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by sn41 6y ago
I am currently reading "Sourcery" by Terry Pratchett. Your remark is literally one of the plot points of the story.
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by sn41 6y ago
Classical in the sense that this is a tradition of sufficient vintage, backed by a theory of music. There are at least 2 distinct systems of Indian music which are called classical. 1. Carnatic - the south Indian classical music. Traditiona
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by sn41 6y ago
Thanks, this was helpful.
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by sn41 6y ago
It may hark back to the terse crypticness of Unix manpages. On the other hand, php has a better balance with user contributed examples at the end of the official doc, with exceptional comments and examples eventually becoming part of the of
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by sn41 6y ago
Agree++. I really prefer the disconnected mode of a book. The feeling of insight dripping in after being steeped in one thing alone.
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by sn41 6y ago
Negative numbers were hardly distrusted in Indian mathematics - Brahmagupta in the 6th Century just asked called a negative number as "debt". (see for example, [1]) The real question is why negative times negative is positive - I
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by sn41 6y ago
Sure, this will be great. Please do not assume that NCERT textbook writers are careless tyros - they include some of the best educators in India who have spent time in improving presentation of material - of course, there may be errors and
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by sn41 6y ago
I was specifically talking about vegetarianism. It started very prominently in India due to the Buddhist and Jain influence, at least since 300 BC. The most famous early Indian text which promotes vegetarianism is Thirukkural (1), which is
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by sn41 6y ago
Guidebooks are written by ill-qualified peoplewho are just out for a buck. The questions are usually from recent question papers. So the guidebook author just makes stuff up for the answers. Ignorance is quite refreshing, if not actually bl
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by sn41 6y ago
A lot of the stress associated with IIT JEE stems from aggressive fear based propaganda by coaching classes. Things were much more laid back in the 90s, pre-Kota mania. Fear sells. They make it sound as though if you are not in an IIT, your
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by sn41 6y ago
There are well designed, carefully planned and high quality textbooks by NCERT, which is part of the school board. But many students and parents don't prefer them. There is a proliferation of 'cut-to-the-chase' guidebooks (si
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by sn41 6y ago
Also for the lazy: this is a talk by J. R. R. Tolkien.
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by sn41 6y ago
Do you know if some of these ideas came from India? Many of ancient Japanese customs were influenced by Buddhism. These arguments are also common among Indians, about 40 percent of whom are vegetarians. On a related note, /diagnosed&#x
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by sn41 6y ago
There is a lot of pattern-based theorem proving in the works of Ramanujan, Jacobi and Euler. This is beautiful mathematics, but this is not how usual mathematical research is done. Thinking like a mathematician often involves generalization
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by sn41 6y ago
My understanding is that GTD is for management-type tasks and deep work is for creative tasks. Paul Graham also has an article about allocating half-day units (1). But I guess that this is for a different type of work, not, for example, a
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by sn41 6y ago
I did not go to Caltech. But my advisor did, and he is a mathematician who attended Feynman's lectures on computation. (Again the breadth : a math Ph.D taking a course in theory of computation from a Physicist.) Feynman's requirem
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by sn41 6y ago
Wow. That sounds very similar to an event that really wrecked my life for a while. Some say that the 2007-09 crisis never really ended.
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by sn41 6y ago
I teach programming. What prevents students from colluding over their tablets/mobiles/laptops while taking the exam from another device? Can't the student mirror the screen elsewhere, leading to interesting possibilities for
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by sn41 6y ago
Also it's easy to get even cheaper refills on these toners. Brother works great.
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by sn41 6y ago
I have found that adopting stoic principles actually reduces my motivation to do anything. I think stoicism lacks the emotional content and passion that causes us to attempt great things. Of course, there may be grief and disappointment, bu
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by sn41 6y ago
Justice Radhabinod Pal [1] has a monument in the Yasukuni shrine. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radhabinod_Pal [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasukuni_Shrine
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by sn41 6y ago
A possibly related phenomenon I read recently about: profound isolation, especially in Antarctica, seems to interfere with the hippocampus, which relates to spatial navigation and memory. So regions in the brain associated with walking are
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by sn41 6y ago
But who authenticates the digital signatures? I am under the impression that these are certified by Adobe.
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by sn41 6y ago
What happens to digitally signed PDF documents 10 years from now? Will they no longer be valid/legally openable?
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by sn41 6y ago
Usually orthogonal means uncorrelated random variables (not necessarily independent). A good example is sine and cosine - they are uncorrelated in the interval 0 to pi. But clearly they are not independent.
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by sn41 6y ago
That's understandable. But many decisions in life are like that. Do you want to be close to your roots and your parents, or do you want a high-flying career in a remote city? Choices involve sacrifices as well as gains, and many meanin
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by sn41 6y ago
I think you are right in constructing situations where real numbers are inadequate. It is also right that you do not claim that hyperreals or surreals suffice, you are merely pointing out that they may help you to do better than the reals.
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by sn41 6y ago
NZ is a great country with wonderful people. But I wonder about the wisdom of apocalypse-proof property on an island that is prone to earthquakes. I have seen how far the waterfront receded in the 1931 Napier earthquake. [1] Christchurch h
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by sn41 6y ago
You can use the notes of Bruce Barnett for quick lookups: https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html
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by sn41 6y ago
Some of the issues you raise are important. But I am questioning the social dynamics of what you are suggesting. You could have copied your comment from sometime in the late 90s. Because the same argument could have been made by replacing F

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