Techniques

There is a lot of thoughtless application of technology, where this conundrum of choice applies as the root of all evil …

Spreadsheets

Data belongs in a relational database. You can use a spreadsheet to manipulate it, but the manipulated data needs to go back into the database. The spreadsheets that do this are programs and they need to be managed as code, going into version control systems.

Wave icon

I recently designed an icon to represent the abstract notions of wave, resonance and propagation.

The Unknown

We are curious beings. We inexorably seek the light of knowledge. The warmth it provides to our infatuated heart. The rush of power it gives to our weak mind.

Everything is a draft

It may seem counter-intuitive but no creative work is ever finished. It starts as a shitty first draft, followed by umpteen iterations. Then it is abandoned. It is a state inevitably imposed upon the work due to an imminent deadline or sheer disappointment.

Curious Universe

The Universe as we know is expanding out of curiosity. It will either end with boredom of infinite expansion or collapse with exhaustion back to singularity.

Chronicles of curiosity

Representing the diversive curiosity, an internal indicator is designed for BP algorithm, which detects the phenomenon of being trapped in local minima and the occurrence of premature convergence. Upon such detection, the neural network is activated again to explore optimal solution in search space and escape form local minima by means of stochastic disturbance.

Higher order

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Albert Einstein

Time as bricks

Capability barrier

Only humans beings have been able to breach their capability barrier and go far beyond than any other specie on this planet.

Words as wrappers

A word is a wrapper. It is a shell that holds within it an idea, an intention, a representation, a meaning. What a word carries inside is independent of any particular language, culture or country.

Knowledge & wisdom

There is a subtle but easy to miss distinction between the two.

Models of reading

Open thinking

Significance of Lisp

The true significance of Lisp lies in what it lets a programmer understand and explore. It changes the shape of the programmer’s mind.

Observing nature

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Werner Heisenberg