A colleague of mine told this story of three parrots during a meeting in front of our common boss, who was not impressed at all. Continue reading
Do you have a website or a blog and feel that it is getting bogged down with heavy traffic? First of all, congratulations — it is one of those problems that webmasters and bloggers would love to have. But how would you solve it? Here is one tip. Continue reading
Want to learn how to play Blackjack? Continue reading
Here is how an engineer would replace an instant water heater. Continue reading
Why is it that we like sad movies, but don’t like to be sad? Continue reading
When it comes to appreciating the problems related to sexism, I consider myself more sensitive than most. But this video was still an eye-opener for me. Continue reading
When it comes to business development, branding, you have to look for discontinuities, think outside the box, and not be constrained by conventionality, geometry etc. This short YouTube video will help. Continue reading
Practical advice on staying young. Or faking it. Continue reading
This an addendum to this series, I want to say a few more words about success in life. If you cannot quite achieve it, what do you do? Cheat like crazy! Continue reading
When I talked about the dimensions of success, I used the word dimension with an ulterior motive. I want to define success for you in a formal way. You see, an entity that has many dimensions is a space, similar … Continue reading
From the first post in this series, it looks as though money is an important dimension in how we define success in life. Here is a look at other possible dimensions of success. Continue reading
In this short series, I am going to tell you something immensely useful. How to be successful in life? Before giving you my recipe, we have to make sure that we are on the same page. What do we mean by success? Here are some possible definitions. Continue reading
Here is a short story about how a cowboy found the key to marital bliss. Continue reading
Many companies owe small sums of money to us. Should we ignore it because the sum is small, or fight it because their loot is huge? Continue reading
On the shady reimbursement practices of insurance companies. Continue reading
There is a only a fine line separating insanity from true genius. Why is that? Here is a possible answer. Continue reading
Wrapping up this series on the so-called strong artificial intelligence with a closer look at Prof. Searle’s arguments. Continue reading
Is Turing Test enough of a test to detect consciousness in machines? Prof. Searle proves that it is not. I beg to differ. Continue reading
How do you know other people have minds as you do? It is an unsolved problem in philosophy – the Problem of Other Minds. Before asking the question whether computers could have minds, we have to address this problem. Otherwise, how would we know even if computers actually had minds? Continue reading
Could our brains be computer hardware and minds be software running on them? Could computers have consciousness and intelligence? Could they have minds? If they had minds, how would we know? Continue reading
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