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by sn41 9y ago
I have studied in Indian and American universities. Many "top ranked" American universities have considerably milder requirements than what is required for passing IIT JEE. Ranking is based on a number of factors like funding and
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by sn41 9y ago
I suspect it is a pervasive part of Amazon's work culture. They bought Whole Foods, IIRC, and there were news articles about how that went: http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/02/whole-foods-inventory-syst...
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by sn41 9y ago
I guess maybe it is time to re-evaluate Web 2.0? User-generated content was supposed to be empowering. But we have ignored the powerful amplifying effects of positive feedback and "echo chambers" artificially induced by such &quot
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by sn41 9y ago
Wow.. Google Drive got swamped!
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by sn41 9y ago
what if the vehicle in front is a small car?
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by sn41 9y ago
Is human reaction time is the only reason for enforcing safe driving distance? Even if AI increases to great levels, inertia still would exist. A large truck cannot stop in inches when traveling at 100 mph.
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by sn41 9y ago
Has a counterxample to Betteridge's law of headlines been found?
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by sn41 9y ago
Seems to correspond to what is said in "A Mathematician's Apology" by G. H. Hardy: "Then, from about nine to one, unless he was giving a lecture, he worked at his own mathematics. Four hours creative work a day is abou
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by sn41 9y ago
The word Mandarin comes from the Sanskrit word "Mantri", for minister. I wonder why this word was chosen.
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by sn41 9y ago
Surprising that this came up. I am a Keralite myself. Is the Kerala land reform well-known?
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by sn41 9y ago
I hope it does not end up like Zimbabwe. From what I understand, some demagogues are demanding that white farmers' land must be taken over by the state and redistributed to blacks. This is exactly where things started going wrong with
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by sn41 9y ago
It goes the other way as well. In recent history, right-wing fascist authoritarianism has risen when the economy turns bad. e.g. Nazi Germany, 1930s Italy. The Greek right wing groups are currently a non-negligible presence.
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by sn41 9y ago
I am currently reading "Death comes for the Archbishop". A great writer of the American West.
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by sn41 9y ago
What about a multicultural, pluralistic, democratic, socialist society like India or South Africa which is slow and lumbering, but in the right direction? (A recent talk of land appropriation in S.A. makes me apprehensive about it.) These c
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by sn41 9y ago
Brilliant article. The best way to explain a strange feature like a monad is to list out programming situations to which monads are a good solution. In the same vein, I finally understood what Lisp macros are for, from a similar article exp
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by sn41 9y ago
The tone matters, I think. Think of how teachers leave a critical review of an assignment, versus the rants you see online. Both are often unpalatable, but the scale of the first kind often seems justified. Often one feels that one aspect
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by sn41 9y ago
I am a fan of index cards, and only recently was thinking of buying a deck to replace my current GTD organizer. I have heard that Vladimir Nabokov used to write his works on index cards. The Wikipedia article on him mentions this.
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by sn41 9y ago
What a fantastic document. Quotes from John Stuart Mill, precedents from India, UK, US, South Africa, Canada, and the European charter. Looks like a very scholarly judgment, worthy of study, worth every one of the 597 pages!!
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by sn41 9y ago
Kolmogorov had an outline of an attempt using Kolmogorov Complexity to settle P vs NP. I do not unfortunately recall the crux of the argument. This was formulated in the 1970s, and has not been followed up as far as I know. On the other han
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by sn41 9y ago
It's like we need Samizdat all over again.
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by sn41 9y ago
I guess it's time for Samizdat all over again.
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by sn41 9y ago
Thanks for this info. How do they define "high-grade"? BTW, there is a "drone festival" in Lucknow on June 19, I guess akin to the kite festivals around Sankranti. I plan to attend. http://www.hindustantimes.c
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by sn41 9y ago
I read the emacs lisp source code in site-lisp/ every day. The goal is to understand one file about a week or so. It has made my emacs and lisp knowledge better, and made me aware of several nice emacs features (align-regexp, for examp
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by sn41 10y ago
What I heard in Moscow is that Khrushchev was impressed by the new-style architecture in Cuba, and imported the style to Moscow. It sounded like the reverse of what you say.
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by sn41 10y ago
I like ncurses, and have been a fan of this interface for 20 years. I know that these days, we are supposed to build web interfaces, push them on to a load-balanced server and so forth, but I think small tools which can be run on the linux
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by sn41 10y ago
William Kahan, who's the person mainly responsible for IEEE 754, has a critique of Gustafson's proposal: http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/UnumSORN.pdf IEEE 754 is not a trivial standard (it earned Kaha
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by sn41 10y ago
I don't get the comparison. One is about clearly illegal crossings going down. The other is about legal, ordinary passengers. Moreover, these countries are important for global business, and are used as hubs by travellers of many count
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by sn41 10y ago
In the 1970s, an American president had to resign because of some bugs planted. Now, private conversation is illegal. I guess it leads to "ownlife".
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by sn41 10y ago
Ancient science is not the same as pseudoscience. The problem with a lot of the ancient sources is the lack of proofs. What I am arguing is that lack of proofs in ancient mathematical texts doesn't mean that it is all bunkum, and the a
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by sn41 10y ago
Maybe true. The emphasis was on calculations. For example, there was a heliocentric model in India [1], which was too complicated to come from a "simple" mechanical model, but was quite accurate. But I think we should not be too e

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