Jai Luthra
Jai Luthra
Jai Luthra
Hi, I am Jai Luthra. Welcome to my little corner of the internet. My interests revolve around tech, music and philosophy.
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The most common picture of God goes something like this: before the universe existed, there was nothing. Then God, existing somehow outside of nothing, decided to make something. The universe is his handiwork. He is the potter. We are...
The following is an excerpt from Guru Granth Sahib Ang. 152-153 (Raag Dakhni Gauri): पउणै पाणी अगनी का मेलु The body is a meeting of air, water, and fire. A compound. Borrowed from elements, held briefly, returned. It is not what you...
(or the physics of Non-locality & Non-duality) Let’s start with something we think we understand: light. That’s where we left off in our last article about Light, Space and Time. You know from high school that light behaves like a wave....
(or the physics of Duality & Causality) From high-school physics we know that Light is special. It travels through space and time at an insanely high speed (~300 million meters per second). Unlike sound, it is a wave that can propagate...
Do numbers exist? I can count three mangoes, or four pebbles. They’re right there, I can pick them up, I can touch them with my hands. But where is this number called 3 or 4? Well, you might say that the mangoes may rot and the pebbles...
If you will allow me, I want to show you something simple and strange: that only one thing can ever be proven to exist. You might laugh at this. Look around, you say. The world is overflowing. Branches trembling in the wind, rivers...
Here is a close-up photo of a flower taken using an iPhone 13: The smudginess in the out-of-focus areas—especially the stem and the base of the flower—is very jarring to look at. Recently, whenever I’ve tried to take an image with even a...
I’ve often been confused when reading religious or spiritual texts that talk about Truth (with a capital T). What do they mean by it, and why the strange capitalization? The confusion usually arises because what these texts are pointing...
I have been pondering this question for a long time, and I’m sure many others before me have too. Often, when I’m stuck on a problem or going through a particularly mundane phase of life where nothing seems interesting, suddenly there is...
(or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Power) Throughout high school, and later during undergrad, I struggled with finding motivation to work. It was weird because before high school I had it easy, at least academically. I was...
Why do I sometimes fear the judgement of others? Why does anybody fear judgement of their peers or society? I think the fear of judgement in me stems only when I know that deep down, my actions were not perfect and did not meet my own...
I have a tendency to fall into repetitive patterns of thought. They possess me and make me hopeless, agitated and resentful. But these thought loops are not permanent. They only last for as long as I am giving them my attention. During...
A shitty analogy of the current CAA debate is the mankad in cricket. It’s not against the rules, but against the spirit of the game. Mankading, named after Vinoo Mankad for doing it a couple of times, is the dismissal of an unsuspecting...
This post has been adapted from a university project to understand and simulate the findings of [1] Preamble The evolution of a dynamical system is mathematically modeled as differential equations. Properties of the system like position...
I am a heavy user of VLC media player, and I was a bit disappointed to find out that VLC is unable to utilize my NVIDIA card to its fullest for hardware accelerated video decoding. VLC supports hwaccel on NVIDIA cards through VDPAU,...