Musharraf Ali Farooqi
@microMAF
Author. Translator. Storyteller Founder @pakspellingbee @StorykitProgram, @UrduThesaurus, Library of Urdu Classics (http://urduclassics.com)
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I added Ḥāfiẓ, Saʿdī, Firdawsī, Rūmī, and Niẓāmī. Training set is now ~277k unique hemistichs. Accuracy improved. I'm hoping to publish the model soon (v0.2.0); the code and data are already on GitHub: github.com/theodore-s-bee…
On a lark, I trained (rather fine-tuned) my first model this week: Persian meter identification. It needs more data, but it works! All I gave it so far is the ~7k ghazals of Ṣāʾib, a badly skewed sample. Still, it's clear this is a solved problem.
A partner at a prominent law firm told me “AI is now doing work that used to be done by 1st to 3rd year associates. AI can generate a motion in an hour that might take an associate a week. And the work is better. Someone should tell the folks applying to law school right now.”
BREAKING | 🇲🇾 Malaysian PM: "We will not recognize any normalization with Israel. The silence of the Muslim regimes is shameful — Gaza is being slaughtered and they dine with the killers."
Americans will die before giving up their guns, romanticizing armed resistance against tyranny — yet demand Palestinians disarm under Israeli occupation for the genocide to end. That contradiction only makes sense if Jewish supremacy is the real constitution.
#Lahore. Indian Hornbill perched right next to the window.
Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold.
The strategy of slow murder by hunger was there from the very beginning — deaths calculated to be much worse than those caused by bombs or bullets because they deny martyrdom, the catalyst for resistance.
There is a direct line that runs through the European extermination of native populations in the Americas; the German extermination of communists, Jews and other groups in Europe; and the Zionist extermination of the Palestinians. They all form part of the same, continuous,…
Time to post more about the atrocities. These so-called “pauses” are designed to ease the pressure on the criminal regime. After 20 months of this, we’re not falling for it.
I welcome the major steps announced by the Israeli leadership and military to strengthen and upgrade the humanitarian response in Gaza — particularly the decision to implement humanitarian pauses to protect civilian lives and allow the safe delivery of aid. In coordination with…
Explore our curated collection of India’s greatest stories — because every region has a tale to tell. From the finest Urdu short fiction, compelling Tamil narratives, to the rich diversity of Punjabi stories, each volume offers a window into the soul of the region and its…
Westerners are strange. They find it easier to believe that ALL Germans were monsters 80 years ago, while things were being done to people that most were unaware of, than to understand that almost ALL Israelis today cheer on the Holocaust of the Palestinians, FULLY AWARE of it.
A mass killing of over 100,000 Palestinian children is now imminent in the Gaza Strip. According to the Government Media Office in Gaza, infants under the age of two, nearly half of them less than a year old, are facing death within days due to a total absence of infant formula…
I am starting to see establishment goons, Davos whores, insecure high-income slaves (IHIS), high ranking members of the International Association of Name Droppers, mildly cognitively impaired social climbers, and slow-thinking media influencers bemoaning the situation in #Gaza.
Israel loyalists don't need to be deceived. They know they're lying. We know they're lying. They know we know they're lying. And they lie anyway. Its their nature.
Israeli officials now admit: No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid No kidding. It's amazing how easy it is to deceive Israel loyalists. IDF releases a no-context video of 3 Palestinians eating, and they run around saying: see, Hamas steals the food! nytimes.com/2025/07/26/wor…
I'm not surprised by reports that there may be some imminent relaxation of the genocidal siege on the Gaza Strip. In a recent interview, I suggested that once Israel was confident famine conditions had reached the point of no return, it would allow the entry of goods and supplies…
Read this. Read it ten thousand times.
Today I saw the face of what we’ve become: and it was buried in trash. It was after the hospital. My hands still smelled of blood and iodine, as if I had just pulled death out of someone’s lungs. I stepped into the street not as a man walks, but as a shadow stumbles: worn,…
Today I saw the face of what we’ve become: and it was buried in trash. It was after the hospital. My hands still smelled of blood and iodine, as if I had just pulled death out of someone’s lungs. I stepped into the street not as a man walks, but as a shadow stumbles: worn,…
“What will a man achieve by becoming serious when he knows one day he will die with all his seriousness?” — Ibn-e-Safi Resharing my full-page piece from TNS last year on my favourite author, Ibn-e-Safi —an artist and visionary far ahead of his time. medium.com/manihammad/the…