selimthegrim

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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
>According to Tripathi, the problem of Sanskrit being narrowed to religion is a colonial inheritance. British Orientalists, he argues, created an image of Sanskrit as the language of ritual and one religious community, ignoring its vast
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
What about Prakrit and Punjabi? I knew a guy at UCSB, Gurinder Singh Mann who taught me to read Punjabi. Nice guy (to me) but got himself in a lot of trouble for many different reasons.
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
Well I am doing some Bayesian stuff so I was curious what GP had to say too
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
Exactly who was East Pakistan a colony of in 1950 and who was denying them the franchise?
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
I don’t understand how IK got elected so many times and not once did he attempt to increase taxpayer base. Is that Jehangir Tareen’s fault?
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
I could ask you the same question about government schools. Why is it that my uncle could go to government school in Pakistan in 70s and get good education and that’s not possible now.
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
These are for government loans. I really wish my private loan north of 13% was capped.
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
Was this Keesler by any chance?
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
I took it there and I don't think it was supposed to be harder than at other schools. They have to get the premeds through.
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
You might have done the impossible and actually gotten rayiner to concede a point.
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
They're going to have to rewrite that herring joke in Joys of Yiddish
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27782370
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
>Despite their faults on macro-politics, rigidly Islamic countries are remarkably safe and peaceful at the micro level. Tehran has a half the homicide rate of Toronto! This is the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life. I'll
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
Please do tell. I might have to do this soon.
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
I would like to play this demo when it comes out.
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
I’m working on a synthetic control arm for a heart valve trial using synthetic patients from both the heart valve registry (in the near future) and a frozen EHR encoder. It’s pretty fun exercise.
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
I had it at 14
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
I actually contracted shingles as a teenager (at the same time as mono - fun times) should I still take the vaccine?
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
Is he still doing TWIV?
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
Aren't you skipping over the noise/stochasticity part from the sampling?
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
Philistines were Greek/IE, not Canaanite I thought.
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
You might want to research the origins of the Taliban a little more.
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
This also reminds me of a offhanded remark in a SsethTzeentach review where he criticizes the Titanic passengers for not having the decency to be ballast and plug the hole with their own bodies
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
Would you say it is definitely catching bugs that Opus wouldn't?
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
Um...
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
That's not how Purcell's textbook put it.
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
Uh he was a little more than an Arabist but point taken
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
I seem to remember a onetime secular Jew named Leopold Weiss did a pretty good job.
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
Pakistan has nukes and I don't see the Gulf/Levant quaking in their boots
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
I had the opportunity to take up a working holiday visa 10-12 years ago and never used it.

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