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As I celebrate my birthday today, I have decided that for the rest of year, every day I share a song that I like. Music has helped in my lowest moments. Hope it helps others too!
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Agree that Hindi isn't India. But couldn't have picked worse example to make the point. Lata (not tha) Mangeshkar has 50000+ songs in 30+ Indian and non-Indian languages. In fact, her Tamil song Valai Osai low-key introduced Tamil words to crores of non-Tamil-speaking Indians.
Latha Mangeshkar sung predominantly in Hindi. She’s called ‘Nightingale of India’; and was awarded Bharat Ratna, in 2001.View quoted post on X
S.Janaki sung loads of songs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam; but she’s only ‘Nightingale of South India’; was awarded PadmaBhushan, in 2013, which she politely declined.
The pernicious notion that ‘Hindi is India,’ is hurting all of us a great deal. High time we woke up #SJanaki
You'll be surprised to know that that's a hike for biology PhDs in SF from whatever they were making during PhD/postdoc
$65k to help build the future of biology in san francisco
the first experiment is whether you can survive on thatView quoted post on X
Just to be clear, if we truly wanted to use the most resource intensive genAI to "cure cancer", we would need like 0.0001% of current volume of data centers for a couple thousand researchers, physicians, and others. This boom isn't for the betterment of humanity.
Musk's net worth is now >25% of the GDP of the most populous country on earth.