“It’s a big job, but it’s not easy.” - Is this a problem? The way I understand this sentence is that: "It is a big job, and you might be excited about it, but it is not easy".
When talking to someone with whom we have a good rapport and good context, this conversation can be done faster.
Basically, I/O is slower than the CPU.
Some of the other sentences can also be explained in similar manner.
There are nice short videos which talks about racism and tries to make people less racist. Similarly in India it would be good to develop such short videos so that people can become sensitive on this topic of caste and become a better society.
I was also initially surprised when I heard about caste based discrimination in USA. There are few points which helped me in understanding:
1) Personally a person may not have seen or heard of sexual harassment incidents. It doesn't mean "sexual harassment" doesn't exist.
2) Even if a lower caste person is not being discriminated, but if the person is feeling "uncomfortable" about revealing his/her caste it means that there is something wrong in the society which needs to be fixed. (very much like racism)
As such USA does much better job of telling about racism, then India does about casteism.
However India did a superb job of asking Dr.Ambedkar to write the constitution, by which the upper caste will abide. I am not aware of any other society which has said, "we believe in equality and will allow someone who was discriminated to make the rules by which we all will live".
Allowing rabble-rousers to deliver 'talks' about caste discrimination is not going to change the hearts and minds of people who set store by caste affiliations. There will always be people who will be cagey about revealing aspects about themselves, including gay, queer, furries, upper-caste, lower-caste, nudists... the list goes on. People seem to take the aphorism 'bring your real self to work' a bit too literally. We all put a lid on certain aspects of our personalities at work, and endeavors to change that or eradicate that are highly misguided.
You pejoratively dismiss those who seek to bring attention to discrimination they experience as “rabble-rousers”. You then proceed to acknowledge that this is discrimination is very real (“we can’t change their hearts and minds!”).
You then mention caste with nudism in the same sentence as nudism, like that’s appropriate.
You then blame the victims of the aforementioned discrimination for ‘bringing their real selves to work,’ as if it’s somehow their fault they are being discriminated against.
I’ve heard horror stories from Indian friends in tech. When they start at a new company, upper-caste Indian managers and coworkers will persistently ask them seemingly innocuous questions like where they are from, where they went to school, what Neighbourhood of which city did you grow up in, are you vegetarian, are you vegetarian by choice or birth, what do your parents do, etc. There was an even an episode of planet money where a person who had been discriminated against describes a coworker patting them on the back in the area where Brahmins sometimes where a white thread.
Being born into a caste isn’t some “personality quirk,” and it’s exceedingly offensive to imply it is. Dalit peoples who face discrimination don’t have a choice in the matter, some will always see them as “untouchables” regardless of whether or not they disclose their caste openly.
Indeed the children introducing themselves in US with their caste is a thing to be highlighted from the article. Really feel bad about what we are teaching our kids. I am in India not in US, but did not expect this even in India today.
That part feels fake to me, not only due to all other kids being brahmin (which statistically from my experience as an Indian American feels very off), but most Indian Americans don't really care that much about caste, most know it but they don't know enough to be "proud" of it.
Thanks for this perspective on sexual harassment. It helped me realize that eventhough I have not seen it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I have never seen sexual harassment but am certain it exists.
I was thinking the problem is limited to India and will not get carried over to US or tech industry in India.
Was not expecting to see caste system in US too and was doubting if it was real. I had heard one story where adults in US were introducing themselves with caste. This story talks about even the kids are introducing with their caste. What are we teaching kids?
Every Indian should read this. It doesn't matter if you discriminate or not, the person suffering is not dealing with just you but lots of people. Even if a small percentage discriminate that is bad enough for that person to feel vulnerable for long time.
After reading the tutorial I was not sure why it was called backpropagation. Thanks for the Colah's blog link. I think the two links together explains the things beautifully. Backpropagation seems just like an optimization for the gradient descent calculation as per Colah's blog.
I have been thinking what is the best way to solve inequality. There are two problems one is wealth creation and other is wealth distribution.
- Communism doesn't do a good job of wealth creation.
- Capitalism doesn't do a good job of wealth distribution and causes inequality.
-Increasing the taxes, only gives money to the government and my impression is they are not efficient in using money so overall the wealth of the society doesn't increase.
If we limit how much a rich person can hold in large companies as stock, will it force the rich people to invest in small companies? Now we will have a mechanism of spreading the wealth by the rich person who knows how to use money efficiently. However the rich person will still become richer, not sure yet how to solve it completely. Maybe inheritance law should be changed so that once the person dies all his wealth goes to the employees in some fashion.
Chatgpt answers it correctly. abcdpqrs is perhaps not in the training set. If it is we can pick some othername.