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by shri_krishna 3y ago
There isn't "one Indian metaphysics" but many schools (with 3 of them being the most prominent - Advaita, Vishishtadvaita and Dvaita) called the Vedanta schools. These schools deal with answering fundamental questions: 1. Who
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> and it’s paused at least my investing in India And why is this so important? If you don't invest someone else will. The World is huge. There are plenty of players who are willing to invest in India's growth: both within borde
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
> May be World Happiness Index 2023 data is bit flawed. But I don't think that means whole world is sharing propaganda against India. Okay then lets take the World Press Freedom Index 2023. India is behind Afghanistan by 9 points in
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Because we see the same actors coming out of the woodworks every time an issue breaks out. I mean, is the Opposition so bereft of people that it has to project the same faces every time? Some of these actors play multiple roles. Sometimes t
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> How is it an achievement of Government while this was done by private companies like Reliance at the cost of public owned BSNL? Government actually let the loss of public tax payers money by giving favourable treatment to private compa
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
> Honestly, this attitude—equating moderate criticism with “rabid hate” I was responding to this comment: "I absolutely hate the way fellow Indians will just try and deflect negative stories about India as western propaganda."
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
Yeah and what is wrong with whataboutery? I have no issues with sprinkling some whataboutery to expose the West for the ridiculous expectations it has from a developing country like India while at the same time indulging in worse acts itsel
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
> The NYT is not the primary source of truth for policymakers in the United States. I don't have any issue with most current policymakers in US (for the past decade at the very least). Surprisingly most US lawmakers have their own i
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There were plenty of projects that were announced before BJP came to power and was never implemented. Congress was elected twice to implement these very things. Instead they spent all their time indulging in communal nonsense and high ticke
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> Add to that the fact that most Western media isn't biased (I've worked with them) Have you forgotten the New York Times job ad for South Asia Business Correspondent for India? Since you say Western media isn't biased and
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> The sheer amount of hubris in your post is astounding. Good to know you consider the World Happiness Index 2023 as hubris. We can finally agree on something. > I won’t be replying again to you because I don’t think you are capable o
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
I haven't even included UPI in this which has been an absolute game changer. Anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together would know how transformational UPI has been to India and growth of India in the past few years. But yeah we should
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
The reality on ground is different from what you read in the press or even online. We see the work being done. When work wasn't being done (recent example of Karnataka), people voted BJP out. The alternative (Congress) came to power pr
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
I love Go. I don't see any controversies surrounding Go. Or did I miss something?
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
> Part of me is very disappointed at ThePrimeagen, the Twitch streamer / YouTuber with whom I used to be friendly, for milking those controversies for every view and sub possible. For riling up the masses, adding fuel to the fire, c
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Something Unfathomable: Unaligned Humanity and how we're racing against death(lesswrong.com)
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
Vim is awesome. Not just for programming but I use it pretty much everywhere I can configure Vim (Vimium is my favorite non-terminal plugin I use frequently). Also for those interested, there is a really good talk given by Theena Kumaraguru
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
100k context limit is still a limit (we have no idea how Anthropic is achieving this - if it is extension of the base model context limit itself or some vector db trickery in the backend or probably even RAG). Even in this example, though i
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
Rather the ones we thought were "conspiracy theories" (over the past few years at least) most of them turned out to be true. It might be really unpopular to say it here but the Biden admin really fucked up on this one big time. I
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"I try not to think about it too much. But I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to" [1] - Sam Altman, OpenAI [1]
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
Here we go again! As if one pandemic wasn't enough! Ridiculous!
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
> no Hindu/Muslim tension To explain it better, we have had fights/relationships between both communities going all the way back to 6th century. And the people who are Muslims today were of various Religious ethnicities (majori
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
I never said we were one happy family until the Brits came along. Whatever wars we had pre-Colonization was always the internal matter of the Indian subcontinent. It did not involve outsiders who took decisions on our behalf. Even when we f
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
If an outsider comes into your family (in the form of a wife or husband or some such relationship), destroys it from within, ensures your family is split and creates lifetime hostility. Then washes his/her hands off the mess and says &
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
It is a familiar trope when it comes to India: dragging it to any topic that is potentially negative. ISRO launches a new rocket? "Oh but India is so poor does it really need a Space Industry?". And it is mostly perpetuated by Ind
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
For the calculator tool I suggest instead to just generate Javascript as an output with temperature set to 0 (system prompt set to something along the lines of: "Generate native Javascript code only. Don't provide any explanations
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
You are just getting unnecessarily pedantic here. I was talking about computing resource usage. Both are the same when it comes to resource consumption being limited. It is like saying Oracle/Postgres/MySQL/MSQL. If you say t
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
Nope. Edge is just serverless that is closer to your user to reduce the number of network hops. Both are essentially the same when it comes to technical functionality. They run on limited resources and should not be used for intensive workl
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The only time it makes sense to use edge/serverless anything is lightweight APIs and rendering HTML to end users so they get the page loaded as quickly as possible. That's the only use case good for edge. And any supporting infra
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by shri_krishna 3y ago
1. > organized unincorporated territory Is basically a nice way of saying it is a Colony. Fact is that it is a Colony. "Unincorporated territory" is a BS term created out of thin air to save the US Government from obvious criti

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