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I woke up today to Wavemania hitting the tubes. Google apparently decided to send out 100,000 invites to their chosen lot. Obviously , I am not one of their chosen lot – since a quick check of my inbox revealed no invitation. Twitter however was buzzing, and Google was bombarded with searches for “Google . . . → Read More: Wave Mania I write this as a addendum to a series of questions on the power of science and an explanation posted by Sean Caroll at the Cosmic Variance blog. The detailed post on the misunderstandings , elaborates on why scientists can be so sure of their conclusions (when they can form them) and . . . → Read More: A New Perceptive Model for Science I watched a recent TED talk and loved this poem by Felix Dennis – poet, resurrected from drug addiction, and a titan in the publishing industry , who in his own words ‘has too much money to care about it now’. He has a unique style of reciting his poetry, and as for this . . . → Read More: The Better Man One of the goals of any scientific analysis is extracting general themes. Here’s my take on the application of the same to history.
1. Two things that should never be underestimated : serendipity and stupidity. 2. Napolean : “Only two things unite men – fear, and interest.” 3. There is always , . . . → Read More: History tells us… Col (r) Harish Puri Published in The News: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 * Dear Gen Kayani, Sir, let me begin by recounting that old army quip that did the rounds in the immediate aftermath of World war II: To guarantee victory, an army should ideally have German generals, British officers, Indian soldiers, American equipment . . . → Read More: Open Letter from Col. Harish Puri to Gen. Kayani The Readability Experiment lets you restyle web pages for better reading. They offer “Bookmarklets” that one can click to re-style a given webpage so that it is easier to read. Ubiquity is an “intelligent” command-line and natural language parser for Firefox. Its hard to explain because of its ubiquitous features( everything from Twitter posts . . . → Read More: Using Ubiquity+Readability Project I’ve been around the forums a bit, and have gotten used to the fact that you have to have pretty thick skin if you are going to state your opinion on the internet. As any veteran on internet discussion forums will tell you, “Argumentum Ad Hominem” is a common method that people fall back . . . → Read More: Net-Hate xkcd – A Webcomic – Correlation You have to be a geek to get this |
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