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The Calculus Affair

The Calculus Affair

Calculus – A little Personal Background Calculus was introduced to us in India in Plus 1 is the CBSE curriculum (we have a 10 +2 system, where one spends 12 years in School + 3 years in Nursery, KG1/2 before getting to school). I am an engineer and have taken many courses in mathematics but unfortunately my interest started waning down quite a bit and I missed the fun in doing mathematics and it became a very dry subject for…

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The Story of Sunya to Sifr to Zero

The Story of Sunya to Sifr to Zero

Zero: The Backdrop Zero is a unique number. Technically every number is unique but Zero as a number and concept was considered dangerous by many for millenniums and we will delve little more looking at its history and its rise in application in various technology. Many would have heard that Mathematics is called the Queen of Science and Number Theory is Queen of Mathematics. This quote is attributed to gifted Mathematician called Gauss. Our very own Srinivasan Ramanujan explored number…

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Ryugu and Bennu – Near Earth Objects Visited in 2020

Ryugu and Bennu – Near Earth Objects Visited in 2020

Ryugu and Bennu are asteroids that are part of many of the Near Earth Objects. Many space organizations of the world are monitoring the orbits of bunch of Near Earth Objects in order to calculate if their path will cross with earth or if they are on the collision path. NASA’s JPL has a Centre for Near Earth Object Studies that is computing asteroid and comet orbits and their odds of Earth impact. Lets looks at these two asteroids. Recently…

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Teardown of a Fisher Price Toy CGM35

Teardown of a Fisher Price Toy CGM35

Toy Industry Mattel owns Fisher Price and if you go to a toy shop or online the products are mostly from this company if one needs a good quality options. All others are kind of knock off of the product from there and its very easy to see a quality difference. Whatever the quality of product all products are mostly “Made In China” probably 95% of them. Are these really complicated ones and does it need lot of R&D, the…

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Mortal Combat: Story of Gaming Consoles Part 1

Mortal Combat: Story of Gaming Consoles Part 1

Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are three masters in the gaming console industry. It’s amazing to see how these three players have played out their strategies in the market. Here is the story with my personal touch My Tryst With Games Personally when I was probably 10 years old I saw a version of Sega computer games at a friend’s place. And that’s when I really pestered my parents to buy me a console. It’s was quite an investment for our…

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Goqii Fitness Tracker: Teardown of 2015 Model

Goqii Fitness Tracker: Teardown of 2015 Model

I had bought a Goqii Fitness Tracker and it was lying for a while unused. I had lost the charger somewhere. So I opened it today and here is a teardown analysis with pictures. I bought it for 2000 rupees and it looks like this   GOQii Vital – Colour Display Blood Pressure Monitor with 3 Months Personal Coaching, Adult (Black) The rubber band sits the mechanical in pouch sort of thing. The mechanical casing houses the all the electronics…

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How to Make Use of Time While Driving in Bangalore !!

How to Make Use of Time While Driving in Bangalore !!

I am a reluctant car driver living in Bangalore, India. Never loved driving or going on a long drive, prefer if it being driven by a friend and me enjoying the ride looking out, probably helping with directions (very bad at it though :-)). I have been driving on and off from 2009 and in these years I would not have clocked more than 15K KMs mileage. That makes it an average of under 2K/year which is not a lot….

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Trolley Problem and Autonomous Vehicles

Trolley Problem and Autonomous Vehicles

Trolley Problem is a famous thought experiment in Ethics and behavioral economics and psychology have been using this for a while. There are many versions of the problem but lets take few examples. There is a trolley barreling down on the railway track and there are five workers busy working on the track. The trolley is moving towards them. You are standing near to a lever and if you pull this lever the trolley switches to different track but that…

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