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Trump Card An allegory

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27.01.2025 04:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0

@avtansa.bsky.social I recently learnt that the Bengali "Daak Naam" means that it's the name you are called by, and this is related to Daak, or post. Can you shed light on why the term Daak came to be used for post? Is it because postmen went around calling out that post has come?

26.01.2025 04:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0

How credible is this?

11.12.2024 11:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0
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Supernova xkcd.com/2878

08.01.2024 12:48 — 👍 2181    🔁 326    đŸ’Ŧ 26    📌 18

Is English not her first language? That is the only explanation I can think of.

04.01.2024 16:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0
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Necessity is the father of invention Civilization is the mother, and jugaad is miscarriage of invention. Plus, why Turing test is not a good idea.

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19.12.2023 07:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0
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OpenAI is like the BJP The board of OpenAI is the RSS. OpenAI, the company, is the BJP, and Microsoft is the lure of electoral politics.

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01.12.2023 06:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0
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Answering a question posed by a Hindi film song using Evolutionary Biology How do you weave ā¤ĒāĨā¤°ā¤žā¤•āĨƒā¤¤ā¤ŋā¤• ā¤šā¤¯ā¤¨ into a song?

In my latest newsletter, I do a deep-dive into a relatively obscure Hindi film song, and try to answer the question it poses using Evolutionary Biology open.substack.com/pub/telcoldt...

24.11.2023 07:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0
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Happy Deepavali and Halloween to those who celebrate Exploring the common origins of the two festivals

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10.11.2023 05:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0

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