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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 characteristi…

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,…

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 o…

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 …

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__. Th…

For one thing I am under 25 and I get my views from here the orange site.

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 Un…

> 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 out…

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

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" b…

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 int…

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 …

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…

> 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 tow…

> 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…

Idk about the modern meaning of virtue but doesn't "virtus" in roman mean something like "bravery" and "manliness". (Probably cognate to sanskrit "vIryam"

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, teacher…

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 'ju…

> 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 de…

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 an…

Well, in this case, no one knows the technical details.

Please quantity those contributions in "technical management". Otherwise it sounds like a boilerplate excuse non technical people will use.

Because connections and social signalling matter more than ideas among the rich of the world. Only some people can get such disproportionate advantages.

What does one do to be considered as "driving force" et al?

> 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 e…