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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 adver…

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 g…

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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…

> 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 - t…

> 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 a…

> 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 w…

> 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 American…

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 …

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…

Just wondering - do you include information on interviewing, salary negotiation, communication with management, leading teams, and maybe topics on career progression? These would h…

"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…

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…

> 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 sp…

> 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 h…

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 …

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 so…

This is news from June 14, 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detachment_201 https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment...

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 nu…

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 pertine…

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, implemen…

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 Unite…

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.

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 reali…

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 mathem…