January 2019
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BrownCast Episode 11: Indian Numismatics with Mohit Kapoor
Zack talks to the numismatist Mohit Kapoor about the history of coinage in India: the earliest coins, Roman trade, Iranian influence, what makes a coin Indian, what coins reveal about…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 29 January 2019, listing the posts published since the previous week’s thread and noting that the blog averages about two posts a day.
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Various Asiatic raps
I was watching some Mongol rap: Then I wondered…found some stuff. Thoughts?
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(Machine) Learning Biases
Cross-posted from Ali Minai’s blog, this argues that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is wrong to say facial recognition errors show human bias being automated. Minai holds that machine-learning systems misclassify gender because…
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‘In the milk of OBCs and Dalits, Muslims have added sugar’
Prompted by a Dalit-Muslim political tie-up in Aurangabad, the author compares Jinnah with Ambedkar, setting out nine points of contrast. He argues that Jinnah won the tactical battle but lost…
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Why doesn’t Arundhati Roy move to Pakistan?
The author asks why Arundhati Roy, so eloquent on India’s caste hierarchy, says nothing about Pakistan’s treatment of its minorities. His short answer is that Indians have privilege and Pakistanis…
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the British “created” India according to this Coloniser
Angered by a line in a book on German history comparing Rome in Germany to the British in India, the author argues that India had an intrinsic geographic identity since…
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Brown Pundits BrownCast episode 10, with Josiah Neeley
Razib Khan talks to the policy analyst Josiah Neeley about being a Trump-friendly intellectual on the American Right. They cover whether Trump support makes one racist, handling new geopolitical realities…
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Watching Shtisel.. (and Turkish TV)
The author welcomes the availability of foreign series on Netflix, discussing the Israeli drama Shtisel and the Turkish series Yunus Emre and Ertugrul. He argues that Turkish productions have high…
