The four patterns : a philosophy

You took birth as an Homo Sapiens. You have limited lifetime as a living creature. In the past couple of decades, you've probably grown up: physically your growth has been stalled; mentally not yet!. May be you have earned some resources and/or inherited some. May be you acquired some knowledge by your own and learned from others. Now, standing somewhere in this jumbled society, looking for the path ahead. In a nutshell, all the tangles gets reduced to these 4 patterns:

  1. You convert energy into capital. May be you do business or a day job to serve the needs of others. You boost your capital. You use a portion of it to buy comforts. The rest, you transfer as inheritance or as charity.

 2. You use your energy to acquire more knowledge.You transfer your knowledge to others : may be via writing, teaching, etc.,.

3. You absorb all you receive, consume all you have and leave no trace. May be you are under privileged or got reasons to tell why this is so.

4. May be you will find the right balance of above. The extent of each of them depends on your abilities and luck.

And finally you will die, after which you are not a living body. May be your life will be interrupted if some one or something doesn't like your actions and possessions.  

How did nature facilitate birth of intelligent species in finite amount of energy and time?

The question "How intelligent animals are came into existence in this planet?" was whirling in my mind. Such a question had arise when I was thinking what does it take to create a truly intelligent agent like human brain out of a finite amount of energy & time.
This is amazing - the answer I was seeking is finally here:
Vast amount of energy formed due to sudden burst(Big bang) resulted in formation of particles(such as quarks).  High temperature kicked these particles to move faster and faster, but expansion caused temperature to reduce and hence particles gradually slowed down. This resulted the formation of next order particles(such as electrons, protons, neutrons...). As the particles slowed down further due to dropping temperature, protons and neutrons accumulated into nuclei and hence atoms are formed. As the temperature further reduced and movement further slowed down, electrons gets attached to nuclei and relatively stable state is formed which resulted in formation of atoms. Till now atoms are of single atomic number (one proton, one electron) -  we call it as Hydrogen. These Hydrogen atoms with unit proton, neutron & electron then resulted in forming galaxies, stars, planets. Later on by addition/fusion of Hydrogen, higher elements with bulky atoms(more particles) formed. In that process an higher order atom with 6 protons and 6 electrons formed - we call it as Carbon.  And even an atom with 8 protons and 8 electrons also formed - we call it as Oxygen. After certain time when temperature dropped to a pleasant value,  in one of the revolving body (Earth),  these atoms of  Hydrogen, Carbon & Oxygen together created these wonders on this planet- Water(Hydrogen and Oxygen), organic matter(Carbon and Hydrogen) and combustion (Carbon & Oxygen).
 Now lets jump on to Darwin's theory - When water on this planet gets stagnated, Carbon and Hydrogen settled to form a cell of organic matter, it was later evolved to multi-cellular organisms such as algae, marine species including water plants, amphibians, land species, birds. Out of so many possible combinations, there also lies a combination which had natural intelligence, we call them humans.

Now the question is - these intelligent species are now trying to find out answer for the question - why is the universe the way it is?

A month ago, while I was surfing on an online store, there was a recommendation of book : 'Brief history of Time - Stephen Hawking'. I was aware of Professor Hawking, a famous physicist. Preface and short summary of it were interesting. I said myself - 'Its been long time you read physics, lets have a look'.

High school science text books introduced basic laws of science, which are then broadened during pre university studies. During undergrad freshman year had read physics again on few narrow topics such as quantum mechanics, optics,... (In fact, my all time high score in academics was achieved in physics - 99/100, during Bachelor degree!) But, somehow the topics read were so disconnected in mind. 'The brief history of Time' helped to link one with another to make real sense. Thank you author.

The Author starts with historical beliefs and theories about the world around us. Then takes readers into a journey alongside timeline in which he narrates how the beliefs gets revised as centuries rolled, from Greek Philosophers to Copernicus & Galileo to Newton to Einstein to Heisenberg & Bohr to contemporary physicists. Meanwhile, you will be given with thoughts and affirmations of improvement in accuracy of understanding of universe.

I enjoyed reading it end to end, completed today. I would greatly recommend it to anybody who is interested in physics. If you don't have time for going through works of several researchers & scientists of past two millenniums, Professor Hawking has summarized it for you in simple words! By the time you finish reading book, you will be more confident about basic concepts in science.

I was astonished, for the way Professor thinks. The way how he throws questions, and answers one by one. This book summarized many theories, out of which it developed deep interest in me to have a deeper look on Einstein's "General and Special theory of Relativity" and Darwin's "Evolution of species". Now, I know what to read next! 

Effort is necessary to make favorable events happen but unfavorable can happen themselves

Wondering why conscious effort is necessary to make right events to occur but wrong events can happen by themselves! Right events, I mean here, are favorable events.

Recalling Murphy's law

1. Anything CAN go wrong, WILL go wrong. (full of pessimism)
2. what ever can happen will happen if we make trials enough.(a little room for optimism).

Inferring from second law of thermo dynamics: Disorder tends to increase over the time. From observations "wrong" events must be due to disorder.

Photo Tagging : One of the abused feature of Facebook.

One of the exciting feature of facebook is that it allows users to upload images and tag those images to people. This photo tagging has now become one of the abused feature. Mostly newly joined users  abuses it by tagging friends to every photo they want to show no matter whether their friends related to it or not!

Dear friends, If you want to share some content with a set of users, create a group and share it in group. Try not to be aggressive in that, its up to our interests and time to view your content. If you don't know, facebook team has invested lots of effort in recommending posts. If your content likely interests to me, it will automatically come up in my timeline and if it is really interesting to me I will click Like. Please don't abuse photo tagging to get more Likes.

The next language I want to learn

     Well, these years I learnt a bunch of languages from C to Java to python to groovy to Javascript.....  If i want to learn another, I will go with the language of math. I took slightly long time to understand that the language of computers is language of math and not just 0's and 1's. After all, these machines only know Arithmetic and Logic. So, If I want to make these machines to think, I must start to think in mathematical way. I may be doing that already, but I am trying hard to connect at the moment. One fine day, everything I think, write, understand and speak(source of feelings are excluded) will be placed on top of foundation of arithmetic and logic. Then comes the fun part, sitting down in front of machine and do programming - an action of transferring ones mathematically well established thoughts to 'memory' of the computer!

Why is Kannada Language suffering? : All thoughts here are personal

    Today is November 1st, Every year on this day "Kannada Rajyothsava" is celebrated by Kannada speaking people. So many things happen on this day. Many schools, colleges and government offices of my state celebrates this day just like Independence day which is celebrated on August 15th every year. I can see many wishes by political parties on media.
You can see Saffron-White-Green flags on August 15th and Yellow-Red colors on November 1st. Many people who are Kannada language lovers publicly complain that our language is dying as number of people who speaks Kannada is diminishing as years pass on. These things happens every year and i am grown up in this environment. Yes I am Kannadiga( a person who speak Kannada) and I do love my language.

    I got a new crazy bunch of thoughts about my native language, which i thought of sharing with you all. How is Kannada Linguistics evolving? Well, i tried to find answer for this question, I googled it for a while and was disappointed by results.
As you know by facts - Bangalore is 'Silicon Valley of India' or 'IT capital of India'. Though you can see huge talent pool here in Bengaluru, the fact is - not much work is done in technical adaption of Kannada, in my humble opinion, the current adaption is no where sufficient. This 21st century is where exciting technologies are making impact on life. Kannada as a language is seriously lacking in technical field. My parents speaks Kannada, i had my formal primary school education in Kannada medium. In fact, if i know one language to good extent, that is Kannada(the odd thing is - i had to write this in English!).

I have been learning Natural language processing(NLP). Well, all the time now i am dealing with English text and its grammar. This is where Kannada lacks. Why does not some tools like 'Wordnet lexical data base', 'Stanford Core NLP' and 'Part of Speech tagger' exists for Kannada? From my knowledge it is completely possible because Kannada is a beautiful language with wonderful grammar influenced by Sanskrit(thanks to the works of Paanini).

If you are wondering "why on this planet earth I should really care for tools like above!" Well, applications are front end of technology, that's how people get access to technology. More the availability of tools, easy it is to develop applications and many developers jump to develop for it. I am yet to imagine when Apple's Siri like virtual assistant application can understand and act on my mothers words which are in Kannada!

To conclude, My crazy thoughts are these:
1) I wish some Kannada Universities over there who are encouraging language by giving doctorates to Kannada literature and music, should also consider development of software tools/libraries like this.
2) Its not that Government hiring a team of pure technical people, pay their wages and tell them to do it. Its about building a bigger ecosystem to adapt Kannada language. In my opinions, Kannadigas who managed to get technical education are the people who can make a difference here.
3) Once Sir M. Visvesvaraya, Diwan of Mysore kingdom, then said - "Get industrialized or else.....". Now in this era, it is, "Get used to technology or else you will suffer!"


UPDATE:
 I found that LTRC at IIT Hyderabad is doing some work in related field.

Leisure cycling: 72km a day to start with

Wowwww! I did it! I did it! Yes, I pedaled my bicycle  60KM + 12KM today!

   It was early morning 5.30am, when i started my journey from Bangalore towards my native which is located at foot of Nandhi hills. It was a 60km ride, and took almost 3 hours and 24 minutes! Thanks to my boss, who advised me to carry few bottles of Getorade's, lots of water, these guys really saved me from dehydration.

Graph: Speed and Elevation

#cycling Stats

    Some beliefs wont change, after reaching home, i took my cycle to a temple to perform pooja to cycle just like we do to every new vehicle we buy. Actually, for me my btwin RockRider bicycle is no less than my Honda bike. This temple was 6Km away from home, my legs were already tired but still had another 12Km of ride.

  It was fun for me. I believe, when we are young, the more we work-out in a field, the more stronger we become in that. One should maintain a good health, no matter what field he works for.