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by sn41 10y ago
The first Western chronicle of Gaspar de Carvajal [1] spoke of large cities and well-paved roads in a region which is now "pristine" jungle. These chronicles were dismissed for a long time as fabrication, but it seems now there is
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by sn41 10y ago
Which is why I prefixed a sentence saying that I am not a citizen of NZ. Despite that, I feel sad for the people in the country who believe that the economic system must not be questioned even when it is clearly working against them. When t
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by sn41 10y ago
Turing discovered the Universal machine. Church tried convincing Godel that lambda-calculus is universal, but Godel wasn't ready to accept it. When Turing defined his machine model as a model for mechanical computation, Godel was convi
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by sn41 10y ago
Oops. I thought Newmarket, Auckland. But I agree with your basic point.
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by sn41 10y ago
I am an Indian who have lived for a while in NZ. Please do not chug on this Kool-Aid that NZ is not corrupt. Part of the reason why real estate in Auckland is overpriced is because the government deliberately does not formulate a legislati
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by sn41 10y ago
Strange. I feel going in the opposite direction. Removing as many fancy latex packages from my documents as possible, because I am worried that my files can't be compiled 10-15 years from now. I am a tex/latex survivalist :)
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by sn41 10y ago
It is a Lisp thing. If you have an editor like emacs with Scheme support, it is possible to format in a way that makes it quite easy to read: in fact, the formatting reveals the AST. A good explanation is in Chapter 1 of "SICP":
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by sn41 10y ago
Slightly offtopic. But would love to hear more about the adjustments you have to make to live on the road. Are you self-employed?
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by sn41 10y ago
Up to the age of thirty, I used to get on the bus, go to the terminal point, and come back. To clear my thoughts. I've tried this both in India and while I was a student in the US. Found it immensely beneficial. Unfortunately I live in
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by sn41 10y ago
I can speak about India. India went from controlling 25% of the world's output in the 1500s to controlling 2% of the world's output in 1947. Till about 1900, Indians were banned from starting industries. Just so that you don'
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by sn41 10y ago
do you cook the vegetables? or are they blended raw?
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by sn41 10y ago
Khichdi (and other forms - Bisi Bele Bath, Sambar sadam etc.) is a recipe of rice, lentils and vegetables eaten by a lot of manual laborers (and babies) in India. Perhaps due to the same reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by sn41 10y ago
This seems an inane and oversimplified view. Sure, coffee would have helped. But ignoring colonization, and its huge positive impact on Western Europe and negative impact elsewhere, and concluding that industrialization is a corollary of a
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by sn41 10y ago
I have always wanted to understand the result in this paper, since it is one of the first major publications of the first Indian to win a Nobel prize in science. Can you point out to some more basic acoustics? I've wondered about what
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by sn41 10y ago
I am from Kerala, in India. The amount of damage the illegal sand-mining done here in rivers is pretty alarming. I think we should adopt living in smaller houses, which are built out of locally available materials, instead of cement concret
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by sn41 10y ago
I agree with your basic point, but i think it's not about theory vs. the real world so much as confusing the worst case for the practical case. I often think that approximation algorithms, randomization algorithms, fixed-parameter tra
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by sn41 10y ago
Oh, I read the article. I'd rather believe the scientific studies which showed a 17 percent drop in heart attacks.
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by sn41 10y ago
I guess one of the questions is about second-hand smoke. Interestingly, Sir Richard Doll [1], one of the scientists who first proved the link between smoking and lung cancer, was not convinced that second-hand smoke was harmful [2] - it see
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by sn41 10y ago
IIRC Satya was in charge of Azure in 2010, which is a large part of why he got the top job.
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by sn41 10y ago
The Library of Babel is finite if the books are unique. Interestingly, Borges does mention that one of the books in the library must be an index of the other books. This is similar to the notion of a universal computably enumerable language
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by sn41 10y ago
One of the great theorems in logic is the Lowenheim-Skolem theorem [1], which says that if a countable first-order model has an infinite model, then there is a countably infinite model. For example, there is a countably infinite model for t
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by sn41 10y ago
I think it is not just about China. If you look at the unholy nexus of TPP, TISA and TTIP, the major economies excluded are Brazil, India, China, Russia and South Africa. As an Indian, I feel frustrated that the world doesn't think tha
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by sn41 10y ago
That was a really coherent explanation. The coloring was helpful, also the way in which the details were introduced one by one.
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by sn41 10y ago
Birding is very popular in India. I think it was brought in by the British, which is perhaps why Hong Kong was the only Birding place in China. A somewhat obscure trivia: the Indian National Congress party was established by the British Civ
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by sn41 10y ago
The Banach-Tarski paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox
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by sn41 10y ago
Just a side note: I think this is specific to some countries. In India, for example, I do see a lot of women entering the programming field. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/it-gender... has a li
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by sn41 10y ago
I have tried rather hard to get Asana going for a small team. This was about 2 years ago. I did not find it very attractive. At that time, the inability to get all the tasks across projects in a single page was frustrating. Is there anyone
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by sn41 10y ago
https://twitter.com/sgurumurthy/status/796011217709998080
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by sn41 10y ago
This is quite big. An expert says that 87 percent of all of India's cash reserve is in 500 and 1000 Rupee notes. It might reduce black money. In any case, the next few weeks are going to be interesting. Almost an emergency atmosphere r
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by sn41 10y ago
Housing yes. Transport is taken care of only for official purposes. Only once in 2 years is a family travel paid for by LTC (IIRC). Pension is now more like the 401(k) in the US.

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