Vinod Khare

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Vinod Khare

Vinod Khare

@vinodkhare

I like to talk about: Science & Technology | Buddhism & Tantra | (Ancient) Indian History & Culture

Katılım Ekim 2008
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Vivid Void
Vivid Void@vividvoid·
Just about everyone is focused outwards on war and technology and the Future (tm) and that's fine If you're a spiritual type, stay in the present, stay empty, keep building your still. The world is changing extremely quickly and. think we'll be needed - at our best - very soon
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Andrew Conner
Andrew Conner@connerdelights·
There’s this great meta-skill from reading a lot of @Meaningness If you see an axes of disagreement, assume each side sees something true/useful that the other side misses. But more importantly, what error are BOTH making together? Out slips a secret third thing
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Brad Warner
Brad Warner@BradWarner·
None of my exes live in Texas. Unless they moved there after I lost track of them.
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Ari Nielsen
Ari Nielsen@anielsen108·
@TylerAlterman Oh boy. As what might be characterized as an “ Eisenhower Republican”, I fear they would burn me at the stake.
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Vinod Khare
Vinod Khare@vinodkhare·
One man's cliche is another man's archetype.
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Henrik Karlsson
Henrik Karlsson@phokarlsson·
Christopher Alexander has an observation about problem solving that I like: you should always be focusing on solving the part that has the fewest degrees of freedom. When figuring out how to design a kitchen, for instance, there are a bunch of subproblems to solve: where to put the stove and the windows and the kitchen table. And which of these have the fewest degrees of freedom? The windows. If you want good light, there is going to be only one wall where you can place the windows, and at best two spots on that wall where the window looks natural. So you put the window there. And now what? The kitchen table, because you want to have that where the good light falls. The stove can wait because that can sit nearly anywhere. If you start by placing the stove, there is a big risk that you block the only good position for one of the other subproblems that have fewer degrees of freedom, and so the whole design will suffer.
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Dmitrii Kovanikov
Dmitrii Kovanikov@ChShersh·
After vibe-coding in anger, I have a theory that languages like OCaml and Go are better suited for vibe-coding. 1. Statically typed. You have an extra validation step for free. 2. The compiler is blazing fast. Agent loops are faster. 3. The errors are short. You don't waste tokens on context. 4. AI hates ambiguity. But these languages are simple. Not many ways to do things. So AI is having a better time. And you can keep vibe-coding for longer before hitting a blocker. I wonder how the limitations of coding agents will influence the landscape of programming languages long-term.
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Dr Neil Alexander Walker (𐐙𐑏𐐽𐐲𐑉 𐐝𐐹𐐨𐐽𐐨)
Dr Neil Alexander Walker (𐐙𐑏𐐽𐐲𐑉 𐐝𐐹𐐨𐐽𐐨)@neilalexanderw1·
@vinodkhare Yep. The Khmer borrowed an Indic script, and they used the pre-existing letters for /ɲ/ and /ŋ/ for those sounds in their language, where both may appear in all positions, e.g. ញុំា​ /ɲam/ ‘eat’, ខ្ញុំ​ /kɲom/ ‘I’, អញ្ជើញ​ /ʔɒɲcɤːɲ/ ‘to invite’
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Gopalakrishnan R@cobbaltt·
@vinodkhare You don't need to go as far as Tibetan for that. In Malayalam, ഞങ്ങൾ (ञङ्ङळ्) is the first person plural exclusive pronoun (ഞങ്ങൾ/ञङ्ङळ् in Malayalam = आम्ही in Marathi; Malayalam നമ്മൾ/नम्मळ् = Marathi आपण).
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Vinod Khare@vinodkhare·
@cobbaltt Oh god! I’d never be able to pronounce that! 😁
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Vinod Khare@vinodkhare·
When I was learning the Tibetan alphabet I was very surprised to find that ञ and ङ were bonafide letters in that language. They could appear at the beginning of words and appear with vowel marks. Was very unusual for me as a Hindi speaker.
सुरेश पंत sureshpant@drsureshpant

The fifth nasal stop ञ sounds somewhere like the 'ny' in "canyon". In Hindi and many other IA langs ञ् is incorrectly pronounced as अंग or अंङ्. It is like यँ, not exactly though. Moreover, since Hindi has no word with this as initial sound, so no standard pronunciation. In clusters like चञ्चल, मञ्जुल one can easily pronounce ञ, not independently.

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Tāranātha
Tāranātha@MelvilleKafka·
A sketch of what Nalanda Mahavihara could have looked like based on the ruins.
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Abhishek Avtans अभिषेक अवतंस 🌐 Public Linguist
Abhishek Avtans अभिषेक अवतंस 🌐 Public Linguist@avtansa·
The 4 types of husbands (lovers) according to the 11th century Sanskrit text Daśarūpaka by Dhananjaya: 🙋‍♂️ Śaṭha शाठ (deceitful): a husband or lover who acts deceitful. He pretends affection for one woman (often his wife) while his heart is fixed on another (a mistress/lover)
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John Nerst
John Nerst@everytstudies·
Seems bad. Honestly I'm not interested either, despite having been a fan for so long. Based on what I have seen in the last 8 years before I gave up, Star Trek needs to change a few things to get back on track: - Cut down on the emotionality. One person crying once per season, at *most*. - Hire actual science fiction writers. I cannot stress this enough. - Stop wanking over it's own lore. Setting is secondary, focus on strong individual stories. - Tech somewhat less magical. - Starfleet is very meritocratic and unapologetically elitist. Officers are the best of the best and should be competent, fit, mature, professional, and emotionally stable. - Quit the quipping and speak like adults. - Maybe no one is working through their trauma. - Reinvigorate its classically liberal values.
Nerdrotic@Nerdrotics

Paramount spent between 6-10 million an episode on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. They put the premiere on YouTube for free and got 1300 live viewers. RIP Star Trek

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Vinod Khare
Vinod Khare@vinodkhare·
@vividvoid I hear you and posts like this might very well be cope. However, it is a good heuristic to pick a therapist who is your intellectual equal when you're starting therapy. It has less to do with ability and more about the ability to form relationships.
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Vinod Khare@vinodkhare·
@vividvoid People find it easier to build a relationship with their intellectual equals. Being able to enter into a relationship with a therapist is crucial to success in therapy.
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David Chapman
David Chapman@Meaningness·
🐲 And also: conversation with dragons is immensely valuable. Some fairy tales teach that, too. Such intercourse demands greater daring and wisdom than mere slaughter. I mean this metaphorically, just as Chesterton did—although also literally, as he did. x.com/JohnDCook/stat…
John D. Cook@JohnDCook

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” — G.K. Chesterton

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Ari Nielsen
Ari Nielsen@anielsen108·
Different traditions use the metaphor of gender distinctly. They don't line up! * Vajrayana: Method-Wisdom * Shaivism: Consciousness-Energy * Taoism: Yang-Yin This reveals gender as a metaphor for difference-in-unity, not these qualities as a description of the sexes.
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Vivid Void
Vivid Void@vividvoid·
I became a normie enjoyer when I realized that I am genuinely different from most people, neurologically and temperamentally, and that it would be a disaster for society if everyone became like me. Gentle, stable, sufficiently responsible people, who don't make much fuss and prefer to conform, hold up the entire world. I am something like yeast - a little bit makes the bread rise, but isn't nourishing enough on its own. When I accepted this, it suddenly didn't seem so bad to carve out my own little place, where I could be myself, be mostly left alone, and love the world from a distance. I love who I am and I know exactly how I'm most valuable to my people. I don't need to force everyone around me to to be strange, or to deal with my quirks and flaws and second order. That's my job.
LIZZY💥@LizzyStarrrdust

I've come to understand that basic bitches are the cogs that keep society running. They are good and necessary. It's ok to have a life like this and like it. It's ok to be a basic bitch. I no longer harbor disdain for these people. I'm happy for them. I just don't want to hang out with them.

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