What are paths? I am sure you have taken a path, one day as a kid, to become an educated adult. You started on this path of babbling out monosyllables, and now you are reading this article written in sentences. I am sure there was a time that you could not do that. "Learning a language" is just a one path that we take in our lives. But there are numerous examples for paths. Consider following list of items as paths. A hiking trail up a mountain A road trip route from one city

Will wis a Krill, in the movie happy feet. One day he decided to swim against its own swarm. The swarm contained trillion krills, and all their lives krill had been just swimming with the swarm. But Will was different, he decided to see the end of the world by swimming opposite to its own swarm. And after so much swimming one day he was far away from its swarm. And what he saw was an amazing site. That whole swarm was just a gigantic ball of krills, and there was a whale, who

To illustrate the great quote by Miyamoto Musashi, the Japanese sword warrior, here we give two stories. One from ancient world, one from modern world. As you will see the wisdom provided by this is timeless as illustrated by these examples. Two stories on transcending retardation - Case of Mr. Demis Hassabis A beautiful game of chess In a documentary about DeepMind and AI, Nobel price winner Demis Hassabis, the British mathematician and scientist describes his inspiration fo

Some truths are really simple. So, that we never meet them in a relaxed mind. Just like in the fish story of famous Wallace speech. Just like a young fish who is not aware of the water which surrounds him all day, we are not aware but act blindly. But there are moments in life, that someone, or something makes us wonder, and we get our Aha moments, and we forget about it when we immerse ourselves with comfortable lies that we chose to believe out of convenience. I had such a

George Box George E. P. Box (1919–2013) was a famous British statistician who made major contributions to statistics, quality control, and experimental design. He is known for above quote which caught my attention as it harbours some truth which I cannot deny. All models are wrong (forged), but some are useful. Consider the wording, in the quote. It claims that "All" models are wrong. Forget the usefulness of some models, which are wrong. I would rarther ask the question what

I was reading Plato and allegory of the cave for the second time. And wonder what went through the mind of Plato when he realized, the simple method of arriving at a truth. So, here I will summaries the method, but this does not claim that I am giving you any truth, or even evidence of such truth exists. It is just a method, a road that you may or may not have seen before or taken. Acorns and Oaks The question starts by looking at an Acorn. Which has the potential to become a

Coal Miners I was thinking about this statement today. And it seems a paradoxical statement at first glance. If money cannot buy happiness why an average human spend a lifetime doing some work for wages. It reminds me a coal miner in the era of industrial revolution. With dirty ragged clothes and faces covered with coal dust, I have seen many of those nameless individuals who sacrificed their short time on earth for nothing but to dig up a tunnel in deep underground. I have s