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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Other than the doom and gloom, what is the standard practice in other paddy growing regions in Asia and India ? If the state really wanted to help, they'd do well to believe their word is that of the God, and actively help with practic
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
I fear we are rapidly approaching a Malthusian urban die-off; almost unimaginable that this won't happen if once we get past peak-oil.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
The whole Hitler thing is strangely universal. I've previously read about Abe being compared to Hitler. A stranger incident was a picture of Modi next to a Swastika - the (Indian) authors found no irony in using a Hindu symbol, and em
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
How do the work/startup cultures in other Asian nations compare ?
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
That makes sense; speaks a lot for the criminal mismanagement of a clueless state (largely true of India before the 90s, kind of true even today).
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Isn't agriculture well-developed in Venezuela ? Any historical reason for why this is ?
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
It has nothing to do with modern life. The human mind is generally only simulated by change. After a while you realize change beyond a certain frequency change is annoying too (see the koan about Sakyamuni and the "middle path").
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
There is also reason to believe that the CIA snuffed out Bhabha. It's admirable that while the China obtained its tech from USSR, India led by Homi Bhabha used a civilian Canadian reactor to do it all by themselves.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
That's true; indeed, the fact that ISRO does so well supports what you claim. That however does not contradict the fact that India's exam system also filters out a lot of smart people, and trains them really well... most of whom h
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Indian PSU research centers are well-known for being incompetent (including DRDO, CSIR, HAL...) [1]; in this ISRO is something of an oasis (or so I've heard). These orgs are generally neither nimble, nor particularly interested in acq
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
"non-existent" ?
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Change requires instruments; stupid catchy phrases don't do much in this world.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Here's one that illustrates all my gripes, https://parivahan.gov.in/parivahan/
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
The whole digitizing India is total and complete sham. Old Govt. offices atleast used to work, and had forms in local languages. Now, you need to have, - A scanner, to have all your documents scanned - A printer, to get a "printout&quo
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Elst has a nice post on the duplicity of India's supposed "culture warriors", http://koenraadelst.blogspot.in/2015/11/propagating-english-... " And stay in the undemocratic schizophrenic neo-co
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
I see. Are book-stores far and in-between (why is it inconvenient ?).
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
> Good-quality Internet/smartphone penetration is not as deep as you think. If you think it's a market of 1B people, you're sorely off the mark. It's not that bad; I've met folk who make ~$200 month use 3G on th
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
How exactly is this different from the US ? You think people will rush to Amazon, if overnight becomes just as expensive as B&N ?
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
> She was convinced that local startups would have a fundamental edge over foreign competitors. No they do not. They had a head start from setting up a city-wide logistics company, but other than that there isn't much else. Localiza
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
That India is a linguistic-apartheid state doesn't contradict with the fact that the creme de la creme is quite good (very apparent from the population in the US).
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
There are deep social divisions in India, considering its tortured (and propagandized) history. http://sankrant.org/2011/03/the-english-class-system-2/ There are systematic faults, which prevent much change,
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
> Note the debate you are having with the GP is in English. You don't say ? > For better or worse, English is the common language for software development (and aviation, etc.) English in India is more dense than the feudal castes
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
I just want to note how comments complaining about Mandarin being the dev language, gets downvoted (by sympathetic Europeans); while at the same time so do those complaining about English's hegemony in India (by furious Indians). Stran
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Wow. Just wow. - English is hardly the "most common script". Just because the retainers in Delhi impose the colonial apparatus on us, doesn't automagically give it "statistical power" as well. - Every state has a (p
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Can't speak much for the project, but have to admire them for sticking with Mandarin. India is atleast a 100-200 years away from something of this kind happening; or more likely never at all. Indeed, there is not a single research univ
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
The algorithms/hardware are hardly proprietary.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
अपि "हंसध्वज" वा "जटायु"। परन्तु असम्भवम् आङ्लराज्ये परिवर्तनम् । :(
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
As an aside, do folk run Linux on a Mac ?
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
The "Inverse Graphics" paper is a nice read too :) http://www.cv-foundation.org/openaccess/content_cvpr_2015/ht...
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Unless there is scope for optimization, it should, by necessity, be that the representations are essentially the same, thus making it essentially a problem of parsing. The research listed in the page ( http://probabilistic-program

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