Heart is where the mind stays.

NOSQL - Death of the RDBMS

https://www.slideshare.net/SourajitBasak/nosql-public

Edible Cookies vs Browser Cookies

Unlike an edible cookie those are most likely consumed by you or occasionally shared to those you know, the browser cookie is shared among the major internet giants without your consent. Actually those are all written in the Terms and Conditions which most of us click without completely reading. 

Go offline maybe ?



 

Possible cause of Global warming

Possibility 1

The following thought had occurred to me in early 2018. 

The orbit of earth's revolution shrinks and expands in different epochs. The present epoch is the shrinking phase. The expansion phase earlier led to ice age or the Pleistocene epoch. It may happen that earth may spirally collapse to the center of revolution i.e. the sun; basically sucked up by solar gravitational field. 

The only force that matters is 'gravity'.
  
Naturally it seemed a crackpot theory; even I had thought so till I read about "Milankovitch cycles". 

Still do not agree with greenhouse gas emission led warming theory. There are enough geo-political interests behind it. 

Rebuttal of this theory by NASA here.

 

Possibility 2

The sun may be getting warmer.

(To be continued)

PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD

Provided you have both....

Man vs Machine ?

 

The Kasparov Effect: Psychological Denial Let’s look at the facts without the emotional baggage. In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov. Later, a machine won Jeopardy!. When Kasparov lost, he complained that he didn't get to study Deep Blue's moves, while the machine had analyzed all of his. This is classic "pain-avoiding psychological denial." He refused to accept reality. The machine had the data; the man had the ego. In a contest between a fatigue-free algorithm and a human prone to bias, bet on the algorithm for the grunt work.

Invert the Question People are running around hyperventilating, asking, "Will computers outperform us?" or "Will I lose my job?"

Invert the question. Instead of asking how computers will replace us, ask: "How can I use this machine to be less stupid?"

There is no doubt that computational tasks are better left to the silicon. There is hardly a desk job left that doesn't rely on a computer. We like to tell ourselves a comforting fairy tale that "creative" or "strategic" work is safe. That’s nonsense. Creativity is just a complex pattern recognition process. If you give a machine enough prior data and a feedback loop, it can generate art or write news. It doesn’t get tired. It doesn’t get depressed. It just executes.

Look at machine generated art. 

https://deepdreamgenerator.com/

Or machine generated human faces. These are not real people!

https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Man Plus Machine Here is the mental model you need to understand the future. Look at the free-style tournament Kasparov organized later. You had three groups:

1. Inferior players with superior computers.

2. Grandmasters with inferior computers.

3. Moderate players with moderate computers.

Who won? The third group.

This is a multiplier effect—when two or more forces combine to produce a result greater than the sum of the parts. The grandmaster failed because he had too much ego to listen to the machine. The inferior player failed because he didn't know what to ask the machine. The winner was the moderate player who had the process right: he provided the judgment, and the computer provided the calculation.

The Conclusion Stop panicking about the machines taking over. Envy and fear are the stupidest of the deadly sins. The computer is a lever. If you are wise, you use the lever to move the world. If you are a fool, you let the lever crush you.

Steve Jobs had it right: the computer is a "bicycle for the mind." It makes you faster, but you still have to pedal.

Humanity will reinvent itself because it has to. As professionals, our job is simple: Use the tool to compound your own rationality. Don't just get used to it—master it.

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