M Dash Foundation: C Cube Learning

Category: Insights

  • Demand and Supply and the flip-smart syndrome.

    Some technologies are designed to fail you, so that you will want more and more of them, and you will be prepared to pay higher prices. Laptops and girlfriends come to mind. Lets just discuss the laptops. I originally intended the wrote up as a two line joke, which are not allowed in our civilized…

  • Airplanes are cheaper modes of communication than auto-rikshaw.

    Per km fare of a typical airfare now a days could be Rs 3. That for an auto Rs 14. If you were to (only hypothetically: spherical cow) continue to travel via auto for 1500 kms, you would spend far more for the fare this way, than for an airplane, in that proportion, apart from…

  • The Singapore maths puzzle.

    Now that I could lean back I guessed the answer for this puzzle after reading it a couple times mindfully. I think the answer is August 17. WHY? I will explain in detail. But first of all the answer I came across here (in NY Times) is obviously misleading and incorrect. They give July 16…

  • The ambiguity of Hiragana and Katakana letters.

    This article is to exemplify the ideas. The comprehensive version might be added given to a technically visible chart making. These are the 5 hiragana (HG) and katakana (KK) letters that are almost same; HG (や か り に へ) = KK (ヤ カ リ ニ ヘ ). So if you know one the other…

  • There is only one physical favor the Universe did on life.

    But all of them are not stable. We have made great strides in understanding them collectively called as standard model of particle physics which involves electroweak and strong interactions. Its a weird mess of beautiful list of particles and their behavior toward each other. Sometimes there is symmetry breaking sometimes there is symmetry and sometimes…