Priyatam Mudivarti

artist, poet, advaiti, software craftsman

[Emma Garman @emmagarman]

In the mid-20th century, Kamala Markandaya was the best-known Indian novelist in the Anglophone world. But the brilliance of her 7th book, a tragedy of racism and alienation in 1960s London, went unappreciated--this month's #FeminizeYourCanon @parisreview https://t.co/LTSa5Tatl1

[Hilary Mason @hmason]

When you want to use a new algorithm that you don't deeply understand, the best approach is to implement it yourself to learn how it works, and then use a library to benefit from robust code.

Here's one article showing this with neural networks in Python: https://t.co/3ehO86NFKI

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“Wassily Kandinsky has long been widely regarded as the forefather of abstraction, but as the shows of af Klint’s work clearly establish, her abstract paintings predate his by several years.” https://t.co/DRecLrFcpV

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

What Mr. Bezos has done today is not only enormously important for Amazon’s hundreds of thousands of employees, it could well be a shot heard around the world. I urge corporate leaders around the country to follow Mr. Bezos' lead.

[Underware @underware]

Yes! A font with real animated calligraphic brush strokes, infinite high resolution, no stop motion frames, just pure perfectly controlled curved High Order Interpolation. And still a font, not a movie. Meet Bello Write! (as seen last week during our lecture 'Hi HOI' at @ATypI)

[Bret Victor @worrydream]

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." -- CS Lewis on assigning CS students to implement Xanadu instead of some compiler or database or whatever

[Literary Hub @lithub]

"These women unearth humanity in a way that is totally their own and that’s what make these stories so brilliant, and beautiful, and painful, and above all else worthy."

https://t.co/Ezp7WDAKdj

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Outside a Deana Lawson portrait you might be working three jobs, just keeping your head above water, struggling. But inside her frame you are beautiful, imperious, unbroken, unfallen: https://t.co/vad6KexG9B

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“An artist should stay for long periods of time looking at the stars in the night sky.”

Marina Abramović’s rules of art, life, solitude, and silence https://t.co/bpHgobw7oV

[Wikimedia Foundation @Wikimedia]

Wikipedia is run by living, breathing humans who volunteer their time every day to add, curate, and maintain the world's largest encyclopedia. https://t.co/jpCfzrVqJM

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“I learn as much from painters about how to write as from writers.” —Ernest Hemingway https://t.co/Wj5OLWhlgO

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Gandhi was assassinated 70 years ago today. His forgotten correspondence with Tolstoy about love, violence, and why we hurt each other: https://t.co/Yib02DbA34

[Darshan Shankar @DShankar]

I still believe @GoogleEarth VR is the most incredible VR experience right now.

Every minute I spend in there is deeply impactful.

With Google Earth VR, I’m not using VR to escape the world…I’m exploring it.

[Hayden Barsotti @HaydenBarsotti]

Required watching for AR/VR devs.

Our understanding of human consciousness will have huge ramifications for how we design the next realities. I'd posit the "killer apps" will use these lessons best.

https://t.co/ouNsHU5qdl @anilseth

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“Literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.”

Ursula K. Le Guin, sorely missed sherpa of literature and life: https://t.co/ih70LyF3Xh

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“I don’t know why I write when I do or why I’m silent.” —Henri Cole https://t.co/7VqRz71SD9

[Datomic @datomic_team]

#Datomic Cloud is now available https://t.co/VMi0CfnqNz

[R 'Nearest' Nabors (they/them) @rachelnabors]

Making The Transition From After Effects To CSS Transitions And Keyframes https://t.co/2U2NwGhPWN

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“It’s dangerous not to let things age, and if something is really good, you should put it away for a month.” —James Salter https://t.co/uojx20lXT7