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by yantrams 4y ago
Thematically it’s pretty much on spot but stylistically nah. It needs to relax a bit and be a lot more informal / speechy and throw in some expletives here and there I suppose.
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by yantrams 4y ago
I remember solving this problem* from high school days. It results in a simple harmonic motion. * Provided the object falling down is a spherical cow that is impervious to pressure changes and what not :) https://en.wikipedia.org
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by yantrams 4y ago
Hold my beer! https://i.redd.it/8waggyjyyle51.png
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by yantrams 5y ago
Brahmagupta you petulant child! Knowledge often tends to be passed on to future generations without leaving a trail to its origin. Glad to hear about you zeroing in on the art of hastaprayoga at such a tender age. Keep mastering those marma
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A bug from 1974 broke a Git repo on Windows in 2021(reddit.com)
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by yantrams 5y ago
Nice. Keeps throwing error frequently though. This is one of my favourite pastimes along with smooshing syllables of any sentence to multiples of five. I do a couple of other variations like “Kaher Sewn”, “Kahen Sewr” etc as well :)
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by yantrams 5y ago
Meego(Nokia N9) had this too where you could access all your emails and social notifications in one place with a quick swipe.
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by yantrams 5y ago
Verbally is how I experience it exclusively as in not like saying it aloud but more like uttering it to myself internally if that makes sense. I should log this when it happens next time. Usually I happen to be mentally reciting/pictur
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by yantrams 5y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I read about this on Wikipedia a decade or so ago and for the life of me couldn’t find it again. All I could remember was that G.K.Chesterton was mentioned in the Wikipedia article and tried many times to google
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by yantrams 5y ago
https://mirtitles.org/2011/06/02/little-mathematics-library/
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by yantrams 5y ago
Yes indeed! Amazing stories and illustrations. Have read this book end to end probably a dozen times as a kid :) The headings in this book had a Telugu font I'd never seen used anywhere else. I assume you're talking about this one
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by yantrams 5y ago
Ah yes the little mathematics library :) I had a book or two from this series but never really got into them. Was more into Perelman's books on puzzles and riddles at that age. And speaking of pocket science books, my favorite is [1] &
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by yantrams 5y ago
I highly doubt it. They are problem books and aren’t aimed at middle school kids. My guess would be the [1] Science for everyone pocket books. They fit the description but definitely have more than 20-30 pages. [1] https://mirtit
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by yantrams 5y ago
I was lucky to get hold of 70 of these books in absolute mint condition (except for rusted stapler pins) last year after years of futile search in secondhand markets all across India. My dad, a book hoarder extraordinaire in his own right,
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by yantrams 6y ago
I felt the same after sampling a bit of Krishnamurthy. I’ve seen people go all gung-ho about him with cultish levels of reverence but found nothing original. Eloquent prose yes but nothing remarkable at all. After everything you said, it wa
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by yantrams 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Poppe
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by yantrams 6y ago
Apologies in advance for side tracking the discussion. I came across this post on r/india looking for a volunteer Russian Interpreter for a talk by Alexandra Elbakyan, the founder of Sci-Hub. If anyone is interested, please reach out t
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by yantrams 6y ago
Apologies in advance for side tracking the discussion. I came across this post on r/india looking for a volunteer Russian Interpreter for a talk by Alexandra Elbakyan, the founder of Sci-Hub. If anyone is interested, please reach out t
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by yantrams 6y ago
This[1] can probably give you some insight into the applications side of things. 1 => https://blog.ycombinator.com/joan-lasenby-on-applications-of...
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by yantrams 6y ago
Interesting to know that. I've heard the books on Combinatorics in TAOCP are super fun with many interesting mathematical nuggets. About time I get a copy of those volumes.
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by yantrams 6y ago
A popular mnemonic for remembering the formulae of the basic units of Sanskrit metre is probably the first ever recorded example of De Bruijn Sequence. The phrase "Ya-Maa-Taa-Raa-Ja-Bhaa-Na-Sa-La-Gam" encodes all 8 possible combin
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by yantrams 6y ago
This has got to be one of the cleanest websites I have seen in recent times. The layout, spacing between letters and lines and the color contrast are very satisfying to the eyes. I'm sure there are thousands of websites out there with
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by yantrams 6y ago
I've seen the same phenomena in dozens of ancient temples in India I had the chance to visit, often attributed to Islamic conquests. The native Hindu rulers weren't any less sparing either when they conquered their rivals who wors
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by yantrams 6y ago
For anyone interested in the topics discussed here, I highly recommend What is Mathematics, Really? [1] by Reuben Hersh [1] https://www.amazon.com/What-Mathematics-Really-Reuben-Hersh/...
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by yantrams 6y ago
Ha! This was listed in this 101 Science Experiments book(Pustak Mahal Publications) I had as a kid and distinctly remember being disappointed with it not working out as I expected.
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by yantrams 6y ago
While an individual fact can't be copyrighted, a collection of them can be in certain circumstances when the compiler has put in effort to create a database of them. https://copyright.uslegal.com/enumerated-categories-o
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by yantrams 6y ago
Interesting. Thank you for sharing. Here's an interesting tidbit that might be of interest to you. Indic Scripts and some Ethiopean scripts fall under what are referred to as Abugida writing systems [0]. These essentially eliminate the
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by yantrams 6y ago
Whenever I come across these quirks, I can't help but think of how extremely codified the grammar of Sanskrit(and other Indian languages that are influenced by it) is to handle situations like this. Visarga Sandhi is one example comes
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by yantrams 6y ago
VisionAI has similar image API as well. TinEye is probably the best option out there for your use case.
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by yantrams 6y ago
This sheet is being regularly updated I believe. Has entries from even the justice-for-sikhs websites that were banned few hours ago. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17VJKBTBnHDpLTXOrB58L...

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