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by shriphani 5y ago
The ground squirrels (I see them mostly in South San Jose) live in multigenerational burrows and dont venture too far out. I bet they stumble upon other family members' caches.
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by shriphani 5y ago
The book that had an amazing impact on lots of friends who smoked is Easy Way by Allen Carr: https://www.amazon.com/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/0615... (No affiliation). Friends report there are no lasting ur
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by shriphani 5y ago
And of course I feel I have to mention Richard Burton himself who led possibly the most interesting life in his time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton
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by shriphani 5y ago
The first story in Exhalation is written in the style of the Arabian Nights (Thousand and One Nights). Get the unabridged, original translation by Richard Burton - it is some of the most beautiful literature ever written - comes in 16 volum
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by shriphani 5y ago
I've been measuring the extent of romanization of local languages in india and in the web age it is only accelerating. The vast majority of Hindi, Telugu, Tamil content is written in the English alphabet online - https://www
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by shriphani 6y ago
So we should be able to walk on the surface of a pool filled with ketchup? I've seen this video of people walking on custard on brainiac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz9KnPZWOgs
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by shriphani 6y ago
Vasari's book (mentioned in the article) is an amazing read. While centered around contemporary artists, it is clear that Michelangelo is the star of the work. And there is a very interesting set of details on the carving of David and
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by shriphani 7y ago
it is a lot more comprehensive and it is fast . Text classifier with millions of documents done in 5 - 10 mins on normal hardware.
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by shriphani 7y ago
fasttext : https://fasttext.cc/ I am a hobbyist NLP researcher and have published 4 papers in the last year just thanks to this library and the many life-saving tweaks. Honestly a world-class effort from the team at Faceboo
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by shriphani 7y ago
http://blog.shriphani.com/ <- at the moment I post my sculpture, and CS research work here.
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by shriphani 7y ago
Look at idris - proofs are expressed using dependent types which allow full propositional logic and implementations exploit these proofs using a haskell like language that allows imperative + purely functional code: https://www.i
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by shriphani 7y ago
In the Indian subcontinent, most native content features a lot of code-mixing - so in a Bengali or Hindi document you'll see some English words for sure. And the vast majority of native content is written in the Roman script - (native
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by shriphani 7y ago
Sorry about that I'll edit the post with an explicit mention right away.
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Polyglot Word Embeddings Discover Language Clusters(blog.shriphani.com)
27 points by shriphani 7y ago|5 comments
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by shriphani 7y ago
I did a large-scale crawl of the web some years ago and we put together a billion pages. The bulk of the content ended up being index pages - i.e. large list of links taking you to the content - pagination, other breadcrumbs etc. You can ex
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by shriphani 7y ago
Insane. What on earth is even going on in these school districts? Why don't they just ask TI to set the math curriculum next?
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by shriphani 7y ago
You don't need a graphic calculator for high school. Hundreds of millions of kids in China and India graduate without one and do just fine. Differential calculus is now 400+ years old and generations of humans have done fine without a
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by shriphani 7y ago
What an amazing story! I have heard so many incredible stories about the partition - some good, some bad. It is just what displacements do I guess - the upheaval lifts some boats, sinks some and the world goes on.
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by shriphani 7y ago
Very cool! -
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by shriphani 7y ago
CMU's RPP: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~weigand/staff/ Was surprisingly effective. Probably something to it - that department has maintained lasting productivity longer than the lifetimes of many companies.
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World Population Heatmap(blog.shriphani.com)
3 points by shriphani 7y ago|0 comments
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by shriphani 7y ago
I met a Punjabi gentleman in his 50s watching Tik Tok. Turns out there's a vibrant comedy scene in the Punjabi language on Tik Tok. It is huge in the South Asian community and is attracts a large variety of eyeballs.
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by shriphani 7y ago
The bigger issue here seems to be the use of ordinals in the data collection process. For instance, a lot of my CSVs don't have them and R and pandas are perfectly capable of enumerating. Why do you even need to put ordinals in the dat
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by shriphani 7y ago
This makes the most sense to me. I don't work in the dataframes world but without this explanation it seemed like someone would have to go out of their way to make that error.
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by shriphani 7y ago
From the article: Although Decety’s paper had reported that they had controlled for country, they had accidentally not controlled for each country, but just treated it as a single continuous variable so that, for example “Canada” (coded as
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by shriphani 7y ago
The Italians have "Dolce Far Niente" - and the few I know and talk to on a regular basis consider it a commandment - it is like an activity.
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by shriphani 7y ago
Some woods are ok with rain - I've used cypress for outdoor signage for instance and it takes rain well - no warping or that sort of business. If you constrain expansion to one or two dimensions it might be ok.
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by shriphani 7y ago
Well they do have a very strict definition for who is zoroastrian. If marrying outside the faith cuts off the entire bloodline from the faith it is not going to last very long.
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Plotting India: Challenges and Resources(indiaindata.com)
1 points by shriphani 7y ago|0 comments
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by shriphani 7y ago
Before I ever got a mac (or cared about these sorts of things), I saw the Jony Ive exhibit at the design museum - left quite an impression on my family and me - we thought of computers as some kind of calculator++ but this felt like somethi

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