Religion and science, culture and belief. These attributes have a vast influence on each of us. It turns out that we are all in the middle of a podcast from God! So when I can across this far-fetched yet interesting research paper (link below) titled – Are we living in a…
Lately, I’ve been facing a series of problems with my Treo [https://www.nilkanth.com/index.php?s=treo] smartphone. It’s been well used for a few years now, and its starting to show signs of wear-off. First, its firmware got flushed, and I had to repatch it.…
Lately, I was thinking of taking a break from Delhi’s pre-monsoon humid weather, and head up-north to beat the heat a bit. Also to serve a quick retreat from work. So finally, I went to Dalhousie along with my family. Dalhousie is a less popular hill station for Delhiites,…
[http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000729.html] How wonderful and exciting would be a world where we can look at a person who is not the same and see what we have in common instead of that which sets us apart.…
Test-driven development (TDD [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development]), is an evolutionary approach to software development, in which you write a test before you write just enough production code to fulfill that test. The simple goal of TDD is to write clean code that works. Due to this fact,…
A cognitive bias [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias] is something that our mind commonly does to distort our own view of reality. Here are the 26 most studied and widely accepted cognitive biases [http://www.healthbolt.net/2007/02/14/26-reasons-what-you-think-is-right-is-wrong/] .…
I just got back from a memorable trip to the east central Indian state of Chhattisgarh [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhattisgarh]. I visited my wife’s hometown (Bhilai [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhilai]), and adjoining towns on the trip (see map [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&…
What if you get a paper cut from a Get Well card? [Photo by Pavel Potocek [http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3822624]]…