"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today - it’s a gift, that’s why it’s called present" As said by Oogway to Po An interesting thought! We are in general so obsessed with past and future that we rarely take time and live the present. All our sense of self is derived f read more...

We have previously discussed the issue of co-existence of ’determinism’ and ’free will’. Here we’ll take that to the next logical level and examine the coexistence of ’Explainability’ and ’free will’. We are going to define ’explainability’ as read more...

There’s a lingering hole in my heart And I’ve born the weight, for my part Why doesn’t it ever go away Oh! Whatever I wish and however I pray It gnaws at my insides This pain reaches far and wide A mere glimpse, a mere thought The full-moon walks, in silver wrought Behold the read more...

I was trying to find some information on classification of these large carnivorous birds. I Came across the following info. For the benefit of relatively dumb people like me, I’ll start from the beginning ... :) - All living things are divided into 5 Kingdoms Kingdom Planta = Plants Kingdom read more...

One interesting thing that I found out about Bangalore was its population of Kites. I haven’t seen so many kites in any big city! In fact, It’s quite common to find a great big ashen-hued kite - with those telescopic eyes, the hooked beak and wind-ruffled feathers - perched proudly on some read more...

Note: This is a continuation of my previous musings. ... Thinking more about it... I feel that there might be one little flaw with my logic. And that flaw (if it’s a flaw!) is associated with my earlier statement that we might (even theoretically) be able to determine anything exactly! The r read more...

I believe that there has to be an explanation for everything. Where from this universe came. There has to be a reason and explanation for everything, even if there’s a higher power involved.Maybe God concept represents a different kind of sentience. The rules and properties of that layer of wo read more...

Can anybody be absolutely sure that we have free will? Maybe what we consider as free will is not as free as we think it to be. What if it’s already destined what choices we are going to make, even as we believe we are doing so of our own volition. There are some arguments that I have devised read more...

Friday, 30th April Our team (and a couple of other) went for an outing on the occasion of the 9.2 release. The location is near Bangalore, Kanakpura Road. Guhanthara, India’s and Asia’s first Cave Resort! It was a unique experience at this architectural marvel with an elegantly furnished read more...

I am no musician. Just an ordinary man, trying to get a better appreciation of music theory. Is music a collection of certain specific frequencies, set at different/periodic temporal coordinates! Or does it have some other definition entirely! The common western system of music, in a nutshell, says read more...

"317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way." - Godfrey Hardy (1877-1947) This observation by Godfrey Hardy got me thinking. Once I was in a discussion with a certain read more...