This blog has become a sort of personal-cum-public diary. As for its contents, some are meant for me and my friends and relatives; others are for the public. This blog will have only positive, ennobling, elevating, encouraging and uplifting thoughts/ideas/materials. Whoever visits should feel happy and should be able to pick up some good ideas/thoughts/links. In short, "NOTHING NEGATIVE" is my motto.(Grateful thanks to Jon Sullivan and Public-Domain-Photos.com for the background photo)
Happy New Year 2021
WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY, HEALTHY,
PROSPEROUS AND PURPOSEFUL
NEW YEAR 2020
PRACTICE THE PAUSE Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you are about to react harshly and you will avoid doing and saying things you will later regret Lori Deschene Herbs Health Happiness Grateful thanks to Lori Deschene and Herbs Health and Happiness.
After finishing dinner in a restaurant, the wife told her husband, "give some tips to the waiter". Husband called the waiter and told him: "Don't get married!" Posted as received in my WhatsApp page. Searched and found the source:
NEVER BE AFRAID to raise your voice for Honesty and Truth and Compassion against Injustice and Lying and Greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would CHANGE THE EARTH - William Faulkner
Instructables
provides instructions to help you build just about anything you can imagine. It
provides a platform for people to explore, document, and share their creations.
What is the technical difference
between welding and wedding?
Not much; both are joints, in a way.
In welding there are sparks first and bonding forever; whereas in wedding there
is bonding first and sparks forever.
Scientists have developed a new type of neural network
chip that can dramatically improve the efficiency of teaching machines to think
like humans. The network, called a reservoir computing system, could predict
words before they are said during conversation, and help predict future
outcomes based on the present.
Reservoir computing systems, which improve on a typical
neural network’s capacity and reduce the required training time, have been
created in the past with larger optical components. Researchers from University
of Michigan in the US created their system using memristors, which require less
space and can be integrated more easily into existing silicon-based
electronics.
A full-body scanner is a device that detects
objects on a person's body for security screening purposes, without physically
removing clothes or making physical contact. Depending on the technology used,
the operator may see an alternate-wavelength image of the person's naked body,
or merely a cartoon-like representation of the person with an indicator showing
where any suspicious items were detected. For privacy and security reasons, the
display is generally not visible to other passengers, and in some cases is
located in a separate room where the operator cannot see the face of the person
being screened. Unlike metal detectors, full-body
scanners can detect non-metal objects, which became an increasing concern after
various airliner bombing attempts in the 20002.
Starting in 2007, full-body scanners started supplementing
metal detectors at airports and train stations in many countries.
The 2011
Kumbh Mela was the largest gathering of people with over 75 million pilgrims.
The gathering was so huge that the crowd was visible from space.
It's about learning a new habit:
Writing. Every. Day.
I've long been inspired by an idea I
first learned about in The Artist's Way called morning pages. Morning pages are
three pages of writing done every day, typically encouraged to be in "long
hand", typically done in the morning, that can be about anything and
everything that comes into your head. It's about getting it all out of your
head, and is not supposed to be edited or censored in any way. The idea is that
if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help
clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day. Unlike many
of the other exercises in that book, I found that this one actually worked and
was really really useful.
I've used the exercise as a great way
to think out loud without having to worry about half-formed ideas, random
tangents, private stuff, and all the other things in our heads that we often
filter out before ever voicing them or writing about them. It's a daily brain
dump. Over time, I've found that it's also very helpful as a tool to get
thoughts going that have become stuck, or to help get to the bottom of a rotten
mood.
