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A good number of hints. Nothing very fancy though – mostly common sense.
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Pigeons outperform humans at the Monty Hall Dilemma | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover MagazineThe classic puzzle: "Imagine that you’re in a game show and your host shows you three doors. Behind one of them is a shiny car and behind the others are far less lustrous goats. You pick one of the doors and get whatever lies within. After making your choice, your host opens one of the other two doors, which inevitably reveals a goat. He then asks you if you want to stick with your original pick, or swap to the other remaining door. What do you do?"
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Very interesting case. Living among them would be totally disorienting. Thank goodness we can count.
via http://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/05/amazonian-tribes-language-has-no-tenses-numbers-over-five/
Author: Aditya
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links for 2010-04-05
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links for 2010-04-02
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Something to think about when you read the headlines. The proverbial pinch of salt to go with them…
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An interesting bunch of photoshopped pics featuring Obama
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A nice graphic showing off the sizes of different characters from the Pixar movies (both long & short)
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Is Google all that different from Apple?
"…Google is at least as restrictive about the data on its servers as Apple is about the apps in its App Store…" -
A pretty important verdict that could have a cascading effect on other similar patents. Apparently around 20% of human genes have been patented after all.
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Is it really worth spending a couple of hours or more a day just travelling to work & back?
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Another free apps giveaway site for the iPhone\iPod touch
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Free apps given away daily for the iPhone\iPod touch
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Another portable apps collection. Over 2GB worth this time.
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links for 2010-04-01
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Another list of April Fools' day pranks
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Google's pretty active on this front & so are many others
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Quite a few examples from slideshare are embedded
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links for 2010-03-31
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'Thanks to the popular 1988 movie Stand and Deliver, many Americans know of the success that Jaime Escalante and his students enjoyed at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. During the 1980s, that exceptional teacher at a poor public school built a calculus program rivaled by only a handful of exclusive academies.
It is less well-known that Escalante left Garfield after problems with colleagues and administrators, and that his calculus program withered in his absence…' -
Interesting take on how copyright protection is worked out in the field of comedy. Jokes can be copyrighted after all, but the legal system is not really simple enough for direct enforcement.
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Interesting journey & an even more interesting bicycle that is made for 5.
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So is a $250 HDMI cable better than a $10 one? No way.
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links for 2010-03-30
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So, even if I were to use one from the list, a hacker might still need 500 tries to crack it
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Another case of the viral web & online protests
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Interesting suggestions – should make for a nice change in perspective
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The defining post for the internet OS. Quite an exhaustive one at that.
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A thermal map of the satellite that resembles pacman
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Wonder how all the data will be used
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The detailed document is also embedded from scribd – http://www.scribd.com/doc/29115406
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Interesting online application to build up reference points\scales for numbers
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Companion site for the book of the same name.
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A video of the entire flight is also available. Nice for sightseeing.
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So now we can really say ow.. ow.. ow…
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… or into an ad watching extravaganza
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links for 2010-03-29
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There you go: 'Scientists have finally confirmed what the rest of us have suspected for years: Bacon, cheesecake, and other delicious yet fattening foods may be addictive.'
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A real legend & possible one of the greatest before Bradman
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Also includes a greasemonkey script that works with Safari
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A livejournal community for vintage ads. Quite a collection. Mainly US ads though.
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links for 2010-03-28
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How much is enough?
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Not all that extreme, but quite a few extraordinary shots
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Quite a list
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links for 2010-03-26
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Gravity I suppose, not to forget the radiation.
'Scientists have found that if a nuclear weapon did blow an asteroid apart, it could reassemble itself in a very short period of time, continuing its path to death and destruction.' -
The original speech
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The Matrix… Are we there yet?
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Result of a competition apparently
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Quite a videos
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Always read the fine print with Reliance: Case BIG Cinemas
I had the fortune to get hold of a couple of free ticket vouchers (3+1 offer) when a bunch of us went for the Avatar 3D show at IMAX (Wadala, Mumbai) in December. They were valid till 31st March 2010 & so 3 of us thought why not catch up on Alice in Wonderland 3D using those. Unfortunately, we chose to go to the R-City multiplex this time & here’s a summary of what happened:
- I go to the counter & ask for 3 tickets & give the person the two vouchers & the cash for the remainder ticket.
- He looks at the vouchers & informs me that they’re not valid in here as they don’t contain the R-City stamp & he shows me a sample voucher with such a stamp.
- I then ask to speak to the manager as the voucher seems to suggest that it should be valid at any BIG Cinemas.
- We speak to the manager & he kindly informs us that:
- Sorry, but the vouchers are valid only at the branch where they were issued. So, our barcode readers here won’t be able to process those vouchers. (So much for integrated systems & CRM)
- It was mainly a promotional strategy to increase the audience in each branch separately. (Duh!)
- We decide to watch it anyway & pay the sum for all the 3 tickets.
Lessons learnt
Have a look at the voucher first, interpret the barcode & the fine print too:
The clauses 1, 14 & 15 are particularly interesting. 1 is as vague as can be. Moreover clause 14 pretty much ensures that they can give you the boot any time. As for the movie, it was pretty decent, though the 3D effects were nowhere close to Avatar (sitting in the last row probably didn’t help, which was in spite of me asking for tickets towards the front – that’s another story).
All said & done, I do regret not having learnt to read barcode in my 18 years of education (school + engineering + management).
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links for 2010-03-24
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Series of posts leading up to the picking of the worst company in America for the year. Wonder who'll win.
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Useful utility to help troubleshoot & repair OS installations. Available in both CD & USB versions.
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Software to track the activity of employees online. Wonder what this means for privacy.
via http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_sentry_track_employees_across_the_web.php
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