Recent Reads and More

It has been a while since I blogged here primarily because I have been doing more reading and gaming than writing of late. In addition, projects at work have kept me pretty busy as well. I have read a few interesting books since my return to India:

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson: [...]

Astuteness and the Mathematician

Sometimes, I get surprised by colleagues and friends who show remarkable flashes of brilliance when discussing things or when drawing conclusions during our discussions. Most of the time, I enjoy intelligent conversation. There are times when I find that being in a conversation is itself given to folly, especially since, discussions with the wrong crowd [...]

Google, Microsoft, Small World Networks and Futurology

Microsoft and Google’s business methods seem to use pioneering methods, or at least, best practices whose inner workings have been revealed by new found knowledge in the realm of small world networks, and network science. Network science is one of the hottest growing areas on the planet. It is the science of all the connections between various people, phenomena, processes, structures and pretty much any phenomenon whose states are determined by the interaction of multiple phenomena or influences.

Cheeni Kum

I don’t know if I have written about this movie before: I didn’t even bother to check. I have to admit that I am no huge fan of Hindi movies – I watch the occasional good Hindi movie, but I do enjoy good movies in whatever language. Having watched Japanese, Iranian (Arabic), Jewish and French [...]

2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey [†] is one of the best films I have ever seen. I say this because of the impact it has on your mind – your whole way of looking at humans, the nature of intelligence and the human condition all change significantly with every frame, and the movie is so far [...]