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> If proof free speculations are your thing… Funnily enough I’ve given enough examples and sources already in this thread. I think it’s better than “I know someone who knows” and “…

This isn’t a black and white case where “proofs” exist. Indian history is notoriously hard to study due to lack of primary sources. > historical changes in Sanskrit used in the Ved…

Comparing Sanskrit to the status of Latin in 17th CE is bit disingenuous and a sign of presentism. Sanskrit enjoyed scholarship since 6th BCE and it was prevalent and commonly used…

With all due respect, are they historians of Sanskrit linguistics or professors of Sanskrit language? That makes a big difference. Diglossia is very common in Indian culture and it…

The majority of surviving Sanskrit literature is actually secular like Poems, Dramas, science and mathematics. Sanskrit was widely spoken and understood just like Latin or Avestan,…

> can travel up to 125 kilometers (77 miles) on a single charge This would be a big hit in European cities. I own VW e-Up! and it's a perfect EU city car. With it's 375KM range, I …

Which “entire industries” has ChatGPT upended?

Great article. Hacking old kindles is fun! I encourage everyone to give it a try. The retro feel of eink makes it special for me. I wrote about my experience in cross compiling zig…

Used Vivaldi for years but it kept breaking my workflows and would wipe out my meticulously assembled tab groups. After few such gaffes I switched to Brave. I really wanted Vivaldi…

Adding C++ to the project wasn't unprecedented TBH. The app was blazing and we didn't have any issues with perf in the project. The app failed for a different reason.

PiZero is a pretty solid machine. I run my micro-homelab on a Pi Zero from 2018. It’s behind Cloudflare tunnels. It runs the apps i need on a DietPi OS within 180MB and it’s uptime…

All good brother, we all are going through interesting times. You seem to be in the arena and have skin in the game. Would love to read your blog on these topics.

> Mughals palace households were mainly speaking Persian language They actually spoke Chagatai Turkish in the households and Persian was the court language. Urdu developed independ…

May I ask what kind of study did you do on the Mughals? What stands out the most for you? Fun fact: They called themselves "Gurkhaniye" and not "Mughals". It was a term mostly popu…

Ignoring your snark, I'm in agreement with what you said. It is indeed a complex topic and I see no John Fairbanks like figure championing the cause.

I have nothing against Mughals, they had a great impact on the subcontinent history esp during 17th century. However the center of gravity was the Indian Ocean Spice trade network …

Text is Lindy. It has withstood the test of time and it's as ubiquitous as SQL or TCP/IP. Reminds me of this decade old post (and discussion) by Graydon Hoare, "Always bet on text"…

True that. There is no interest in objectively studying history in India. It is just a tool to further the agendas of various parties involved.

The unwavering focus on the Mughal empire by the West, is a curious phenomenon. Is it because they built highly visible monuments like the Taj? Mughals didn’t even reach their zeni…

I've traveled to Hanoi and absolutely loved the phở there. One perk of living in Berlin is the exceptional Phở we get here. Thanks to the large Vietnamese community we have great p…

> "Actually…" or "But wait!" You’re absolutely right! Jokes apart, I did notice GLM doing these back and forth loops.

At this point drawing these Pelicans must be in the training data sets.