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by _yy01 1mo ago
Watkins wrote his magnum opus on The serpent-slaying myth. You might also like ML West's Indo European Myth and Poetry. So the heroic poetry, mannerbund, the specific characteristics of the King of the Gods who is often associated with
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by _yy01 1mo ago
The "lord's prayer" in Vedic sounds very out of place due to the choices of inflected forms and some stems even reminiscent of classical Sanskrit. Without going into depth of that, here's something actually more inspirin
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by _yy01 2mo ago
as a ~~south asian~~ (stupid label) Indian, some knee-jerk reaction is justified because people tend to believe in exaggerated time scales (for instance, based on projected dates of astronomical events in the Hindu Epics, which predates the
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by _yy01 4mo ago
There's no manufacturing sector to employ them if you displace them from agriculture. They'd be displaced into gig economy. This would just increase the population of a handful of metropolitan cities which are already congested. I
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by _yy01 4mo ago
I have thought about it. Present iteration of LLMs are, despite what normies would believe, aren't optimised to provide correct solutions. They are optimized to __sound smart__. This may be just an undesirable artifact of the RLHF proc
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by _yy01 6mo ago
For one thing I am under 25 and I get my views from here the orange site.
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by _yy01 8mo ago
dhee ( https://dhee.apratiratha.in , https://github.com/mahesh-hegde/dhee ). An application to read Rigveda Samhita, and potentially other old indic texts in future. Inspired by University of Cologne's ve
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by _yy01 8mo ago
> A great poem is “about” a specific person or moment embedded in a particular culture, composed in such a way that it reaches across time and distance to resonate with readers outside that culture. Why is this a criteria? The following
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by _yy01 9mo ago
You might find the reading list on my blog interesting, though it's more about long form articles than books. https://mahesh-hegde.github.io/readings
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by _yy01 9mo ago
I have built https://dhee.apratiratha.in ( https://github.com/mahesh-hegde/dhee ) with AI assistance. It's a website to read and analyze the Rig-veda. It's not fully "vibe coded" but lots
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by _yy01 9mo ago
SW: - Architecting larger scale applications - A project which is related to fundamentals (like compilers, OS) rather than run of the mill web development. Not SW: - Motorcycle internals and general repair skills - Ancient sanskrit grammar
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by _yy01 10mo ago
It's true that ancient Indians had some interesting insights into astronomy and natural sciences (recognizing the heliocentricity as early as the aitareya BrAhmaNa, and some ideas about electricity) and have some evidence about Indo-Ar
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by _yy01 10mo ago
I was surprised to see the mention of ritual drink of Vedic people. It turns out to refer to a drug in fiction which is named after the Vedic ritual drink. Original Vedic "soma" is indeed more like a drink of inspiration and ecsta
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by _yy01 10mo ago
> You can reach Bangalore in an hour for most of things. * Then it takes 2 hours to reach your office in Bangalore. * It just postpones the actual problem. Gradually the tier-2 towns will get crowded too. * It means your local tier-2 tow
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by _yy01 10mo ago
> I do have relatives who live in far villages and have not travelled and seen the world(In fact not travelled more than 100 km radius from place of birth) This was literally where I grew up before I got education and become software eng
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by _yy01 11mo ago
Idk about the modern meaning of virtue but doesn't "virtus" in roman mean something like "bravery" and "manliness". (Probably cognate to sanskrit "vIryam"
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by _yy01 11mo ago
You foreigners read first few paragraphs of wikipedia article about caste and never stopped talking about it. In practice most of Brahmins have been peasant agriculturists, teachers and clerics for centuries, and temple priests have been de
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by _yy01 11mo ago
The kind of cope certain people come up with to justify the faults (and lack of basic living standards) of a civilization are insane. India is not a "karma" society, India is a 'jugaad' society where everyone does just e
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by _yy01 1y ago
> people who shouldn't be talking about CS. Dijkstra said computer science is about computers as much as astronomy is about telescopes. I am not sure I agree with that, but it's definitely not about text editor choice. I have a
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by _yy01 1y ago
FWIW I would be skeptical of tech bros claiming they sped up 80% response time on microservice handling 5000000000 RPS. But I will be even more skeptical when they say "analyzed and implemented business requirements into maintainable a
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by _yy01 1y ago
Well, in this case, no one knows the technical details.
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by _yy01 1y ago
Please quantity those contributions in "technical management". Otherwise it sounds like a boilerplate excuse non technical people will use.
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by _yy01 1y ago
Because connections and social signalling matter more than ideas among the rich of the world. Only some people can get such disproportionate advantages.
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by _yy01 1y ago
What does one do to be considered as "driving force" et al?
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by _yy01 1y ago
> much more limited vocabulary These days in my generation (Gen-Z) more youth watch movies and television series in English. Yet I find many of my more urbanized peers roll their eyes when I use a figure of speech i.e a metaphor. In cont
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by _yy01 1y ago
Apparently this revert thing is common across Indian corporate, but non-existent in other places, eg: academia.
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by _yy01 1y ago
I am Indian and I was confused when I first saw that phrase in a corporate setting. Only revert I knew was git revert.
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by _yy01 1y ago
I know that that Vedics didn't have writing. But the runes and Vedic "brahman" (sacred verse) serve the similar magico-religious function. Odin is also associated with poetry.
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by _yy01 1y ago
> “taken together, they strongly indicate that Óðinn, although not exactly the same as the god that we know from the Nordic sources, has roots reaching far back in time, probably as early as the Indo-European era A reader might be intere
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by _yy01 1y ago
These people all have cushy jobs already. You haven't seen how people optimize for TC in the Indian market. There's a certain scale after which petty dishonesty starts to have a bad impact on overall environment and turn it into l

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