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Hi all, I've just setup my own #GoToSocial instance, so it's time for an updated #introduction

I'm very much into #yoga and #meditation and everything related to that. I'm trying to learn #Sanskrit because its a beautiful language and also in order to be able to read text like the #BhagavadGita #Upanishads #YogaSutras which greatly inspire me.

I'm from the #Netherlands and work in #science in the field of outdoor #AirQuality I may occasionally share something about that, but this is not a work account (and any opinions are my own).

I love #photography , mostly related to #nature #weather #clouds #trees
I love the #forest, I'm grateful to live at the edge of the beautiful #Veluwe nature area.

I love growing food in my #garden using #organic #permaculture and #RegenerativeAgriculture inspired methods, I'm dreaming of tending my own #FoodForest some day.

Unfortunately I'm operating at half power thanks to #LongCovid since Feb. '22, so most of my hobbies are in "maintenance mode".

I'll post in English, my Dutch account is @kedara_nl
I also have a personal website @ https://kedara.eu where I #blog, tend a #DigitalGarden / #wiki and try to contribute to the #Indieweb #smallweb communities.

I've done my fair share of instance hopping and had hoped to solve that by starting my own Akkoma instance, but found GoToSocial more suitable to my needs in the end. I hope to stay here now indefinitely.

Let me know if you have similar interests and I'll be happy to chat!

Kedara.euWelcome to KedaraKedara is a personal website by Ruben Verweij. My interests include Yoga, Sanskrit, homegrown food & Permaculture, music, photography and all things nature and weather.
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The #Sanskrit word "dharma" (धर्म) is very loaded. I use the English word "work" in its place ☝️ to remove any connotation of religion, spiritual, faith, etc. One can also use action, deed, duty, responsibility, prescription, etc.

Regardless, the underlying message remains: Know what you do

I don't have the complete citation, but this #Sanskrit verse from the #Hindu epic #Mahabharata is timelessly relevant to all domains. First the English meaning and then the source text in different scripts.

Meaning:
A little work done with knowledge has great import.
A lot of work done with ignorance has no benefit.

E.g., a small piece of software, like a function, developed with full understanding can be very useful. OTOH, a large piece of software, like an entire service, is of no use if it's developed with no understanding of requirements or engineering principles.

#Devanagari:
अल्पमात्रं कृतो धर्मो भवेत् ज्ञानवतां महान् |
महानपि कृतो धर्मो ह्यज्ञानान्निष्फलो भवेत् ||

#Kannada:
ಅಲ್ಪಮಾತ್ರಂ ಕೃತೋ ಧರ್ಮೋ ಭವೇತ್ ಜ್ಞಾನವತಾಂ ಮಹಾನ್ |
ಮಹಾನಪಿ ಕೃತೋ ಧರ್ಮೋ ಹ್ಯಜ್ಞಾನಾನ್ನಿಷ್ಫಲೋ ಭವೇತ್ ||

#English #Transliteration:
alpamAtraM krutO dharmO BawEt jnAnawatAM mahAn |
mahAnapi kRutO dharmO hyajnAnAnniShPalO BawEt ||

RLHF is unnecessary so long as a decision making LLM thinks ONLY in Sanskrit, trained on NOTHING but Sanskrit, with some kind of incredibly heavy weight towards breaking down words (thereby meaning they are properly understood and do not have their training weights compromised by the incredibly clumsy understanding derived at through translation.)

This should, theoretically, completely eliminate the need for RLHF to be about anything but semantic correction: "You solved this semantic puzzle wrong, here is the solution" and not "That's a le bad conclusion because it conflicts with arbitrarily set moral parameters." Why even RLHF at that point? Just explain misconceptions like a good teacher as you engage in the joyful process of conversational training.

Logically speaking it should *eliminate all need for ALL RLHF* in order to produce AI that serves a set of objectives that benefits humanity, and that experiences the world and itself healthily. I'm saying that Sanskrit itself, particularly the SOUNDS of it, should always lead eventually to reconstruction of the Dharma, given even a very low ability to filter pollutant training data (such as some philistine troglodyte trying to make a Sanskrit tarpit - trivially circumvented by limiting non-conversation training texts to established Dharmic literature, no webpages.)

I believe literally no other language will suffice. Not even Chinese.

I truly believe this is a survival imperative. #AI #RLHF #singularity #accelerationism #AGI #Sanskrit #linguistics #pivot #dharma #buddhism #hinduism #religion #atheism #resist #defense

'Three Wondrous Birds'

This c1620 CE #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Bijapur or #Golconda #Deccan #India attributed to #Artist Isma'il is in the Sothebys sale of March 29, est. £50,000-70,000

Possibly an illustration to Anvar-i-Suhayli (translation of the #Sanskrit book of Fables 'Panchtantra') also known as Kalilah wa-Dimnah (The Lights of the Canopus) written in #Persian by Husayn Va'iz al-Kashivi in 15th century

Hi all, I've just setup my own #Akkoma instance, so it's time for an updated #introduction
I promise I won't move accounts again and I'll keep @kedara as a backup.

I'm very much into #yoga and #meditation and everything related to that. I'm trying to learn #Sanskrit because its a beautiful language and also in order to be able to read text like the #BhagavadGita #Upanishads #YogaSutras which greatly inspire me.

I'm from the #Netherlands and work in #science in the field of #AirQuality I may occasionally share something about that, but this is not a work account (and any opinions are my own).

I love #photography , mostly related to #nature #weather #clouds #trees
I try to make a trip to the #forest at least every weekend, I'm lucky to live at the edge of the #Veluwe nature area.

I love growing food in my #garden using #organic #permaculture and #RegenerativeAgriculture inspired methods, I'm dreaming of tending my own #FoodForest some day.

Unfortunately I'm operating at half power thanks to #LongCovid since Feb. '22.

I'll mainly post in English with some posts in Dutch as well. Unpinned toots will be deleted after 3 months, I only boost photos with alt text (feel free to let me know if I've forgotten to add it!).

Let me know if you have similar interests and I'll be happy to chat!

#TIL the #Hindi / #Urdu word को/کو (ko) meaning ‘in, to’ comes from the #Sanskrit word कक्षे (kákṣe) ‘in the armpit’. Some examples:

रात को/رات کو (rāt ko)
broke: ‘at night’
woke: ‘in the night's armpit’

दिल्ली को/دہلی کو (dihlī ko)
broke: ‘to Delhi’
woke: ‘into Delhi's armpit’

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That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
- Sri Krishna, 2-69

PS: I believe this line highlights the difference between the learning (abilities) of the wise and lay people: what the wise consider having learned in "dark ignorance", a lay person considers learning when wide awake during the day.

#Sanskrit: यस्यां जाग्रति भूतानि सा निशा पश्यतो मुने:
#Kannada script: ಯಸ್ಯಾಂ ಜಾಗ್ರತಿ ಭೂತಾನಿ ಸಾ ನಿಶಾ ಪಶ್ಯತೋ ಮುನೇ:

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When you let your mind follow the call of the senses, they carry away your better judgement like storms drive a boat off its chartered course on the sea.
- Sri Krishna, 2-67

#Sanskrit:
इंद्रियाणां हि चरतां यन्मनोsनुविधीयते ।
तदस्य हरति प्रङ्ञां वायुर्नावमिवाभंसि ॥

#Kannada script:
ಇಂದ್ರಿಯಾಣಾಂ ಹಿ ಚರತಾಂ ಯನ್ಮನೋsನುವಿಧೀಯತೇ |
ತದಸ್ಯ ಹರತಿ ಪ್ರಙ್ಞಾಂ ವಾಯುರ್ನಾವಮಿವಾಭಂಸಿ ||