In order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work. One must feel beauty and be moved by it.
You should ignore misleading evidence. But if you know that p, you know that evidence against p is misleading. So if you know that p, you should ignore evidence against p. But that’s dogmatic. (Kripke’s Dogmatism Paradox)
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Kids prompt llm, I prompt real people (and realized that I am pretty good at it)
https://youtu.be/bnovfzkKlxs?si=IMaYxQy3IvU0TwYi
really nice interview, will read book soon
"people today see every day like a problem, people like MS Swaminathan looked every day like a solution"
really nice interview, will read book soon
"people today see every day like a problem, people like MS Swaminathan looked every day like a solution"
YouTube
'Green Revolution was the first example of Atmanirbharta in India': Untold story of MS Swaminathan
Author and historian Priyambada Jayakumar's book The Man Who Fed India chronicles the life of MS Swaminathan – the man responsible for India’s Green Revolution – exploring facets of his life beyond his role as a renowned agricultural scientist.
What began…
What began…
Forwarded from Olek Synth
I am a good programmer
According to the Curry-Howard correspondence, programs are isomorphic to mathematical proofs
Therefore I am isomorphic to a good mathematician
According to the Curry-Howard correspondence, programs are isomorphic to mathematical proofs
Therefore I am isomorphic to a good mathematician
Actions do not cling to me because I am not attached to their results
—Shri Krishna, Bhagavad Gita
—Shri Krishna, Bhagavad Gita
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The only jobs that AI will be able to do, but won't ever get automated, are those of a politician, a priest, and a prostitute.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nMa3p3qw1w)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nMa3p3qw1w)
"I don't like that man, I must get to know him better"
(Think it is attributed to Lincoln although I am not sure)
(Think it is attributed to Lincoln although I am not sure)
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html
Um.. I don't know how to feel about this one. My first language was BASIC (or QBASIC, I don't remember honestly) since that's what they used to teach in school back in my days. I don't think I took anything of significance from it other than finding the discipline of computer science cool
Edit: found this in an 8-year old lobster discussion of this article 🤣
-- Alan Kay
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Um.. I don't know how to feel about this one. My first language was BASIC (or QBASIC, I don't remember honestly) since that's what they used to teach in school back in my days. I don't think I took anything of significance from it other than finding the discipline of computer science cool
Edit: found this in an 8-year old lobster discussion of this article 🤣
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
-- Alan Kay
It's hard to win an argument against an intelligent person. It's impossible to win an argument against a stupid person.
https://frontline.thehindu.com/politics/new-india-conference-2026-rss-hindutva-us-india-relations-analysis/article70919690.ece
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/25/nx-s1-5795781/india-rss-rashtriya-swayamsevak-sangh-interview-hindu-nationalist
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/25/nx-s1-5795781/india-rss-rashtriya-swayamsevak-sangh-interview-hindu-nationalist
The Hindu
Imagining a ‘New India’ without Muslims
The participants of a conference on “New India” hosted in the US were mainly from the Hindu nationalist movements with no representation of the diversity that characterises the Indian polity. Muslim voices were completely absent. Is Washington ignoring hard…