[HN Gopher] C.R. Rao: A Life in Statistics (2020)
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       C.R. Rao: A Life in Statistics (2020)
        
       Author : akbarnama
       Score  : 131 points
       Date   : 2023-08-29 13:44 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | sundarurfriend wrote:
       | > This was because of the monetary denomination of the Indian
       | rupee at the time, where 16 Annas made a Rupee, 12 Kanis made an
       | Anna and 4 Dammidies made a Kani.
       | 
       | I had a vague idea about Annas and never knew about the other
       | two, but I realize have encountered shadows of all of these
       | growing up.
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       | My vague understanding of annas came from 25 paisa and 50 paisa
       | coins being a thing, and being called naalnnaa (4 annas) and
       | ettttnnaa (8 annas).
       | 
       | Kani I assume is kaanni, and finally I understand what
       | Bharathiyar was asking for when he asked "kaanni nilm veennttum"
       | ("my wish is for meagre land worth a mere Kani").
       | 
       | Dammidi must be tmptti, and survives mostly as an insult: "tmptti
       | perraatu" = "this thing is not even worth a Dammidi".
        
       | clircle wrote:
       | CR Rao just passed last week at age 102
        
         | sgaur wrote:
         | Always used to think about him while travelling on this
         | beautiful road in Hyderabad.
         | 
         | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Professor+CR+Rao+Rd,+Hyder...
         | 
         | One of the few times I've seen roads named after academicians
         | and scientists.
        
           | moelf wrote:
           | CERN campus in Geneva is full of roads named after
           | physicists: https://goo.gl/maps/t1x4MBXwXKE1mdGb9
           | 
           | but I guess those are more internal roads :P
        
           | fractalb wrote:
           | IIRC, the statistics department in the UoH is also named
           | after him.
           | 
           | edit: fixed typo
        
         | netvarun wrote:
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37237240
        
           | PartiallyTyped wrote:
           | @mods, could this get bumped?
        
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           | user_7832 wrote:
           | It would be great if Dang or a moderator or probably the
           | poster of this post could update the title to reflect that he
           | passed away a few days ago.
        
         | ketanmaheshwari wrote:
         | Amazing works and life! How I wish other mathematicians like
         | Ramanujan and Mirzakhani lived such a long life.
        
       | singhrac wrote:
       | Extremely humble in this statement. He was hugely influential in
       | statistics (Cramer-Rao lower bound, etc) and somewhat recently
       | his work was also quite relevant to RL, eg with Rao-
       | Blackwellization of gradient estimators.
        
         | PartiallyTyped wrote:
         | Also diffusion models [1,2].
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         | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rao%E2%80%93Blackwell_theorem
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         | [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11239
        
       | tbalsam wrote:
       | In my unbiased estimation, his work offered better than a minimum
       | variance of contributions to the field! <3 :')))) ;)))) ;')
        
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