@longhandnotes

Dreamed of being a simultaneous translator as a child

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धर्मो धीपरिशुद्धिसिद्ध इतरत् कोलाहलं केवलम्।। Tirukkuṟaḷ 0034 ytamizh.com/thirukural/kural… thirukkural.net/ta/kural/kur… xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/1… xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/2… xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/8… xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/1….
Arvind Iyer@longhandnotes11 Jun 2023
Replying to @longhandnotes @hhrobbstark
Besides lokasaṅgraha, the Bhagavadgītā, by calling those who accomplish yajña as "kṣapita-kalmaṣāḥ"/"they whose impurities are destroyed" (4:30 tinyurl.com/BhG430), gives another purpose of yajña so to speak, commonly called citta-śuddhi in Śāṅkara Vedānta. 1/
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Arvind Iyer retweeted
Arvind Iyer@longhandnotesSep 19
Among the scenarios of AI k-wording everyone, is it "superior intelligence/organism indifferent to the survival of lower life forms" scenarios that are more commonly raised, or "humankind forgetting GIGO and buried alive under garbage debris" scenarios? edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p….

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say |...

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Replying to @Ugrashravas
Even if Pāṇini does not, do later vaiyākaraṇa-dārśanika-s like Bhartṛhari who have a concept of dharma as sādhu-śabda-prayoga also accept a category of āpaddharma-prayoga-s? Also, does āpat for a vaiyākaraṇa mean an existential threat as for others, or something 'symbolic'?
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How will this campaign look? The Piḍi Arici Tiṭṭam and the "Each One Teach One" slogan of the later 20th century weren't "peer-to-peer". xitter.cf/zeneraalstuff/status/1… Indians seem caring on their own (and of their own) reacting to if not anticipating need. xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/1….
Aravind
@aravindOct 27
India will face its toughest time since independence in the coming years. But if the govt launches a campaign to make Indians considerate of each other, trustful of each other, and benevolent to each other, it will bless the country with a kavach to protect it from adversaries.
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Replying to @longhandnotes @AgentSaffron
Mahāmahopādhyāya Brahmaśrī Mullaivācal Kṛṣṇamūrti Śāstriṇaḥ takes a minute to counsel his listeners to notice what in their tradition is paralleled elsewhere, and not idly assume their tradition as the sole source of ubiquitous insights. youtube.com/watch?v=0gfok0iu… 47:35-48:48

Prasnopanishad lecture by Dr. R.krishnamurthy Sastrigal

A discourse on the Prasnopanishad by Brahmasri Dr. R.Krishnamurthy ...

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Replying to @hsraghav @inc09nita @brakoo
Also, Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 5.41.3 shows Hanūmān scanning those options exactly in that order while planning how best to deal with Sītā's captors. valmikiramayan.net/utf8/sund… As it is, it seems a commonsense ordering in ascending order of resource-intensiveness and escalation. #ArtOfWar
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Arvind Iyer@longhandnotesMay 20
Think a bit farther back from Bollywood or Sandalwood to, say, the Didarganj Chauri Bearer. What if specs like those were meant as much for training of what not to expect as for training of what to expect? xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/1….
Arvind Iyer@longhandnotes25 Jun 2025
Replying to @termite_colony
Wouldn't it be a W if this one-off exposure to an unattainable standard brick-proofs MaleOS against the charms of all other women with whom there was an assumption of attainability? 🙃 gitasupersite.iitk.ac.in/sri….

SBG 2.59 — विषया विनिवर्तन्ते निराहारस्य देहिनः। | Heritage IITKanpur

विषया विनिवर्तन्ते निराहारस्य देहिनः। रसवर्जं रसोऽप्यस्य परं दृष्ट्वा निवर्तते।।2.59।। 2.59 The objects of senses, excepting relish for the objects, turn away from the abstinent dweller in the body....

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Replying to @krishashok
Per Prof.Doniger, primacy was thrust upon the Gita & Manusmriti by similar mechanisms.archive.org/stream/TheHindus…(The Hindus,Pg 383)
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Replying to @nabihaiderali
A 19th century photograph of one of the friends... xitter.cf/KS1729/status/79182599…
keerthik śaśidharan
@KS172928 Oct 2016
"Seringham Pagoda near Trichinopoly. Small gateway on the east side", albumen print, Edmund Lyon, 1868 | #India bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex…
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Per Thiruvalluvar, a good night's sleep yields this effect without such paraphernalia. gokulnath.com/kural/339 nytimes.com/2016/10/27/world…
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Replying to @karatalaamalaka
Are you sure this wasn't part of daycare extracurriculars? And you didn't give subconscious cues while playing the song? #Reviewer3 :P
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Replying to @longhandnotes @GhorAngirasa
Are there stipulations at the level of the āgama-s regarding which (or whether) śruti vākyāni can be adopted during temple rituals? How much leeway is afforded at the level of the arcaka for adopting vākyāni that seem apposite for a given ceremony? xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/1…
Arvind Iyer@longhandnotes28 Oct 2020
Replying to @longhandnotes @hsraghav
What might be the reasons for "परोक्षप्रिया इव हि देवाः" being among the lines chosen for recitation during a dīpāradhanā as we can see here for instance at 31:44, 36:44, 41:35 and 51:30? youtube.com/watch?v=K5RhQUK5… Is rendition of such a mantra assortment customary elsewhere too?

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Replying to @longhandnotes @hsraghav
What might be the reasons for "परोक्षप्रिया इव हि देवाः" being among the lines chosen for recitation during a dīpāradhanā as we can see here for instance at 31:44, 36:44, 41:35 and 51:30? youtube.com/watch?v=K5RhQUK5… Is rendition of such a mantra assortment customary elsewhere too?

Pradosham 28th Oct 2020!

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पक्षः प्रतिष्ठितश्चेत्ते ते मन्योः किं प्रयोजनम् | पक्षोऽप्रतिष्ठितश्चेत्ते ते मन्यौ नाधिकारिता || "If you are right, you have no need to lose your temper. If you are wrong, you have no right to lose your temper." -Isaikkavi Ramanan in this talk:xitter.cf/kalakshetrafdn/status/….
Kalakshetra India@kalakshetrafdn19 Oct 2020
Online Talk Series on Deivathin Kural by Isaikavi Ramanan on 21st October @ 4 pm. Please click the link below to join the webinar: us02web.zoom.us/j/8748339359… Webinar ID: 874 8339 3594
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Replying to @atishayokti @BrightnessFalse
This use-case might help:”In Kannada literature, like in the Madhva sampradāya and in Bhyrappa’s universe, Arjuna is merely a ched stery and it’s Bhīma who is a thed stery.” (Some vowels are changed to hoodwink पर्वतदर्शी जी. Boost your street cred here:urbandictionary.com/define.p…)

Urban Dictionary: Thad

Thad: A Thad is basically a mega Chad. A Thad is like a Chad but more powerful. Don't get on the bad side of a Thad or he will continuously yell "FIGHT...

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Replying to @longhandnotes @atishayokti @BVSrinivasan
If getting the order of magnitude correct is a non-negotiable, then we we should really be referring to Dr. R Ganesh as sahasrāvadhānī.🤓 The title śatāvadhānī has stuck (to him even more than to others who earned it since) because he is the first in living memory to earn it.
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Replying to @atishayokti @BVSrinivasan
The names came to be so because... i)it is acceptable to use avadhānam and aṣṭāvadhānam interchangeably to refer to the art form and aṣṭāvadhānī to refer to a practitioner ii)a practitioner on performing (aṣṭa)avadhānam successfully a 100 times earns the title śatāvadhānī.
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Replying to @BrightnessFalse
If you yourself say you are a thed stery or try to be one, you aren't naa? xitter.cf/TalebWisdom/status/132…
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@TalebWisdom25 Oct 2020
"The only definition of an alpha male: if you try to be an alpha male, you will never be one." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes
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Replying to @bharathanrd
Thank you.🙏🏿The juxtaposition of kuṟaḷ-s 55 & 619 is helpful in seeing how, both in Saṃskṛtam and Tamiḻ, the meanings of दैवम्/தெய்வம் both in the broader sense of "extra-terrestrial indispensables for this-worldly outcomes" and more specific sense of "deity" have coexisted.
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Replying to @bharathanrd
Don't many linguistics questions have/need a "deep time" perspective though, like any discipline where "evolution" is a phenomenon to be reckoned with? Calculating a Buxton Index for our Twitter presence may help us all allocate time better across topics. xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/6…
Arvind Iyer@longhandnotes2 Nov 2015
Replying to @karatalaamalaka
Apropos time-scales, this EWD on academic freedom(from market forces) introduces the Buxton Index. bit.ly/1qLMpYg @_sh4 @natselrox
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Replying to @bharathanrd
Related checklist addition that maybe helpful even after the above two are answered in the affirmative: xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/7…
Arvind Iyer@longhandnotes21 May 2016
Replying to @longhandnotes
"Will this matter next year?" #EndAnArgumentInFiveWords
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