Srikumar
@sriku.org
Math, music (@patantara.com), human and computer languages, small data and natural intelligence, visiting prof of computer science at Krea University. Blog - https://sriku.org
Ad in The Hindu newspaper today. Who needs this tech?
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Ad in The Hindu newspaper today. Who needs this tech?
It's perhaps about what happens with those who don't want to write want to talk to those who don't want to read.
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It's perhaps about what happens with those who don't want to write want to talk to those who don't want to read.
When I saw these turn up at an #Chennai MRTS station, brain automatically played Also Sprach Zarathustra. But seriously these stones look expensive for their function. Wonder how the choice gets made. At least it is not of the kind that will prevent people from lying down on it if they need to.
October 31, 2025 at 2:55 AM
When I saw these turn up at an #Chennai MRTS station, brain automatically played Also Sprach Zarathustra. But seriously these stones look expensive for their function. Wonder how the choice gets made. At least it is not of the kind that will prevent people from lying down on it if they need to.
"How a Gaza music teacher created the "drone song" to calm children terrified by the sound of military drones."
God is dead. Even in the hearts of those who claim to believe in God.
God is dead. Even in the hearts of those who claim to believe in God.
October 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
"How a Gaza music teacher created the "drone song" to calm children terrified by the sound of military drones."
God is dead. Even in the hearts of those who claim to believe in God.
God is dead. Even in the hearts of those who claim to believe in God.
Interesting that speaking coherently about a problem didn't correlate with ability to design after the damage. (See alt text)
October 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Interesting that speaking coherently about a problem didn't correlate with ability to design after the damage. (See alt text)
![Text quote:
Despite its name, the organization was not an accredited university or college. It conducted three- and five-day seminars (often called "retreats") and used high-pressure tactics to sell them to its customers.[4] It did not confer college credit, grant degrees, or grade its students.[5] In 2011, the company became the subject of an inquiry by the New York Attorney General's office for illegal business practices, which resulted in a lawsuit filed in August 2013.[6] An article in the National Review called the organization a "massive scam".[7]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:65dxe6nwphljynzbpekjq6h7/bafkreihkjtyoqsstjv2kr5grtgxsi7t4y2ad5yjcsnlaxmq6cdx5thurp4@jpeg)
September 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
It seems a bit weird that merely 8 years after the *introduction* of the smartphone this decline happens (want a 2015 phone?). One would expect a longer lag? Is this a consequence of the internet broadly? Or something else? Need alternative hypotheses to be eliminated before concluding this I think.
September 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It seems a bit weird that merely 8 years after the *introduction* of the smartphone this decline happens (want a 2015 phone?). One would expect a longer lag? Is this a consequence of the internet broadly? Or something else? Need alternative hypotheses to be eliminated before concluding this I think.
Contains approaches to negotiate the terrain too, apart from pointing out the risks - From www.etuc.org/en/publicati...
September 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Contains approaches to negotiate the terrain too, apart from pointing out the risks - From www.etuc.org/en/publicati...
And yet I don't know why he crippled the freedom of speech provision in our constitution. (From en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom...)
September 18, 2025 at 7:19 AM
And yet I don't know why he crippled the freedom of speech provision in our constitution. (From en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom...)
In the #India that was - www.ndtv.com/opinion/when...
September 18, 2025 at 6:58 AM
In the #India that was - www.ndtv.com/opinion/when...
... and those wearing the glasses are probably at a severe evolutionary disadvantage?
September 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
... and those wearing the glasses are probably at a severe evolutionary disadvantage?
Interesting notation ... works since the lambdas are traditional - i.e. are single argument forms.
![s = λ[λ[λ[2[3[2][1]]]]
where this is equivalent to
λ[a,λ[b,λ[c b[a[b][c]]]]]
Defining zero as
z = λ[λ[1]]
or
λ[a,λ[b,b]]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:65dxe6nwphljynzbpekjq6h7/bafkreibwlhgddcgxoms6e3eq5qi7mitmogdi27m4uvnh6bju5u4xhgm7ri@jpeg)
September 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Interesting notation ... works since the lambdas are traditional - i.e. are single argument forms.
Based on this anecdote involving Gauss and Abel, I'm taking the stand that Gauss is to be held responsible for pushing school kids away from mathematics.
September 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Based on this anecdote involving Gauss and Abel, I'm taking the stand that Gauss is to be held responsible for pushing school kids away from mathematics.
Needed to make changes to the js code output by pyret which sets some global variables by doing "somevarname = ...". That needed to be changed to "global.somevarname = ...". Then the hello-world arr worked.
September 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Needed to make changes to the js code output by pyret which sets some global variables by doing "somevarname = ...". That needed to be changed to "global.somevarname = ...". Then the hello-world arr worked.
fwiw ...
pyret --version gives v0.0.64
node --version gives v24.2.0
pyret --version gives v0.0.64
node --version gives v24.2.0
September 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
fwiw ...
pyret --version gives v0.0.64
node --version gives v24.2.0
pyret --version gives v0.0.64
node --version gives v24.2.0
Installed the npm package (on macos). The "ahoy" example in the cmdline docs (`pyret --help`) gives the error in the picture. The VSCode extension works though.
August 31, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Installed the npm package (on macos). The "ahoy" example in the cmdline docs (`pyret --help`) gives the error in the picture. The VSCode extension works though.
Okay! Here goes my first "protest" tee.
August 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Okay! Here goes my first "protest" tee.
August 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
