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William Carey landed on the Indian soil in the year 1793. He spent the remaining years of his life in India. He was a British missionary, a translator and a social reformer who is best known for having the practice of Sati abolished in India. https://t.co/kRiPwgjwcP
A supposed saviour of the Hindu women who were otherwise forced to immolate themselves on their dead husband's pyre, he is credited to having brought this inhuman practice to the notice of Government and championed to get it abolished.
This is the popular narrative. The truth is slightly different. Raja Ram Mohan Roy played an important role in getting Sati abolished. But even before that, it is important to know that Sati was never as widely practiced as William Carey made it out to be.
He was almost single-handedly responsible for grossly inflating the numbers of the number of women who became Sati annually. I have discussed this is depth in this thread.
While reading this thread by @VedicWisdom1 yesterday, I remembered reading something while I was doing my research on William Carey for the Sati thread. A little digging later some startling facts have come up.
We people don't have any idea how deep missionaries have infiltrated.
— Vedic Wisdom...\u0950 (@VedicWisdom1) December 17, 2020
While Exploring Sanskrit wikisource, I found this- Bible translated in Sanskrit and uploaded there.
Most Hindus don't know about this site, I myself found this a few days ago, But they are already there. pic.twitter.com/mzg5HPh468
A supposed saviour of the Hindu women who were otherwise forced to immolate themselves on their dead husband's pyre, he is credited to having brought this inhuman practice to the notice of Government and championed to get it abolished.
This is the popular narrative. The truth is slightly different. Raja Ram Mohan Roy played an important role in getting Sati abolished. But even before that, it is important to know that Sati was never as widely practiced as William Carey made it out to be.
He was almost single-handedly responsible for grossly inflating the numbers of the number of women who became Sati annually. I have discussed this is depth in this thread.
Continued from tbe the previous thread. Here is the linkhttps://t.co/TjeG9G3T0m
— Tanvangi (@Tanvangi17) July 16, 2020
Long thread. Please be patient.
While reading this thread by @VedicWisdom1 yesterday, I remembered reading something while I was doing my research on William Carey for the Sati thread. A little digging later some startling facts have come up.
Openly Socialist, leaders Are Working for China.
[THREAD]
Despite all the false claims from now socialist, formerly democrat, leaders that "Trump and his associates work for Russia" we keep finding more and more evidence that it is the former democrat, now openly socialist,
(1) leaders in the "former democrat party" whom actually work for our enemies China, and Russia.
Now a new report indicates that Jon Ossoff has been getting paid by China at least $5,000 U.S.D.
(2) Although he is getting paid more, we simply don't know exactly how much he is getting paid by China.
Despite Ossoff himself claiming he hasn't received any money from China, at least he was paid $5,000 U.S.D.
(3) BTW, we don't know exactly how much he received from China, as the question he answered was: "If this is your first report, or you are a candidate did you receive compensation of more than $5,000 from a single source in the two prior years?
"YES"
(4) Here is a list of the single sources that have paid Jon Ossoff more than $5,000 in the two prior years.
https://t.co/0ZQiEUStVE
[THREAD]
Despite all the false claims from now socialist, formerly democrat, leaders that "Trump and his associates work for Russia" we keep finding more and more evidence that it is the former democrat, now openly socialist,
(1) leaders in the "former democrat party" whom actually work for our enemies China, and Russia.
Now a new report indicates that Jon Ossoff has been getting paid by China at least $5,000 U.S.D.
(2) Although he is getting paid more, we simply don't know exactly how much he is getting paid by China.
Despite Ossoff himself claiming he hasn't received any money from China, at least he was paid $5,000 U.S.D.
(3) BTW, we don't know exactly how much he received from China, as the question he answered was: "If this is your first report, or you are a candidate did you receive compensation of more than $5,000 from a single source in the two prior years?
"YES"
(4) Here is a list of the single sources that have paid Jon Ossoff more than $5,000 in the two prior years.
https://t.co/0ZQiEUStVE
Inspired by @michellearning I will be sharing 10 robotics papers that I really enjoyed reading (made me think and raised my heart rate) when I was a grad student. One paper per day. Starting tonight, ending on xmas day. Here we go: 👇🤖 1/n
Note: this is not necessarily an exhaustive list of the best or most influential papers in robotics, nor is it a list of my current favorite papers. These are papers that I found compelling and I still enjoy re-reading from time to time. The order is random. 2/n
[Paper #1] LQR-Trees by Russ Tedrake https://t.co/nYDaHYJryk. I love this paper. It's about feedback control and motion planning with probabilistic guarantees. Given a desired goal state, sample an initial state and find a nominal trajectory from the initial state to the goal 3/n
using LQR control (linear dynamics, quadratic cost). So far, so good. Then it gets interesting: it sets out to explicitly compute the region of stability of the computed controller without doing sampling. It underestimates this region by trying to compute a Lyapunov function 4/n
that will certify stability in the region. It only considers Lyapunov functions that are polynomials of deg N and optimizes for a positive function using sums-of-squares programming. So, now you have a nominal trajectory to the goal and a region of stability around it. 5/n
Note: this is not necessarily an exhaustive list of the best or most influential papers in robotics, nor is it a list of my current favorite papers. These are papers that I found compelling and I still enjoy re-reading from time to time. The order is random. 2/n
[Paper #1] LQR-Trees by Russ Tedrake https://t.co/nYDaHYJryk. I love this paper. It's about feedback control and motion planning with probabilistic guarantees. Given a desired goal state, sample an initial state and find a nominal trajectory from the initial state to the goal 3/n
using LQR control (linear dynamics, quadratic cost). So far, so good. Then it gets interesting: it sets out to explicitly compute the region of stability of the computed controller without doing sampling. It underestimates this region by trying to compute a Lyapunov function 4/n
that will certify stability in the region. It only considers Lyapunov functions that are polynomials of deg N and optimizes for a positive function using sums-of-squares programming. So, now you have a nominal trajectory to the goal and a region of stability around it. 5/n
I've decided that I will not be spouting off an uninformed, kneejerk opinion on a topic I don't have enough information about. Instead I shall cast shame on the idiots who do, and bring further confusion to everyone.
We as a people have been defanged not only by being fed wheelbarrows full of raw unmitigated horseshit, but even the knowledge of where to go to find this information has been buried beneath obscuring layers of horseshit thicker than the planet's crust.
We do not live in a democracy, whose vital functions require a freeflow of information much like pure capitalism requires a completely informed consumer populace. We instead live in an oligopoly of knowledge, where important facts we need to know are denied to us and hoarded away
Much like how we do not live under true capitalism as knowledge we need to make informed decisions as consumers is locked away and hidden behind thicc layers of legal documents, denying us knowledge of our rights under the rules of commerce we allegedly agreed to.
This is how we are denied our rights. By denying us knowledge of our rights, and then by denying us pathways to seek said knowledge, and if not removing them then hiding them within websites hosted on fucking geocities servers and javascript written by lowest bidder.
What\u2019s your level of optimism on this election going to the Supreme Court
— Dr. Gulag inmate president elect 69420 (@ViewnComs) December 17, 2020
We as a people have been defanged not only by being fed wheelbarrows full of raw unmitigated horseshit, but even the knowledge of where to go to find this information has been buried beneath obscuring layers of horseshit thicker than the planet's crust.
We do not live in a democracy, whose vital functions require a freeflow of information much like pure capitalism requires a completely informed consumer populace. We instead live in an oligopoly of knowledge, where important facts we need to know are denied to us and hoarded away
Much like how we do not live under true capitalism as knowledge we need to make informed decisions as consumers is locked away and hidden behind thicc layers of legal documents, denying us knowledge of our rights under the rules of commerce we allegedly agreed to.
This is how we are denied our rights. By denying us knowledge of our rights, and then by denying us pathways to seek said knowledge, and if not removing them then hiding them within websites hosted on fucking geocities servers and javascript written by lowest bidder.
big louis winthorpe III energy
i almost feel bad for the guy, because someone this absolutely clueless about how he sounds really shouldn't be allowed to post under his own name.
he seems like someone who *genuinely* means well most of the time, but it extremely easy to excite and wind up, and who is just profoundly dense about the wisdom of getting wound up the way he does in public.
on the other hand, the tara reade business was indefensible, exploitative, and gross. if there is ever a writer who desperately needs an editor to save him from himself, it's nathan robinson.
i had a few friends in high school who were well-meaning, wealthier than they realized, and in drama class, and most of them grew out of their nathan robinson stage because, well, it was oklahoma. there's almost something a little charming about the fact that he didn't.
they're the cheapest classic car on the market https://t.co/imorvNSZcI
— Zoomcock Archivist \U0001f30b (@canderaid) December 17, 2020
i almost feel bad for the guy, because someone this absolutely clueless about how he sounds really shouldn't be allowed to post under his own name.
he seems like someone who *genuinely* means well most of the time, but it extremely easy to excite and wind up, and who is just profoundly dense about the wisdom of getting wound up the way he does in public.
on the other hand, the tara reade business was indefensible, exploitative, and gross. if there is ever a writer who desperately needs an editor to save him from himself, it's nathan robinson.
i had a few friends in high school who were well-meaning, wealthier than they realized, and in drama class, and most of them grew out of their nathan robinson stage because, well, it was oklahoma. there's almost something a little charming about the fact that he didn't.
