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@roshweb @btbytes Must watch:

Uplifting story from 2014 of a man saving a 1000 year old church in England. This is how you do retirement.

@btbytes if you want a good shop knife, these are nice in bright orange. 4 inches (so 1/2 inch longer than a swiss army knife). But no folding nonsense. But seriously, you can't go wrong with orange.

New analysis finds viral shedding in asymptomatic individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 was about equal to viral shedding seen in symptomatic cases; suggesting asymptomatic individuals may have equivalent propensity to spread virus to others.

Fascinating: an early 19th Century German work on Sanskrit, produced using lithography rather than type. Would love to see higher resolution images.

A student is suing Brigham Young University because their move to online classes was "subpar."

He paid $2,895 in tuition and fees for the semester, and they offered him a pro-rated refund for when campus closed, which he refused.

Gonna get ugly, folks.

Films Division documentary on BV Karanth is now on youtube. The film is based on BV Karanth's autobiography in Kannada called Illiralaare, Allige Hogalaare (I can't stay here, I won't go there) compiled by well known Kannada writer Vaidehi.

@MatthiasGalvin Almost.

Dijkstra -

If the first 30 min of Vid. H.V.Nagaraja Rao's mellifluous Sanskrit talk doesn't inspire you to learn Sanskrit and read some kavya, then probably nothing else will!

What a great upanyaasa!

Do listen to the Naishadhacharita talk.

#sanskrit #naishadha

Thinking about the makeup of things that happen fast

Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions: Essays in Honour of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson, edited by Dominic Goodall, Shaman Hatley, Harunaga Isaacson, and Srilata Raman (Leiden: Brill, 2020; ) has just been published. The publication is fully #openaccess 1/2

A must listen, ಅಚ್ಚಗನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಷ್ಟೋತ್ತರ, ವಿಷ್ಣುವಿನ ಮೇಲೆ ಡಾ॥ ಶ್ರೀಕಾಂತ್ ಕೃಷ್ಣಮೂರ್ತಿ ಬರೆದದ್ದು

RT please. This should reach more people.

"Surprisingly, the company is not using machine learning to do this, Instead, Morris says it involves a lot of automated analysis of sensor data."

No one who actually looks at network traffic is surprised. Machine learning < automation, humans, analysis

Interesting bit from this Ezra Klein podcast episode on loneliness (Rec by @jialanw).

People perceive threats differently when adrift from community - ie twig breaking more easily interpreted as predator. Mind does ABYLFOYPE naturally

In the 97 years from 1900-1996 real housing prices in the US were up a total of 11% (0.1% per year)

Then in the 23 years from 1997-2019 real housing prices in the US were up a total of 57% (2% per year)

(fun w/numbers but this is the data)

IIT Madras, India’s top technical institute, welcomes you to the world’s first online BSc Degree program in Programming and Data Science.

{ I think its a great opportunity, Apply }

#Python programming tip: In Programming Pearls, Jon Bentley recommends improving your debugging skills by learning how medical detectives unravel thorny public health problems.

The book is engrossing and fun. I highly recommend it.

I read and solved problems from Shakuntala Devi’s books when I was a kid. I remember really liking the books. Flipping thru them now, they hold up quite well!

This:

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I read and solved problems from Shakuntala Devi’s books when I was a kid. I remember really liking the books. Flipping thru them now, they hold up quite well!

This:

And:

I've written the first article in a long time: "Building a decent Java CLI" -- tl;dr: Use Micronaut w/ Picocli to get GraalVM Native Image goodness; follow best practices for how a CLI should behave.

Science Nomad : Open letter to educated young Indian: Why Manu is the only Smriti you are given by your education curriculum?

Never worn a belt. Never wear wraps.
People think you can’t lift heavy unless you wear a belt. Not surprisingly, they get their instructions from someone who usually sells belts. 🤷‍♂️

50 % of Mumbai’s slum dwellers test positive for antibodies against COVID-19. Implications?

Very cool — RDS (and Postgres) now run on ARM. It's just a matter of time until ARM ignites in the data center.

I was hoping/expecting the $ discount to be greater, but AWS claims an r6g is ~40% more performant than its m5 counterpart, at ~20% cheaper.

Here is the digital version of “Datang Xiu Ji” - the descriptive geography of the “Western World” by Hiuen Tsang (Xuan Jang), translated by Samuel Beal. It is highly entertaining, different regions of India ca. ~630 AD are described with a lot of color.

@APompliano Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease

Bhojpuri-speaker Arimardan is a linguist at the Endangered Languages Center in Bolpur, West Bengal. His mother tongue is spoken by over 50 million people worldwide, primarily in India, Nepal, and parts of the Caribbean. NEW on YouTube: #India #linguistics

A lot of the frustration on twitter is from "aspirational professionals" who got tons of education financed by tons of debt only to discover there are not tons of jobs for them, or tons of housing in the places where those few jobs are.

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[🇮🇳💊] Not very surprised by this since, Indian vaccine manufacturers account for ~70% of all vaccines manufactured in the world :

If you've ever taken a vaccine, then it has probably been made in India.

This by @ZachWeiner is too accurate.

Found it - along with the image. Thie 0 in the number 701 - from #Rashtrakuta #KarkaRaja's #Dhulia plates - Possibly the earliest recorded zero in an inscription.

I have marked it with a red enclosure.

Epigraphia Indica Volume 8 (page 244 in the PDF)

Head of Buddha | Gandhara, 2nd-3rd C

@DmytroGladkyi I gave up my last domain for the same reason.

So good! Packs in more fun science than entire chapters in text books. Please please please teach kids science like this ❤️

@spacegangster Part of it sounds like GuixSD

I put an entire 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 into an Electron app, together with a bunch of apps and games. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux... and JavaScript. Again: I'm sorry.

Go grab it here:

@vakibs When this historian of science attempts to assemble a 'deprovincialised' (less Eurocentric) map of epochal scientific advances, India's place is earned, tellingly, via grammar.

(24:47-25:42; another key segment at 42:57-43:54)

@hsraghav How "area studies" in US universities are an artifact of Cold-War-era espionage investments, and "history of science" as a discipline was historically associated with the military-industrial complex, is outlined with telling examples here.

18:35-24:38

@btbytes @dysinger I wonder this too; it's Bazel by another name.

"The company Google uses the build tool Blaze internally and released an open-sourced part of the Blaze tool as Bazel, named as an anagram of Blaze."

Like most people, I've been trying to pick up some new skills during the worst summer ever. I created a website for as of now mythical product. Learning wordpress has been fun.

Cracking the Case of South India’s Missing Vegetables | A food designer used quarantine to track down the mystery produce in his grandmother’s Tamil language cookbook called, Samaithu Paar.

Cook and See!

The Indian Ocean in World History, from the Arabian Sea to the South China Sea. Sounds fascinating

@btbytes Hungarian has: trying to find a knot on a rush

Oh man, I couldn't agree more with @kmett. Years ago I was horrified that Python people prefixed methods with '_' to mark them private. Now I'm convinced it's the right way to go. Or some kind of dynamic scope so I can fool with internals as I please.

Buddha | India, 5th C

"The way in which the robe is worn, with the cloth pulled diagonally across the body and thrown over the right shoulder, while the left shoulder is bare, is typical of sculpture from the Krishna River valley in Andhra Pradesh."

The most useless order ever to be passed 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@cigardubey $ echo “127.0.0.1 ” >> /etc/hosts

Buy my ^ t-shirt.