Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • How to see hidden files in Windows 7

    And it worked in my laptop: copied from http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial62.html#win7 Windows 7 To enable the viewing of Hidden files follow these steps. Please note a guide with images that shows the same steps can be found here: How to show hidden files in Windows 7 Close all programs so that you are at your desktop. Click…

  • अपने लिए

    एक बुलंदी जो मिलजाती तो मैं एक तारा बन जाता लेकिन अपने कमियों से परेसान रेहता एक हस्र जो मिलजाती तो मैं एक कहानी बन जाता लेकिन अपने तन्हाई से परेसान रेहता एक मंजिल जो मिलजाती तो मैं एक शाह-जहान बन जाता लेकिन अपने सवालों से परेसान रेहता एक सुबह जिसके मिलने से मैं एक…

  • Just a little philosophy

    Met a old fellow on a train 11 years ago. (No time travel, just reminiscing) He was dirty and his clothes were torn out. He explained to fellow passengers. What’s Philosophy? (The word for that in Sanskrit is “Darshan” which literally meant visible form or something like that, vision, anything related such as seeing something.) SO…

  • Just a note on signal analysis

    I was thinking about this a little..well from experience of the past decade (mostly more tha 3 years ago): When high energy physicists impose their selection criteria they usually think by making such criterion very tight (strict cuts) they end up removing more background and by increasing the figure of merit they have a clean…

  • Remarks about the 144 GeV bump found in CDF data analysis

    The first comments follow the discussion at this blog link: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/04/06/anomalies-at-fermilab/comment-page-1/#comment-158561 A few things are wrong here with some remarks (and misunderstanding) I point out one misunderstanding: the bump is a tail moving slowly as per Monte Carlo. “The bump is clearly a Gaussian so we can’t say it’s a tail that’s moving slowly because…

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