bodhiandpysics1

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   by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

   The earliest extent translation of the Ramayana is the Tamil Kampan Ramayana from the late 12th century. The might have been a Khmer translation earlier. The Assamese Kotha Ramayana is about two hundred years later. The Jain Ardhamagghadi R
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   by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

   There is a saying in sanskrit that you can either rule a kingdom or learn grammar. Learning sanskrit is a long road and its not an easy one.
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   by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

   I mean... Tamilians sort of dominated of dominated Sanskrit literature in 7th-10th centuries. Dandin, Kumarila, Shankara, Dharmakirti, Ramanujan and Madhva. Not to mention the Bhagavatapurana, which very quickly became probably the most i
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   by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

   Bengali is very much a descendent of Sanskrit. Assamese (and Oriya) is essentially a somewhat distant dialect of Bengali. Most languages of Asia that aren't part of the Chinese world (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and modern Vietnamese)
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   by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

   There is some issue with priority... modern Shudh Hindi (the standard literary dialect) only dates from the 19th century when it was essentially invented by a number of Hindu intellectuals mostly in Benares. Urdu is older, along with the
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   by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

   Since all indian scripts besides the Urdu Nastaliq were originally developed to write sanskrit, the transliteration is indeed perfect!
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   by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

   To give a sense of the differences the numbers one through ten in written tamil: ondru, irandu, moondru, nangu, aintu, aru, ezhu (prounced like eru), ettu, ompattu, pattu in modern: oru, rendu, moonu, nalu, intu, aru, elu (or eru), ettu, om
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   by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

   It takes a couple of years for the pain to really begin!
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   by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

   "Modern Tamil" is actually classical Tamil. The written language is basically fixed in form to the language of the first millenium CE (the Thirukural, a collection of aphorisms by a Jain monk from the 3-4th century is relatively
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    by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

    There is no schema!
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    by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

    So in some sense that's what this is all about. The resolution of an electron microsocope is dependant on the energy of the electron, but higher energy electrons rip your sample apart. The trick that cryo-em does is to stiffen the str
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    by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

    This is a really important point. One of the problems with the diagnosis of psychopathy, and ASPD in general, is that psychologists hate their patients with this diagnosis, and ironically, feel very little empathy for them. The result is t
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    by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

    Note that the mirai also needs the fuel cells, which adds another 70 kg, so the difference isn't as stark
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    by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

    Which is precisely what this has solved!
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    by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

    There is a certain class of computer programs that can best be described as a really big table. Basically, an input taken from a finite set, you get an output taken from a finite set. This type of program is really easy to write in Haskel
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    by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

    That's not true... all turing complete type systems are unsound (where the type metalanguage itself is a turing complete language), but you can have a sound type system of a turing complete language, and in fact haskel itself has such
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    by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

    It's a little complicated... Hawking radiation establishes the minimum size of stable black hole in our universe. If the temperature of the event horizon is higher than the temperature of the CMB, than a black hole will lose mass by H
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    by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

    Those numbers are important! In classic rpgs, both western and Japanese, skillful play consists in strategically manipulating those numbers to defeat challenges. It's a very different feeling than in an action game where skillful play
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    by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

    A good way of thinking about this is that the Zelda games are genetically rpgs, in the sense that Miyamoto was doing his spin on the style of game that Nihon Falcom had introduced. Obviously, the absense of numerical character abilities in
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    by bodhiandpysics1 6y ago

    You're missing something... sort of. Yes, these authors are aware of Apuleus. They might even be aware of day the Tale of Genji, or Dream of the Red Chamber, or Njall's Saga, or even say the book of Samuel in the Bible, all of w