The Computational Appendix to yaksha.sg
Figure 1: Working through an English - Tamil dictionary. Photo by Antony Hyson Seltran on Unsplash Foreword This is the final term project I did towards the completion of my Master of Science in Analytics degree from Georgia Institute of Technology. Problem Statement 1 Whilst multi-lingual anglophone writers may easily find a large readership for their writing in English, they often find it hard…
Figure 1: Sanskrit verse even here: Sun rise at Angkor Wat. Photo by Sebastian Latorre on Unsplash Sanskrit: The Language I haven’t had a formal education in Sanskrit. But it is a liturgical language that I chant in every day, not just for Hindu slokas from the Gitā and the Vedas, but also for Buddhist sutras such as the Prajñaparamita Hrdaya Sūtra . A lot of Sanskrit words have made their way…
Figure 1: I am Time : A 19th century painting of Krishna in his viswarūpa . 1 Executive Summary You may have watched in the new Nolan movie, or read it the 2005 biography (Bird and Sherwin 2005) on which the movie is based, or indeed, or have read it in the original interview (Barnett 1949) with Life magazine. Or may be you’ve known it all along. Julius Robert Oppenheimer is famously said to have…
Figure 1: Kala Chakra 0. Foreword 20th Anniversary Edition (2023) This is a “20th anniversary edition” of a thesis I wrote in 2002 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP), as part of my mathematics minor in the National University of Singapore. This is also a word-for-word republishing of the thesis, but with updates to embed graphics and tables within the text. All errors…
Photo by Artturi Jalli on Unsplash Executive Summary At long last, we have finally re-launched a new blog at great expense. I’m writing this in Markdown in Visual Studio Code, but can choose to add in visualisations or AI results through code-chunks. I can even write mathematical equations such as this easily: (That’s the equation for the Mean Value Theorem, if you’re wondering) When I’m done, I…