The Year So Far

2012 has been an eventful year indeed. 

Numerous breakthroughs, mind blowing discoveries and unfortunate farewells. 

God Damn Particle 

This has been the most inspiring scientific breakthrough this year by CERN. The Higgs Boson particle has been one of the best discoveries this year which opens up a foray of scientific research opportunities. Humans will now be able to explain the Big Bang which led to the formation of this universe amidst which our Earth joyfully rests.

Though this particle is known as Higgs Boson or the God particle, it was originally known as the Goddamn particle for this tiny elusive particle exists for a really minutest possible division of time. Hence, the name. 

Federer - An Era continues

Wimbledon 2012

The Swiss champ levels his record with that of Sampras with his seven Wimbledon titles, 17th career Grand Slams and current ranking No.1. He’s one of the strong contenders who’s going to win the Olympic singles gold this year at London.

Mary Poppins

London 2012

Now, coming to London

It hosts the Olympics for the third time. The opening ceremony couldn’t match the Beijing Olympics 2008 but a decent one indeed. Danny Boyle’s work, lines from the renowned Shakespeare’s Tempest, Daniel Craig and Her Majesty’s 007 act, Voldemort’s evil act, classic Mary Poppins and the wonderful display of fireworks made it a pretty good one. 

Indian Food 

Some time in July this year, South Indian delicacy Masala Dosa 

makes it to the list of the “10 Foods to try before you die” 

compiled by Huffington Post.  

Tech Bytes

Google's Android Operating system which is running on millions of mobile devices world wide treats users with its latest release "Jelly Bean 4.1". Apple fans needn't be disappointed for "Mountain Lion" operating system is a big treat by itself. With hundreds of new features, this iOS - like operating system will take on the heated competition from its rival Microsoft's Windows 8 release in the coming month. 

Social networking giant Facebook acquired the free photo sharing app  Instagram in April this year. It also joined the league of technology startups which went public with its initial IPO in May 2012. 

Technology Stalwarts

Dennis Ritchie
September 9, 1941 - October 12, 2011

printf("Goodbye Ritchie\n");

The man behind the foundation of the digital era...

The man who co-developed Unix System...

The man behind C...

As a computer science student, it was really hard to accept his death. He was the very individual who revolutionized the digital age with the creation of the programming language C and Unix along with his colleague Ken Thompson at the Bell Laboratories.

The entire world of computer science revolves around programming with C which has influenced the development of several other programming languages like C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, JavaScript.

Every tablet that is out in the market, every iphone is rooted to this contribution by the computer scientist Dennis Ritchie.

R.I.P Father of C and Unix, Dennis M Ritchie

If you don't have an iphone, well...you don't have an iphone...

The man behind Apple...

The man who revolutionized the mp3 player to the uber cool ipod...

The co founder of Pixar Animation Studios which gave us Toy Story, a brilliant animation series...

The man behind "i" in digital era...

R.I.P Steven Paul Jobs

It's disheartening to find out so many brilliant people out there are no longer with us today. It was astonishing to find out John McCarthy joins the list of people whom we owe a lot today....

John McCarthy
September 4, 1927 - October 24, 2011

The individual who coined the term Artificial Intelligence...

The founder of LISP (LISt Processing), one of the most influential programming languages...

The one who was involved in the development of time - sharing systems without which the INTERNET wouldn't have existed...

R.I.P John McCarthy

Three of the technology stalwarts are longer with us today. This definitely seems like a doomsday conspiracy by the Almighty.

Incredible Indeed...

...how
---One randomly meets a few people whom one'll never again come across in life...
---Unexpected people turn into great friends of yours...
---Serene nature is so appealing when you are in a crowded classroom...
---Chaos is bliss when you are solitary---You feel patriotic when you hear your national anthem
---Music can soothe your mood
---You crave for food when restricted
---Movies with great values makes you emotional...n how ones that were light hearted made you laugh out loud...
---Resolutions are so hard to keep up to!

Big Bang Theory

Theme Song of one of my Favourite Shows: The Big Bang Theory

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait...
The Earth began to cool,
The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools,
We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries,
That all started with the big bang!

"Since the dawn of man" is really not that long,
As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song.
A fraction of a second and the elements were made.
The bipeds stood up straight,
The dinosaurs all met their fate,
They tried to leap but they were late
And they all died (they froze their asses off)
The oceans and pangea
See ya wouldn't wanna be ya
Set in motion by the same big bang!

It all started with the big BANG!

It's expanding ever outward but one day
It will cause the stars to go the other way,
Collapsing ever inward, we won't be here, it wont be hurt
Our best and brightest figure that it'll make an even bigger bang!

Australopithecus would really have been sick of us
Debating out while here they're catching deer (we're catching viruses)
Religion or astronomy, Encarta, Deuteronomy
It all started with the big bang!

Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology
It all started with the big bang!
It all started with the big BANG!

Man v/s Machines

Compassion, fear, hope, anger, frustration, loneliness, sorrow, happiness,surprise, envy, misery, gratitude...
These are some amongst the multitude of emotions that an individual experiences in one's lifetime. We can "feel" these wide ranging emotions, but machines? Not yet...

All these can be clearly observed in human beings or the Homo sapiens...other species can do so too but to a certain extent. These emotions can be considered as the various psychological states of an individual's mind. They originate in the limbic system of the human brain which comprises the thalamus, hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus.

I wouldn't go into the anatomy part of it for I am not a neurosurgeon!!! But, these complex emotions change the very fact that machines which despite tremendous technological advances aren't able to experience these making our species a class apart from them(May be in the future, machines may out do man). It's fascinating to watch science fiction movies like Terminator, Star trek, I,Robot or read books like 3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke. Researchers have been working on such possibilities since ages and this has led to a field of Strong Artificial Intelligence which aims to develop machines which can mimic man in all aspects and probably exceed human capabilities. Advances in the field of AI has led to applications such as neural networks, data mining and computer pattern recognition.

 For instance, IBM's Watson defeated humans on the quiz show Jeopardy in the human versus machine match. It's astonishing to hear about these breakthroughs. What people fail to realise is that it was man who came up with the complex algorithms and software in such computer systems. I salute thee, O Creator. This ultimately brings us to the conclusion that unless scientists come up with software which can learn all by itself, it's the human brain which is responsible for all the scientific establishments.

NASA's robot

This makes me wonder about the tremendous hidden potential this 1.5 kilogram mass of cells can do if challenged! More to look out for in the future!!!

How about this?

I was wondering the other day how would the several shows on Star World or Zee Cafe turn out if all the characters were neighbours!!!

I considered the possibility of only a few shows...You are free to imagine any other random show with all your favourite characters together!

Hard to imagine? Well...try it when you are bored! An idle mind's a devil's workshop says an old proverb...I say - An idle mind's an innovator's workshop!

Bones and Lie to Me

Let me get to the point...How easy it would be for the CBI to catch criminals like Neal Caffrey and Dexter Morgan if Dr.Cal Lightman was just a door away? Well...for those of you who didn't get what I'm saying, Neal Caffrey is a character from the famed show White Collar, Dexter Morgan from the show Dexter and Lightman from Lie to Me. More info? Just google them!

Here's the link: www.google.com 

It's so easy to say google it! Imagine the world without google!!! It seems impossible in this digital age!

Yeah, so Lightman can easily figure out from his famed micro-expressions analysis what convicts are upto. I wonder if he could capture Dexter, blood spatter analyst for he shows no emotions. Castle and his mysterious novel coincidences or Bones helping out Booth or even NYPD!!! I know it's FBI in the show Bones but what if the characters of the shows Castle and Bones are mixed up? Hilarious!!!

There might be someone out there who would have thought of mixing them all up. I wonder how it'll turn out if it really does!! I'd call it F.R.I.E.N.D.S!!! 

I didn't mean to say anything about the official show F.R.I.E.N.D.S but a possibility of the protagonists of Dexter, Castle, Bones, White Collar and Lie to Me being friends!!!

IT ALL ENDS!!!

A saga that captured the world

Well...I know this post should have come out earlier but never mind...
I had a lot of expectations from Harry Potter for it was going to be the last one in the series.

It wasn't a disappointing movie. Since I loved the books, the movie didn't appeal to the reader in me to a great extent but the 3D effects were mind blowing...The amazing experience of flying on Firebolts, the feeling of you being a dementor and flying like the ghosts of Hogwarts...Wow...breath taking!!!

Harry breaking the Elder Wand...Really? That part should have been like in the book itself! But,on the whole, the movie was good. This highest grossing Non-Cameron film worldwide surely deserves an applause.