Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • My analysis of Odisha elections — 2017

    My analysis of Odisha elections — 2017

    Odisha Panchayat Election 2017 The concurrent election in Odisha just drew to a close and I did an analysis on the results available tentatively. Notice that there is no visible errors here, even if I e.g. adjusted 854 to 850 and so on. If you add up the % figures they add to 100% perfectly…

  • Inherent ability = difficulty * accomplishment.

    All of Physics is this “Inherent ability = difficulty * accomplishment”. Thats just intuitive but can easily be seen to correspond mathematically with the Principle of least action. First the edifice: whats the problem? The problem is given you move in straight line when every direction is same around you, which direction will you chose?…

  • Aberrations, a lecture in optics.

    Aberrations, a lecture in optics.

    Optics series Lecture — I Optical Aberrations delivered on 24 – 1 – 2017 — all optics series lectures can be accessed here.  This lecture has been delivered in one of the honors class that I am teaching this semester. You will do really well to read the linked article on Optical path and Fermat’s principle…

  • A c++ code for calculating pi value.

    A c++ code for calculating pi value.

    Finally I am successful in calculating pi value — less than 0.3% error, by using random number generation. Although my computer needs some fixation on its compiler or path definition etc, there are very good online compilers which helps in testing and running c++ codes: try the given link. OUTPUT Computing the value of pi…

  • Gandhi

    Facebook has pointed out that India is now celebrating Gandhi Jayanti, a special day commemorating the birthday of Gandhi. What little I know about him indicates that he was a very wise man. Can you tell us about the holiday? Hi Jeremy. Hope you are doing great. I believe you are in Alabama now. Again…

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