Arun2009

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by Arun2009 5y ago
It's very disturbing to me as an ordinary Indian citizen that a foreign private company was given the carte blanche to spy on prominent individuals in India. India's history is replete with incidents where seeking the help of fore
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by Arun2009 5y ago
That book has been gathering dust on my shelf for the last 10 years :-) I only recently completed an undergraduate sequence in quantum mechanics. I still have general relativity and quantum field theory left, which will take some more time
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by Arun2009 5y ago
My aim is evaluate the metaphysical claims of Indian philosophy from the perspective of the most holistic account of reality that we can acquire in the 21st century. This will obviously include studying other streams of knowledge that has a
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by Arun2009 5y ago
One of the things I want to do before I die is to acquire an authentic knowledge of classical Indian philosophy (particularly the monistic idealistic strands of thought in it) and the modern scientific account of reality, and evaluate for m
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by Arun2009 5y ago
I have surveyed these, but in general, they simply don't come anywhere close in quality to that of courses offered by edX. An example that readily comes to mind are the courses on manufacturing processes offered by both MITx and NPTEL.
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by Arun2009 6y ago
Thanks. That was quite informative.
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by Arun2009 6y ago
> I don't think it correct to equate Zikr with meditation. Maybe I am missing something, but Zikr sounds suspiciously like japa ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japa ), which is a well accepted form of concentrati
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by Arun2009 6y ago
> My theory is that both Christianity and Islam exists because of the fact that deep prolonged mediation causes hallucinations and psychotic experiences. Why? Because God talked to both Jesus and Muhammed while they where meditating in t
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by Arun2009 6y ago
> On the first day of the retreat, Megan, a cheerful twenty-five-year-old with blue eyes and shoulder-length hair dyed a cardinal red, woke at four o’clock in the morning to the chiming of a bell. For a cumulative ten hours and forty-fiv
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China Appears to Warn India: Push Too Hard and the Lights Could Go Out(nytimes.com)
3 points by Arun2009 6y ago|0 comments
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by Arun2009 6y ago
Unfortunately, this is not a Pakistan specific thing. Ahmadis have been persecuted in pretty much every major Muslim nation. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Ahmadis Prima facie, it'd seem th
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by Arun2009 6y ago
I once heard a lecture by Prof. Roy Baumeister of University of Queensland in which he described attempts to cure depression by improving the self-esteem of depressed individuals. The researchers thought that perhaps if the patients had a m
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by Arun2009 6y ago
Dasgupta was one of the first authors I read. Also worked through some volumes of Potter's "Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies". Now my aim is to study these topics in Sanskrit with a traditional scholar. Currently trying to
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by Arun2009 6y ago
I will be 40 soon. I picked up the rudiments of Sanskrit enough to be able to understand lectures in the language and read straightforward prose. I also gained a basic understanding of Indic philosophy, but I suppose that is not a skill. No
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by Arun2009 6y ago
If you are in India, NPTEL courses are a possibility, but I've heard that it can be a hit or a miss depending on the lecturer. You get to write regular assignments, and a proctored exam for a certificate.
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by Arun2009 6y ago
The basic problem is that hierarchical organization of the society where a human's worth is determined by his birth is a core classical Hindu (i.e., "Brahmanical") value; egalitarianism is not. Either Hindus must rewrite the
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by Arun2009 6y ago
> Also Jesus was born in a poor family, which would have made him a lower caste hindu if he was born in India This is not really true. If I recall correctly, Jesus was born in the Davidic line as per the bible, which was important for hi
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by Arun2009 6y ago
> The value of the US with shared 'western' values is greatly declining, since they are retreating from almost every partnership. Sometimes there is a tendency to forget that there is more to the USA than Trump and co. I think
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by Arun2009 6y ago
> This seems like the author is explicitly arguing for the tragedy of the commons. Yes, any one individual getting 'wound up' doesn't accomplish much, but the public 'at large' getting wound up can and does effec
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by Arun2009 6y ago
I find it terribly distracting to have all the things that I have tried to learn in my "active" memory. So I cycle between phases where I am engaged with a subject for a while, and then move on to the next item in my (circular) li
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The TTY Demystified(linusakesson.net)
1 points by Arun2009 6y ago|0 comments
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Matrix Calculus(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by Arun2009 7y ago|0 comments
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by Arun2009 7y ago
Indian law enforcement officials do take action against those who are complicit in scams similar to this. E.g., see here: https://globalnews.ca/news/6182793/india-call-centre-scam-ar... > In a press release iss
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by Arun2009 7y ago
Same for India as well to a great deal, but in India, it's not just nationalism, it's nationalism with a heady dose of religion.
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by Arun2009 7y ago
> I have been shocked by the vicious hatred and massive troll armies, that exceed anything I’ve noticed elsewhere Mutual distrust and animosity was always there underneath the surface. The internet is just making it a lot more visible to
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by Arun2009 7y ago
> I think it is pretty clear that the Indian Government rushed into this because this is what their Hindu-nationalistic base wants - subdue the only Muslim Indian majority state. Abrogation of Kashmir's special status has been a top
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by Arun2009 7y ago
The US is well within its right to decide who should be allowed within its borders, but this requirement will drive away precisely the kind of immigrants that the US (or any other sensible country) might want to attract.
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Tools for Understanding Code(ask.slashdot.org)
1 points by Arun2009 7y ago|0 comments
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by Arun2009 7y ago
> What are the chances that India does the same? The saving grace (in my opinion) is that India is vastly more susceptible to pressure from outside than China. Indian government can't simply impose a policy and expect the population
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by Arun2009 7y ago
Just an aside: one thing people who harp on India's population problem seem to miss is that the fertility rates in India are on a steady downward trend. Indeed, it's below replacement level in several Indian states. See here: h

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