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Routine dump

[By 'routine' I mean whenever my Nokia 1208 runs out of draft space, and I have to start sending messages to 42 so that they get stored in the Sent Items folder] First draft - do I have a gravitational field better than most? Tulna tab tak sahi hai jab tak weh eershya me nahi badal jaati. [तुलना तब तक सही है जब तक वेह ईर्ष्या में नहीं बदल जाती] Check Somebody To Love on pod. Another conversation starter: So I guess we're lucky to have lived so far. Deal with solitude - or, for self-pitying fools who don't realize how essential and fortunate they are to have some solitude, loneliness - take a walk, buy good groceries, come back home, cook, read, eat, work out, sleep. Time is like intestinal gas - it must pass. Mr Malviya taught me - us - percussion. He was a good teacher, and a good human being. I have no doubts about my judgment on this - his - matter. I want a short fun life, and a quick death. Katoch Jr had said that cold water doesn...

My DCE Years, encapsulated

This one sentence from  http://www.knewton.com/adaptive-learning-white-paper/why-knewton  ; encapsulates my five years at Delhi College of Engineering (thankfully now non-existent, HAHA): " Nothing is more dissatisfying to students than feeling like the challenges they face are essentially arbitrary and culminate in nothing." This reminds me, my message memory is full. 42! 6-hourism!

The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

16 Categorizing always produces reduction in true complexity. 27 ...a profession that is "scalable", that is, one in which you are not paid by the hour... 28 A scalable profession is good only if you are successful; they are more competitive, produce monstrous inequalities, and are far more random... 30 ...-death is often a good career move for an author. 46 ...Pyrrhonian skeptics... 58 ...Popper...uncertainty is our discipline, and that understanding how to act under conditions of incomplete information is the highest and most urgent human pursuit. 64 Talk is cheap, a problem with advice-giving philosophy we will see... 67 Our minds are like inmates, captive to our biology, unless we manage a cunning escape. 68 ...perception of causation has a biological foundation. 69 We, members of the human variety of primates, have a hunger for rules because we need to reduce the dimension of matters so they can get into our heads. 87 If you run a...