Category: status

  • The movie Happy New Year.

    Saw the movie “happy new year”. Its a double egg roll in a pizza wrap. Old theme with new styling. If you just want the roll go for this movie. Which anyway isn’t the cheapest option available, cheapest would be a kurkure or “5 Rs chips which comes exactly with 5 chips”. If you want…

  • “lex parsimoniae” as “less the assumptions less the liability”

    I would like to formulate “lex parsimoniae” as “less the assumptions less the liability”. Its not so much about simplicity or complexity but how simplicity or complexity are entertained by assumptions. Do we want more liability or less? Obviously less, and assumptions are a liability. They are only to be taken to make a matter…

  • Stop stereotyping us, Nobel Peace 2014.

    Stop stereotyping us, Nobel Peace 2014.

    A minor disagreement with the way Nobel Peace Committee chose to depict two large countries of the world, sounding like an arbiter for everything that would go here. From Nobel official website; “The Nobel Committee regards it as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in…

  • A new optimization parameter in a statistical sample !

    It reflects the quality scope of the citations. Its the total percentage of a citation that goes into defining a particular citation index. Let me call it q-index therefore (q for quality) See this example. My h-ind is 60. So total (minimum) citation it accounts for is 60*60 = 3600. My total citation is 12215.…

  • Pedestrian Safety.

    Just this morning I was getting off from my auto, while coming to work (like I have any !), and trying to cross a zebra-walk. If its a zebra-walk, it tells the vehicle drivers, that there is a zebra crossing the street so they shall stop, slow down, yield the avatar of Vishnu. [Vishnu=sun-theory=the great…