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Sri Lanka शामिल हुए Haziran 2015
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Hasitha Chandrasekara रीट्वीट किया
There is a special heaven for people who upload pictures of restaurant menus to Google Maps.
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Chris Manning says Yann LeCun sees language as a low bandwidth communication channel compared to vision.
But the gap between a chimp and a human wasn’t produced by superior eyes.
What took off for humans was language.
Not just for communication, but as a cognitive tool.
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2004 was a good year, but your Gmail address doesn't need to be stuck in it.
To say goodbye to v0t3f0rp3dr02004@gmail.com or mrbrightside416@gmail.com (or whatever you were into at the time), go to your Google Account settings and choose any name available. You'll keep your old username and you can sign in with both.
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Over the past few years I've had many discussions with people who want to build a house in Sri Lanka. Based on my experiences, I wrote a detailed guide to all the things you're going to learn the hard way.
Hope it's useful. Pass it on if it is.
Link:
yudhanjaya.com/docs/experimen…
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Human-level general intelligence is achieved when an AI system can approach a new task and figure it out, without human intervention, *with the same learning efficiency as humans*.
If every new task requires human intervention, it's not general. If every new task requires brute-forcing, it's not human-level.
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The #Cabinet spokesperson has finally admitted (indirectly) what we’ve been saying: the Govt has been overpricing fuel.
They’re still using inflated assumed barrel prices in the formula, then claiming small “subsidies” of Rs.20 on petrol & Rs.100 on diesel that aren’t based on real landed costs.
Partial admission is not enough. We demand full transparency: publish actual landed costs and the real formula every month.
Any genuine subsidy must be targeted to the vulnerable via cash transfers, not a universal blanket.
No more manipulation. Sri Lankans deserve honesty on fuel prices.
Watch here 👇
web.facebook.com/reel/129054888…
#FuelPricing #TransparencyNow #TargetedSubsidies #SriLanka #HarshaDeSilva
Harsha de Silva@HarshadeSilvaMP
Our back calculations (best guess based on pre crisis info on formula and taxes) imply that Pres @anuradisanayake gov is using USD 130 and USD 180 per barrel for 92 Petrol and auto diesel respectively to calculate formula based price at CPC fuel stations. Then we are being told that subsidies of LKR 20 and LKR 100 respectively have been incorporated (as seen here) to the selling price at the pump. Now the issue is that we have not paid these prices and they are not the ‘landed cost’ that should be used in the formula. So the landed cost is ‘assumed’ and the subsidy is ‘hypothetical’, is it not? One thing is to say “to hell with Mangala’s formula” which is what the JVP/NPP said, but to manipulate it for their own convenience is another. Why not be honest and transparent; @kanchana_wij had the courage to do it.
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If we look back dispassionately at 2022, Sri Lanka was grappling with the devastating aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic, further aggravated by the Russia–Ukraine conflict. Global prices of oil, gas, grain, coal and fertilizer surged dramatically. Economies like ours are particularly vulnerable to such external shocks.
These were not issues that could be reduced to political slogans or partisan narratives.
Ironically, many who fiercely opposed corrective measures at the time now find themselves defending and implementing the very same policies. Reality has a way of asserting itself.
If the public begins to recognize that much of what is said in opposition is not always grounded in facts or workable solutions, that too is part of the evolution of a mature democracy.
Sri Lanka will move forward through policies grounded in facts and responsibility, not through populism or political theatrics. Sometimes reality itself becomes the greatest teacher.
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Corruption always played second fiddle to the economy. The same public voted the Rajapakshes in three times. The JVP explicitly tied anti-corruption to a stronger economy. That’s what the public bought.
The gap between those two pillars is becoming more noticeable by the day.
Rehan Jayawickreme@RehanJayawick
The Government must tread carefully. Sri Lankans didn’t take to the streets over corruption alone. It was shortages hitting livelihoods that made people say enough is enough. Mishandle shortages etc and anti corruption gains will fade. #lka
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@erangatennakoon @ishaque03 It was actually covid + mismanagement.
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@ishaque03 Agreed. At the end of the day, the same outcome. People are suffering. This government said about trinco stocks and all before the election , and now a different thing.
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මේ ආත්මෙම පල දෙන කර්ම කියල ජාතියක් තියෙනව නේද?
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Ok like, does no one speak Sinhala now? Cuz like it's not uncommon to refer to people in 20s or 30s as "දරුවා"/"ළමයා"?? specially by someone who's probably in their 40s or 50s
Pasindu Senanayaka@PasinduSenanay7
Shameful lies are being spread claiming there are “300 children” on a Iranian ship. This narrative pushed by Ajith P. Perera and several Facebook pages is a reckless attempt to exploit a serious situation for cheap political gain. Are you not ashamed? @sajithpremadasa
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@himaljaya @yudhanjaya 1.Definitely, figures seem way off. I’d be surprised if it’s even over 40%
2.Hard disagree.
3.🤷
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@Hasitha_Ch @yudhanjaya Number 1 : The research has false data, as with most research in our world class SL unis.
Number 2 : I want what you want, accountability. But what I described is how it will happen.
Number 3 : Sorry for getting in to this argument.
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Graduates should absolutely be required to pay back the cost of their education.
This money should go into a fund to educate the people who voluntarily chose to work at the Daily Error, so that we can one day ship them somewhere far, far away.
DailyMirror@Dailymirror_SL
Is Sri Lanka’s free education system inadvertently becoming a “development aid programme” for wealthier nations? 🇱🇰✈️ New data reveals that over 80% of state university graduates—and up to 90% in medicine and engineering—are migrating permanently. While the government invests Rs. 87 billion annually in these students, the country faces a 24.5% poverty rate and a growing shortage of doctors and lecturers. With the "best and brightest" leaving due to low wages and economic instability, some suggest controversial fixes: requiring migrants to reimburse the state up to USD 15,000 or mandating specific remittances. What’s the real solution? 👇 Should graduates be legally required to "pay back" their education if they leave, or is the only answer fixing the local economy? Let’s discuss in the comments. 💬
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@himaljaya @yudhanjaya Oh, I was talking about slavery in general and covers much of the western hemisphere as well.
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@himaljaya @yudhanjaya It should be baked into the system with flexible reimbursement options. No ifs or buts — simply enrolling in the degree makes you liable.
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@Hasitha_Ch @yudhanjaya See, here's how this will work out.
You sign you will work in SL & you can't find a job.
Is the government going to pay if you are jobless?
How do you enforce the reimbursment? Someone will have to sign as guarantor. Parents? Gov officer?
Only those who can afford will sign it
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@himaljaya @yudhanjaya seems to have worked well for certain countries.
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@himaljaya @yudhanjaya Work for SL for a stipulated number of years or reimburse. Win-win. Singapore does this with their scholarships.
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@yudhanjaya I was kidding.
The only thing that is keeping young and able in this country right now is the free degree.
Put the clause and see what will happen.
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