These thoughts are in continuation to my previous post "Who am I" in
http://chandra-superman.blogspot.com/2009/04/who-am-i.html
This may be the boundary between today's Science and olden days beliefs, myths and philosophies (if at all the below mentioned thoughts are true (I don't know!), may they become truth's accepted by Science someday in future?)
Let's say, the "I" in me is my soul ("Atma")... and, my current body is just an avatar... this body can be in the form of human or horse or elephant or mosquito or cockroach or fish or frog or bacteria etc.
When the body is not useful anymore (we call this death), will the Atma immediately find another body to get in? which body? does it select the body of human or horse or mosquito or bacteria or something else? will it select its body on this earth or some other planet of some other star or some other galaxy or other universe (another place in multiverse?)? will the Atma select itself or God will select?
By any chance, is this selection based on the deeds done by the bodies of this Atma's previous lifes? Is there some amount carry-over to next lifes? how many number of future lifes? is there some quantification like so much of good-deeds and so much of bad-deeds etc?
First of all, why should there be discrimination among these bodies? By definition, Atma not supposed to make any discrimination towards various life forms... for God, all are equal (is it so?)
Is there some time-gap between lifes? What is Atma doing in this time gap? Is this we call "Ghost" stage? Then, why are we afraid of ghosts?
Is the death of a body and the creation of next body for Atma pre-planned by its Atma or God? When, some accident (not planned by Atma or God!!) happen, the next body is not yet ready, and the Atma has to wait for some time (or the original end time)? Is this the ghost stage?
In my childhood stories, I read a lot about "Para-Kaya-Pravesam" - meaning, the Soul can enter another Body. Some learned people, leave their still good and alive body, and enter some dead-body for some time, and comeback to their original body. So, they can enter another body without the need to leave current body... without becoming ghosts.
I have one curious question? what happens all those souls in countless number of bodies on the earth, when some mass sudden-death (like asteroid stike, or some nuclear blast etc) happens? By definition, Atma can't be destroyed by fire or any other destructive form. So, only bodies are destroyed, and all those billions and billions of souls become ghosts? May be that, God will immediately create a huge bacteria colony temporarily for all these souls to occupy? Or, do they really need some body?
- that which is born, shall die - - that which dies, shall be born -
--- this is the endless cycle for souls ---
--- poor souls!!! they are caught in God's Game!!! ---
One more question (never ending questions!!) - How many Gods playing this Game? Is there only one God or many?
Dec 16, 2009
Ravan and Multicore and Cloud
We had some discussion over food today... thoughtful and funny...
Ravan and Multicore:
In Ramayana, Ravan had 10 heads... was there one head which is master-head and the remaining 9 slave-heads? or all heads are equal?
Does this has any similarity to multicore platforms?
Ravan and Cloud:
In movies and TV-serials, we see Ravan with 1 head normally. when the situation demands, his remaining heads show up. When Rama cut some of those heads, they comeback again.
Does this has any similarity to Cloud-computing? Heads come up on-demand... when they are down, new heads are born... sounds familiar? [one difference is he has 10 heads - that is max. no in-between capacity!]
Ravan and Reconfigurable-Processor (RP):
- Any thoughts?
Ravan and Multicore:
In Ramayana, Ravan had 10 heads... was there one head which is master-head and the remaining 9 slave-heads? or all heads are equal?
Does this has any similarity to multicore platforms?
Ravan and Cloud:
In movies and TV-serials, we see Ravan with 1 head normally. when the situation demands, his remaining heads show up. When Rama cut some of those heads, they comeback again.
Does this has any similarity to Cloud-computing? Heads come up on-demand... when they are down, new heads are born... sounds familiar? [one difference is he has 10 heads - that is max. no in-between capacity!]
Ravan and Reconfigurable-Processor (RP):
- Any thoughts?
Jul 24, 2009
Is India really Knowledge Economy?
Continuation topic of argument about "incentive to go for higher education"...
Lets see the importance of Research... Research to create new products, industries...
India, recently boasting about being "Knowledge Economy".
What type of economies are there?
* Product economy - manufacture products, and sell.
* Service economy - serve others - like 90% of Indian software industry does - develop software for other companies products...
* Knowledge economy - Create product plans, designs... outsource building them to others (like software to India, factory to China) ??
If above is true, then:
- China, Japan, Korea are Product economy (manufacturing products)
- China, Korea are Service economy (Manufacturing as service)
- India is Service economy only (developing software for others)
- US, Japan, and Korea are Knowledge economy - they develop product plans, architect them - and outsource realization to others, do some within their country.
- US is Product economy (high value products only!)
And, regarding India - without having technology creation by research, we will be doing only technology-service... this is called service economy... this is not knowledge economy...
A country boasting "knowledge economy" - meaning sell your knowledge as service for others to create products, and you buy those products at a higher price/value than your service? I don't think this is good in long term!
To create products/value, lot of research, not service, is needed...
Atleast China announced plans and taking steps towards moving from "Made in China" to "Made By China"...
Lets see the importance of Research... Research to create new products, industries...
India, recently boasting about being "Knowledge Economy".
What type of economies are there?
* Product economy - manufacture products, and sell.
* Service economy - serve others - like 90% of Indian software industry does - develop software for other companies products...
* Knowledge economy - Create product plans, designs... outsource building them to others (like software to India, factory to China) ??
If above is true, then:
- China, Japan, Korea are Product economy (manufacturing products)
- China, Korea are Service economy (Manufacturing as service)
- India is Service economy only (developing software for others)
- US, Japan, and Korea are Knowledge economy - they develop product plans, architect them - and outsource realization to others, do some within their country.
- US is Product economy (high value products only!)
And, regarding India - without having technology creation by research, we will be doing only technology-service... this is called service economy... this is not knowledge economy...
A country boasting "knowledge economy" - meaning sell your knowledge as service for others to create products, and you buy those products at a higher price/value than your service? I don't think this is good in long term!
To create products/value, lot of research, not service, is needed...
Atleast China announced plans and taking steps towards moving from "Made in China" to "Made By China"...
What is the Incentive to go for Higher Education?
What is the incentive for continuing to higher studies (M.Tech, Ph.D.) after B.Tech.?
I heard, in South Korea, personal income tax is less for Masters... and significantly less for candidates with Ph.D. No wonder, Samsung (South Korean Electronics Giant), over 10 years -- increased Doctors (Ph.D.) by 5.5X (@ 300/year!), while regular employees increased by only 2X.
Below is the data from news item (How to grow an electronics giant - from http://www.eetasia.com/ - posted 17/Nov/2008)
M.Tech. takes 2-years, Ph.D. takes ~4-years...
After M.Tech. or Ph.D., candidates get lesser designation (less by ~1-2 years) compared to their classmates, in a given industry (Except for Research positions... very less in openings India... very high in demand... very difficult to fill... a paradox...)
Going for M.Tech. - understood - it is only 2-years... not a big issue (earning a livelihood for family (=parents)) for many....
Going for Ph.D. - the trouble factor - it is 4-years... a big issue for many... time to settle down and get married... without earning - it is very difficult in India... (may be exception for rich families... or for candidates very enthusiastic in higher education).
So, where is the incentive for Indian students for higher education?
Without having technology creation by research, we will be doing only technology-service... this is called service economy... this is not knowledge economy...
A country boasting "knowledge economy" - meaning sell your knowledge as service, for others to create products, and sell products to you?
I heard, in South Korea, personal income tax is less for Masters... and significantly less for candidates with Ph.D. No wonder, Samsung (South Korean Electronics Giant), over 10 years -- increased Doctors (Ph.D.) by 5.5X (@ 300/year!), while regular employees increased by only 2X.
Below is the data from news item (How to grow an electronics giant - from http://www.eetasia.com/ - posted 17/Nov/2008)
M.Tech. takes 2-years, Ph.D. takes ~4-years...
After M.Tech. or Ph.D., candidates get lesser designation (less by ~1-2 years) compared to their classmates, in a given industry (Except for Research positions... very less in openings India... very high in demand... very difficult to fill... a paradox...)
Going for M.Tech. - understood - it is only 2-years... not a big issue (earning a livelihood for family (=parents)) for many....
Going for Ph.D. - the trouble factor - it is 4-years... a big issue for many... time to settle down and get married... without earning - it is very difficult in India... (may be exception for rich families... or for candidates very enthusiastic in higher education).
So, where is the incentive for Indian students for higher education?
Without having technology creation by research, we will be doing only technology-service... this is called service economy... this is not knowledge economy...
A country boasting "knowledge economy" - meaning sell your knowledge as service, for others to create products, and sell products to you?
Jul 9, 2009
Technological Singularity - When will it happen?
Good article about Technological Singularity on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
(Picture from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity)
A Book on Singularity (picture from http://singularity.com/images/3DsinJacketFLAT.jpg)
Now, my opinion:
Singularity - will it be a split-second milestone? or is it frequent and continuous progress of events towards it? You see the so called "frequent progressive events" happening around us each month/year...
My view is that, it will be slow enough to be assimilated by our society... and while it happens you don't know it is happening... once it happens you don't know it already happened...
The problem is who is "you" here? They will be your children/grand-children/great-grand-children... they expect the things to be minimum that way as they happen in their times... like today you expect somany things and feel happy about them that they are available to you, while your parents/grand-parents wonder about them, while the same things are a minimum requirement for life for children today...
(Picture from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity)
A Book on Singularity (picture from http://singularity.com/images/3DsinJacketFLAT.jpg)
Now, my opinion:
Singularity - will it be a split-second milestone? or is it frequent and continuous progress of events towards it? You see the so called "frequent progressive events" happening around us each month/year...
My view is that, it will be slow enough to be assimilated by our society... and while it happens you don't know it is happening... once it happens you don't know it already happened...
The problem is who is "you" here? They will be your children/grand-children/great-grand-children... they expect the things to be minimum that way as they happen in their times... like today you expect somany things and feel happy about them that they are available to you, while your parents/grand-parents wonder about them, while the same things are a minimum requirement for life for children today...
Jul 7, 2009
Automated Patenting? It must be IBM!
There is information - product news, business news, patents, papers, articles...
There are tools - for databasing, searching, reporting and visualizing that information... (e.g. ThomsonInnovation, and many others)...
Everybody knows IBM is the defacto leader in creating patents... well, it didn't come for free... they spent efforts, time, money, and ofcourse brains.
Now, they are outsourcing atleast some of this patent creation business to machines... at least partially...
IBM patenting "Automated Patenting" (almost)... a tool/method to search for empty regions in patent landscape of a given portfolio… and later fill the gaps with new patents!!
IBM's US Patent 20080235220, published 25/Sep/2008
METHODOLOGIES AND ANALYTICS TOOLS FOR IDENTIFYING WHITE SPACE OPPORTUNITIES IN A GIVEN INDUSTRY
Abstract: A method for analyzing predefined subject matter in a patent database being for use with a set of target patents, each target patent related to the predefined subject matter, the method comprising: creating a feature space based on frequently occurring terms found in the set of target patents; creating a partition taxonomy based on a clustered configuration of the feature space; editing the partition taxonomy using domain expertise to produce an edited partition taxonomy; creating a classification taxonomy based on structured features present in the edited partition taxonomy; creating a contingency table by comparing the edited partition taxonomy and the classification taxonomy to provide entries in the contingency table; and identifying all significant relationships in the contingency table to help determine the presence of any white space.
There are tools - for databasing, searching, reporting and visualizing that information... (e.g. ThomsonInnovation, and many others)...
Everybody knows IBM is the defacto leader in creating patents... well, it didn't come for free... they spent efforts, time, money, and ofcourse brains.
Now, they are outsourcing atleast some of this patent creation business to machines... at least partially...
IBM patenting "Automated Patenting" (almost)... a tool/method to search for empty regions in patent landscape of a given portfolio… and later fill the gaps with new patents!!
IBM's US Patent 20080235220, published 25/Sep/2008
METHODOLOGIES AND ANALYTICS TOOLS FOR IDENTIFYING WHITE SPACE OPPORTUNITIES IN A GIVEN INDUSTRY
Abstract: A method for analyzing predefined subject matter in a patent database being for use with a set of target patents, each target patent related to the predefined subject matter, the method comprising: creating a feature space based on frequently occurring terms found in the set of target patents; creating a partition taxonomy based on a clustered configuration of the feature space; editing the partition taxonomy using domain expertise to produce an edited partition taxonomy; creating a classification taxonomy based on structured features present in the edited partition taxonomy; creating a contingency table by comparing the edited partition taxonomy and the classification taxonomy to provide entries in the contingency table; and identifying all significant relationships in the contingency table to help determine the presence of any white space.
Jun 2, 2009
The Evolution Experiment
I am not sure if this falls into "Intelligent Design"... but just my thoughts...
[Flashback] Long ago, a [fictitious] person who is very intellectual, who understands about evolution and genetics, who is very influential... started an experiment... that would need few thousand years to see results... the experiment is based in India... see the result of strictly cross pollination among humans... its very simple... everybody is part of that... yet nobody knows it... the means to achieve it is the "gothra" system... which forbids marriage between people of the same gothra...
meant to produce humans in clusters... with clear differences between clusters... and sub-clusters...
So, now what is happened suddenly? someone found it... with fast, cheap and mass-volume methods of personalized genetic mapping... coupled with very fast analysis and relationship-finding/clustering of gene-info of all people... and, to see the results of that great experiment... the results in progress... and to see if the experiment yealding good results or otherwise... which clusters/sub-clusters are good/superier... which clusters/sub-clusters are bad/inferior... and to decide to continue/alter/stop the experiment... and there are some big questions... continuation is like status-quo, no problem... how to alter? does it call for reduction/elimination, or break the cluster, of inferior clusters/sub-clusters...
What if two superior clusters want to prove their supremacy? (this is what Hitler tried? did he feel competition?)...
Other way, if this to be stopped wholly (man, does it make sense?), how to stop? now, this is de-facto primitive building block of the most societies...
[Flashback] Long ago, a [fictitious] person who is very intellectual, who understands about evolution and genetics, who is very influential... started an experiment... that would need few thousand years to see results... the experiment is based in India... see the result of strictly cross pollination among humans... its very simple... everybody is part of that... yet nobody knows it... the means to achieve it is the "gothra" system... which forbids marriage between people of the same gothra...
meant to produce humans in clusters... with clear differences between clusters... and sub-clusters...
So, now what is happened suddenly? someone found it... with fast, cheap and mass-volume methods of personalized genetic mapping... coupled with very fast analysis and relationship-finding/clustering of gene-info of all people... and, to see the results of that great experiment... the results in progress... and to see if the experiment yealding good results or otherwise... which clusters/sub-clusters are good/superier... which clusters/sub-clusters are bad/inferior... and to decide to continue/alter/stop the experiment... and there are some big questions... continuation is like status-quo, no problem... how to alter? does it call for reduction/elimination, or break the cluster, of inferior clusters/sub-clusters...
What if two superior clusters want to prove their supremacy? (this is what Hitler tried? did he feel competition?)...
Other way, if this to be stopped wholly (man, does it make sense?), how to stop? now, this is de-facto primitive building block of the most societies...
When Robots Doubt Humans
War [non-physical] between humans and robots... [from my thoughts/notes in Oct/2008]
[Problem] Humans made robots... with self learning systems... they can go on learning... and more dangerously (danger to whom? to humans?), learn with experimentation... experiments devised by robots themselves in their quest to learn/understand more... start to command humans... what ever humans do... their actions, their speech... become known to robots...
[Solution] How to keep supremacy of humanity... prevention is better than cure... so one [fictitious] man thought few hundred years back... he devised a strategy... to induce a gap/hole in the robots intelligence... robots are not aware of this hole... the hole can't be filled by themselves...
[Issue] But, when robots started learning by experimentation, they started to find the existence of such a hole... after knowing about the existence of the hole, do they think that humans deliberately induced that hole... or do they think that humans forgot or didn't know to fill this hole? if they think that it is an act of humans deliberations, there is more danger... they will start doubting every act, past and present, of humans... they will start deliberate search for more such holes... either really exist now or not...
[Solution required] What could be the candidates of such holes? that robots can't understand... not even by learning/experimenting, and yet, is so simple, even a human baby in a remote village can understand...
Better, humans think about it now...
[Problem] Humans made robots... with self learning systems... they can go on learning... and more dangerously (danger to whom? to humans?), learn with experimentation... experiments devised by robots themselves in their quest to learn/understand more... start to command humans... what ever humans do... their actions, their speech... become known to robots...
[Solution] How to keep supremacy of humanity... prevention is better than cure... so one [fictitious] man thought few hundred years back... he devised a strategy... to induce a gap/hole in the robots intelligence... robots are not aware of this hole... the hole can't be filled by themselves...
[Issue] But, when robots started learning by experimentation, they started to find the existence of such a hole... after knowing about the existence of the hole, do they think that humans deliberately induced that hole... or do they think that humans forgot or didn't know to fill this hole? if they think that it is an act of humans deliberations, there is more danger... they will start doubting every act, past and present, of humans... they will start deliberate search for more such holes... either really exist now or not...
[Solution required] What could be the candidates of such holes? that robots can't understand... not even by learning/experimenting, and yet, is so simple, even a human baby in a remote village can understand...
Better, humans think about it now...
Apr 21, 2009
Who am I?
Who am "I"?
I am Chandra... I am Engineer... I am Human... I am Animal... I am Life... I am x... I am y...
I am my Body... I am my Brain... I am my Mind...
I am my Soul... I am God...
There are so many Chandras, so many Engineers, so many Humans... so many so many.... they are not "I"...
So who am I? Am I my Body? Am I my Brain?
Well... lets see...
Body = Integration of Body parts, which makes me... individual body parts are part of me... none of them individually is me... body parts can be replaced... robotic hand for example... hands, legs, eyes, ears, heart, kidney, lungs etc are being replaced with artificial parts or parts from other humans/animals... most of the parts in our stomach are for digesting food and generating and distributing energy... energy used by our hands to do work... our legs to take us around... our senses to sense external world... these sensors (eyes, ears etc) can be replaced with artificial sensors, energy for them can be supplied with batteries...
So, what is remaining? Brain. Brain "thinks" I have to go there - legs will take us there. Brain thinks I have to do this - hands will do that... etc.
Also, our body is a small world to many bacterias and their colonies... only 10% of our cells are ours... "Human beings are not really individuals; they're communities of organisms".
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/15/0252219
So, am I simply my "Brain"?
What is Brain? A very complex organ, which gathers information from sensors, stores that information, processes that information... triggers actions...
All these can be done an "Artificial Brain" (Machine + Artificial Intelligence) which can gather information, store, process... Am I replaceable with "Artificial Brain"? "I" hope not.
Am I my "Mind"?
Emotions/feelings/love/anger/happiness/hate/greed... are these simply chemical reactions? Can we attribute them to Mind? Is it my "Mind" triggering these in "Brain"... then I am not my "Brain"... I am my "Mind"... my Mind can control an "Artificial Brain" which can gather information, store, process... trigger actions...
Who triggers Emotions/feelings in my Mind? Other Minds. I see so much of this in this world.
So far the discussion is Materialistic... Practical... The border case between Brain and Mind...
Now, it takes new way of thinking...
Is the following maturity level order holds good?
Body -> Brain -> Mind -> Soul -> God.
"I" do not know.
I am Chandra... I am Engineer... I am Human... I am Animal... I am Life... I am x... I am y...
I am my Body... I am my Brain... I am my Mind...
I am my Soul... I am God...
There are so many Chandras, so many Engineers, so many Humans... so many so many.... they are not "I"...
So who am I? Am I my Body? Am I my Brain?
Well... lets see...
Body = Integration of Body parts, which makes me... individual body parts are part of me... none of them individually is me... body parts can be replaced... robotic hand for example... hands, legs, eyes, ears, heart, kidney, lungs etc are being replaced with artificial parts or parts from other humans/animals... most of the parts in our stomach are for digesting food and generating and distributing energy... energy used by our hands to do work... our legs to take us around... our senses to sense external world... these sensors (eyes, ears etc) can be replaced with artificial sensors, energy for them can be supplied with batteries...
So, what is remaining? Brain. Brain "thinks" I have to go there - legs will take us there. Brain thinks I have to do this - hands will do that... etc.
Also, our body is a small world to many bacterias and their colonies... only 10% of our cells are ours... "Human beings are not really individuals; they're communities of organisms".
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/15/0252219
So, am I simply my "Brain"?
What is Brain? A very complex organ, which gathers information from sensors, stores that information, processes that information... triggers actions...
All these can be done an "Artificial Brain" (Machine + Artificial Intelligence) which can gather information, store, process... Am I replaceable with "Artificial Brain"? "I" hope not.
Am I my "Mind"?
Emotions/feelings/love/anger/happiness/hate/greed... are these simply chemical reactions? Can we attribute them to Mind? Is it my "Mind" triggering these in "Brain"... then I am not my "Brain"... I am my "Mind"... my Mind can control an "Artificial Brain" which can gather information, store, process... trigger actions...
Who triggers Emotions/feelings in my Mind? Other Minds. I see so much of this in this world.
So far the discussion is Materialistic... Practical... The border case between Brain and Mind...
Now, it takes new way of thinking...
Is the following maturity level order holds good?
Body -> Brain -> Mind -> Soul -> God.
"I" do not know.
God - Who are you?
Who is God? I do not know. Answer can be one of the following:
1. God is Real:
(1.1) God is really The GOD... the Omni-present, Omni-potent entity.
(1.2) God is Terrestrial... not omni-present... not omni-potent... but simply a Very Very Great Person of their time/civilization on Earth.
(1.3) God is Extra Terrestrial... not omni-present, not omni-potent... but simply a very very advanced entity from some super intelligent advanced civilization - non-terrestrial... may have visited Earth sometime... and influenced people on Earth.
(1.4) ...
2. God is Not Real:
(2.1) God is our Imagination - the need of a higher power entity for solacing ourselves.
(2.2) ...
3. God is Undefined:
(3.1) God can't be defined. Nether Real nor Unreal!
(3.2) God can't be categorized like this! No more categorization.
16/Jan/2010 --- Recently I bought the book "God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins... still studying... this contains elaborate discussion on subject...
1. God is Real:
(1.1) God is really The GOD... the Omni-present, Omni-potent entity.
(1.2) God is Terrestrial... not omni-present... not omni-potent... but simply a Very Very Great Person of their time/civilization on Earth.
(1.3) God is Extra Terrestrial... not omni-present, not omni-potent... but simply a very very advanced entity from some super intelligent advanced civilization - non-terrestrial... may have visited Earth sometime... and influenced people on Earth.
(1.4) ...
2. God is Not Real:
(2.1) God is our Imagination - the need of a higher power entity for solacing ourselves.
(2.2) ...
3. God is Undefined:
(3.1) God can't be defined. Nether Real nor Unreal!
(3.2) God can't be categorized like this! No more categorization.
16/Jan/2010 --- Recently I bought the book "God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins... still studying... this contains elaborate discussion on subject...
COSMOS
"cosmos, oh my god, such a big thing, difficult even to imagine, must be having life, intelligent or else, in multiple places and in multiple times. we, the human beings, the other life forms, and everything else surrounding us on this earth, are on one of such places and times. i don't want to be a kind of "frog in the well". i would like to find, help in finding, others. of course, no harm in finding. we shall try all our ideas, science and technology to find."
--- as posted in my profile in SETI@Home ---
--- as posted in my profile in SETI@Home ---
Apr 16, 2009
Push People, for their Happyness
If you your people into doing things, which are useful, but they are not willing to do now, helps them in the long run... After the event is over, they will be more happy.
If you agree to them, and show so called "leniency/mercy", and they don't do that "thing" now, they may well loose the opportunity to demonstrate their capabilities... and be sad after the event.
Example-1: My 3-year son, had to attend sport-day-event in their school... he was not going inside... he stuck to me... he was crying so much... I felt sorry for him, and kept him with me... he didn't participate... the result: he lost the joy that opportunity and joy of being in it... I go so sad, so many children are performing... this guy sitting in lap... I also missed it...
Example-2: The same son, same school... annual-day event... had to perform dance in special dress... as usual he saw somuch crowd... started crying... stuck to me... but, this time, I pushed into the classroom and came out and sit in the audience... the result: he cried in the classroom for some... I could here that... after some time the fruits came... he along with other kids came onto the stage... I was happy... I started my mobile phone video camera... he performed for 1-minute... some parrot-dress (hindi song - tota hoon main tota hoon) ... now he played that video on mobile, some 100 times...
Example-3: My team members, working in other Division project... there was some programming test... they were in dilemma... and fear-factor... already recession period... what happens if we perform badly in test? some of them didn't want to take test... I told them "this is optional for you... but, still it better if you take this test"... strongly recommended... pushed... assured them of no side-effects... they took the test... test was simple... they are happy...
If you agree to them, and show so called "leniency/mercy", and they don't do that "thing" now, they may well loose the opportunity to demonstrate their capabilities... and be sad after the event.
Example-1: My 3-year son, had to attend sport-day-event in their school... he was not going inside... he stuck to me... he was crying so much... I felt sorry for him, and kept him with me... he didn't participate... the result: he lost the joy that opportunity and joy of being in it... I go so sad, so many children are performing... this guy sitting in lap... I also missed it...
Example-2: The same son, same school... annual-day event... had to perform dance in special dress... as usual he saw somuch crowd... started crying... stuck to me... but, this time, I pushed into the classroom and came out and sit in the audience... the result: he cried in the classroom for some... I could here that... after some time the fruits came... he along with other kids came onto the stage... I was happy... I started my mobile phone video camera... he performed for 1-minute... some parrot-dress (hindi song - tota hoon main tota hoon) ... now he played that video on mobile, some 100 times...
Example-3: My team members, working in other Division project... there was some programming test... they were in dilemma... and fear-factor... already recession period... what happens if we perform badly in test? some of them didn't want to take test... I told them "this is optional for you... but, still it better if you take this test"... strongly recommended... pushed... assured them of no side-effects... they took the test... test was simple... they are happy...
Apr 15, 2009
Existence of UFOs
Most of the UFO citing was reported during 1950s to 1970s.
Some say they are only illusions of people... because most sci-fi/space Movies/TV-shows came during that period... and the exiting period - space travel, visits to moon and far, started during that period.
Some say the so called UFOs were man-made... some specially designed air-crafts... some normal air-crafts under some particular lighting conditions etc...
While both of above could be true... there is another possibility... which could be much more right... Lets say, intelligent/industrialized/space-faring life/societies exists on other stars... we call them Aliens... they are searching for other life... visiting other stars... they found life on earth... they kept watching this earth... when they found some activity in the skies of earth, they came here to watch/observe us... in their vehicles, which we call UFOs... so basically, during that 1950s-1970s, our space activity was our invitation for them.
Some say they are only illusions of people... because most sci-fi/space Movies/TV-shows came during that period... and the exiting period - space travel, visits to moon and far, started during that period.
Some say the so called UFOs were man-made... some specially designed air-crafts... some normal air-crafts under some particular lighting conditions etc...
While both of above could be true... there is another possibility... which could be much more right... Lets say, intelligent/industrialized/space-faring life/societies exists on other stars... we call them Aliens... they are searching for other life... visiting other stars... they found life on earth... they kept watching this earth... when they found some activity in the skies of earth, they came here to watch/observe us... in their vehicles, which we call UFOs... so basically, during that 1950s-1970s, our space activity was our invitation for them.
Questions about Visibility and Speed of Light
Speed of Light is ~300,000 KM/Sec.
It is said that nothing travels faster than light. And, Light speed is independent of the speed of the emitter.
Consider a situation like:
- Imagine Person-A is in Vehicle-A, and Person-B is in Vehicle-B. Vehicle-A and Vehicle-B traveling in space, side-by-side. Each person directs a torch-light towards other.
Questions:
- Q1. Can they ever see each other, if they are traveling at speed-of-light?
- Q2. If they are separated by 300,000KM, and stationary (what is stationary in space?), it takes 1-second for the light from torch-light to reach other vehicle. If they are travelling at speed-of-light, will this light from torch-light ever reach other vehicle?
- Q3. Question about "Stationary": Lets say they are very very very faaaaar away from any other objects (galaxies, starts etc)... And, traveling at the speed of light, side-by-side, by 300,000KM (or say 1KM). So, essentially they are stationary to each other, because of there is no relative-motion. Shouldn't light from torch-light reach other vehicle? Can it?
It is said that nothing travels faster than light. And, Light speed is independent of the speed of the emitter.
Consider a situation like:
- Imagine Person-A is in Vehicle-A, and Person-B is in Vehicle-B. Vehicle-A and Vehicle-B traveling in space, side-by-side. Each person directs a torch-light towards other.
Questions:
- Q1. Can they ever see each other, if they are traveling at speed-of-light?
- Q2. If they are separated by 300,000KM, and stationary (what is stationary in space?), it takes 1-second for the light from torch-light to reach other vehicle. If they are travelling at speed-of-light, will this light from torch-light ever reach other vehicle?
- Q3. Question about "Stationary": Lets say they are very very very faaaaar away from any other objects (galaxies, starts etc)... And, traveling at the speed of light, side-by-side, by 300,000KM (or say 1KM). So, essentially they are stationary to each other, because of there is no relative-motion. Shouldn't light from torch-light reach other vehicle? Can it?
Mar 3, 2009
Microsoft Research TechFest 2009
Microsoft Research TechFest 2009: a glance at the road ahead
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/03/microsoft-research-techfest-2009-a-glance-at-the-road-ahead.ars
Items presented/demonstrated:
Real-Time Stitching of Mobile-Generated Videos
Recognizing Characters Written in the Air
SecondLight: Bringing the UI into the Real World
User-Interaction Advertising Platform
Color-Structured Image Search
Interactions with an Omni-Directional Projector
Situated Interaction
Sticky Notes in Augment Reality
... many more...
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/03/microsoft-research-techfest-2009-a-glance-at-the-road-ahead.ars
Items presented/demonstrated:
Real-Time Stitching of Mobile-Generated Videos
Recognizing Characters Written in the Air
SecondLight: Bringing the UI into the Real World
User-Interaction Advertising Platform
Color-Structured Image Search
Interactions with an Omni-Directional Projector
Situated Interaction
Sticky Notes in Augment Reality
... many more...
Mar 2, 2009
Emotions for Virtual Faces
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081204133855.htm
[some other related topics mentioned on this page]
Universal emotions: anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise. (Credit: Arellano et al)
Image taken from the above link.
[some other related topics mentioned on this page]
Universal emotions: anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise. (Credit: Arellano et al)
Image taken from the above link.
Photosynth funda used to create Game content?
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/01/1718209
...all of the footage is filmed in real locations. Yet what's even more interesting is that the games use an innovative photographic technology which recreates a fully explorable 3D environment through the use of millions of photos instead of building from polygons...
http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/interviews/452/
...a brand new episodic adventure series titled Casebook. Casebook Episode I: Kidnapped, the first title in the series, is a realistic simulation of crime scene investigation that focuses on collecting and analyzing forensic evidence. What sets Areo immediately apart from other competitors is its use of an innovative technology called Areograph to recreate, from footage filmed at real locations, a totally fluid and fully explorable 3D game world that blends seamlessly with FMV (Full Motion Video).
...all of the footage is filmed in real locations. Yet what's even more interesting is that the games use an innovative photographic technology which recreates a fully explorable 3D environment through the use of millions of photos instead of building from polygons...
http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/interviews/452/
...a brand new episodic adventure series titled Casebook. Casebook Episode I: Kidnapped, the first title in the series, is a realistic simulation of crime scene investigation that focuses on collecting and analyzing forensic evidence. What sets Areo immediately apart from other competitors is its use of an innovative technology called Areograph to recreate, from footage filmed at real locations, a totally fluid and fully explorable 3D game world that blends seamlessly with FMV (Full Motion Video).
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