@YuDai_Tsai The Sanskrit is borrowed from a Dravidian term possibly.
It's also interesting how this connects to Netherlands adopting its National colour.
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Most words for orange trace back to Sanskrit nāraṅga.
It traveled west through Persian & Arabic as nārang/nāranj.
Some kept the n: Spanish naranja.
English lost it by rebracketing: “a norange” became “an orange.”
The word for orange is a tiny map of trade and misheard word.
Dr. Yu-Dai Tsai@YuDai_Tsai
Most words for tea trace back to Chinese 茶. Cha/chai spread by land: China → Central Asia, India, Russia, Persia. Te/tea/thé spread by sea: Fujian/Taiwan → Dutch traders → Western Europe. Your word for tea is a tiny trade map.
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Introducing Ferrari Luce, the first electric Ferrari designed by LoveFrom.
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@Odyne_ You could make a similar cartoon with bind, find, hind, kind, mind, rind, and wind.
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So I tried switching from Google to Kagi and I’m sorry to report the hype is accurate. It really is better. You don’t realize how infuriating it is for your searches to get derailed by walls of SEO & ads until it isn’t happening anyone. The search algo feels like Google used to.
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This makes Albon way worse as an option in F1 Fantasy this week btw
Holiness@F1BigData
Pierre Gasly, Alexander Albon and Ollie Bearman will start from the pit lane in the sprint race
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@BeilinsonOrel Kind of reinforces my point, no? The Sanskrit terminology referred to arcs whereas the Hindi term was specifically a translation of “trigonometry”. Given that they are in the same family, it’s not surprising they sound similar.
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@naivebayesian Not really an answer. It helped with the phono-semantic matching, but trikoṇamiti is a modern coinage. Sanskrit mathematicians (sine and cosine come from Sanskrit through Arabic) used other terms such as jyā-gaṇita to describe this branch of mathematics.
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Many languages borrow mathematical terms like trigonometry. Languages like Icelandic, as it often does, prefer to coin neologisms: hornafræði 'angle science.' Hindi is the coolest: trikoṇmiti is the measurement (miti) of triangles (trikoṇ)--which also sounds like trigonometry!
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@TheTweetOfGod What do you mean you can’t? You created him, for Your sake!
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I just, I, I, I just, I can’t even, I just. I.
Acyn@Acyn
Trump: Dumocrat. You take the E out and you don't use the B. A lot of people don't know dumb has a B in it actually. You don't need it.
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@thatGuyCodes @reikodev ungoogled-chromoium, to be precise.
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@R_Thaler @alexolegimas @BenSManning A couple of recent posts on the topic from mathematicians.
gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-r…
davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-…
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This extraordinary achievement raises an obvious question: what is the role of humans who prove things for a living? In economics, can theorists just say, proof provided by AI? @alexolegimas @BenSManning
Timothy Gowers @wtgowers@wtgowers
If you are a mathematician, then you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.
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@LedgerLomasM @souljagoyteller @inkybrained I first heard about this book on @TheRestHistory and the impression I got was everyone involved simply walked into it despite having opportunities to avoid it. (Hence the title etc.)
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@naivebayesian @souljagoyteller @inkybrained I would call Sleepwalkers more admired than popular (outside Germany): UK readers prefer the Max Hastings's 'the Germans did it' approach.
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@souljagoyteller @inkybrained How so? It’s been on my reading list.
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@VRubinObs How come construction is still ongoing? Didn’t you already start taking images (commissioning)?
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And...LIFT 💪
Our summit team at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory recently installed the 4th of 6 giant light-wind screens.
These massive screens help block stray light and shield the telescope from winds when the dome is open — an important part of capturing sharp, clean images! 🌌
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@curiouswavefn He came off as a little patronising, to be honest.
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The irony is that what Schmidt was saying was neither unreasonable nor unsympathetic. He's right that everyone should embrace AI in some way. But he is seen as a creator of AI, and the fundamental problem is that the creators of AI have told these students every day that AI is coming for their jobs, so why should they applaud them?
Clash Report@clashreport
WATCH: Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt got booed by University of Arizona graduates while urging them to embrace AI at their May commencement.
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@theistinthought It’s well written 🤷♂️
*I know he’s controversial. But I don’t really know why because I’m American and don’t know much about him 🤷♂️ (besides that he’s a famous British actor )
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FYI: These Stephen Fry books on Greek mythology are great. He has a fourth one that recently came out on The Odyssey. I haven’t bought it yet.
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