Arun2009

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by Arun2009 16y ago
> Over a period of eight days, the wasp larva consumes the roach's internal organs in an order which guarantees that the roach will stay alive, at least until the larva enters the pupal stage and forms a cocoon inside the roach's body.
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by Arun2009 16y ago
My key take-away from the article was this quote: “There is a difference,” she said, “between immediate recall of facts and an ability to recall a gestalt of knowledge. We can’t retrieve the specifics, but to adapt a phrase of William James
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'Paid news' corruption undermines Indian media(asiaone.com)
3 points by Arun2009 16y ago|0 comments
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7 days to go for Games, 7 lessons for India(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
6 points by Arun2009 16y ago|1 comments
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I like how his cool confidence stands in contrast to Steve "I'm going to fucking kill Google" Ballmer's aggression. Notice how generous he is with compliments for Google's competitors.
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Thank you for the article, BTW. :-)
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Of course, the article doesn't say anything new, and admits this right at the start. But I thought it conveyed its content in an interesting way. Articles such as these IMO convey more than just objective information. You imbibe a subject
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Slow, natural, deadly: The importance of fundamentals(mostlymaths.net)
17 points by Arun2009 16y ago|10 comments
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by Arun2009 16y ago
The article focuses on the founder's Hypomania, but here's the elephant in the room that no-one's talking about: Quote: "But it is hard to tease out what Norman and Suzanne Priebatsch — a biotech entrepreneur and a financial adviser at Smit
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The Only Way to Become Amazingly Great at Something(zenhabits.net)
32 points by Arun2009 16y ago|8 comments
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Taming the Textbook Market(insidehighered.com)
1 points by Arun2009 16y ago|0 comments
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by Arun2009 16y ago
IMO, a large part of underrepresentation of women in software is due to the following self-reinforcing stereotype. 1. For historical reasons, men got a head-start in the software sector. 2. Software sector came to be seen as a male-dominate
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by Arun2009 16y ago
What is striking about this entire affair is just how politically incorrect it is to suggest that East Asians want to look White, whereas, say, to suggest that East Asians want to look African would sound merely quaint. Substitute East Asia
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by Arun2009 16y ago
> Being an entrepreneur and failing Well, it's the business that failed, not the entrepreneur. There are always lessons that you take away from the experience - something that people who didn't try will ever have. This knowledge is both
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by Arun2009 16y ago
Maybe it's because I'm in a cynical mood right now, but Steve Jobs looks like he's performing for an audience. I'd have loved to hear what people like Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates really think, but whenever these guys speak, I su
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by Arun2009 16y ago
Man's search for meaning, by Viktor Frankel The Republic, by Plato. It introduced me to a whole new way of thinking. The Gita. I later came to know about the chariot allegory in the Kathopanishad ( http://www.atmajyoti.org/up_katha_upanisha
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by Arun2009 16y ago
> "... which so-and-so clearly does not understand..." or "I'm surprised anyone actually pays attention to that kook." I beg to disagree. Such verbal slinging IMO serves the important sociological purpose of publicly provoking the other
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The Big Five Personality Traits(en.wikipedia.org)
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The case for getting rid of tenure.(slate.com)
21 points by Arun2009 16y ago|18 comments
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by Arun2009 16y ago
I just keep a personal Wordpress blog hosted on my computer, and keep a link to it in my home page HTML. I've found the scheme to work pretty well.
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Actually, I do - had to quickly glance through the book to confirm it though. The book is this: http://www.amazon.com/Your-Memory-How-Works-Improve/dp/15692...
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by Arun2009 16y ago
> The trouble is that I don't remember anything. I read somewhere that our long-term memory has unlimited capacity, and there are basically three ways of measuring your memory: - Recall: see whether you can recall the pertinent facts. -
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Carnatic Music Basics(ecse.rpi.edu)
2 points by Arun2009 16y ago|0 comments
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by Arun2009 16y ago
From my personal experience, Amazon's ploy of suggesting related books has been very effective on me. I've often gone there with the intention of spending perhaps USD 40 on a specific book and ended up spending thrice that amount (happily
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by Arun2009 16y ago
My suggestion: spend some quality time knowing yourself, so that you may better lead an authentic and fulfilling life. What does happiness mean to you? What are your strengths and weaknesses? What do you value most? What are your goals? Wha
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by Arun2009 16y ago
I am NOT a Mathematician, but FWIW, here are my antidotes to the crisis in meaning that you are facing: 1. You most likely wouldn't have had a problem solver's education. So the first thing to do would be do start understanding how problem
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Amartya Sen on Adam Smith's "The Theory of Moral Sentiments"(newstatesman.com)
10 points by Arun2009 16y ago|0 comments
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Jacques Hadamard gives an account of a similar phenomenon (a sudden flash of an idea) in Mathematics in his Psychology of invention in the Mathematical field ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Hadamard#On_creativity ). Also, very coinc
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Accent can impact speaker's credibility(uk.reuters.com)
6 points by Arun2009 16y ago|4 comments
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The Dhammapada(serve.com)
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