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Its beautiful. Intelligent and elegant at the same time. Like watching a dance.

By Isaac Asimov I know many of the readers of this blog will connect to it, as much as I do What is intelligence, anyway? When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me. (It didn't mean anything. The next day I was still a buck private with KP - kitchen police - as my highest duty.) All my life I've been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I'm highly intelligent, and I expect other people to think so too. Actually, though, don't such scores simply mean that I am very good at answering the type of academic questions that are considered worthy of answers by people who make up the intelligence tests - people with intellectual bents similar to mine? For instance, I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly h...

Few things make my hairs stand on end (like when A.R. Rehman goes slightly higher the lasttime, as compared to the other times , when he goes 'Vandeeeeeeeee Mataram' in his song "Maa tujhe salaam" ). Few make my face blow like a balloon, as if I am trying to contain all the tears that are produced inside it, and then finally they start leaking through the orfices of the eyes.I cry like a baby (The last 3 minutes of Persuit of happyness) Some make me laugh my stomach into a daylong pain while some titillate me and make me hug myself... yet this is something which I experienced for the first time. A bit of everything. I understand the word 'Mesmerise' now! let yourself feel. from Esteban Diácono on Vimeo .

These are some awesome digital art pieces made by my friend Murtuza Ali Hussainy. I am using his work as an advertisement poster, so that people visit my blog :) Note: I did not make them, though I wished I did. And now I wish I could. For those who are interested, Ali uses Bamboo fun as tablet and Artrage as his drawing software. For seeing more of his awesomeness visit his blog here

Today Natthu's status message led me to another of google's fundoo easter eggs. Try googling recursion! or click here No doubt they are God

Awesome awesome! Note I did not make it, but i wish i did! I will make a better looking version of it though.

Patience! nothing else...just patience! wait for the grand finale...charlie chaplin on an _____. i bet you can't even imagine!

chacha sent this awesome video today. Must watch for all engineers and their mothers.

came across this awesome presentation style...loved it will use it one day! the pace, the innovation at every step,the simplicity, the beats utilization...pure awesomeness! did not really get a chance to appreciate the girl effect though..was so engrossed in the presentation!

i stumbled upon this.this text pricks me enough to make me want to do something about it: T hose who assume (often unconsciously) that it is impossible to achieve their life's desires-and, thus, that it is futile to fight for themselves --usually end up fighting for an ideal or cause instead. They may appear to engage in self-directed activity, but in reality they have accepted alienation from their desires as a way of life. All subjugations of personal desires to the dictates of a cause or ideology are reactionary no matter how "revolutionary" the actions arising from such subjugations may appear.

by Max Ehrmann in the 1920s Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical abo...

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 ...

© 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 ...