On 3/2/2014 12:24 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Very interesting - the new frontier of 'content' creation. Herewith the
most high profile example so far.
I've been following this blog called Procedural World, as the author
works on a voxel-based world generator called Voxel Farm:
On 9/28/2012 8:06 PM, Dibyo wrote:
[snip]
Surveillance is an interesting one - finally there might be truth to
the surveillance scene in cheesy crime flicks where the good guys can
pull a license plate off a grainy pic - I always wondered how possible
that is, in the real world.
The most
On 2/25/2012 9:00 PM, Charles Haynes wrote:
O RLY?
YA VERILY
Why does social signalling matter? One geek conceit is that only the
semantic content matters, and that the message is the medium.
Non-geeks find this amusingly naive verging on childish.
Us geeks are (stereotypically) not very
On 2/25/2012 6:22 PM, thew...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm still unsure why top posting has anything to do with Netiquette. Top
posting is what a lot of people are comfortable with, and is a commonly
accepted style. Its just an alternate way of doing things. Trying to say that
its bad etiquette looks
On 2/25/2012 8:44 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
It doesn't help matters that the two most commonly used MUAs, Microsoft
Outlook and gmail, all but force you to top-post.
I'm using Thunderbird at the moment and it's also pretty bad. It's
likely that there's some obvious trick that I'm missing,
On 2/25/2012 11:42 PM, Pranesh Prakash wrote:
[snip]
What kind of problems?
Usually when I aggressively remove large chunks of text, the quoting
indent disappears and the remained quoted text becomes part of the
message body. This happens more often near the start of the message, as
if I'm
On 2/26/2012 10:08 AM, Heather Madrone wrote:
[snip Thunderbird editor shortcomings]
Thank you, Heather. That's spot on.
-Taj.
On 2/23/2012 6:38 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
so on and forth till 1857 when an enron like crash took place.
No mention of Dalhousie? It was his wars, reforms and attempts to
Empirify (Empirificate? Empiricise?) India that sucked the Company dry,
turned India into a cost center
On 10/23/2011 11:21 AM, Ingrid wrote:
On 23-Oct-2011, at 6:43 AM, Mahesh Murthymahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
To me it's a seemingly-eloquently argued defense of cowardice.
Isn't that a defining trait of NRIs : to move to an oasis that someone else
built rather than transform one's own
On 23-Sep-11, at 6:16 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
[snip]
Neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso
laboratory 732km away seemed to show up a tiny fraction of a second
early.
You know, I'm convinced that the real victim here is not the Standard
Model but us
On 24-Sep-11, at 5:46 AM, ss wrote:
[snip]
Well tell me your take on this. If I see you lying in bed from the
foot end of
the bed, I am technically not seeing you at any single moment in
time. What I
see of your feet comes to me a short time before what I see of your
nose.
My ability to
On 8/25/2011 7:50 AM, ss wrote:
On Thursday 25 Aug 2011 2:39:21 am Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
It's really weird though to watch people assume that peaceful protest
alone gives legitimacy to the goal being sought here. If the bill is
passed, will all the protesters disperse and go home happy?
I
On 24-Aug-11, at 4:40 PM, Xxxrum wrote:
No other popular movement since independence has been able to
generate such nationwide enthusiasm in such a grand scale that is
totally peaceful and non-violent.
You know, I fully agree with this sentiment. It is commendable that so
far there
On 30-Jul-11, at 9:12 PM, Anand Manikutty wrote:
[snip]
Thoughts/opinions on the article welcome.
The spell-checking is competent.
-Taj.
I enjoyed this bit:
We need a collective mindset as Hindus to stand against the Islamic
terrorist. The Muslims of India can join us if they genuinely feel for
the Hindu. That they do I will not believe unless they acknowledge
with pride that though they may be Muslims, their ancestors
On 26-Jul-11, at 1:22 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:20 PM, gabin kattukaran
gkattuka...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/the-loudness-wars-is-musics-noisy-arms-race-over/242293/
I liked the last bit:
That, then, may be the
On 07-Jul-11, at 7:26 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
[snip]
I didn't expect, on a thread about Indian civil servants, the naked,
shining truth!
I know! Ironic, don't you think?
-Taj.
On 07-Jul-11, at 8:12 PM, ss wrote:
[snip]
That is the most laughable bullshit being foisted on Indians. You
train a guy
to do high tech medicine and ask him to treat people in a primary
health
center where te budget is Rs 50 per patient per year (or some such
silly
figure) it's not going
On 19-Jun-11, at 1:10 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
[snip]
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:10:08AM +0530, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
Currencies are consensual belief systems. Bitcoin will remain
useful as long as there are no effective attacks against
the cryptosystem and/or the infrastructure, and people
On 18-Jun-11, at 5:10 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
[snip]
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:21:42AM +0530, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
This is a very thorough and compelling takedown of bitcoin.
Currencies are consensual belief systems. Bitcoin will remain
useful as long as there are no effective attacks
This is a very thorough and compelling takedown of bitcoin.
-
No. Bitcoin is a ludicrously bad idea. It is a scam. A Scam. It is not
a currency. The economic assumptions underpinning the Bitcoin
ecosystem are laughable, and ignore hundreds of years of accumulated
understanding
On 10-Jun-11, at 11:13 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
[snip]
This list contains a large number of self-taught programmers. How did
you get started, and how did you get to a moderate level of skill?
I played a demo of a then-current game:
On 16-May-11, at 4:39 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
[snip]
I don't know much about BitCoin, but my initial thoughts were that
this is unenforceable as an alternative monetary standard without a
global power behind it.
As the hawala system has proven, a currency has as much value as what
On 10-May-11, at 12:36 AM, underscore wrote:
wow...
I saw the subject and thought this was about that science fiction
movie from the 70s about the last plant.
I thought it was about a WW2 submarine with Rhett Butler in it.
-Taj.
On 20-Apr-11, at 4:19 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Indrajit Gupta
bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
• Economically and culturally advanced (except districts of Tamil
Nadu in its north-west): Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh,
Karnataka;
• Economically advanced,
On 20-Apr-11, at 5:50 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Haryana minus Gurgaon?
I too would like to see a list of state GDP-per-capita with all major
metros removed. I would assume that Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata,
Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bangalore etc would skew statistics for their
states
On 19-Apr-11, at 10:48 AM, Heather Madrone wrote:
[snip]
Since I've lost the extra weight, I continue to limit my sugar
intake. I've observed that any high calorie high sugar treat
converts with 100% efficiency to weight gain, *even if I stay within
my calorie limit for the day*. If I
On 10-Apr-11, at 2:39 PM, Stephanie Das Gupta wrote:
If women keep aborting, abandoning, and killing their girl children,
where will that leave the population? And the boy children who these
mothers are so adamant to save, who will take care of them? Who will
they marry? Will the men take
Hi all,
We have a bunch of old laptop and phone batteries lying around the house
(NCR area) which I'd like to dispose of safely/responsibly. What do you do
with them in general? And more specifically, is there a recommended place to
dump them in Delhi or elsewhere?
-Taj.
On 14-Feb-11, at 5:03 AM, Anand Manikutty wrote:
Eugen:
--- In silk-l...@yahoogroups.com, Eugen Leitl eugen@... wrote:
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 06:57:54PM -, Anand Manikutty wrote:
I assume that by GA, you mean Genetic Algorithms. Genetic
Algorithms are
a search heuristic. GA doesn't
To begin with, I'm going to reiterate what others have said about your
argument being cloaked in technical terms without enough context to
give them utility.
On 14-Feb-11, at 9:17 PM, Anand Manikutty wrote:
[snip]
There is some detail in these subsequent emails (Suresh, Venky,
Udhay,
On 07-Feb-11, at 12:30 PM, Anand Manikutty wrote:
I have discussed this issue with the people at the Singularity
meetup. None of them is able to tell me how exactly AI could engage
in continuous self-improvement, an idea which lies at the heart of
the Singularity argument. I believe that
I've long held a suspicion that ToI no longer has any editors, and
hires only junior reporters to save money. This steaming turd just
adds to the evidence - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Two-Dalit-girls-gangraped-near-Delhi-/articleshow/6653961.cms
The supposedly moderated
On 27-Aug-10, at 4:49 PM, Keith Adam wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11100528
Does anyone know if this was the same method that Nikola Tesla
allegedly
used?
Tesla was hoping to use the ionosphere as a global power distribution
network. I don't think he had any plans to
There's Fear Factory's Demanufacture, a man vs overlord machine
concept album inspired by Terminator, of all things. Since its release
it has spawned an entire subgenre of industrial metal, often with
similar lyrical themes.
-Taj.
On Tuesday, June 15, 2010, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
[snip]
I read it once, a very long time ago, and enjoyed it thoroughly. Then I
kept hearing people say it was so long and boring that they couldn't get
through it, and I began to wonder if I had really managed to read all of
it. So I read it
On 31-Mar-10, at 6:47 PM, Thaths wrote:
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com
wrote:
[off usenet]
literary criticism
inscrutable reference
obligatory pun
attempted witticism that shows I missed the joke before.
longwinded explanation cribbed from
On 24-Mar-10, at 11:02 AM, Shoba Narayan wrote:
The TamBrahm analogy was because I know so many men who hate Roy and
they always describe their dislike of her with this dispassionate,
rational, logical, arguing-equations-in-IIT tone that bugs the shit
out of me. As if it was self-evident
On 24-Mar-10, at 1:50 PM, Charles Haynes wrote:
[snip]
Why? Why should she be expected to live to your expectations?
I don't expect her to; she's free to do as she pleases. And I am free
to feel whatever I like about it.
-Taj.
On 24-Mar-10, at 2:19 PM, Charles Haynes wrote:
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang
sir...@sirtaj.net wrote:
On 24-Mar-10, at 1:50 PM, Charles Haynes wrote:
[snip]
Why? Why should she be expected to live to your expectations?
I don't expect her to; she's free to do as she
On 24-Mar-10, at 3:24 PM, Salil Tripathi wrote:
[snip]
Agree with much of what you've said.
Oh but that's boring! Which bits DIDN'T you agree with? :)
Chomsky is certainly hugely guilty of that - to the extent of
denying that Srebrenica was a problem at all).
Chomsky is a good example.
Incidentally,
On 24-Mar-10, at 11:02 AM, Shoba Narayan wrote:
There are enough dispassionate, logical, objective, on-the-one-hand
type writers.
Do you really believe that? I don't see it.
I don't consider myself a spiritual person. My only shred of what can
be considered faith lies in
On 24-Mar-10, at 9:54 PM, ss wrote:
Smearing someone on the list with an insinuation that brings in Modi
I thought Charles asked a fair question and I don't really see this
implication.
-Taj.
On 04-Mar-10, at 1:47 PM, Biju Chacko wrote:
[snip]
I disagree. 5-10 years ago, I had a pretty good idea of all the moving
parts behind my desktop. When something broke (which was often) a bit
of deduction would point me at the solution. Nowadays, there are a
whole bunch of things working under
On 04-Mar-10, at 8:06 PM, Pranesh Prakash wrote:
[snip]
I don't really see any disagreement, really. The idea of something
being easier to use cannot exist without the category of persons
for whom it is so. D-Bus *does* make it easier for many programmers
by allowing them to worry less
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, ss wrote:
[snip]
Building for sale, picture below
http://www.funxite.com/media/2047-taj-mahal-wallpapers.jpg
Sir please send me a quote, I would like to purchase three.
Just kidding of course. I went to visit my namesake recently for the first
time since I was
On Thursday 28 January 2010, ss wrote:
[snip]
The thing is its size. The photos don't tell you how huge it is.
Shiv, I am sure you appreciate that it takes superhuman strength to resist
a punchline setup like this one.
-Taj.
On 09-Oct-09, at 10:22 PM, Thaths wrote:
[snip]
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Manar Hussain ma...@ivision.co.uk
wrote:
At the risk of being divisive, not with this para but with some
others' comments, I think simply saying the prize should be for good
deeds already done, it's a sham,
On 22-Jun-09, at 10:28 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
India is deprived of a good Right-wing party.
What would you see as the ideals and platform of a good Right-wing
party?
-Taj.
On 10-Jun-09, at 4:03 PM, Gautam John wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Kiran K
Karthikeyankiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
IPL’s hidden political agenda Dr Abdul Ruff
We are to Pakistan what China is to us...
This is a very good analogy. OTOH, China at least seems to be capable
On 10-Jun-09, at 5:40 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
[snip]
Incidentally, I have been getting a lot of invites recently from
dudes in
Pakistan (primarily on Facebook and Skype) asking to be friends. I've
declined all of them since a family in Cochin had an unpleasant
ordeal due
to answering
On 08-Jun-09, at 8:03 PM, ss wrote:
[snip]
A bit old - but nothing wakes me up like Pakistan
Which is kind of fitting, since I think nothing wakes up Pakistan like
India. I get the impression that if the average Pakistani was aware
comparatively just how little time the average Indian
We're taking TechCrunch and their anonymous email tip-offs at face
value now? Sure, last.fm users listening to pirated music need to
worry and should have been worried since the CBS buyout, but
TechCrunch are hardly known for ethical and responsible journalism.
-Taj.
On 17-May-09, at 5:11 PM, Bonobashi wrote:
[snip]
And his role in the murder of 2000 people of his state of course
doesn't matter a tinker's f**k.
I've seldom seen more cynical views of politics than yours.
Despite still being pretty bitter about 1984, I voted Congress and in
the past
On 17-May-09, at 10:38 PM, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
Somehow, every Modi and BJP / Hindutva plank apologist seems to
believe
that it's okay to order the killing (and subsequent hush-up) of
thousands of
Muslims as long as you're pro-development, especially if that tag
comes from
bribing the
On 17-May-09, at 11:39 PM, Bharat Shetty wrote:
[snip]
The NDA also delivered stunning growth despite the economic sanctions
imposed by the Clinton government back then.
I'd like nothing more to see some evidence that the vast majority of
the 50% of the country that bothers to vote gives a
On Monday 23 March 2009, Aditya Kapil wrote:
[snip]
the hero of a great performance. So is it just a teaching instrument?
Can we do better?
Both Indian and Western music feature fretless stringed instruments across
the audible spectrum, but if we must look for something that doesn't
require
Hello silklister,
I am hoping that the many clever people on this list can provide me with
some credible resources examining the major theoretical and practical
differences between Indian and Western music, particularly the classical
forms of each. I'm just an enthusiastic n00b, but some of
On Mar 23, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Radhika, Y. wrote:
Could someone tell me why the harmonium is a terrible instrument? for
sentimental reasons, i have recently requested my mother to bring my
grandmom's harmonium as i am learning hindustani classical and it is
my
teacher's preferred instrument.
On Wednesday 11 March 2009, Rishab Ghosh wrote:
[snip]
i loved it too. it was so sad-funny. and low budget. shows a sense of
humour.
I've tried twice now and I just CAN'T watch past the halfway mark, it just
hurts too much. And I want to give it a chance - they're trying so hard!
-Taj.
On Monday 09 March 2009, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
[snip]
Congress is the same party that condoned th emergency and facilitated
the sikh riots.
I find myself a little irritated by the term sikh riots, in that it
wasn't the Sikhs doing the rioting.
If I am over-reacting, I apologize.
-Taj.
On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Eugen Leitl wrote:
[snip]
I don't need a TV. I need an immersive display for virtual environments
(Second Life, OpenSim). And, occasionally, HD movies (though I haven't
watched a movie in months, admittedly).
Hey who needs an alternate reality when this reality
On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Openoffice and mail merge. Or maybe one of those boilerplate letters
William de Worde keeps for dwarfs who want to write home (in pterry's
the truth)
That would be far less cool than a tooltip floating above said relative's
head,
] I am not sure if the negatives have been negated enough, so suffice it
to say that the sentence says exactly what I mean even if it doesn't
exactly mean what I think it means.
--
Sirtaj Singh Kang
Chief Technology Officer
Direct: 512.696.1418
Mobile: +91-98180-8372
www.mpowermobile.com
On Thursday 30 October 2008, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:
And this is your official position on this matter, is it?
I'm new to the internet and this multiple-email-accounts thing.
This would have never happened with mutt.
-Taj.
On Monday 29 September 2008, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
[snip]
Sumant Srivathsan wrote, [on 9/29/2008 11:40 AM]:
I blame Rick Rubin. IMO, the only Metallica album that sounds even
remotely well-produced is the 1991 Metallica (The Black Album). Bob
Rock got it right.
_And Justice For All_
On Sunday 28 September 2008, . wrote:
[snip]
you missed the weasel keywords shall endeavour.
The weasling is a lot more up front than these couple of words tucked
away - this right to education is not one of the Fundamental Rights and
Duties, but one of the Directive Principles, which are all
On Sunday 06 July 2008, Charles Haynes wrote:
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Sirtaj Singh Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
- There is a wide range of bands of thought if sampled across the
population of India, but a given Indian person chooses far too few.
You really think so?
I wasn't
On Friday 27 June 2008, Aditya Chadha wrote:
[snip]
But why? Nokia bought Symbian and open-sourced it
(http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/06/nokia_takes_i
ni.html). So, why not develop for that?
I will admi that I have a strong bias here, but:
The Symbian API is not
On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Bharat Shetty wrote:
[snip]
The Pune police on Saturday arrested one more person for posting
derogatory content about Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi on an orkut
community. Police have identified the accused as Nithin Chkravarthi
Does anyone here know if there is a
On Monday 12 May 2008, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
[snip]
had to pass a very high barrier in order to do so. It is not clear
that society was radically worse off as a result.
It depends on your metrics for radically worse off. In my own value
system, a world in which there is more study of
On Monday 12 May 2008, Christopher M. Kelty wrote:
dude, did you fail your english lit class or something? I've never
seen so much resentment in one post. Sorry for being such a parasite
on society.
Ha! Don't worry Christopher, as boondoggles go, you guys barely register
as a blip of %GDP.
On Thursday 08 May 2008, Casey O'Donnell wrote:
[snip]
Sure, perhaps that FAKE colloquium announcement is ad hominim (a
condemnation on this list). Though last I checked Alan was not on the
list.
I understood that it was fake, and I use ad hominem in the most strict
sense - the title implies
On Thursday 08 May 2008, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Casey O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since I just got my PhD in STS (Science and Technology Studies) I feel
compelled to respond about this, in part because it makes science
studies and postmodernism look really bad.
I think that the
On Thursday 08 May 2008, Casey O'Donnell wrote:
[snip]
For when you look into the abyss...: Reflections on an Intellectual
Life That Came and Went in 15 Minutes
Prof. Alan Sokal, Department of Physics, NYU
(PDF Available on request, beautiful mock-up)
I'm sorry, I am able to take at face
On Monday 05 May 2008, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
[snip]
I wish I could elaborate based on what I know given what I'm doing
these days, but all I can say is: you're off on the wrong tangent.
Oh man, now you're just teasing us.
-Taj.
On Friday 18 April 2008, Tea BeeDi wrote:
[snip]
Several reasons for sharing. First like ss indicated kind of: its
sharing. I have a feeling Silk can do a longer list of 'why share',
than I can imagine. Maybe its a generational thing :) ss got it! like
sharing when computer was not an
On Thursday 17 April 2008, Hassath wrote:
[snip]
been many friends reading the posts using that subscription. (Of
course, like it was pointed out, since it's a publicly archived list,
access to the posts is not difficult.
Not only publically archived, but with demonstrably high Google juice
On Saturday 19 April 2008, ss wrote:
[snip]
The implication of those examples may be far more serious than that of a
group posting as one on silk - but the deceit, combined with evasion of
individual responsibility makes it comparable IMO.
I will agree with that. This is no different from
On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Aditya Chadha wrote:
[snip]
I think Lenovo went on a huge and pretty bizarre cost-reduction across the
IBM laptop line, like the legendary IBM keyboard is definitely not what it
used to be. But this is piece of FUD is based only on my experience with
one T60p, and
On Monday 07 April 2008, Balaji Dutt wrote:
[snip]
Given the elevated standard of discourse in this group (which reminds me
very much of MetaFilter) I expect my contributions to be rare and
I may not have been here long enough to be 100% sure about this, but
it appears to me that this list,
On Monday 07 April 2008, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
[snip]
I haven't seen the word written down too often, but it's always _said_
as if it were Delhi-ites.
I think this is deliberate, as any label for us that looks like a
homophone of delights is bound to give visitors the wrong impression.
On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Gautam John wrote:
I don't know how far this is true though
http://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?docid=ddp4zq7n_0cdjsr4fnskipauth=truep
li=1
Very good, but definitely needs an update to include the fed/taxpayer bailout.
Capitalism is great, when it's optional!
On Monday 03 March 2008, Divya Sampath wrote:
[snip]
wanted to come back to the point about the absence of
a uniform civil code/ the existence of a bunch of
antiquated personal laws based on various religions.
I agree that a UCC is required, totally. What I am worried about is
who gets to
On Saturday 01 March 2008, ss wrote:
[snip]
One more religion that is considered dharmic and non adversarial (towards
Hindus) and an offshoot of Hinduism is the Sikh religion. The Sikh
religion started off as a mild-mannered variant that took dharma from
Hinduism and a monotheistic theme.
On Sunday 02 March 2008, divya manian wrote:
[snip]
As you said, I think Hinduism is everything and nothing. I think you
can be an atheist and still be a Hindu. And I really like the part of
This is what I meant by the term being devoid of value. I consider there
to be great benefit in
On Sunday 02 March 2008, ss wrote:
Merely because Hinduism is not about religion. It is about dharma. It is a
dharma or code of conduct for a people. Their beliefs about God are
peripheral to the issue.
Really? So Hinduism begins and ends with Dharma, and other concepts like Yog,
Moksh and
Hi Hassath,
On Thursday 07 February 2008, Hassath wrote:
[snip]
I'm looking at this list and failing to see where you mentioned that
your daughter is awesome. I think that's a pretty big oversight.
-Taj.
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
welcome to silklist, taj... i had a cobwebsite for a long time at
dxm.org, then after 10+ years i finally decided that i don't need to put
content there when i can have the one of the world's richest companies
do it for me, and dxm now
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