Arun2009

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by Arun2009 7y ago
My course is the famous one by Samskritabharati ( https://www.samskritabharati.in/ ). It's a correspondence program, but they do conduct introductory contact classes as well. They also deliver materials overseas. Samskri
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by Arun2009 7y ago
My list keeps changing, but I have three main "projects" these days. - I will complete the final level of a beginner's Sanskrit course this August. This has been an intermittently executed project for me. I can follow uncompl
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> And in India you need to work 5x as hard if not less to make same wages as your American counterpart, even then if you manage to make the same wage as someone I America, you'll find your money can only buy 1/3rd of the benefi
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by Arun2009 7y ago
> If so, how is the entire country not panicking about this? That seems like a really serious problem. This is simply not as emotive an issue for elections as banning cow-slaughter or defending India from the evil Muslims. Not to mention
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by Arun2009 7y ago
Monsoons have been a dud so far. Our well nearly dried up, and we were planning to shift should water run out. The municipal water supply is useless. The irony: my state (Kerala) receives around 3000+ mm rainfall per year on average, and su
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by Arun2009 7y ago
It turns out that Pakistanis are humans too, and they need water as well. Besides, there's the little problem of nukes.
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by Arun2009 7y ago
> heavily accented English instead of The Indian language. Over the years I have grown to think of English as an honorary Indian language, kind of like the Mother Theresa of Indian languages. Not a mother-tongue perhaps, but definitely,
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by Arun2009 7y ago
> there's enough floor space in the urban core of Bangalore There's vastly more to India than a few metro cities. A quick google search reveals that around 65+ % of Indian population lives in rural areas. India is in for some v
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by Arun2009 7y ago
I too am a huge believer in breadth-first learning rather than depth-first, and my reasoning is the same: in my experience, ideas need to stay with you for a while before they take root in your mind and you get used to them. The big ideas i
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by Arun2009 7y ago
Maybe this is mentioned in the article, but my first thought was that the license is photoshopped.
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by Arun2009 8y ago
I'd contest your claim that MOOCs "don't work". It's true that only a fraction of those who participate in typical MOOCs complete them (8 - 10%), ( https://imgur.com/a/HI4IXbt , from "Harva
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by Arun2009 8y ago
Democratizing high quality education. It used to be that the best teachers were available only to a few dozens of privileged students at a time. But now we have the technology to scale great pedagogy to reach millions of learners. I also th
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by Arun2009 8y ago
In my experience, it's vagueness of learning goals that actually kills my attempts at learning. In an effort to overcome this, I now try to commit to a formal learning program with examinations and tests for things I want to learn. Th
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by Arun2009 8y ago
The key takeaways for me from the 80000 hours test ( https://80000hours.org/psychology-replication-quiz/ ): > Papers that report boring or common-sense results seem to be true very often. Cognitive psychology (e.g. me
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by Arun2009 8y ago
If you haven't heard of it yet, I suggest that you look at Albert Ellis's Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), and start training yourself to aggressively fight any demons that might be haunting you. I highly recommend Ellis&
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by Arun2009 8y ago
> "To this day," Bjork says, "most people think about forgetting as decay, that memories are like footprints in the sand that gradually fade away. But that has been disproved by a lot of research. The memory appears to be
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by Arun2009 8y ago
In a previous life, I used to tutor students who had to cover high-school mathematics for their university courses. What I found was that going through a proper high-school textbook was the best way to cover all the topics systematically an
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World Poverty Clock(worldpoverty.io)
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by Arun2009 8y ago
In my admittedly amateurish opinion, having a vivid picture of the horrors of nuclear weapons can be very effective in curbing nationalistic and pro-war tendencies among both citizens and leaders of nuclear-armed states. MAD is effective on
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by Arun2009 8y ago
If by "great" you mean influential, then definitely India's epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata would fit the bill IMO. Wikipedia has this to say about Mahabharata: > The Mahābhārata is the longest epic poem known and
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The History and Future of Special Functions(stephenwolfram.com)
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by Arun2009 9y ago
I just went on incognito mode and googled the title of the article. From google search results, I followed the WSJ link that showed up.
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by Arun2009 9y ago
> And this causes your spaceship to rise, and defy the Earth's gravity. Won't it cause the surrounding atmosphere to cave in to the negative-gravity source as well?
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The Genius Fallacy(jxyzabc.blogspot.com)
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But isn't that the way it's supposed to be? I have always thought of reputation on SO as a measure of the total usefulness of your answers. When people find your reply useful, they upvote you. It's thus only natural that long
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by Arun2009 9y ago
From the perspective of a non-native speaker of the language, it seems to me that the United States is English's killer product. A great deal of the credit for the English language's dominance must go to the US and the culture a
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I hear you, but I also fear that these sort of intangible benefits that we think ought to exist might not exist after all. When I read a book I definitely feel that I have accomplished something. I even take notes. I certainly acquire bragg
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by Arun2009 9y ago
I find that the true challenge is not reading, but internalizing what I have read. I often find that books that I read eventually get summarized to a few pithy statements in my memory (if I am lucky). Most of the body is gone after a few mo
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by Arun2009 9y ago
I read a few good books this year, all of them non-fiction. Some that come to mind are: "Worldviews - An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science" by Richard DeWitt. Instead of doing a history-only or philosophy-only
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Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow(joelgrus.com)
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