Re: [silk] Hello from Shreyasee

Welcome to the list Shreyasee! From a lurker who (ashamedly) only rarely does more than appreciate the discussions of the list from afar, we have some excellent fantasy (though the last one I think was non-fictional) book recommendation discussions that rise up. Admittedly, it seems that the

Re: [silk] New member Intro: Jitendra (Jiten) Vaidya

On 2/24/19 1:31 PM, Jitendra Vaidya wrote: > Speaking of cooking techniques, has anybody tried Sous Vide? I would love > to try it but the thought of cooking food in a polyethylene bag for long > periods of time puts me off. Jiten, If a problem, is not the alternative a glass bottle, as in a

Re: [silk] New member Intro: Jitendra (Jiten) Vaidya

On 2/24/19 1:31 PM, Jitendra Vaidya wrote: > Speaking of cooking techniques, has anybody tried Sous Vide? I would love > to try it but the thought of cooking food in a polyethylene bag for long > periods of time puts me off. Jiten, If a problem, is not the alternative a glass bottle, as in a

Re: [silk] Building intelligent machines with casual reasoning

Bharat, I had the same double take but upon pondering I assumed it meant clinical decision making group (the MIT enclave). Landon On 22 August 2018 22:21:49 GMT-04:00, Bharat Shetty wrote: >On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 4:54 AM wrote: > >> First, stepping back, https://youtu.be/ajGX7odA87k

Re: [silk] Building intelligent machines with casual reasoning

Sorry to delurk with a massive rant but I love this field and Pearl's work, and spent the last 18 months being denied my doctorate because I use to much maths for a Psych department. >Anyone else have opinions on why his ideas haven't caught on more >generally? There are two connected

Re: [silk] The end of the teens

On 16 November 2017 23:14:30 GMT-08:00, Peter Griffin <peter.grif...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Landon Hurley <ljrhur...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> >> >> On 16 November 2017 23:09:48 GMT-08:00, Mohit <mohitmo...@gmail.com> &

Re: [silk] The end of the teens

On 16 November 2017 23:09:48 GMT-08:00, Mohit wrote: >On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Peter Griffin > >wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Udhay Shankar N >wrote: >> >> > Folks: >> > >> > Silklist will turn 20 years

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

On 13 September 2017 00:56:07 GMT-04:00, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: >Hm. What’s that stuff they smoke in those parts? Qat? Kif? Whatever >it is the rabbi was on, I’d like some please. It’d be fun to hold >conversations with a cat or dog. > If I remember correctly, I

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

On 13 September 2017 00:52:57 GMT-04:00, Aadisht Khanna wrote: >The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar is a graphic novel about a Tunisian (I >think, >but definitely North African) rabbi whose cat gains the power of speech >and >then engages the rabbi in theological debate. It was

Re: [silk] Has anyone here made the switch on their work email from Outlook to Google mail?

On 09/12/2017 11:49 AM, Prashant P Kothari wrote: > I have switched from MS office to the Google equivalents for all programs > but email > > Still on Outlook - and that's where I spend 75% of my computer time I would recommend Thunderbird, with the lighting and enigmail plug-ins; all emails may

Re: [silk] The Deadpool List

On 08/09/2016 03:28 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Rajeev Chakravarthi > wrote: >> Liszt, if you please. Don't forget the z. He fell asleep doing so. > > If I put in the zee (or the zed) > How would the pun work on this drifting thread? > Poor

[silk] Fwd: [SOCNET] journal of toaster studies

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 This amused me greatly, and I hope this list will appreciate it as well. - -- Welcome to the Journal of Toaster Studies, an academic publication about new technologies published by the MIT Press since January 2013. The first issue of The Journal

Re: [silk] Renaming Aurangzeb Road

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/12/2015 01:33 PM, Bruce A. Metcalf wrote: > Now I need to go find something constructive to post. I don't > suppose anyone cares for a trip report of five weeks on a cruise > ship or 8500 miles across America by car? Perhaps an essay on how >

Re: [silk] Anthropology and Sociology

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/08/2014 12:57 PM, SS wrote: On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 11:37 +0200, Dave Long wrote: (to what degree do the philosophers and the priests differ from the fiction writers?) Please correct me if you think I am wrong, but Sci Fi writers ( to

Re: [silk] Slacktivism

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/27/2014 08:16 AM, John Sundman wrote: For a third thing, we already know how to reduce the impact of killers like cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Obesity, sedentary lifestyles, tobacco and environmental pollution are all implicated.

Re: [silk] Why Hindutva is Like Dog Breeding

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/03/2014 10:33 PM, Bruce Metcalf wrote: I think what both cases demonstrate is the inclusive/exclusive divide in how people approach most anything. Some are interested in purity by some standard, others in effectiveness. Indeed I see the

Re: [silk] The weirdest languages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/06/2013 02:39 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Of course you are right. That is precisely why we speak Latin and Greek to this day. [I claim that] Cheeni is right, but

Re: [silk] Intro!

. As for the 'correct' composition, try edit - account settings - composition addressing - automatically quote the original message - start my reply below. landon On Tuesday 02 July 2013 11:01 AM, Landon Hurley wrote: On 07/02/2013 01:21 AM, Rashmi Dhanwani wrote: I think I unleashed another

Re: [silk] Intro!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/02/2013 10:32 PM, SS wrote: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent War does not decide who is right, but who is left. It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the

Re: [silk] Intro!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/02/2013 01:21 AM, Rashmi Dhanwani wrote: I think I unleashed another round of conversations around top-posting :/ You will need an email client that indents previous responses And what if one's a bit tech challenged to get an e-mail

Re: [silk] Any pet-hate subjects? ...why is Mathematics so frequently hated?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/26/2013 04:15 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 08:44:09AM +0800, Charles Haynes wrote: at least in the USA it's clear that girls are steered away from STEM curricula by a variety of mechansims, primarily social. Girls aren't

Re: [silk] Introductions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 - Original Message From: Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com Sent: Mon Mar 11 01:52:02 EST 2013 To: silklist silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Introductions From personal observation, the whole thread of a mail on

Re: [silk] Introduction - Andy Deemer

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 - Original Message From: Radhika, Y. radhik...@gmail.com Sent: Tue Jan 15 12:12:35 EST 2013 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Introduction - Andy Deemer I have never quite understood the term. Sholay was

Re: [silk] Probability for kids

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/27/2012 03:16 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:54 AM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 04:46 +0200, Charles Haynes wrote: Do you have a six sided die? What do you think the chances are that you will roll

Re: [silk] A new revolution in birth control

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/16/2012 09:01 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: (I shared this on facebook as well, but there's a better chance of meaningful discussion here) I'm gobsmacked. A practising Catholic, planning to revolutionise birth control. And she has a

Re: [silk] Thunderbird slowdown

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/10/2012 01:01 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Anybody else seeing Thunderbird slowing down significantly after the latest update? I'm using 15.0 on Windows 7. Udhay Udhay, It's actually gotten faster for me, at least. Running 15.0 on x64

Re: [silk] New Gods and new dispensations

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/09/2012 12:39 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1999/03/the-market-as-god/6397/?single_page=true The Market as God Living in the new dispensation By HARVEY COX A few years ago a friend advised

Re: [silk] LOTR and Ayn Rand

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/08/2012 03:17 AM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: On 8 August 2012 12:24, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Udhay (first encountered LotR and Rand in high school, disliked both on sight) I read them both in high school as well. I

Re: [silk] Why Are American Kids So Spoiled?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/27/2012 01:56 AM, Charles Haynes wrote: People have been complaining about the young people of today for as long as there have been young people. I believe there's an essay by Pliny on the subject, and I'm sure there are earlier versions.

[silk] Intro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi all, Udhay recommended an intro, so here goes: Currently a student, my areas of speciality are in SCADA/PLC networks, malware analysis and statistical cryptanalysis. Lately though, I've been working in market research/economics modelling with

Re: [silk] Intro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/13/2012 01:29 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: A student where, that's working on malware and scada? UAB? UOregon? The computer security work wasn't actually academic work, although I have done a couple of defence design