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Boys will be boys | Learning to be Terse

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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Learning to be Terse. Boys will be boys. By Croor Singh on April 12, 2014. Mulayam Singh Yadav, once a possible candidate for the Prime Minister’s post, has basically said of rape. It was standard procedure until about a month ago. I have no doubt that there are doctors who haven’t got the memo. Is it surprising that men who’ve grown up in such a culture treat women like crap? Or talk flippantly about rape in political speeches? Fn1: I am not saying here that “he pro...

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I’ve got one finger for the two-finger test | Learning to be Terse

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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Learning to be Terse. I’ve got one finger for the two-finger test. By Croor Singh on October 8, 2014. In the wake of Mulayam Yadav’s ‘Boys will be Boys’ comments at an election rally in mid-April, about the two-finger test having been ruled illegal. This was in early-March. I feared that women would continue to get harassed by the medical establishment. It was standard procedure until about a month ago. I have no doubt that there are doctors who haven’t got the memo. The i...

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Some thoughts on living in India and Sri Lanka | Learning to be Terse

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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Learning to be Terse. Some thoughts on living in India and Sri Lanka. By Croor Singh on May 2, 2014. I started writing again on the blog about a month ago. Some thoughts on living in India and Sri Lanka. There is a Sri Lankan law (like 377 a relic from the colonial age) that prohibits “grossly indecent” behaviour, something that’s conveniently left undefined (again, just like 377’s language of “against nature”). Section of the IPC),. The mention of Sri Lanka comes from thi...

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What language does a deaf person think in? | Learning to be Terse

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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Learning to be Terse. What language does a deaf person think in? By Croor Singh on July 18, 2010. I’ve seen this cartoon posing a clever question from a bunch of people. It isn’t clever just because it’s funny. It is that too, but it should also make one think about language and thought in general. This would be a nice point to say something about Steven Pinker’s book,. In a chapter titled. A language developed by a totalitarian state that has no words for. Which, it turns...

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Net neutrality in India, or what Airtel will do next | Learning to be Terse

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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Learning to be Terse. Net neutrality in India, or what Airtel will do next. By Croor Singh on December 30, 2014. A fifth of the country now has regular access to the internet. Internet access is, therefore, no longer a vanity; it is what might be called a public utility (like electricity or water) and should be to be regulated as such. Would you be OK with having to pay more for using electricity to power your computer rather than a TV? Activists for net neutrality. Enter ...

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Rape isn’t rape | Learning to be Terse

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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Learning to be Terse. Rape isn’t rape. By Croor Singh on May 12, 2014. There are relics of colonial rule. We’ve just been given another glimpse of what may be to come. A Delhi court has ruled that a man cannot rape his wife. Lack of consent and the use of force be damned:. I know none of the particulars of the case, and the NDTV article does nothing at all to make anything clear (the woman met her husband in December 2013, but the marriage was solemnised in March 2013?

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Facebook feed algorithm | Kash's tech Blog

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Kash’s tech Blog. My growing tech horizon. December 17, 2011. The feed ranking seems to be based on two concepts – Importance of a post, Relevance to the person. Where k is some decaying constant which is multiplied to how long back the post was shared. C. S are different constants for likes/comments/shares. NumImpressions is the number of times the post has been shown on screen. Relevance/Friendship (X, Y) =. Other factors that could be considered. People who like everything. If the first few people who...

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Rhyming words using python | Kash's tech Blog

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Kash’s tech Blog. My growing tech horizon. Rhyming words using python. June 15, 2013. Here is some simple python code that uses NLTK. Libraries to find rhyming words of a given level. Def rhyme(inp, level):. Entries = nltk.corpus.cmudict.entries(). Syllables = [(word, syl) for word, syl in entries if word = inp]. For (word, syllable) in syllables:. Rhymes = [word for word, pron in entries if pron[-level:] = syllable[-level:]. Word = raw input(). Print rhyme(word, level). From → Uncategorized.

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The colour-perception wars | Learning to be Terse

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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Learning to be Terse. By Croor Singh on February 27, 2015. No, I don’t mean race. Although that does bring to mind Woody Allen’s quip that people will always find something to fight about (HT Meenakshi for this line). There’s this picture. Of a woman in a dress doing the rounds, and apparently starting huge arguments. People are freaking out, and what not. There’s a twist. If my explanation above is right, people who see white and gold unaided should continue to ...Notify ...

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Net neutrality nuance | Learning to be Terse

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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Learning to be Terse. By Croor Singh on April 17, 2015. Net neutrality should be inviolable. However, when Mark Zuckerberg says. 8220;Net neutrality is not in conflict with working to get more people connected. We will never prevent people accessing other services, and we will not use fast lanes,” I agree with his definition of net neutrality. Airtel stops a certain company from signing up for Airtel zero; Or. Airtel charges one company more per unit data than another; Or.