Notebooks

• illuminate.google.com
• notebooklm.google.com 

 

The Dream Keeper

Langston Hughes (1901 – 1967)

Bring me all of your dreams, 
You dreamers. 
Bring me all of your 
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them 
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too rough fingers
Of the world. 

Delicious Foods in Des Moines

•  Persis Biriyani
• Goat Dum biriyani @ Persis Biriyani [4/5]
• Chicken Dum biriyani @ Persis Biriyani [4/5]
• Kadai Chicken (spicy) @ Persis Biriyani [4/5]
• Goat Chettinadu (spicy)  @ Persis Biriyani [4/5]
• Goat roganjosh @ Persis Biriyani [3/5] 

• Desi Bites (Konark)
• Chicken chatinad @ Desi Bites [4.5/5]
• Gongura goat biriyani @ Desi Bites [3.5/5] 
• Konaseema kodi pulav @ Desi Bites [3.5/5]
• Desi bhuna khichuri 
• Chicken Fried Rice @ Desi Bites [3/5]
• Haleem with Chicken65 @ Desi Bites [4/5]
• Angara Kabab @ Desi Bites [3/5]
• Afghani Kabab @ Desi Bites [3/5]  

• Bawarchi Restaurant
• Goat Biriyani @ Bawarchi [4/5]
• Kadai Chicken (spicy) @ Persis Biriyani [3/5]

• Others
• Goat Curry @ Kathmundu [4/5]
• Kabab platter @ The Green Olive [4/5]
• Sheesh Kabab @ Turkish Grill [3.5/5]

Gaussian Guesswork?

 Gaussian Guesswork?

Game engines

• Unity engine 
• Unreal engine
• Godot engine

Cat

• Snow Shoe Cat
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  Bombay Cat
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• Ragdoll Cat
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  Persian Cat
   
   
  Finish Cat
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• Maine Coons

Down with the Dictatorship!

 

 

"Let them hate me, so that they fear me" - Caligula 41AD

Orpheus and Eurydice

 

Carlo Cipolla's Laws of Stupidity

 

 

"By creating a graph of Cipolla's two factors, we obtain four groups of people.

Helpless people contribute to society but are taken advantage of by it;  

Intelligent people contribute to society and leverage their contributions into personal benefits;  

Stupid people are counterproductive to both their and others' interests;  

Bandits pursue their own self-interest even when this poses a net detriment to societal welfare. An additional category of ineffectual people either exists in its own right or can be considered to be in the center of the graph."

Windows 11 bootable usb installer from MacOSX

• Use 'Disk Utility' application to format the USB drive in MS-DOS (FAT) format
  
• Download the windows ISO file from the Windows website or other source
• Extract the ISO and copy all but the 'sources' directory into your USB
• Create a 'sources' directory into your USB and copy everything from the ISO's 'sources' directory but 'install.wim'
  
• Install Homebrew in your Macbook. Homebrew is a missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
• Go to this website https://brew.sh 
• Copy the comand
• Paste it in a 'Terminal'
• Use Homebrew to install wimlib
• $brew install wimlib
• Use wimlib to split 'install.wim' into two files (install.swm and install2.swm) as follows into your installer USB:
• $wimlib-imagex split /Volumes/.../sources/install.wim /Volumes/.../sources/install.swm 4000
• Plugin the USB into your PC and select the boot option (by hitting the key F9/F11/ALT)
• Follow the click and install rest of the process to successfully install Windows 11 into your PC

 

 

Reference: Create bootable Windows 11 installation USB from macOS

Eros and Psyche

 

Eros  -- mythical son of Penia (goddess of poverty) and Porus (god of wealth) -- forever in need and forever being pursued.

Synaesthesia - the phenomenal power of human perception

 
 

Reference: BBC - synaesthesia-the-phenomenal-power-of-human-perception

Crown Shyness

 

"The Mind-Body Problem" - Rene Descartes

Our mind-body problem is not just a difficulty about how the mind and body are related and how they affect one another. It is also a difficulty about how they can be related and how they can affect one another. Their characteristic properties are very different, like oil and water, which simply won’t mix, given what they are.

Mind: What is characteristic of a mind, Descartes claims, is that it is conscious, not that it has shape or consists of physical matter. Our bodies are certainly in space, and our minds are not, in the very straightforward sense that the assignation of linear dimensions and locations to them or to their contents and activities is unintelligible. 

Body: According to Descartes, matter is essentially spatial, and it has the characteristic properties of linear dimensionality. Things in space have a position, at least, and a height, a depth, and a length, or one or more of these. Mental entities, on the other hand, do not have these characteristics. 

Objection to mind-body problem: The difficulty, however, is not merely that mind and body are different. It is that they are different in such a way that their interaction is impossible because it involves a contradiction. It is the nature of bodies to be in space, and the nature of minds not to be in space, Descartes claims. For the two to interact, what is not in space must act on what is in space. Action on a body takes place at a position in space, however, where the body is. Apparently Descartes did not see this problem. 

• Our minds are not physically connected to our bodies! How could they be, if they are nonphysical? That is the point whose importance Princess Elisabeth and Gassendi saw more clearly than anyone had before them, including Descartes himself.
   

Significance of the problem: That this straightforward test of physicality has survived all the philosophical changes of opinion since Descartes, almost unscathed, is remarkable.

 

Reference: Descartes and the discovery of "The Mind-Body Problem"

 

Self-attention mechanism

 

Reference: Attention is All You Need - NIPS'2017

Musings of Odysseus

Man are haunted by the vastness of the eternity. So we ask ourselves - 

Will our actions echo across centuries?

Will strangers hear our names long after we’re gone, and wonder how we were,

how bravely we fought,

how fiercely we loved?

- Odysseus (Ulysses)

Friedrich Chopin

 

 

                                             

                                               Chopin - Nocturne #20 In C Sharp Minor, Bi 49

 

 

                                                                 Chopin - Waltz No.7

3 Iron - Kim Ki-duk

 

3 Iron (South Korea)

"I want to make such a film that nobody has made yet: something that has never been made before and that nobody else will be able to shoot." - Kim Ki-duk

Mars and Venus - Jacques-Louis David

“This is the last picture I want to paint, but I want to surpass myself in it. I will put the date of my seventy-five years in it and afterwards I will never again pick up the brush.” - David

Ferdousi

“I've reached the end of this great history
And all the land will fill with talk of me

 
I shall not die, these seeds I've sown will save
My name and reputation from the grave,

 
And men of sense and wisdom will proclaim,
When I have gone, my praises and my fame.” 

- Ferdousi