Posted in Random, Thinkers, Innovators and Artists, tagged Harry Chapin, Quotes, Songs on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oh if a man tried
To take his time on Earth
And prove before he died
What one man’s life could be worth
I wonder what would happen
to this world
This is in tribute to singer, songwriter, film-maker and philanthropist Harry Chapin, whose death anniversary is approaching.
[Photo Source : Rolling Stone]
Chapin remains to be one of my favorite folk [...]
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Image Processing, Science, Signal Processing, Swarm Intelligence, Thinkers, Innovators and Artists, tagged Image Processing, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Science, Artificial Life, Franz Kafka, Image Segmentation, Pattern Recognition, Vitorino Ramos, W on June 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Before I make a start I would want to make it very clear that inspite of what that the title may suggest, this is not a “sensational” post. It is just something that really intrigued me. It basically falls under the domain of image segmentation and pattern recognition, however it is something that can intrigue [...]
Posted in Fun, tagged Fun on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I came to know of the firefox 3.0 easter egg through Jordon Says, which i discovered on the wordpress home. Seems to be like a rapidly growing new blog!
I am guessing most of the Firefox using bloggers are already on FireFox 3? There had been a lot of posts throughout the “blogosphere” on the day [...]
Posted in Biology, Memetics, Nature, Random, Science, tagged Brain Viruses, Daniel Dennett, Memetics, Mind Viruses, Parasites, Science, Suicidal Behavior on June 22, 2008 | 35 Comments »
Many science fiction movies have featured a “good guy” whose mind has been hijacked by an evil mad scientist and he is induced into bizarre behavior beyond his control. A closer look at this “idea” reveals that such brain hijacking is relatively commonplace in nature. I have tried to look for such instances for a [...]
Posted in Science, Scientists, Thinkers, Innovators and Artists, tagged Freeman Dyson, Heretics, Science, Society on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[Photo Source : NASA]
Freeman Dyson is a professor emeritus of Physics at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton. Prof Freeman has always been one of my heroes and i regard him as one of the coolest physicists alive today. I was introduced to him and his work through “What Do You Care What Other [...]
Posted in Quotes, Scientists, tagged Feynman, Pleasure of Finding Things Out on June 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After the war Feynman joined Hans Bethe at Cornell University. He turned down the offer of a job at The Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton.
“Oh they expected me to be wonderful for they had offered me a job like this. And i wasn’t wonderful. And therefore i realised and made a new principle – [...]
Posted in Quotes, Scientists, tagged Einstein, Quotes on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Quoting arguably the most influential physicist Albert Einstein.
The most beautiful thing that we can experience is the mysterious, it is the source of all true science and art.
This happens to be one of my favorite quotes. Albert Einstein is one of the few iconic scientists who left us gems on almost every aspect of life. [...]
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