…and on that obsidian site you can see some of my notes. I curate my notes and then publish as part of my revision of a topic so I’m always a little bit ahead of what’s on the site but it’s directionally correct.
I am a bit of a weirdo so my approach may not work, but for me, history, conceptual focus, and time are key.
I like reading original texts because they furnish the original logical arguments of the thinkers, which are still in many cases the best explanations. From there, viewing a modern axiomatic presentation further cements the ideas.
Time is also essential. I have to be comfortable with the fact that it might take me several weeks just to get comfortable with a single concept, so getting through a full work takes time.
Finally, I feel like mathematics and literature are equally hermeneutical—the parts inform the whole and vice versa, only, in the case of mathematics, these interactions and clarifications happen across the entire wide discipline, rather than within a single work. The more you wade out and explore, the more many other ideas become clearer as you can start to see them in a new light.
More practically, getting a firm grasp on set theory and predicate logic is essential imo. This is partly because I prefer axiomatic presentations—I simply do not do well dealing with a theory that doesn't begin at the ground floor (for example, many practitioners of calculus don't give a hoot about the logical soundness of its set-theoretic foundations and are comfortable working with it in a strictly operational sense, I however have a deep need for getting these foundations first, which is basically just a limitation on my part and probably why I was never good at math in school, where the presentations are strictly operational—I love the conceptual beauty of mathematics but I despise calculation!)
Theoretically, if someone defaces a government website like that, could the punishment be harsher than any other random website? Hope people were wearing protection.
The cited book has no information on how the surveys themselves were conducted. The book is an overall romanticization of pre-colonial india, and frequently indulges in nostalgia.
The following books have a good overview of education&caste in india.
> The cited book has no information on how the surveys themselves were conducted.
These are not surveys. These are actual full data from the erstwhile British Administration’s revenue records with the data collected by each Provincial head and the District administration revenue collectors and officials at that time. The modus operandi of the data collection is also detailed in the book.
caste system in india is an evil that persists even today, and is a complex topic.
majority of the indian-origin users on hackernews or people in the IT community are very likely upper castes. see [1]
If you are interested to learn more about the caste system in india it is recommended to get your facts from multiple sources. start from [2]
Unfortunately, India's poorest still don't get govt benefits due for them: A few gobble up all the caste-based reservation from the govt. I have seen many people who have made a career out of talking about caste all the time.
I know more than 3 people in the US, who talk about caste all the time (as in that's their job now) but grew up in very privileged families.
Many Indians who talk about caste all the time, do it in ways that aren't immediately obvious. "What part of India are you from?" and "What's your surname?" are not just innocent questions.
I just played around with the fan curves. The Noctua fans are pretty damn silent below a certain speed (especially with GPU fan noise usually being louder). So I tried to keep them running faster than necessary at lower speeds and only ramp up a little bit when the temps go up, except at 80-85 or so degrees at which point I ramp up much faster until they're basically at max at 95 degrees. The CPU never really seems to hit those temperatures, as the NH-D15 is an over-sized cooler even for that chip.
Most of the work is in stress testing the CPU to see what you can get away with without thermal throttling. Also helps to do this in the summer if you're in a no-air-conditioning-by-default country.
this is livecoding 3d voxel to solve puzzles. the demo was fun. looks like it'll be released soon.