwotton @BanjoTragedy Even this piece doesn't address that static diagrams on paper suck for teaching or making math interesting. You have to be able to play with these ideas and paper is as outdated as the terminal. Bret Victor tries to inspire this conversation.

The unsavory role of Switzerland in the slave trade in Africa and the Basel mission in India. At one point, 10% of all cotton from India was controlled by Swiss merchants through their British contacts.

A friend from academia asked me what skills he needed to get into data science. This is what I referred him to :

reading through, I haven't worked through the majority of material linked there (I BADLY want to). and I've been doing this for years.

@longhandnotes Brajendra Nath Seal's "The Positive Sciences Of The Ancient Hindus"
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“Preserving free speech should be the gut reaction of anyone in the business of ideas”

Excellent piece by @gchikermane
Though it must be added that one of the authors of Delhi Riots, a lawyer, herself helped Dinanath Batra pulp Doniger’s book on Hinduism.

When hearing about the California fires, note that the burn area today (~1.4 million acres) is way smaller than it was pre-European contact. Native ppl burned 5.6 to 13 million acres there every year--up to 1/8 of the entire state.

@btbytes @hmvprasanna
Detailed profile on Cricinfo

The problem with relying on "the science" is that you tend to ignore cost benefit trade-offs.

"The science" cannot establish exactly how masks work, but it is so cheap it doesn't matter.

The danger of following ‘the science’

from @rorysutherland

Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones
Buenos Aires, Sur, 1944

@_sh4

Fedora Silverblue is an interesting immutable Linux distro. It's like a LiveCD (e.g. Knoppix) but you can create new versions (like LVM snapshots).

"Weaponised immigrants are still at the forefront of Western soft power apparatus, massaging people’s minds and convincing us that imperialism for the benefit of their oligarchic class is actually altruistic and good for everyone, especially the natives!"

India has the cheapest bandwidth in the world. I would've expected China to be first. Apparently, I haven't understood communism well :-/

It was built in 2004. 16 crazy years and it still runs, what a workmanship! Btw, this is the only machine I have with a working cd drive. Next macbook pro with cd drive stopped working long back.

Great article from @reshraobhat about this.

A tweet says: "appreciate these upcoming YA fantasy novels by South Asian authors."

Out of 8 "South Asian" countries where were the authors from? ONE country—India.

Why say "South Asian"? To erase India.

This is a nice playlist, curated by the one and only @ShankarAnoushka

@teasri Mark Ames

“English would emerge as the Lingua Franca of India.”

A straightforward consequence of forced higher education exclusively in English for a period of 100 years. Indian languages will become pidgins and derided for their low-class status and ugliness.

Just how much?

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

Children given oily fish high in omega-3 fatty acids for 12 weeks had improved cognitive function, particularly attention and cognitive flexibility, and reduced socioemotional problems compared to children given poultry.

The plutonium core used in the experiment was cast initially to be the third atomic bomb dropped on Japan, but the end of the war prevented its use. 9 months later, an accident with the same core would kill Louis Slotin.

@santhi_ps @khatvaanga @acharya2 @hamsanandi @bharathceegee @Sanjotapurohit @Kadi_khichadi Thank you!

The gongura page is here on seedsofindia site:

Wrote a tiny hammerspoon script to manage those pesky window layouts on macOS

@btbytes @khatvaanga @acharya2 @hamsanandi @bharathceegee @Sanjotapurohit @Kadi_khichadi u get seeds on it grows very well in USA in summers. really well.

@btbytes I have this device:

Overclocked CPU (SD 855+).
Overclocked SSD.
Overclocked 12Gb RAM.

90Hz display

The display IS better than on iPhone 11.

The camera is on par with iPhone 11 in 85% cases. In some conditions it even takes better portraits.

@btbytes Back to school supplies seem to always list this for pencils:

So fun talking with Patrick and Adam on Risky Business! In this week’s show Patrick, Adam and Sherrod DeGrippo discuss the week’s security news, including:
NSA and FBI doxx GRU malware. Lol.
Malicious Azure app snags SANS staffer
Oracle to acquire TikTok?