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old stories to learn from

This December, everyone from our family( By family i mean my great grandfather's, all the sons and daughters,who in turn with their sons and daughters, and who again in turn with their sons and daughters, and for some of them who have, in turn with their sons ! ) was invited to Bombay for rashmi didi's marriage and then everyone came to Nagpur for nhana dadaji's 75th birthday.It was a grand function. As is the case with these functions we all gathered a night before, to talk talk and talk.Everyone had so much to say and so many people to talk with.Especially i, living away from my family for 6 years of studies, was too overwhelmed to meet everyone. So ya,we talked and i felt very lucky to be able to hear stories of past from my grandfathers and ter sisters, who all have the following in common- too many stories to share and too good a way of telling them. Some of them i mention here, others are fr me to know. Subhadra dadiji told this one- "When we were young ,say abou

parallel universes and Dreams

how we move from one universe to another. transfering energy in fact accounting for the energy we are held responsible to . so logically steps are followed.. now in dreams no logic we see a random parallel universe. something related to these points. will think and write

Saturation!

technology dependent on database. larger the data, more the experience more the information more is the technology.. so far so good ...but in future will this excess information...all-things-are-proof-in-writing history..this database overload...lead to a saturation in technology growth.. will think and write.just putting the idea here.

found something interesting on the net - BENFORD's LAW

Fun (and Fraud Detection) with Benford’s Law Benford’s law is one of those things your high school math teacher would break out on a slow, rainy day when the students’ attention span was even lower than usual. He’d start out by asking the class to look at the leading digits in a list of numbers and then predict how many times each leading digit would appear first in the list. The students would make some guesses and eventually come to the consensus that the probability would be pretty close — about 11% each. Then, the teacher would just sit back, smile, and gently shake his head at his simple-minded pupils. He would then go on to explain Benford’s law, which would blow everyone’s mind — at least through lunchtime. Per Wikipedia : Benford’s law, also called the first-digit law, states that in lists of numbers from many real-life sources of data, the leading digit is distributed in a specific, non-uniform way. Specifically, in this way: Leading Digit Probability 1

awesome non transitive dice

© Copyright 2003, Jim Loy Here are four interesting and famous dice. They are known as non-transitive dice, or Efron's dice. Here is the game we play with them. You can choose any die (singular of dice) that you want, and then I will choose my die; we roll our dice and the higher number wins. Which die would you choose? It turns out that it doesn't matter which one you choose, I will win 2/3 of the time, you will only win 1/3 of the time (in other words, I have a 2:1 advantage). Does that make sense to you? Whichever die you choose, I will choose the one immediately to its left. If you choose the left one, I will choose the right one. The logical way to see if one die beats another is to list the 36 possible outcomes, like this: 4 4 4 4 0 0 3 * * * * 3 * * * * 3

a brief history... by a human cell...addressed to the fellow cells

Lets go back to a time when we were animals ,even more back when we were small unicellular organisms. At that time we were dispersed, not colonized, even the concept of a colony was not known to us.We were one, single entity. Our existence continued because of ourselves. Nobody helped us and we helped nobody. We traded with mother nature regularly. She gave us useful nutrients, we did some of her work. Many things we are doing today in this nation called the human body are what we learnt then. Like initially we did not even have the concept of an entity. So we defined what an entity is and then we defined borders. Just for fun, one day , one of our forefathers thought Say everything inside this membrane is me. Eventually we started developing a feeling, lets call it the EATY feeling ( E verything outside is to be A ttached T o Y ourself). We then learnt how to pass the outside particles inside our body. We were on fire in defining things on that day. And we did a good job. We take tho

create randomness...create a mind which can find patterns in randomness ..create a universe

some exercises to start with. - if you are with your friends, (4 to 5) just stand up and make some space in the room so that everone has enough space to roam about . now everybody get out of the door and again enter the room and then randomly arrange yourself (i.e just stand wherever you want in the room). now while you are still standing observe and mark the points you and your friends were standing on on a scaled down map. what you will realize is - you have about the same distance between you and you nearest friend as he shares with someone else.i mean your arrangement will be somewhat like this * * * * * it looks very ordered and soothing and asthetic and uniform even symmetric. now let me make a statement here. human mind cannot create random ,unsymmetric distributions ..everything it creates is a pattern..how true is it? one more interpretation of the above phenomenon can be - it is not what created the pattern that is important , it is the observer that play

I know that I know, but don't remember it now!

Haven't we all been in this state? The questions that are of interest here are: 1. How is this state possible in our mind? and 2. How sure can we be of this intuition that we know? i.e. Do we really know, what we think we do? But as is the case with all philosophical quests, we have to begin with what is it to know? So in the first part let us try and answer this question. Now, Does to know mean to have a prior knowledge of? Then again it becomes recursive..so obviously we are mixing words here.When we say prior knowledge of we mean prior information to the characteristics of the object and also of how we reacted to the subject, that what we felt when we encountered it/him/her/them etc. in past. So knowledge is a set of information which we created, based on the past experience, of that object , and stored it in our memory. Here the note reads: when i say "we created" ,i mean created by our processor (brain) based on the analogies derived from its database (the past exp

To Balance...

consider the pattern- --------> <-------- <-------- ---------> <-------- ---------> ---------> <-------- <-------- ---------> ---------> <-------- --------> <-------- <-------- ---------> and so on... now think of it as ... two boys A and B... A standing to left and B standing to right.. as the first arrow is L to R, it implies first i give a fruit to A and then to B. now B says "this is not fair and so now perform a second event i.e. a second arrow from me(B) to A" .. now we think that it is balanced but B doesn't think so .. he says the first arrow was L to R and the second one was R to L. but now i want the first arrow to be from R to L and the second from L to R...ok done! but now B again says the pattern of first 4 arrows somehow favours A because it still starts with L to R.....so a pattern of 8 results...but still B is complaining and so a pattern of 16 then 32 and so on results... i agree

o my god what am i writing!

now you will know what random thoughts really mean :) Lets recreate human civilization…. Lets start with any one idea…say scientific…so man evolved from apes undergoing many steps of evolution and in the course gained many of his abilities and nature.finally just before entering into the humans domain he was an ape.lets study how was his nature by then…he was living for food and food made him live but he was also doing a function for nature . unknowingly he was taking the living life form to become something that would be called humans..how he did it..he learned somethings in life ..some good ,some bad..good in the sense which made him survive …bad which made him lose on his life…(the things were of course relative i.e. things that were good for some became bad for some)…but nature had only one idea in her mind she had to make the best possible individual at the end of evolution. She did this by a process of elimination…which she managed very simply by limiting the resources.she a

A beginners' guide to

Read the article only if you can spend some time ( at least twice the time required for reading the article !! ) and mind on it. Yes and one more thing - just ignore the exclamation marks for once, i have a knack of putting them!!! Computer, as we know is a very complicated thing and this is the reason why the people who don't know anything about it panic that they are so ignorant, whereas the ones who know even a little about it are very well respected in the society. So to start with- The computer consists mainly of two parts the hardware and the software. The hardware consists of complex physical components, each complex within itself (to any microscopic level you go) and each also complex in the way it is linked to others!!! They are so complex that a single person can hardly study every detail of them. Talking of hardware, it is worth knowing that the hardwares improve so fast that when the newer version or the improved version comes, the older version has to go

freaks and phantoms!

See, wise men have told time and again (yes they have and if you haven't heard it you are in the same soup as i am in) that we should not read two books at a time. the following is what happens if you do so. I have a white covered book showing a picture of an orange peeled artistically and with one piece taken out and boldly reads FREAKONOMICS! and a dark black book showing the photo of a brain at exactly the same location as the orange and it again in the same font but even bolder reads PHANTOMS IN THE BRAIN ( now seriously am i a freak to read such books!) Freakonomics is written by an economist Steven Levitt and he is the one who thinks that economics is really not about money at all. Even its father Adam Smith when wrote the first book on economics it was called the theory of human sentiments ! Mr. ramachandran ,a neurologist who has lost all interest in conventional theories of neurology and is an explorer in the real sense of the word, receives and talks about patients who fe