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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…

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…

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 …

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…

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 interp…

https://krishna2.com - my personal site with some essays but mostly I keep it to publish my reading list: https://krishna2.com/books

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 a…

Very interestingly this is the first scale for anyone learning Carnatic Music (classical Indian music predominantly popular and taught in South India).

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!

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, th…

A lot of action nowadays happen on Mobile. How would this help with that?

You could color the 1s and 0s - so the image is more obvious and enhanced.

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 Supereco…

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 artic…

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 v…

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…

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…

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@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 …

"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…