This reminds me of something.
In Indian society, households have this calender called panchang. It is released annually by a group of priests who read and decipher ancient scriptures known as Vedas.
Surprisingly panchang is quite accurate and informative about duration of solar and lunar eclipses.
Nope they are not accurate anymore, have not been for a while. They used to be though. The model is similar to the Ptolemaic model but independently derived. If anyone cases the model is described in suryasiddhnta, English translations freely available.
The lack of accuracy of panchang is the result of accumulating calendric errors over centuries. Traditionally these used to get corrected by astronomical observations. However after the fall of Ujjain observatory the traditional / religious calendar has not been updated/corrected for centuries.
In fact right after independence India's first prime minister set up a calendar reform committee to update and modernise the traditional calendar. Top Indian scientists as well as scholars of Vedic scriptures were part of the committee.
To this day India government publishes these and updated positional astronomy records.
At this point, I am rooting for Google to do anything it wants then current design. For now material design looks like cartoon network to me.
The best design in modern times I liked was of Microsoft fluent 2.
I badly wish for skeumorphism to come back, but now have left the hope.
The first point is completely invalid, here a lot of press, YouTubers berate Indian government in daily basis they do not suffer any setbacks except when netizens call out false propaganda in numbers for both pro and anti government media.
Second point the Indian leader arrested was involved in huge scams in liquor and policy, he used to live in a lavish palace and got called out by enforcement directorate. It's good he got arrested.
Canada has not provided even a single proof for Indias involvement in extrajudicial killings but instead harbor people who threaten Indians regularly. Despite extradition treaty Canada has become a safe harbor of terrorists and refused to extradite terrorists even after repeated requests by India.
Reversing the trend ? Are you kidding me, previous government imposed emergency rule when their position was threatened and commited human rights abuses.
> Second point the Indian leader arrested was involved in huge scams in liquor and policy.
unproven, and the timing could not have been more suspicious:
"Amnesty International, an international human rights group said that the arrest of Kejriwal and the "freezing of Indian National Congress’ bank accounts", a few weeks before India's general elections showed "the authorities’ blatant failure to uphold the country’s international human rights obligations".[45][46]"
> Despite extradition treaty Canada has become a safe harbor of terrorists and refused to extradite terrorists even after repeated requests by India.
How about despite an extradition treaty, India has never submitted a claim against these so called terrorists and like normal democracies use the courts to argue their case for extradition. In Canada the courts are generally far more independent than those in India. Note - speech calling for a separate state by itself is not terrorism in any country that values free speech (heck half of Quebec regularly does this), only calling or acting for violence means crossing that line, i haven't seen any evidence for the latter (but I'm open to be proven wrong - from independent credible sources unlike those you listed).
> Reversing the trend ? Are you kidding me.
Yes, according to the article I originally cited and others, India has become less democratic. Caste violence and religious tension (i.e. chants of "love jihad") seems to have gotten worse - true to India's founders video in the 1950's I shared of democracy in India.
The first link you shared of hrw...in one of the incidents it showed the arrest of newsclick.
The problem with international media houses is that they don't report why someone has been arrested on what charges and with what process. Newsclick offices has been raided for allegedly taking funding from CCP for propaganda and also inciting Delhi riots.
The second instance when the hrw is saying that Delhi police arrested 'peaceful protesters', there were RIOTS! A police offices was stabbed in two digits, a boy' limbs were amputed while being alive and left to burn in his shop. They were not peaceful protests in any case.
Amnesty international did the same thing. It did not report why Kejriwal was arrested. Kejriwal's lavish mansion made with money of tax payers has been a topic of mockery by Indian public. His party lost elections badly because people knew that the arrest was not whimsical.
I won't comment on topic of court more, as I don't know you can be right.
Independent credible sources :p. Name any media house and I can show how they have repeatedly used media as a propaganda page with full of fake news whether left or right(except reuters maybe).
The only thing credible is reading from multiple sources to know fully about an incident. What I like about Opindia is that it provides a very comprehensive coverage of every incident with sources and proofs at
every line and has even corrected itself in past for mistakes.
India has not become less democratic that is just a farce by some parties who neither have any agenda, neither consistent neither in touch with what people want, they are just envious that they are being repeatedly loosing elections in multiple states of India. They only cry India is less democratic when they lose elections.
The opposing party repeatedly wants a caste census and invites regularly people of different castes against other castes. In fact caste violence is at its lowest period, since from my parents times. Young generation have stopped believing in birth castes except to make Instagram reels.
Love jihad, I can show you hundreds of cases when a member of a community (you can guess) has posed as member of other religious group for an affair to be finally have his identity revealed after marriage after which domestic violence and sexual exploitation of the victim arises. Now before you say that it is a 'Hindutva majoritian' agenda, well not when the church groups of Kerala raise the same issue in their community.
Regarding extrajudicial killings if I remember correctly arrested person was Indian, not sure if it was proved that he was connected to Indian govt.
And for Canada yes they didn't provide any proof but instead had to backtrack on their statements:
OpIndia is an Indian far-right[2] news website known for frequently publishing misinformation.[11][12][28] Founded in December 2014,[18] the website has published fake news and Islamophobic commentary on numerous occasions.[37][43] OpIndia is dedicated to criticism of what it considers liberal media,[14] and to support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)[47] and Hindutva ideology.[3] According to University of Maryland researchers, OpIndia has shamed journalists it deems to be in opposition to the BJP and has alleged media bias against Hindus and the BJP.[13]
Did you get a chance to read the US attorney's indictment and alleged connections to the Indian govt?
Opindia has no hesitation on declaring itself as a right leaning site but frequently publishing misinformation? That's exaggeration.
It backs whatever it writes with independent research, attached videos documents, cctv footage, other news houses as best as it can.
Sure it made its mistakes but not so much as other media houses in India.
There are much worse media houses that opindia especially on the left.
And Wikipedia? That's neither reliable or consistent. It itself has been shown to be edited by whimsical propagandists to serve their own means in past.
The articles sources can be checked and not only opindia other news houses have reported on Gurpreet Singh Pannu
I always thought about the problem of AI taking jobs, that even if there are new jobs created to replace the older ones, it will come at a cost of decrease in satisfaction of overall populace.
The more people in general get disconnect from nature/physical world/reality. via layers of abstraction the more discontent they will become.
These layers can be:
1) Automatics in agriculture.
2) Industries.
3) Electronics
4) Software
5) and now AI
Each higher layer depends on lower ones for its functioning without the need to worry about specifics and provides a framework for higher abstraction to work on.
The more we move up in hierarchy the more disconnected we become from the physical world.
To support this I observed that villagers in general are more jolly and content than city dwellers. In metropolis specially I saw that people are more rude, anxious and always agitated, while villagers are welcoming and peaceful.
Another good example is that of an artist finding it boring to guide AI even though he loves making paintings himself/herself.
I must say that I was expecting that a single light receptor would also have been evolved from something else so that the title would have earned the moniker of 'from scratch'.
That's quite a cool project, but as a thought can the simple rules you started from... Are they simple enough? Like the rule which states that offspring will carry the traits of parents, so exactly what traits they carry. how are they carried. Are these rules simple enough?
So they carry neural nets and evolve using the NEAT algorithm, which introduces slight variations: new connections and new nodes.
Over time this allows fish to develop basic behavior such as searching for food, navigation a maze, etc.
The only other 'useful' gene right now is around herbivore/carnivore digestion (0 to 1), which allows them to extract more energy from either meat or plant-food. Most of the time they actually develop specific behavior according to this gene.
I don't really code in what offspring need to do beyond having slight variations to both factors described above, it kind of evolves randomly into more complexity (neural net + behaviors).
Also importantly– I need to program an energy decay system and death if they run out. So basically: Energy source, energy decay and evolving neural nets that can give an organism the possibility to survive and evolve if they get more energy. And voila– Life emerges.
Working on plants now, and again simple rules: Neural nets in the plants to mimic evolution of complex biological systems that evolve from generation to generation. And a light-based energy source and light-based energy capture system (leaves). My current (preliminary) experiments show that the plants start to look like trees over time to maximize energy capturing compared to competing plants.
Looking to publish this once I have it a bit more refined.
So the special thing about NEAT is that it allows the shape of the neural net to change. It can also do some sort of mix between two neural nets (like sexual reproduction), but I haven't implemented that.
Natural selection in this sim just happens by itself, there is a limited amount of food and only the best adapted ones survive. So the best performing neural networks duplicate themselves and create small variations of themselves. This part is not connected to the NEAT algorithm, I've just seen that NEAT performs particularly good vs more fixed-structure neural networks.
Politics aside, money meant/allocated for one purpose should only be used for that purpose. I always tried thinking of a system where every tax payers cent can be traced to its usage by goverment via a portal. Usage can include salaries, projects etc. That will make things more transparent
Darwin himself noted in the Origin of Species that there is not really any such thing as a "species." It is a poor abstraction we use to describe a group of closely related organisms, but the classifications are necessarily arbitrary and the lines are fuzzy. To visualize this more clearly, imagine that we resurrected every organism that ever lived. It would be easy to say that, say, your cat is felis catus, and so was his father, but scanning back through say, 2^32 ancestors, it would be impossible to point to any ancestor n, compare it with ancestor n + 1, and say this is one species, and that another. Of course, hybridization events make the picture even more complicated. This problem was of course already known at the time, and nothing has changed since, because of the nature of the underlying biological reality.
Thus, there is no distinction at all between "microevolution" and "macroevolution".
Do you think lions and tigers are the same species, then? Wolves and coyotes? Horses and donkeys? Camels and llamas?
“Can interbreed” is a fuzzy line too, the probability decreases as genetic distance increases but it doesn’t just suddenly stop. Sometimes very different species can interbreed, and sometimes a small change is enough to make it stop working. Of course, often breeding can be accomplished with human intervention, but never in nature, for simple mechanical or behavioral reasons.
Running an experiments isn't just about proving others wrong, it's also about adding confidence to current understandings and finding new details that might have been overlooked so far. Even as one who considers evolution a very solidly shown mechanism I'd like to see something like this be a bit of a "pitch drop experiment" equivalent where we run it as long as possible. Partially for the novelty, partially to see what the lab conditions result in over an extended period that we might not have intended, and partially to try and shore up even more support for what we think we're certain of. It'd also be nice to control for a few other considerations in the experiment... but I'll take what I can get on something so long running :).
The article has not been blocked by Indian government but by Indian judiciary system with a trial, there's a difference. Also trials in India take a lot of time and conclusions are reached after much thought.
Also Wikipedia does not have a good track record of its editors free from misleading articles for defamation and propaganda. I won't trust at all the article in Wikipedia about the war between Wikipedia and ANI. The article (archive) already seems to present the court in a bad flavour.
Yeah that is wrong, but many are under the impression that Indian government has started stomping on free speech and that the judiciary are just completely whimsical.
In India like in many other countries, the judiciary is one of the three branches of government. As an Indian citizen I certainly don't trust the Indian judiciary to be impartial when it comes to literally ANI.
the opening statement is your opinion which is obviously incorrect, stated as if it's factual. In India, as in many countries that follow rule of law, judiciary is independent from government. It's the third pillar of democracy not government.
Classic Doctrine of separation of powers.
the latter part of the statement is clearly given as your opinion which of course one is free to carry.
Correction: The judiciary is independent from the legislative branch of the government, but it functions alongside the executive and legislative branches as part of the Indian government. While the separation of powers is fundamental, it’s important to acknowledge that the existence of this structure doesn’t automatically guarantee impartiality or independence in practice.
