Re: [silk] Bangalore litfest

[Sharat Satyanarayana]

Will be there by noon.
There's a Sci-Fi session at 3pm

On Sat, 27 Oct 2018, 08:49 Deepak Misra,  wrote:

> Anyone there today ?
>
> Deepak
>

Re: [silk] The end of the teens

[Sharat Satyanarayana]

+1 from me as well!

On 24-Nov-2017 08:26, "Vinit Bhansali"  wrote:

> On 23 Nov 2017 10:13 p.m., "Ashwin Kumar"  wrote:
>
> +1
>
> ~ashwin
> 
> From: silklist  on
> behalf of Deepa Mohan 
> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2017 6:53:04 PM
> To: Intelligent Conversation
> Subject: Re: [silk] The end of the teens
>
> I am onetative, too, depending on the final date.
>
> I have not met many of you and would like to do so.
>
> The Inveterate Top-poster.
>
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Amitha Singh 
> wrote:
>
> > I'm in tentative + 1
> >
> > On 23 Nov 2017 6:32 pm, "Rajesh Mehar"  wrote:
> >
> > > Tentative +1 (attendance will depend on childcare options falling in
> > place
> > > for the date of the meetup)
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 18:26 Venkat  wrote:
> > >
> > > > +1 for 17th. I'm out on 15th and 16th.
> > > >
> > > > On 23/11/17 4:55 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > > > > +1
> > > > >
> > > > > On 23/11/17, 3:29 PM, "silklist on behalf of Biju Chacko"
> > > >  > > > biju.cha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >  On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Udhay Shankar N <
> > ud...@pobox.com
> > > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >  > Sounds good. I will be traveling from the 21st onwards, so
> > > > perhaps the
> > > > >  > previous weekend? Anytime between 15-17 Dec 2017. Show of
> > hands?
> > > > >
> > > > >  *raises hand*
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Venkat
>
>
> Yay, to 20 years.
>
> Surabhi and I will be happy to host the meet on the 15th (Friday) or 16th
> (Saturday) December at our home.
>
> - Vinit
>

Re: [silk] Silkmeet on June 29 - bangalore

[Sharat Satyanarayana]

Count me in. Looking forward to meeting some of you on the 29th.

Sharat
+919980996628

On 19-Jun-2017 05:03, "Suresh Ramasubramanian"  wrote:

> The 29th as the subject says - mostly the evening of the 29th
>
> --srs
>
> > On 19-Jun-2017, at 1:46 AM, Jayadevan P K  wrote:
> >
> > When is the meet? Would love to be part of it.
> >
> >
>
>

[silk] FoodFuture discussion gathering in Bangalore, Nov 15 (by FoodFutureCoLab)

[Sharat Satyanarayana]

Hello Silk listers,

An interesting gathering around the future of food is being planned in
Bangalore, on 15 November.
Put together by the http://foodfuturecolab.com/ program, a collaboration
amongst IDEO, MIT Media Lab & Target, the gathering will be a closed group
of invitees including food & agri entrepreneurs, food scientists, chef’s,
designers, food bloggers, food & agri investors etc. from in and around
Bangalore.

The event venue is being finalized and I will update interested folks.
Please write to me directly (at the earliest) if you would like to join
these discussions.

The event aims to reflect on the following questions (not limited to):

· We know less about what we eat today? – How do we bring in more
transparency? (Hand held spectrometer?)

· How do we create access to the next billion? How do we manage the
balance between the “stuffed Vs the starving”?

· How do we understand and trust what we eat? What are the startups
worldwide doing today in food (other than cooking and delivering)?

· What challenges and opportunities exist in food / food tech in
India?


Best,

Sharat

+919980996628

Re: [silk] Bangalore

[Sharat Satyanarayana]

A little later in the evening; will join for sure!

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:39 AM, WordPsmith  wrote:

> Works for me too!
>
> > On Jun 21, 2016, at 10:46, Udhay Shankar N  wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Vinit Bhansali  >
> > wrote:
> >
> > I'm in - both for meeting and hosting - Vittal Mallya Road area.
> >> Tuesday is the only day that works (have a family thing on Wednesday).
> >
> > ​June 28th at your place? I'm in.​
> >
> > ​Udhay​
> > --
> >
> > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
>
>

Re: [silk] Danese in Bangalore...time for a Meetup?

[Sharat Satyanarayana]

Am in as well.

Sharat
+919980996628
On 03-Mar-2016 14:03, "Thejaswi Udupa"  wrote:

> I'm in as well.
>

Re: [silk] On the Road

[Sharat Satyanarayana]

Bruce,

Loved visualising that road trip story. Photos along side would've been
awesome.
Hope the next unplanned road trip brings out more amazing stories. :)



Bruce wrote:
>>>
>>> >> Now I need to go find something constructive to post. I don't
> >> suppose anyone cares for a trip report of ... 8500 miles across
> >> America by car?
>
>>
>> The road trip, sure!
>>
>

[silk] The Morality of Artificial Intelligence and the Three Laws of Transhumanism

[Sharat Satyanarayana]

Happy new year everyone! May 2015 bring loads of love, happiness  success
for all of you. Have fun!

Here's 2015's first share:
Following Elon Musk's  Dr. Stephen Hawking's ominous predictions on the
presumed danger of AI/Singularity; another perspective.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5853596?ir=India

Re: [silk] An age old problem

[Sharat Satyanarayana]

Yet to read the entire article; but am reminded of Peter F Hamilton's take
on this, in his extended 'Commonwealth' universe,  the psychological after
effects seem more or less brushed under the complexity of the larger plot.
Memories are indexed in internal nacelles under the epidermal layer 
contextually referenced depending on the situation. Almost like your
personal GoogleAI avatar.
There are examples of variants with characters experimenting with
distributed ever lasting physical clones that share a common memory
repository (like an intranet of sorts).

I believe I would prefer to 'move on' to the newer physical experiences 
memories, only retaining contact with a few really close people from the
'past'.

Now, to read the full article.

- Sharat
On 29 Dec 2014 21:56, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:

 So I'm going to do something unusual. My usual habit with stuff I find
 interesting is to post it wholesale to silk, both for myself to find
 later and for the minds here to process and comment on. Here' I'm
 posting only the latter half of some speculation by Charles Stross, a
 more-than-usually-insightful one ( a large claim) - and a fascinating
 take on a not-uncommon SF trope.

 I recommend you read the entire thing. And I am eager for your thoughts on
 this.

 Udhay

 http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/11/symptoms-of-ageing.html

 Let us suppose that in the next couple of decades we develop a cure
 for the worst problems associated with senescence. We figure out how
 to reverse the cumulative damage to mitochondrial DNA, to reset the
 telomere end caps of stem cells without issuing carte blanche to every
 hopeful cancer in our bodies, to unravel the cumulative damage of
 prion proteins, to tame the cumulative inflammation that causes
 atherosclerosis, to fix the underlying mechanism behind metabolic
 syndrome (the cause of hypertension and type II diabetes).

 We now have a generation of 70 year olds who in 20 years time will be
 physiologically in their 40s, not their 90s. At worst, they're no
 longer in the steep decline of late old age: at best, they're ageing
 backwards to their first flush of adult fitness.

 You're one of them. You're 25-60 years old now. You're going to be
 55-90 years old by then. Unlike today's senior citizens, you don't
 ache whenever you get out of bed, you're physically fit, you don't
 have cancer or heart disease or diabetes or Alzheimer's, you aren't
 deaf or blind or suffering from anosmia or peripheral neuropathy or
 other sensory impairments, and you're physically able to enjoy your
 sex life. Big win all round.

 But your cognitive functioning is burdened by decades of memories to
 integrate, canalized by prior experiences, dominated by the complexity
 of long-term planning at the expense of real-time responsiveness.
 Every time you look around you are struck by intricate, esoteric
 cross-references to that which has gone before. Every politician,
 celebrity, actor, blogger, pop star, author ... you've seen someone
 like them previously, you know what they're going to say before they
 open their mouth. Every new policy or strategy has failure modes you
 recognize: that won't work is your usual response to change, not
 because you're a curmudgeonly pessimist but because you've been there
 before.

 Maybe you're going to make extensive use of lifeloggers or external
 prosthetic memory assistance devices—think of your own personal
 google, refreshing your memory whenever you ask the right question—or
 maybe you're going to float forward in time through a haze of
 forgetting, deliberately shedding old context to make room for fresh.
 Some folks try for rolling amnesia with a 40-70 year horizon behind
 them. You gradually lose contact with such people because they just
 don't want to know you any more. Others try to hang on to every
 experience, wallowing in the lush, intricate texture of an extended
 lifespan until their ability to respond is so impaired that they
 appear catatonic.

 Which are you going to be? And how will you cope with a century of
 memories contained in the undecaying flesh of indefinitely protracted
 adulthood?


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 ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] Bangalore silkmeet

[Sharat Satyanarayana]

Definitely in!

- Sharat
+919980996628
On 6 Aug 2014 19:56, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:

 A Bangalore silkmeet is proposed, following some discussion on the silklist
 facebook group (if any of you want to get in, let me know) on the 23rd
 August, at Cobalt on Church street.

 Show of hands?

 ​Udhay​

 --

 ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] have your reading habits changed?

[Sharat Satyanarayana]

This article (shared by Ingrid) covers significant aspects about e- vs
p-reading.

Here's my thought:
I have taken to e-reading to grab those moments of solitude, to
parallel-read numerous books on my phone. My consumption of titles/stored
articles has increased. But I am not really at peace while e-reading (maybe
it has something yo do with that progress bar).
However, the reason I would rather p-read is - I know the cliche- the cover
of the books  the 'feel/smell' of p-reading. A devourer of
science-fiction, I really enjoy taking reading breaks  digesting the
story-so-far by gazing into the cover of the book.

Sharat
+91 9980 996628
On 1 Jan 2014 12:17, Ingrid ingrid.srin...@gmail.com wrote:


  On 30-Dec-2013, at 10:39 am, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
 
  So I got myself a Kindle. And whether it is the novelty or the
  device-specific aspects (doesn't need ambient light, sufficiently
  booklike that one can read sprawled in bed, etc) - I have consumed 3
  books in 3 days, more than in the preceding 3 months.
 
  So - have you folks noticed your reading habits change with the means
  of reading? Is this a special case of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis [1]?
 
  Udhay
 
  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir_Whorf
 
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  ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
 

 Mohsin Hamid and Anna Holmes on e vs. p books:
 http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/books/review/how-do-e-books-change-the-reading-experience.html

Re: [silk] Book of 2013

[Sharat Satyanarayana]

Thanks! Nilanjana Roy's books seem very interesting...starting with The
Wildings :)


On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:

 On 19-Nov-13 6:48 PM, SK wrote:

  I am visiting India in Dec and would like to go back with a bag of great
  books by Indian authors (in English still) that are hard to find at the
  likes of Amazon. I am sure Silkers have a great list of books to
 recommend.
  Care to share?

 Nilanjana has a new book out:


 http://www.infibeam.com/Books/hundred-names-darkness-nilanjana-roy/978938224.html

 Udhay
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 ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))