Should we as a society, support the death penalty? More importantly, is it right? This seemingly innocent question can at first instance, be answered in a direct yes, or a no. People can have quite polarized views when it comes to the death penalty. Some crimes, like the Nirbhaya gang rape case that shook India a …
I don’t know how I came across this book, but I’m glad that I did. Not a fan of travelogues usually, since I am not much of a traveller myself. The Goodreads score wasn’t very encouraging as well. Nevertheless, I took the plunge… India…one country, birthplace of five major world religions, 22 scheduled languages, 29 …
The reading habit is fast dying…its decline hastened by, among other things, our decreasing attention spans (thank you Social Media) and availability of lesser alternatives (thank you OTT). Having said that, for many, reading has also made a transition – from paperback to electronic versions. I prefer the e-book mainly for its convenience (try carrying …
An elderly couple lived in great poverty, on the brink of a huge forest. They used to walk through the forest everyday, to gather firewood for their daily needs. One day, Shiva and Parvati were also walking through the same forest, when Parvati happened to see the couple. She was filled with compassion for them, …
The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself, to understand itself. – Adam Elenbass The life you seek is hidden inside the discipline you avoid. – Epictetus Brilliance is the ability to simplify a mass amount of information into a simple yes/no decision. – Warren Buffet I came across these three quotes …
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.” While this exact phrasing is often attributed to Aristotle, it was actually popularized by historian Will Durant in his 1926 book, The Story of Philosophy, summarizing Aristotle’s original thoughts on virtue and morality. Had a conversation with my wife on the pursuit of excellence, …
A lot transpired today – that made me revisit this blogpost that I had written in 2023. What a beautiful, yet unique relationship this is. Nowhere else in the animal kingdom do parents and children share this bond – or to rephrase, nowhere else in the animal kingdom do parents share this sentiment. The very …
A brain-sized artificial consciousness could have millions of times more experiences than us per second, since electromagnetic signals travel at the speed of light—millions of times faster than neuron signals. However, the larger the AI, the slower its global thoughts must be to allow information time to flow between all its parts. We’d therefore expect …
उपकाराच् च लोकानां निमित्तान् मृग-पक्षिणाम् ।भयाल् लोभाच् च मूर्खाणां मैत्री स्याद् दर्शनात् सताम् ॥ ३६ ॥ upakārāc ca lokānāṃ nimittān mṛga-pakṣiṇām |bhayāl lobhāc ca mūrkhāṇāṃ maitrī syād darśanāt satām || 36 || People become friends by helping each other. Animals and birds can also become friendly due to some reasons. Fools act friendly because of greed or …
Physics describes patterns in spacetime that correspond to particles moving around. If the particle arrangements obey certain principles, they give rise to emergent phenomena that are pretty independent of the particle substrate, and have a totally different feel to them. A great example of this is information processing, in computronium. But we’ve now taken this …
