Sunday, 1 September 2019
Devil.... the old friend !
Friday, 23 August 2019
HOMINEM 19
Thursday, 22 August 2019
Why should you use Apple Card?
The unique thing about the Apple Card itself is that it is titanium and only has your name imprinted on it. There is no signature, card number, expiration date nor security code. It retains a chip and a mag stripe.
It is intended to be mostly used via electronic Apple Pay. When using the physical card you sign digitally not on a paper receipt. The missing info on the card, lack of signature and no need to sign a receipt will likely confuse retailers until they get used to seeing it.
The cash back isn’t that great a deal but it does show up immediately in the Apple Pay Cash card in the digital wallet soon after a transaction.
The big thing is the lack of fees and extreme transparency about your transactions and your debt load and the way a minimum payment is discouraged. It actively trains the user to not carry a balance. Far superior customer experience in managing the card.
The shady way most credit card companies do business and profit at the expense of their customers via fees, delays in posting, as well as cash back or restricted flyer miles or digital cash that can only be spent at their curated store, etc., etc., etc. is why the Apple Card might become very popular. Mainstream credit card companies have been milking consumers for decades. Leaving it to consumers to figure out. So the transparency of the Apple Card experience will in my opinion make a huge difference.
You must have an iPhone to use an Apple Card. So it does add to the Apple walled garden but many of us are already locked in. It’s just that we don’t want to get out. It is a comfy garden.
Tuesday, 13 August 2019
അറിവിന്റ വാക്സിനേഷൻ
സമൂഹത്തിൽ വിഷം പടർത്തുന്നവർ ധാരാളം ഉണ്ട്. ഇതിൽ കുറേ പേര് എന്തിലും തെറ്റുകൾ മാത്രം കണ്ടെത്തുന്ന ഒരുതരം മാനസികരോഗികൾ ആണ്. പലപ്പോഴും ചികിത്സിച്ചാൽ മാറും ! ഇനി മറ്റൊരു വിഭാഗമുണ്ട്. ആരാന്റെ അമ്മക്ക് ഭ്രാന്ത് വരുമ്പോൾ കല്ലെടുത്തെറിയുന്നവർ .... ഇവരുടെ പ്രശനം അഹങ്കാരം തലയ്ക്കു കേറിയെന്നതാണ്. സ്വന്തം അമ്മപെങ്ങള്മാരും ഭാര്യാമക്കളും മുങ്ങിച്ചാകുമ്പോളും ഇവന്മാർ ആസ്വദിക്കും ..... കാരണം അപ്പോഴും ഞാൻ രക്ഷപ്പെട്ടലോ എന്ന തോന്നൽ. ഇവന്മാരെ ചികിത്സിച്ചിട്ടും കാര്യമില്ല്യ .... ലോകത്തിനു ഒരു ഉപകാരവുമില്ലാത്ത ശവങ്ങൾ ആണിവർ .
മൂന്നാമത്തെ വിഭാഗത്തെ നമ്മൾ സൂക്ഷിക്കണം ... ഇവർ ചെയ്യുന്നതെന്തെന്ന് അവർക്കുതന്നെ നന്നായിട്ടറിയാം. പാമ്പുകൾ പൊലും വിഷം ചീറ്റുന്നത് ആഹാരത്തിനുവേണ്ടി മാത്രമാണ്. പക്ഷേ ഈ മൂന്നാമത്തെ ജന്തുക്കൾ സമൂഹത്തെ മൊത്തം വിഷമയമാക്കുന്ന തൊട്ടടുത്തുള്ളൻറെ തലച്ചോറിൽ മതവിഷം പടർത്തുന്ന നീചജാതിയാണ്. ഇവറ്റകളെ നിർമ്മാർജ്ജനം ചെയ്യുവാൻ ഒരൊറ്റ വഴിയേയുള്ളൂ..... വളർന്നുവരുന്ന കുട്ടികളിൽ അറിവിന്റെ വാക്സിനേഷൻ നൽകുക എന്നുള്ളത്. ഇവന്മാരുടെ സന്തതിപാരമ്പരകളെക്കൊണ്ടു തന്നെ വേണം ഇവറ്റകളെ നിർമാർജനം ചെയ്യുവാൻ!
- കൃഷ്ണ
Sunday, 11 August 2019
Time one or many things?
Thursday, 8 August 2019
മതങ്ങളെല്ലാം സസ്തനികളാണ്..!!!!
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
Now it is time to de-normalise yourself!
Columbus, Magellan, J C Bose, Marco Polo... they were the pioneers that expanded their existing world. They broke through the existing boundaries to bring in new knowledge and opportunities. Their discoveries were turning points that completely reshaped the world and the horizons of everyone in it.
I bring this up, because just like the idea of independence, this idea also has very personal applications to each one of us.
If independence is about the privilege of choice, what if you don't even know you have better choices than the ones at present?
What if we've grown so accustomed to living and accepting what this present situation has to offer... the same loop, same problems, same opportunities day in and day out that it's become normal to you? That's your world.
It's too easy to fall into the everyday loop, where your habits and routines become so normal that you accept them, or when everyone around you is going through the same routine, that you accept this reality...
But, the truth is, the world is much much bigger than that!
If this resonates with you, it might be time to "de-normalize" yourself. It's time to find your inner explorer.
There are many options and opportunities out there that can change your circumstances... that can give you new life to your stagnant or unhappy situation.
It's just that your perception and habits have made it an invisible prison, blinding you from seeing past it.
If you recognise that you might be feeling this way, here is a quick 2 minute self assessment that you can take to discover your strengths and weaknesses so you’re more ready for change in the right direction.
Monday, 24 June 2019
We’re living inside a huge black hole!
According to Niayesh Afshordi, Perimeter Institute Associate Faculty member, we are all living in the event horizon of a huge higher dimensional black hole.
In 2000 Gia Dvali, Gregory Gabadadze, and Massimo Porrati published a paper, “4D Gravity on a Brane in 5D Minkowski Space”, in which they wrote:
The observed weakness of gravity may be due to the fact that we live on a brane embedded in space with large extra dimensions.
The universe appears to us to exist in three dimensions of space. This is a three-dimensional (3D) universe. Imagine that our 3D universe is a subuniverse or brane embedded in a bulk universe that has four spatial dimensions (4D). All known forms of matter and energy are limited to our brane and cannot move to the bulk. It is like flatland, two-dimensional figures live in a two-dimensional world:
Only gravity can propagate in the bulk universe and in 5D Minkowski space, the brane model of Dvali, Gabadadze and Porrati (DGP).
In 2013 three Perimeter Institute researchers, Razieh Pourhasan, Niayesh Afshordi and Robert B. Mann, carried out calculations and argued that it is possible to track the beginning of the universe back to an era before the Big Bang, and we can even avoid the Big Bang singularity. They published their findings in a paper under the title, “Out of the white hole: a holographic origin for the Big Bang” in which they have written:
… our universe emerges from the collapse a 5D “star” into a black hole, reminiscent of an astrophysical core-collapse supernova. In this scenario, there is no big bang singularity in our causal past, and the only singularity is shielded by a black hole horizon.
Thus a 5D black hole (in four dimensions of space and one dimension of time) could have a 4D event horizon (in three dimensions of space and one dimension of time), which could spawn a whole new universe as it forms, that is to say, our entire universe came into being during stellar implosion that created a brane around a black hole. This suggestion avoids the Big Bang singularity. In the standard story, the Big Bang began with a singularity where laws of physics break down. Instead, the scholars postulate that the universe began when a star in a 5D universe collapsed to form a black hole. Our universe would be protected from the singularity at the heart of this black hole by the 4D event horizon.
Scholars first define the brane subuniverse and the bulk superuniverse:
… one way to describe our four-dimensional universe is through embedding it in a higher dimensional spacetime — with at least one more dimension — and investigate its gravitational and/or cosmological properties. This is known as the “brane world” scenario, where the brane refers to our 4D universe embedded in a bulk space-time with 5 or more dimensions, where only gravitational forces dare to venture. Well-known (and well-studied) examples of such scenarios are the Randall-Sundrum (RS) model [bulk universe in a 5D anti-de Sitter space] where 4D gravity is recovered through a compact volume bulk, or the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (DGP) construction…
And then they add the requirement of the holographic cosmology:
Here we study the DGP model around a 5D black hole… We find that viable solutions are indeed possible, leading us to propose a holographic description for the Big Bang, that avoids the Big Bang singularity. … We then give our proposal for a holographic Big Bang as emergence from a collapsing 5D black hole.
The event horizon of a 4D black hole (in four dimensions of space) would be a 3D hypersphere (in three dimensions of space) and it indicates that:
the radius of our 4 dimensional [brane] universe [four-dimensions of space-time] coincides with the black hole horizon in the 5 dimensional bulk [five-dimensions of space-time]
and the radius of our holographic universe < the horizon radius.
When the above team of scholars modelled the death of a 5D star (in five-dimensions of space-time), they found that the ejected material (of the collapsing start) would form a 4D brane (in four dimensions of space-time) surrounding a 4D event horizon (in four dimensions of space-time), and slowly expand. The authors postulate that the 4D Universe we live in might be just such a brane — and that we detect the brane’s growth as cosmic expansion. They therefore explain:
For [… ejected material] chosen to be above […the horizon] the radius of our holographic universe is larger than the horizon radius, meaning that our present cosmos lies outside the horizon of the black hole in the bulk, i.e. [radius of our holographic universe > the horizon radius]. Let us assume that the universe today has its radius larger than the horizon in the bulk black hole. Moving backwards to early times [… back to Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, BBN], as the radius of the universe… decreases, it may or may not cross the […event horizon].
Indeed, crossing the […event horizon] means that at some early time the radius of the universe was smaller than the horizon radius. Since nothing can escape the horizon of a black hole, one would exclude […the ejected material] for which [… its radius of holographic universe…] at some [later times] cross the [event horizon]. Consequently, one may interpret the crossing [radius of our holographic universe = the horizon radius] before BBN as the emergence of the holographic universe out of a “collapsing star”: this scenario replaces the Big Bang singularity.
Tuesday, 18 June 2019
Magic Mushrooms could replace Anti-depressants!
I started reading this article in the Indepedent with a curious mind! Interest in the potential medical uses for psychedelics, such as “magic mushrooms” and LSD, has rapidly increased in recent years, leading to the opening of the world’s first formal center for psychedelics research in April — and the center’s leader is already prepared to make a bold prediction about the future of psychedelics in medicine. The ideas are bloomed since the cannabis oil became a prescribed medicine recently.
Emotional Release
Carhart-Harris is currently leading a Centre for Psychedelic Research trial to compare the ability of psilocybin, or “magic,” mushrooms and leading antidepressants to treat depression.
He told The Independent that so far, participants are reporting that the psilocybin leaves them feeling like they’ve experienced an emotional “release,” while patients often criticize antidepressants for making them feel like their emotions are “blunted.”
Wishful Thinking
Given the ‘positive’ feedback from study participants and psilocybin mushrooms’ extremely low risk for overdose or addiction, it’s not hard to see why Carhart-Harris is optimistic that doctors will soon be able to use psychedelics to treat patients. Although, we know that the ‘magic’ mushrooms are abundantly available in the streets and self medicating is not uncommon in UK.
Another psychedelics researcher, James Rucker from King’s College London, isn’t so sure about Carhart-Harris’ timeline (which I’m not comfortable either), telling The Independent that five years is “possible… but only if everything goes to plan, and you know what they say about best-laid plans.”
So next time when you travel through M1, look out for majestic magic mushroom fields!
READ MORE: Magic mushrooms could replace antidepressants within five years, says new psychedelic research centre [The Independent]