Shibaprasad Bhattacharya @shibaprasad@qoto.org
Math, Stats, and Data nerd. Football aficionado. An ordinary man.
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Fellow #mastindians , what are your favourite Podcasts? Specially made in or about India?
My two favorites:
1. The seen and the unseen
2. Puliyabazi
I also like 3 things by the Indian Express. But they're just news bites.
Suggest me some! The topics can be anything.
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My new social media app is called Grouse. You can only post criticism of the 3,000 other new social media apps.
Posts are called “Gripes.” No likes or reposts—just one button to “Commiserate.” If a Gripe receives enough Commiseration it’s elevated by the algorithm into a “Complaint.”
Also there’s an academic version called “Faculty Meeting.”
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Isn’t it covered by the MSM? Of course, with each taking sides. First it was the finger pointing between Mamata’s camp v/s the CPI. And now it’s Mamata’s camp and the BJP lashing out at each other.
A state and people with such potential. Unfortunate that the brilliant ones have to move to better pastures (other states in India or abroad).
/Coming from someone who has worked in Kol for close to 5 years and has had friends from W. Bengal for the last 20 years or so - though we hardly talk politics.
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Haha. This whole thread sumes up the frustration when a regular #rstats user starts using/uses #python .
She couldn't have done a better job in summarising the irritation & sorrow.
Also, that reminds me, I need to convert some ggplot code to seaborn/matplotlib today. Ugh!!!
@djnavarro https://fosstodon.org/@djnavarro/110676504187300234
Polls, violence and West Bengal
I don't think this gets covered enough in the mainstream media. But the bloodbath during polls in #westbengal is concerning. And it will happen again, today.
Don't know if we need a top down change or a bottms up change, but this just pains me to see my state in this condition.
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Mixed the morning run today. 500m run + 500m walk.
Often it feels good to shake things up.
Check out my activity on Strava: https://strava.app.link/Vpfx18J0fBb
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And the 2 months+ "unrest" in Manipur brings into focus... what could it be, I wonder?
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"I think the situation in Manipur is improving day by day and I am of the view that in the next one week or 10 days, more improvement will take place" —July 1, 2023.
In the "next week".
Hope the coming week fares better for the sake of the State and the country.
Loving the #trunksapp so far. The UI is so clean and quite different from other Mastodon clients I have used.
But having one issue, none of the notifications are being shown. And when clicking on Push Notification, it is showing error. Is this a known issue?
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Mastodon went from 1.2M active users last week to 1.8M active users this week. That's not 70M users overnight, but it's something! 🙂
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Stop staying you can't put R in prod. 
I made a blog post with my thoughts and reactions.
https://josiahparry.com/posts/2023-07-06-r-is-still-fast.html
Happy Birthday Ringo Starr! You beautiful human being!
I mostly spend ~ 10 mins nowadays on #twitter.
The main purpose is to follow the sports teams and some official news channels.
If #threads can replace that, that would be quite good. For some reason, people there have been quite welcoming so far. I guess that's the effect of de-anonymization?
Anyways, can see some cringe contents too! Expected when you're the "sister" of #instagram
I have this strong pavlovian urge to order ice cream on every Friday. And then end up hating myself for that.
Happened again, today. 🫤
@trunksapp seems really cool!
Don't know if the notification feature works properly or not, otherwise quite good!
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Welcome 🤗 to new users from #twitter.
Check out #trunksapp (@trunksapp) for a cross platform app, website, and desktop experience that is focused on content discovery.
See links in the quoted post. (Yes, trunks has quote toots!)
Math, Stats, and Data nerd. Football aficionado. An ordinary man.
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Follow my newsletter related to Data & Analytics:
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Joined Nov 2019
