Thanks to the thousand odd people for subscribing the blog feed [https://www.nilkanth.com/feed/] and following me on Twitter [http://twitter.com/voidmonk]! I’ll try to keep up the occasional rants. Recently, a friend was exhibiting his paintings for the first-time. At the small gallery, he was…
For decades, intelligence has been defined too narrowly. Either you are considered to be genius, or stupid, not just as a child but also in your adulthood. What’s more worrisome is that it can make most kids (and some adults) to deprave their own self-esteem. Last week, I was…
I’ve been reading a lot about “Augmented Reality” lately. Just the other day, I saw this beautiful short film titled ‘World Builder [http://vimeo.com/3365942]‘, that also depicts this powerful holographic technology to express the fusion of the physical and virtual worlds. Augmented Reality [http://en.wikipedia.org/…
I met Kuldeep about 6 months ago. It had just been a few months since he arrived in Melbourne. As we conversed, Kuldeep mentioned that he’s studying cookery at one of Melbourne’ lesser known universities. He didn’t like cooking much, but this particular course, expensive as it was,…
Ready for another Slumdog Millionaire? After Vikas Swarup’s Q & A was made into Slumdog Millionaire by Danny Boyle, it’s the turn of Aravind Adiga’s Man Booker Prize winner The White Tiger. The book’s rights have been acquired [http://movies.rediff.com/look/2009/apr/15/…
Technology industry forecasts are an interesting exercise. I find it somewhat similar to “science fiction”, only that industry forecasts gauge a shorter capitalist term, and they are more analytical (less fiction for the Board of Directors, Investors, and Stakeholders). Back in January this year, as part of an ongoing hacker[…
> There’s something rather allegorical about people who do just one small thing all their lives, but do it better than anyone else. So bloody true. Whether it’s the Omelette Man [http://specials.rediff.com/money/2009/mar/07slide1-jodhpurs-omelette-man.htm], or the Joker, they both suffer from the…
> I went to a train station today and learned that the distance between railway tracks is always 143.5 centimeters or 4 feet and 8.5 inches. Why this absurd measurement? I asked my girlfriend to find out and this is what she discovered. When they built the first…