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by rramadass 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41537302
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by rramadass 2y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Buddhists : During their conquest of Sindh, the Arabs brought the non-Muslims into the category of ahl al-kitab, considering them ahl al-dhimmah (protected subjects) a
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by rramadass 2y ago
Plenty of citations/articles/books/links here; 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_Buddhism_in_the_Ind... - From 986 CE, the Turks started raiding northwest India from Afghanistan, plundering we
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by rramadass 2y ago
@dang; I understand your point (the letter) but disagree with its spirit. One should not tolerate attempts to intentionally "sweep under the rug" documented genocides and distort History just because it involves someone's Rel
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The Pragmatic Programmer for Machine Learning (2023)(ppml.dev)
195 points by rramadass 2y ago|41 comments
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by rramadass 2y ago
Nicely said, this in particular; > In programming, the tools one chooses, and ones abilities with those tools, and the nature of the problem domain, all intersect to, in fact, restrict and shape the nature, quality, completeness, and eve
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by rramadass 2y ago
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by rramadass 2y ago
>Whats really fascinating is billionaires you dont even know about. They are not in forbes. Their assets are a mystery. Their net worth exceed those of Jeff Bezos and Elon musk and Warren Buffett combined. > For instance, one suspecte
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by rramadass 2y ago
There is a stronger argument to be made that it was because of the establishment of Buddhism as the de-facto state philosophy/religion/practice in North/Northwest part of India that the Islamic invaders could conquer India. B
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by rramadass 2y ago
Tangential but interesting - see also Sam Miller's idiosyncratic and funny book A Strange Kind of Paradise: India through Foreign Eyes.
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by rramadass 2y ago
The West hardly knows anything "true" of India; almost everybody looks at it only through a narrow perspective and thus are "incorrect". The History of India is a multi-branched tree with the main branches being; a) Oral
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by rramadass 2y ago
The man was a card-carrying Marxist member of CPI with his own agenda and hence all of his "scholarship" is highly suspect. https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2014/08/an-eminent-histori... - Read the conc
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by rramadass 2y ago
What do you mean? Amazon has the hardcover listed for sale.
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by rramadass 2y ago
Rather trivial article. But the subject is important and worth studying from various perspectives viz. Yoga(Kanda)/Qigong(Dantian)/Zen(Hara)/Modern Science(nerve plexus). The following two books are a good place to start from
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by rramadass 2y ago
Unless i am understanding you wrong, you could easily do this by #including all your a.c, b.c etc. into one file input.c and feeding that to the compiler. We did this for a home-grown SoC with a gcc port for which there was no linker.
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by rramadass 2y ago
Nice. I worked out most of it; the C source part was easy and the Makefile was mostly comprehensible(except for the "true"/"false" rules) but the shell script part was what stumped me; now i see the sneaky whitespac
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by rramadass 2y ago
Ah; the /* at the beginning is expanded by the shell to a proper path while the trailing #*/ becomes a shell comment.
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by rramadass 2y ago
This compiles as both "./tomx.c" and "make -f tomx.c" to produce the executable "tomx"; but am not fully clear how?
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by rramadass 2y ago
The mentioned "changes in physiological and mental parameters" is a well known field of study. See Effects of Meditation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_meditation Also see The effect of meditat
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by rramadass 2y ago
> 1 is an untestable internal state. Not quite; it is testable through experience by following any number of practices, prescribed in detail in various texts. There is also empirical evidence in the form of changes in physiological and m
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by rramadass 2y ago
One good framework to think about the problem of "Consciousness" in Humans vs. AI/AGI is the Samkhya School of Hindu Philosophy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samkhya See my past comments here for som
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by rramadass 2y ago
You might find Edward Deci's book Why we do What we do : Understanding Self-Motivation interesting. A review : https://thorprojects.com/2020/05/04/book-review-why-we-do-wh...
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by rramadass 2y ago
While the article does not talk overtly about racial topics; the narrative of a young girl "scrubbing floors" in a "beautiful house" etc. were suggestive and on checking the author's name it became clear. Toni Morri
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by rramadass 2y ago
Two main reasons; 1) Power/Politics - This is basically Human Nature at work and institutionalized as Management/Leadership/etc to put themselves at the top. A lot of it is BS (see the books by https://jeffreypfeff
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by rramadass 2y ago
For those folks interested in implementing their own lightweight TCP/IP stack, Jeremy Bentham's book; TCP/IP Lean is a great resource.
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by rramadass 2y ago
> work to live is a privilege I have seen extreme poverty (in India) and materialistic decadence both in the US and India and can assure you that while it is true in some contexts it is false in many others. This is why in India (and i a
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by rramadass 2y ago
But it wasn't like this in the beginning of the Industrial/Knowledge revolution. Engineers/Scientists were valued and founded companies with Engineering at its core with Management/Marketing/Sales/etc. playing
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by rramadass 2y ago
By your logic, nobody who has achieved something should ever give advice since their current status invalidates all the hardship they had to endure to get there. She was a writer and hence was trying to make a point in a forceful way which
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by rramadass 2y ago
You are way way off base here as others have also pointed out : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison Toni Morrison has had a far more difficult life than most of us normal people here who did not have to worry a
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by rramadass 2y ago
Exactly! I was about to respond with something much harsher but you have put it quite well.

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