I think that's very common in South Asian languages. Same goes for uncles and aunts. You just extend the family outwards and carry relations with as much fidelity as you can. So a lot of "brothers/sisters/uncles/aunts" are children of my aunt's (through marriage) brother, for example.
Edit: I bet there is a term/prefix for "direct" relationships in Tamil. In Telugu, for example, everyone is "anna" or "mama" but you can use prefixes like "mena-" i.e. "mena-mama" to imply it's a direct uncle. But you only use that distinction when you directly need to specify the relationship. You'd still call them or refer to them as "mama"
It gets even more complex when there are regional and family differences in the naming schema. For example, my cousins on my moms side and dads sides respectively use different words for some relations, and then they sometimes use an entirely different set of words with their other sides of the family. All in the same language, but based on background, dialect, etc. So my working knowledge of naming schema ends up being very, very large. Thankfully the relations they map to are standardized in the language so it's just word swapping.
Hinduism doesn’t have “karmic credit points” and this is a misconception. Karma is the output of the totality of your life and its measurement is cosmically obscured. You can, however, be granted awesome boons by the various deities for extreme selfless acts of devotion —- demons included.
The term is “cardio respiratory coupling”. Basically inspiration increases intrathoracic pressure which triggers the CV control mechanism to think BP is higher via the baroreflex and therefore lower HR. If you take an FFT/PSD of pulse waveforms you will actually see a distinct peak at the breathing frequency. This is how a lot of the finger sleep measurement devices work to track breathing without a chest strap.
The issue is agent v. merchant. Historically Expedia uses the merchant model (hood inventory, company as seller), and Booking used to prefer the agent model (no inventory, venue as seller). The former allows some advantage to what the company can offer but with added inventory risk, and means that the hotel doesn’t see you as “their” customer. With the agency model you do have recourse with the venue and will likely be a “normal” room to them. Unfortunately Booking is increasingly shifting towards the merchant model to find more profits.
It’s usually not the founders strong suit to grow talent, so they farm that out to other companies and hire the growers. That’s been my experience. Where it misses is that most other companies or managers can’t actually nurture talent.
They also exist so that infra/hardware is developed to support them specifically. The more people that use each, the more pressure exists for 3p infra/hw to build around them in pursuit of $$.
Google Contributor did that. Didn’t work. It never could amass a critical mass of major publishers to entice audiences, and the per-page fees for an ad free experience were too high when you look at consumption habits.
I agree with all your points. CVX made it so that students like me spent more time learning the material and techniques and less time worrying about implementation. Great work!
I had the pleasure of taking this course with Prof. Boyd when he did a semester at MIT and it really was excellent. With a basic understanding of linear algebra and proofs it opened my eyes to so many techniques and ways to look at problems. It also lowered my fear of tackling more complex coursework because it motivated my interest. The only downside is that I became far too over reliant on the MATLAB package they made to pair with the course, so trying to implement some of the techniques later on from scratch took some doing.
Fun fact about wiping the headset down —- there’s a study at Yale to determine whether the Oculus mask can be sufficiently sanitized for safe use in pediatric cancer wings (a high bar) because of it’s form factor and immersive experience. Turns out it absolutely cannot. Sanitizing that mask is practically impossible.
That’s not entirely true. Pancreatitis, especially necrotizing pancreatitis, actually causes the broad systemic organ dysfunction. So even alcoholics with fine organs can end up with liver, lung, heart, kidney, etc complications from a severe bout of pancreatitis. Even basic things like fluid balance and endocrine function can be thrown way off by both the disease and treatment (large amounts of fluid resuscitation). I recently had severe bouts of non-alcoholic pancreatitis, the worst of which ended in a 3 month hospital stay with various periods on ventilators and various organ dysfunction. My imaging and bloodwork from 3 weeks prior were clean (I do them routinely since the pancreatitis is recurring).
The risk of pancreatitis is also increased substantially [0]. And for people who may already be predisposed to pancreatitis but haven’t had an attack, severe pancreatitis has a 10-30% mortality rate [1]. But even mild acute pancreatitis will make you want to crawl out of your own skin in pain.
Never trust a fart on orlistat. The horror stories I’ve read of people soiling themselves after eating seemingly normal meals is nuts. On par with Olestra/Haribo sugar-free stories. Also it makes absorbing fat soluble vitamins a huge issue.
Also Damson Idris, Daniel Kaluuya (though somewhat known), Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield, Daniel Day Lewis, Chiwetel Ejiofor… Actually the list is very long if you keep going
I’ve lived in the northeastern US my whole life, and the number of people I know who don’t bother with snow tires and run “all-seasons” is shockingly high. The fact that a FWD or RWD car on winter tires is usually easier to drive in snow than an AWD with all-seasons is lost on them.
Google subsidized billions per annum to Apple and Mozilla to fund browsers and be the default search engine. So the open web is subsidized by ads. Nobody is willing to fund the alternative.
You won’t pay enough for it to make sense to support. That’s the harsh reality. Every single ‘altruistic’ browser has ended up on the dole of adtech because consumers will not pay even $0.01/pageview and publishers believe they’re worth $0.10-$1.00 per PV. I worked with an amazing founding team at Google and launched this [0] across many sites across the internet. People able to pay enough to fund the open web don’t, and people willing to pay realize that it gets pricey, fast.
Kodi kura was the exact example that popped into my mind. Kura is a cognate/derivative from some Dravidian root similar to Kari/Curry (I believe Malayalam and Tamil use the kari form)