The backward look
A confluence of tricksters, greed and getting rich quickly Greed has existed for a long time. Early cemeteries from the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages show distinct disparities, where select individuals were buried with vast amounts of prestige items (copper, jade, or rare shells) while most had nothing. Archaeological finds across Mesopotamia and the Near Continue reading
Built roads to connectHoping for buses to plyBut they now intersectAnd only cars fly We built with glass and steelOn marshes and low groundOn lakes and झीलAnd watched floods abound We discovered packaged foodAnd now segregate into fiveAbout calories we broodAnd worry the loss of a bee hive We stop when the skies openChoked with Continue reading
The developer and AI agents are very much like Gru and minions. Gru is the mastermind — he sets the goal, devises the plan. The minions are specialized, eager, and a bit single- objective-minded. For example like web search tools, code executors, memory systems, API callers etc. They don t set the agenda; they just carry Continue reading
On flights by Indigo, there is something to learn and improve one s ability to survive in this age of AI written articles and generated images and videos, and fake posts on social media. When you request water to drink, after overcoming the pitying look of the hostess on your inability to buy something to eat, Continue reading
I have a small space where I keep books written by authors I know personally. While I have many other books, a space like this allows me to start a conversation with ease and conduct a intelligent one at that even when the visitor is patently ill-literate by my own yardstick. To this, I added Continue reading
Today, 20 January is the Penguin Awareness Day. For most of us it is just another bird in black and white reminiscent of butlers’, valets and black and white dressed ushers and doormen. With its apparent ungainly walk, some may remember the very officious looking salespersons with a glove in a black coat demonstrating the Continue reading
Swamy was confused. In all his nine years of age he had not come across such a situation. He felt he must do what his heart directed him to do. He must complain to the school principal about the behaviour of the PT Master. However, something was urging him to be calm and think. He Continue reading
Charles Darwin, a man who perhaps one of the few men to have seen evolution up close, had propounded that underlying precepts of evolution was based on natural selection, proposing that species change over time from common ancestors, driven by natural selection where advantageous, traits that are heritable, traits that help survival and reproduction become more Continue reading
Another year not as remarkable as the last year. The last years was full of complete mathematical oddities, many factors, squares and interesting number properties. This year a pithy factor of 2 and 1013. What a pity! This writing is not about number theory. Far from it. Every year the beginning of a new year Continue reading
Around 1960s, a boy was born in the rich Solsten family at Solvang. It was unfortunate that the family could not celebrate the occasion as they would have wished to. The child was healthy to look at and the Apgar score was 7 and the doctors were not too worried. However, in a few days Continue reading