YARB!!

This is how I cook it!

2008-06-12T10:53:00.000-07:00

I don't know really how to start this one. So, i'll start with the underlying base of this discussion

Multitasking

Human multitasking or multitasking is the performance by an individual of more than one task at the same time. The term is derived from computer multitasking. An example of multitasking is listening to a radio interview while typing an email. Multitasking can result in time wasted due to human context switching and apparently causing more errors due to insufficient attention.

(From wikipedia :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_multitasking)

Ever since i came across this term as part of my computer science education, i was aware of the existence or non-existence of it around me. I 'knew' that if I could squeeze in more tasks per unit of time, I'd probably be fairing better! I looked down upon people who could only stare at their chat screens, while the other numerous modes of input built into a human body waited for that process to return the thread of control back.

Priority based preemption is now self-adjusting, its not the best yet, it has its own set of parameters unknown to the conscious mind. If I have ever been cranky towards your words or worst still put a deaf ear against your face, u should know where that is coming from - you are probably stuck at the end of a long queue of processes that need attention.

And sometimes, just to avoid all the guilt of having kept you waiting too long, I refrain .. to the time of the day when I can give you all of me you ask for ..

Anonymous Maximus

2008-04-08T11:39:00.000-07:00

I feel drunk, normally so
Everything good, thoughts
Linger around her
The song that you always loved
The waves that you always heard
Lonesome, she is there
Happiness, she is all you care
Logic defines her, Life is a blur
The anonymous face that u always saw
Finally has form
Touch and proximity are just nouns
Existentiality has new meaning
I will always be greedy, and want more
But there you are.

- Anonymous

Finally! .. RFC done yet?

2008-03-22T08:30:00.000-07:00

Original post - XKCD

A silhouette of me ...

2008-02-18T19:30:00.000-08:00

Un-enumerated!

2008-02-12T11:55:00.001-08:00

Life without list, without priorities .. order of any sort .. i know this sounds ironic to the very platform where i choose to write this. But maybe its not!

Its neither totally an extension of why lists exists; to make things simpler, to remember – to reiterate – to revisit. Organization from chaos to order .. but what if things were simple enough already to the point that chaos is a welcome change, like the warmth of a mild sun on a shivery winter morning.

Could there be direction without order?

See more progress on: not be worried about lists and priorities

The Omlette theory ....

2007-11-19T02:19:00.000-08:00

I'd be really scared to base my existence or more loosely even my happiness around a single someone or something. It would be a disaster to see my world crumble around it!

That goes for a whole lot of things .. from friends to philosophies, beliefs to love ..

ps: With all your eggs in one basket, you are risking your omlette ...

Love Anonymous ..

2007-11-14T02:19:00.001-08:00

Vanished, originally uploaded by Lara Swift.

Unsure steps, take me home
Wobbly thoughts cling on
Every last drop of intimacy
That last touch of sanity

You indulge to keep your head up
Just enough to breathe
And see the sun shining
Through shimmers on your wet brow

And pant, its tiring
All the love wasted
You grapple on to weeds
Care wasted, strangers to soul

Have u changed, from what it was
A better you she would had hoped
But another nail through you
Is all that it will take

- moi anonymous

Randomness .. smell the self-reference, if u have to ..

2007-10-01T04:52:00.000-07:00

Chaos, beautifully bounded by a box .. shades of red for a change .. in a monochromish world!

Murphy kicks Bayes' ass!

2007-06-25T08:09:00.000-07:00

Guess every thing has a "first time". Well, today was one .. I missed my train for the very first time .. and considering the times I have been in-charge, I guess the fraction stands at 1/50. But for a man, who has never missed a train, and over a long period of 25 years ... this is all but despicable!

And maybe I shouldn't be reading too much into this, but nature reminds me time and again that it has a mind of its own, and in better control of how things go around in this world. For the most part of the hideous torment, things just seemed to fall apart in all rhythm .. as tiles just kept falling under my feet.

(For the superstitious; one of the reasons I am traveling a day late is that I was busy reading discussion on pre-determined events in Fyodor Dvotovskey's 'Crime and Punishment'.)

Hmmm, but everything that happens, happens for good right*. Through all the storms brewing inside (and out - heavy clouds looming over in hyderabad skies, symbolic maybe), I hypothesized that ETHHFG* could be factorized as -

pre-determined events x favorable GOD = ETHHFG

I think I believe that, you could save your ass getting kicked, if Bayes could distribute the failure events more uniformly :D

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Coming up next:- Should or shouldn't a man be allowed, philosophically off-course, to repeat a mistake!

Ally McBeal

2007-06-03T22:29:00.000-07:00

It was a few years back, at an age where my knees should have been bruised and battered with all the 'Falling in Love' i should have been doing ..

Ally McBeal, the quirky lady .. with an overdramatically cute face, weird imagination and confused crushes ... the power girl, with a suite to match .. the teary eyes that melted my heart away! As years zoomed by, the memories faded into oblivion, my love buried under piles of things i would prioritize to remember ..

Until now! I don't really know how it all came up again, could be a casual conversation with a friend, but there she is .. standing on the sidewalks, with storms in her head .. and tht cute little smile .. my love!

So, the weekend was spent catching up on stuff, from where we had left off .. years back. Ally, sweetest!

What makes the show, all its worth (in addition to the lady herself) .. an indulging romantic plot, a background case with its moral dilemma .. the songs that accompany the story .. and to top it all the 'fantasy sequences' that portray the emotional state of the characters!

ps: Don't know if this was the show that started the fantasy sequences* after all, carried forward quite nicely in Scrubs. Absolutely love those ..

Life imitates art?

2007-05-25T12:47:00.000-07:00

Watching Paris Je' Taime, with all its artistic touches spawned a lucrative thought ...

Could life be described as one BIG painting, to be seen .. thought about and analyze what the artist (Him) had in mind? A work of art, with all its colors, strokes and shades .. hidden perceptions, backing thoughts and alternate meanings!

Maybe, but i'd rather believe that Life is infact art, but the brush has been handed down to each one of us ... to paint little or more patches in that big wide canvas that extends through space and time! Pallete, a whole set of emotions .. unearthed as each life proceeds from cradle to the grave .. Thoughts in logic that we conjure, Strokes in actions that we take or don't!

Meaning, a collective sum of being .. from one life to another, intertwined so blissfully .. that only He can tell one line from another!

Art .. of Life maybe :D

WORLD CINEMA in INDIA - The BIG and the small of it ...

2007-03-28T00:21:00.000-07:00

The promise looks big, atleast the content part of it. With just a beam of information to hold on to, we reached Renaissance. Knowing what its about, but hardly what!

World Cinema, accessible legally .. even right to your little home screens. Movies that only pirates knew about, talked in underground forums or elite media community. Now, UTV together with PALADOR takes that step to bring what has been missing all this while, something 'hatke' from the regular hollywood blockbusters .. and ur cheesy bollywood masala! Akira Kurusawa, Abbas Kiarostami, Chaplin, François Truffaut .. just a few names in the collection. And if you really don't know who or what they are, welcome to the club .. its time to be enlightened! :-)

Cidade De Deus (aka City of Gods) comes to a theatre near you on April 16th, kick starts a noble vision. Followed by other screenings on Zee Studio, and a independent channel to take it where it belongs finally! Us :D

Lots of questions to ask. Price, availability, choice .. coverage .. will be answered along the march! Piracy can't be ignored, much like the narrow target audience that they plan to address!

Smell of roasted meat fills the air, more later ..

The fruit, or the pluck?

2007-01-21T08:29:00.000-08:00

'The Forbidden fruit' - the apple that was never meant to be eaten .. or was!

Remember a friend talk about the forbidden fruit syndrome some time ago. Seemed, too pessimistic a view to acknowledge, and appreciate. But, lately .. seems more reasonable than ever!

A forbidden fruit definitely tastes sweeter, the rebel inside makes it so i guess ..

A parallel line of thought, in the same ball park, says that its the hunt that is the whole point and not what is being hunted. Is it true? I have been confused over this, a long time ... denying the whole conjecture, but no longer .. the hunt should go on, forever!

Something to run after, something to stalk .. goals .. dreams .. passions. 'Coz when you got it .. u just got it, how much longer can u lick the ice-cream?

Its a never ending urge to look for something new, something harder .. at the end only the pic remains .. nostalgia is something u can fallback to, not live with ..

You leave me dry ..

2007-01-09T10:15:00.001-08:00

Day 8, originally uploaded by languisity.

I caught it in the face
Coming around again
I thought it was worth waiting
You're caught up in my head
Wet sides from time to time
But mostly I'm just dry

The simple life ..

2007-01-06T06:35:00.001-08:00

shades of white, originally uploaded by sputnick.

This pic reminds me of the simpler life, the way the past always will be ..

Of careless joys, uneventful mistakes .. innocent falls, premature passions .. ignorant content life! Everything covered by knowledge, expectations and perspectives ..

Don't wanna go back, but its nice to be there once in a while!

Astrology .. naaahh .. nt quite

2006-12-03T04:01:00.000-08:00

The sentence "You're so predictable!" has such a negative connotation surprisingly. What better than to have someone that you can truly claim to know, that you can predict how he/she is gonna react. Isn't predictability an essential condition to dependability? Favorable predictability leads to dependability.

I seem to use the word "trust" very loosely to mean dependability. But, thats what it is ... I trust people that don't need to explain their actions or thoughts to me and vice versa. Close friends form a trust circle, and its the transitivity, associativity and reflectivity of this relation that provides securities in a social life.

So, how does this "trust" build up? Personally, everyone starts off with a default "trust" value, based upon first impressions. There on, its circumstances and how people react to those, that determine wether it grows or declines. The growth can be modeled as an exponential process where the initial rate is faster and it declines thereafter. In simpler words, its harder to rebuild "trust" after deep initial blows. Does this rule apply symmetrical to both "trust" and "mistrust". Somewhat, in that you would give some benefit of trust to someone who has earned it, rather than letting it fall briskly. Though, generally building trust is harder than losing it.

As a craby cancerian, I have close relationship insecurities. The first blow to trust can really shake things up, unless its mended quickly. There are others, who just so simply fit in that its hard to imagine evaluating them on trust. They simply stay on, till the anger subsides and things needn't be explained. Apologies are optional, either explicit or implicit if at all.

Which brings us to the more important question of all, how dependable are you? Thats something to ponder upon, isn't it :D

- Amar (23rd Nov 2006)

ps: Wrote this when i stepped back rather rudely from potential friendship ... ~~would prefer her understanding this, rather than me being right!~~

Update: Yeaahhh, I was rite [:D]

The Doors

2006-11-29T01:32:00.000-08:00

Poetry meets trance
Lyrics seldom rhyme
Straight from the heart
A stream sublime
Sounds u heard
Whispers unto void
Eyes shut, but light
From deep inside
Time can only mark
Start nor end
Without definition
Interpreted yet again
Free to freedom
Shocking to some
Alive with life, yet
Comfortably numb

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

2006-11-25T10:33:00.000-08:00

Touted as one of Kubrick's best work, A Clockwork Orange plays with the notion of free will as a human right.

Personally, I found the movie less entertaining and without any explicit directions. A mere cinematic rendering of the novel by Anthony Burgess .. What the movie does do, is to provoke thought about the existence of free will and the right to exercise it within the bounds of the world that we perceive.

So, does free will exist? The ability to make a choice when presented with a decision problem is what we call as free will. Randomness and determinism get naturally involved when we discuss free will. Determinism essentially means that events occur as they are 'supposed to' - predetermined - there is no other way. Therefore, free will cannot co-exist with determinism. Randomness is the notion of probabilistic occurence of events, a choice is naturally presented but with no explicit control. Randomness undermines free will, where choice occur by chance. Co-existence is possible but in a mutually exclusive, disjoint space.

So, lets assume a favourable environment for further discussion. We constraint determinism so that given a set of choices, the outcome after a choice is made is deterministic at any given decision node. That is to say that, given the same initial state, if we make the same choices at respective decision points, we would end up at the same final state. We still cannot accomodate randomness, because it cannot contribute to free will in any way, it is way too random!

Free will then allows us to make these choices when we are confronted by a decision. It allows us to evaluate/estimate outcomes for each choice, and optimize some cost function. Lets call this 'logic' for now, drawn out of past association between cause and effect. Our decisions are mostly mere calculations based on our collective 'logic' together with some randomness at points where the scales do not dip at either end.

What was so safely ignored unto this point is the existence of causal interference. We would turn up the same each time (with some tolerance offcourse) but for varied external influences from everything that surrrounds us. So, decision process is now a cost function of our own present state (memory, preferences, senses .. ) together with external variables ( recommendations, reviews, etc.). That hardly leaves any room for free will ...

For me free will does not exist in its truest sense, free will merely abstracts all that is unknown! Moral responsibility as a consequence of free will, therefore debatable, still forms an inseparable foundation of social existence.

RAIN

2006-11-06T12:38:00.001-08:00

RAIN, originally uploaded by Um Ibrahim.

Wrapped in a polythene tucked away safe in my mind
A little goodbye maybe or just a passing smile

The birds fly away to the southern sky searching a home
A bunch of paper flowers or a little boy left all alone
Can somebody hear me I'm screaming from so far away
Morning who will calm you now, the evening is eclipsed again

Well does life get any better
More yesterday than today
How I thought the sun would shine tomorrow
But it rained . . .

They justified the cause for which Daddy might give up his life
It's been so long, so long a time, still I miss Daddy at night
The ache is long gone but the never keeps staring along
The waters in the seas are high
and all the sand castles have drowned

Well does life get any better
More yesterday than today
How I thought the sun would shine tomorrow
But it rained . . .

The Gateway of India

2006-10-19T14:10:00.001-07:00

ERECTED to COMMEMORATE the LANDING in INDIA of KING GEORGE V and QUEEN MARY on DECEMBER 2, 1911., originally uploaded by Skorj.

I love this monument, I love Colaba and I definitely love
Mumbai !!

spoken behind my back

2006-10-19T14:05:00.001-07:00

spoken behind my back, originally uploaded by raspberrytart.

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me."

Oktober Blume

2006-10-17T05:06:00.001-07:00

Oktober Blume, originally uploaded by schuetzerp.

Wow, very beautiful ... cold too

Just Landed

2006-10-13T07:21:00.001-07:00

Just Landed, originally uploaded by Paul Sparks.

Calm .. may the weekend be so .. amen!!

Batman Drinks - Savage Chickens

2006-10-11T04:19:00.000-07:00

Speed Dating - Savage Chickens

2006-10-10T00:08:00.000-07:00

Self Referential ..

2006-10-09T23:58:00.003-07:00

patrick, originally uploaded by erinwaters.

nice :D

Sony reproductive system

2006-10-09T23:58:00.001-07:00

Sony reproductive system, originally uploaded by fd.

High Fidelity. Play with it.

Lazy bones ..

2006-10-06T13:23:00.000-07:00

My bro .. a total kiddo .. has grown miles in the last couple of years. This daadhi on him, is just a physical manifestation, a reminder perhaps .. that time passes by .. so quickly.

Be good, stay awake and enjoy ur stay dude!!

Cain & Abel

2006-10-06T11:18:00.001-07:00

Cain & Abel, originally uploaded by • Felipe Mercado •.

Binge Drinking!!

2006-10-06T01:28:00.000-07:00

Rebel

2006-10-05T03:43:00.001-07:00

, originally uploaded by Peetey.

I am not a rebel, just a free thinker
Unshackled by yesterday ..
I don't give a damn u care
I came, I saw and here to stay

Sound Waves ..

2006-10-04T08:25:00.001-07:00

ratatatum, originally uploaded by .elena..

Meta Evolution ..

2006-10-04T05:41:00.000-07:00

Does the process of Evolution itself evolves?
Well, history suggests that it does .. through the lengthy biological evolution, to the technogical advances of today. So, an important question to ask would be --

"How do you quantify this change in evolution?"
Through time and space, what else!!

To elaborate, consider the time required for each such evolution under observation. The time for a single-cell Amoeba to transform into multi-cell organisms was much larger than that for neanderthals to evolve into homo-sapien-sapiens(us). We took much more time to learn how to make tools than make technological advances in mass communication. So, basically the period of evolution seems to be reducing.

"What about space then?"
Aaaah, the effective area of change .. From planetary births/changes to the living life, from human race to disparate political units.

"What next then, smaller and closer?"
Precisely, individual evolutions .. quicker .. maybe a year, day or a nano-second. The evolution and meta-evolution theory is an active quantum research thread.

"So, its just these two parameters? Evolution could not evolve just so simply!!"
Hmmm, its a little more complicated :) .. For example, we can see a paradigm shift in the way things evolve -- from 'Survivor of the fittest' to 'Progress through colaboration'. And there's much more to analyze ....

"I wanna read more .."
http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~rva20/MetaEvolution.html
http://www.amazon.ca/Meta-Evolution-Future-Life-Unified-Evolution/dp/0738814636
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/

Hahahhaha ..

2006-10-04T00:29:00.000-07:00

Classy blue .. thr u are :)

2006-10-03T05:26:00.001-07:00

blue tea, originally uploaded by monitorpop.

Marketing - Savage Chickens

2006-09-30T05:18:00.000-07:00

Love, Life and Alike ..

2006-09-28T12:06:00.001-07:00

Love, originally uploaded by noqontrol.

if Life would only be so simple. Love - a key stroke away - with all its undo's and redo's :D

What other keys wld you have on ur magical keyboard, huh?

*wink* *wink*

Whr r my blues?

2006-09-28T11:55:00.001-07:00

Fall Foliage, originally uploaded by lawatha.

Shades of love O! flames of passion
The color of truth, blatant so ..
Always furious, but calmness vicarious
With silver lightning or pure white snow.

Delicate ..

2006-09-27T04:10:00.001-07:00

cosmos, originally uploaded by kayon.

So frail, yet beautiful
Pure as void, and alone
Unwithered and content with
Life and presence ..

Family Values :D

2006-09-20T03:49:00.000-07:00

Wings of Change ..

2006-09-19T11:32:00.001-07:00

wings on the wind, originally uploaded by highwaygirl67.

Spread your wings, pump your veins,
March ahead like never before
Trust your flight into the night,
Ride the storms, swim the shores!

Minimalistic Pleasures!!

2006-09-19T11:19:00.001-07:00

vancouver 274, originally uploaded by Rick E Dick.

What makes a good picture for me?

Well ... Colors ... Angle ... Light .. and a good title :D

Imperfection

2006-09-13T17:03:00.001-07:00

imperfection, originally uploaded by davidmmcneil.

Not all that we do be perfect, not at this moment possibly. But every step takes us to our final goal - The Horizon ..

Footprints

2006-09-13T13:20:00.001-07:00

Footprints, originally uploaded by Joshua Davis (articnomad).

Leave your footprints, make a difference. But don't worry too much about the waves that may wash them away one day!

To know that you have been there, and enjoyed every moment of it. No one knows how a flap of a butterful wing might trigger a storm somewhere ..

Wisdom Barrier

2006-09-12T04:29:00.000-07:00

Skepticism

2006-09-10T10:58:00.000-07:00