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by krishna2 2y ago
Robin Marantz Henig: Monk in the Garden: Life of Gregor Mendel An amazing biography. The perseverance and meticulousness with Mendel performed the experiments is very inspiring. He was not the typical gifted/talented student either. He
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by krishna2 2y ago
Here are a few of my favorite reads from 2024. If I were to just pick one favorite, it is not even a contest. Heck, challenge me to pick one favorite in a decade, it would still be this. Charlie Munger! Charlie Munger: Poor Charlie’s Almana
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by krishna2 2y ago
Poor Charlie's Almanac by Charlie Munger is one of my favorites. It keeps on giving. Amazed that Munger had access to all this wisdom 40 or 50 or even more years ago. Even wrote a review in case: https://krishna2.com/mu
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Notion's mid-life crisis(jjinux.com)
213 points by krishna2 2y ago|160 comments
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by krishna2 2y ago
Likewise![1] I apply it to all aspects of life and also whatever book[2] I read, I end up seeing something from the Gita in there. (or a movie or song). [1] https://krishna2.com/bg [2] https://krishna2.com/b
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In the Shadow of the Silicon Valley(lrb.co.uk)
2 points by krishna2 3y ago|1 comments
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by krishna2 4y ago
Bhagavad Gita : Various translations and commentaries by many authors. Fascinating to see a fairly small text (roughly 700 verses @ ~1400 lines) that lends itself to so many interpretations and thoughts. In every reading, there is always so
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by krishna2 4y ago
https://krishna2.com - my personal site with some essays but mostly I keep it to publish my reading list: https://krishna2.com/books
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by krishna2 5y ago
Happy to answer any questions. I am the first author of the WIT dataset / paper and the above blog post. A twitter thread: https://twitter.com/krishna2/status/1440423443804024839 and a linkedin post: https:&
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by krishna2 5y ago
Very interestingly this is the first scale for anyone learning Carnatic Music (classical Indian music predominantly popular and taught in South India).
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by krishna2 7y ago
Such an inspiring post. Awesome to hear your story. Did you do it part time or full time? And yes, a +1 to the comment and to the idea that you should write a blog post. Thanks!
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by krishna2 8y ago
I liked the way Ray Bradbury writes about this in Fahrenheit 451. When you read books, you have time to think about it, re-read it and question it. Whereas while watching video, things move so fast that the decision is made up for you.
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by krishna2 9y ago
A lot of action nowadays happen on Mobile. How would this help with that?
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by krishna2 9y ago
You could color the 1s and 0s - so the image is more obvious and enhanced.
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by krishna2 9y ago
For Rockefeller, there is Ron Chernow's. There is also this book : The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy Reprint Edition, Kindle Edition by Charles R. Morr
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by krishna2 9y ago
Congrats on the launch. Have you considered doing this for Kindle Singles? There are certain topics that I am interested in but the time I want to invest is between NewYorker articles (15-20 pages) and a full-fledged market-dynamics dictate
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by krishna2 9y ago
Great that you already have those datasets. Yes, putting it on a small public server where people can search and evaluate would be good. Honestly the "speed" part cannot be truly verified if it is on a standard public server but a
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by krishna2 9y ago
That's a big claim and kudos if you really pulled it off. There is also the aspect of relevancy in addition to speed. I think the best way you can showcase is to build a few sample proof-of-concept search engines. For e.g., How about a
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by krishna2 9y ago
Why can't one of those big cloud/disk providers (Dropbox or Amazon or Microsoft or Google or Apple) come up with such a Password Manager? In fact, they can integrate it really well too.
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Ask HN: What's Your Favorite (Entrepreneurial) TED Talk?
3 points by krishna2 9y ago|1 comments
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by krishna2 9y ago
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by krishna2 10y ago
@sama : Great write up. Regarding the admission process you had mentioned on Dalton Caldwell that he took "a process that used to be stressful and deeply imperfect and improved it by a huge amount." Can you please elaborate on th
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by krishna2 10y ago
"Hamilton" by Lin Manuel Miranda. This is the story of how the play came to be after his first white house performance. Here is a short post I wrote a few days back: Hamilton is an absolutely fantastic musical. An amazing history
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Poll: How old is your Hacker News account?
4 points by krishna2 10y ago|1 comments
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10+ years old
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