Srikumar K. S.
Met 2023-02-14 09:00 at Taj Connemara, Binny Road, Anna Salai, Chennai, Chennai, India.Kumar and I met 12 years ago in Singapore through our dear friend Pete Kellock.
The new translation of the Kural: translating poetry is hard.
Kumar created a popular system of Carnatic music notation.
He explained the difference between Hindustani and Carnatic music.
His PhD was a study in human musicology.
Neither of us can let music be in the background.
It’s almost a crime to not be vocal about politics these days. South India resisted colonization.
A date is not actually a time but a place, since dates are what we call our position in orbit around the sun. But Earth never comes back to the same spot, so it’s not exact.
He explained quantum computing - something he’s working with now.
Scheme/Lisp, Functional programming, Quantum mechanics: these things change the way you think forever.
Look into Julia because of multiple dispatch. Julia’s libraries work together amazingly well.