Arun2009

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by Arun2009 1mo ago
I wonder whether any American civilians are losing sleep over how the current administration and its supporters' robust "race realist" rhetoric and worldview might be used by adversaries for some very cruel and effective psyc
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by Arun2009 2mo ago
I can't speak for those who want to discover new mathematics, but for people like me who want to merely study existing areas of mathematics that are of interest to us, LLMs are a godsend. I can engage ChatGPT or Grok in a conversatio
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by Arun2009 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITRANS
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by Arun2009 2mo ago
Jung might have seen a relation to circular maNDalas, which as per him were apparently everywhere: https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=circular+mandala IIRC, circular maNDalas as per Jung draw your attention towards i
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by Arun2009 2mo ago
> First - we lost the live chanting due to recorded recitals with human voice. Then we lost the experience of presence due to online streaming. And now even human voice is lost - the broken chanting is generated. This is not true at all.
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by Arun2009 4mo ago
> If Americans want fewer "brown" people in their country, the idea should be to promote global economic and political stability Speaking as an Indian: "brown" people's countries are "brown" people&#x27
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by Arun2009 4mo ago
> The accusations is just racism. The fact that Trump gave extra fast visas to white South Afrikaans makes you think that there were some racial reasoning there. What is wrong if white people want to help other white people escape persec
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by Arun2009 4mo ago
> What they desire is less brown people, and then they work backwards to justify it. Which is a perfectly fine thing by the way. I can't see anything wrong with it. If the Americans want fewer "brown" people in their count
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by Arun2009 5mo ago
The west also "forgot" to calculate by hand. Because they invented calculators and computers. The west is not merely forgetting to code. It is creating systems that can code. They aren't standing still. They are progressing t
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by Arun2009 7mo ago
I am just befuddled by how much of this violence is directly motivated by religious concerns, both on the side of Iran and on the side of Israel and USA. I have been reading on the topic of shunyata or emptiness in Mahayana Buddhism, and
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by Arun2009 7mo ago
Just wondering - do you include information on interviewing, salary negotiation, communication with management, leading teams, and maybe topics on career progression? These would have been very useful to me back when I was in the university
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by Arun2009 7mo ago
"Metaproject" doesn't capture the idea that I think the author is trying to convey. An example: suppose you want to improve your French and also build your knowledge of Physics. So in order to target both projects, you attend
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by Arun2009 7mo ago
A key meta-requirement is to want to think critically about issues. If there is no desire to discover the truth of a matter and evaluate it against supporting evidence and opposing claims, then all efforts at inculcating critical thinking
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by Arun2009 7mo ago
> I lived in SF for a few years and found the tech community's disinterest in art to border on allergy. It was as if expressing an aesthetic preference weren't an optimal way to spend one's time or money. Art takes many fo
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by Arun2009 8mo ago
> Rich are "freer" but they definitely don't work fewer hours than poor on average. In USA the Rich became rich mostly by working. > But that also does not mean that billionaires have more free time. It's usually n
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by Arun2009 8mo ago
This is as disingenuous as saying that both the rich and the poor consume the same amounts of calories, nutrients, oxygen and water, and hence they are not that different. The key issue is that money often translates to such things as power
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by Arun2009 8mo ago
One of the ways in which we are truly blessed these days is in seeing how easy it is to take a morsel of insight and couch it in simulated profundity. The following is a similar sounding passage I got from ChatGPT. I call this, "Chopra
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by Arun2009 8mo ago
This is news from June 14, 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detachment_201 https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment...
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by Arun2009 8mo ago
India has neither the ability nor the desire to attack the US. The very idea is silly. The country has its hands full enough coping with its state of quasi-chaos and belligerent nuclear-armed neighbors without taking on the worlds leading
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by Arun2009 8mo ago
What we tend to forget is that even with the catastrophic effects of climate change, the Earth is still vastly more inhabitable than other planets in the solar system. More pertinently, today we also have the intellectual tools to come with
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by Arun2009 1y ago
I have always thought of DSA as a proxy for a subset of general software development skills: the ability to translate a problem into computer science or programming terms, implement it in code, and argue that the implementation is correct a
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by Arun2009 1y ago
This may, in the end, be for the best - if it dents American power over the long term. I like America and Americans very much, but no state should wield the kind of power the United States currently holds, precisely for the reasons the Trum
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by Arun2009 3y ago
I've often seen this phenomenon at play in religions. They are not intentionally lying even when they put forward outrageous claims; they genuinely believe what they say.
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by Arun2009 4y ago
I am obsessed about three related issues currently, though I am not making progress in any of them, being generally bogged down by life. (a) How do India's classical views of reality that mainly stem from its contemplative traditions r
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by Arun2009 4y ago
One question I have often wondered about is: does creativity "transfer" between analytical and artistic fields? For e.g., suppose you indulge in writing poetry, and also are mathematically trained. If you exhibit a high degree of
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by Arun2009 4y ago
There are three strong factors that come to mind: (1) Physical fitness. These same years have seen the explosive growth of obesity and related lifestyle diseases. A greater percentage of people in first world countries (and increasingly el
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by Arun2009 5y ago
I used to stay away from Facebook, but of late I have discovered many communities near me through that medium. Unlike reddit where the culture is to keep yourself anonymous, it's refreshing to deal with people's real identities in
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by Arun2009 5y ago
One often comes across the term "valkala" in Indian scriptures, which means clothes made of tree bark, usually in the context of asceticism. E.g., see here: https://sanskritdictionary.org/valkala Apparently, someo
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by Arun2009 5y ago
I'd argue that this is one of the most humane ways to die. You're gone in a flash. Compare this to diseases like several cancers that kill you slowly over a period of time, while you suffer all the way through.
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by Arun2009 5y ago
The world's second largest standing army that can be called to crush insurgencies also helps.

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