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kalamaya··on Why is there ancient Greek text on Afghan banknotes?
Pashtun primarily (I think > 80%?), although we have a mix of Haraza, some Nuristani, Turkmen, etc in our bloodlines. The Hazara mix comes primarily from the maternal sides though.
kalamaya··on Why is there ancient Greek text on Afghan banknotes?
Afghan here.

When I was a kid, my dad would tell me about our clan's origin story.

Basically, as Pashtuns (and some other ethnicities mixed in there), we trace our origins to Ancient Greece, and not just that, but as descendants of great greek conquerors who came and eventually settled on that land. Our origin story is all oral, (since my dad told me, and his dad told him, etc etc down the generations), so I am not sure how to corroborate them, but various things of the Afghan culture are linked to practices from Greece, etc.

I remember listening to his stories as a kid and not really caring, but now that I am older, they are really quite interesting!

kalamaya··on PyTorch – Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python
I'm intrigued by pyTorch but I am really having a hard time groking what you mean by the whole "but that really doesn't extend well to any dynamic graph structure such as recursive tree structure creation. Since the computation graph has a different shape and size for every input they are difficult to batch and any pre-defined static graph is likely excessive, wasting computation, or inexpressive."

Would you mind providing a concrete example to relate to if you dont mind? Again, intrigued by PT so want to learn more about it vs TF...