Think Different

A decade back when Steve Jobs returned to Apple Inc. The Apple brand had notably diminished in prestige, it was in this time (in 1997) that Apple launched the Think Different Ad campaign. Which not only helped to make staggering improvements in Apple’s image but also is one of the best ad campaigns in history [...]

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Altruism Pays: Nice Guys Finish First say Harvard Researchers

Just a fortnight back i undertook to write on Altruism in Animals. In that essay i mentioned about a study by Richard Dawkins, at the end of which he concluded that Hardin’s “Nice Guys Finish Last” idea could be modified to “Nice Guys Finish First”.
It is quite amazing that just within a few days of [...]

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Zero Crossings as an Effective Feature In Speech Recognition for Embedded Applications

Motivation: About a couple of months back i was wondering on designing a speaker dependent speech recognizer on the 8051 micro-controller or any of its derivatives for simple machine control. We would of course need an isolated word (or digit) recognizer.
Problem: Speech recognizers can be implemented using Hidden Markov Models or Artificial Neural Networks. There [...]

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Arthur Clarke is No More

Just a few weeks back in an article i had mentioned Arthur Clarke commenting on the Orion. I woke up today morning with the news that the celebrated thinker, novelist, writer had passed away in his Sri Lankan home due to heart failure.

I have read quite a few of his fictional works. I started reading [...]

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Altruism in Animals

One of the problems that Swarm Intelligence research faces is a precise definition[1]. Many words that are associated with SI are generally Emergence, Self-Organization, Collective Intelligence etc. There is no general mathematical definition to it yet. This lack of a credible and workable framework has made research in this field ad-hoc. In simple words we [...]

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The {Grass} is Always Greener on the Other Side

A couple of years back when i was in the process of shock recovery. I used to have a 30 page-long collection of nerdy jokes. Sadly, I lost that book one Diwali .
Those jokes went on their way to ethernity, and from that long list, I can only recall one joke word to word:
The phosphor [...]

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Hidden Answers

Pictures, videos and other visual inputs can be very misleading. We sometimes think that pictures reveal their stories easily, which is not the case!
As an example take a little story of Harold C Urey.

Urey has been one of the most respected physical chemists in history. For his pioneering work related to isotopes and particularly heavy [...]

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