I'm back
Aabar she ashiachhe phire.
My exams are over. But, the real exam begings now. I have great talent at messing things up. It seems that whenever I want something desperately, I seem to falter.
Anyway, after the exam, I went to BCL and got a book on Partial Differential Equations, for my upcoming presentation. Met Kirtiman and Suto at BCL. Then Suto and I went to the Oxford bookstore. Suto got about 5 kilos of books. I got The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins. His earlier book, The Selfish Gene, has been one of my favourites.
Speaking of The Selfish Gene, it introduced the concept of a meme. Or should I say, the meme of a meme? OK, enough of recursive statements for my friendly neighbourhood computer scientists. If memetic evolution sounds interesting to you, do read up The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore. I think I have seen a copy at BCL.
posted by Sayan Chakraborti @ 3:38 AM
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15 Comments:
Hello, just dropping by.You are iN FAS, JU? Great1
Are you known to Mallar Ray?
Are you from my alumni-SPHS?
What do you do, study, research? Can you tell me about what provokes you- does Dawkins do?
Read you r blog and thought we might be able to converse.Great going.
SPHS alumni? Yes!
Mallar Sir.... definitely! I'm a big fan...
JU? Nope, Xavier's, Dept. of Physics...
Let me check out your blog...
I am a doctor...bolle buro shonabe.SPHS 1999 HS...Mallar sir er fan na...bondhuu I gues..aar respect koree.
Ekhun cognitive neuroscience niye research korchee...mane cheshta korchee...apatoto Japan e...deshe dekha hote paare I guess...shggiree firchee.
Taking your strain. here's something for you
"Dreams are real as long as they last, can we say more of life itself." Ekjon neuroscientist bolechhilen.
Keep up peaceful action, if you go to my July blogs, dekhish, JU incident ta amay provoke kroe blog kortte...khub distressed chhilam..er por ki korbee...research koreesh..chakri koreesh na...ekta senior er advice....abar ashbo.
Have you read Stephen Jay Gould? I remember reading "An Urchin in the Storm" aeons back, as also "The Selfish Gene"....Blind Watchmaker pora hoyni, bolish kemon, then I'll go scout for it :) and btw welcome back...
apoplexy: PeacefulAction is experiencing some troubles, but we'll surely sort it out. How did you come to know of it? And I'll surely stick to research in Physics.
babelfish: Havent read Gould. Should I try it out? I'll post a review of The Blind Watchmaker after I finish reading it. It might take a long time though.
If you read Gould,start with "Mismeasure of MAN".BCL should have a copy..Peacefulaction..Mallar babu I guess.What troubles?
And stick to research....if Penrose interests you..have you given neuroscience of consciousness a thought....all my bosses have been from Physics or Mathematics till now.Ar hyan...ekjon idiot k MAT LAB sekhate parbee, sometime, seriously?
I'll surely give Gould a try.
The troubles with PA are mostly technical, backdated software etc. We are constantly under attact from crackers. But, we do manage to keep up.
"And stick to research...." Sure.
Yup, Penrose sure interests me. I even have a signed copy of The Emperor's New Mind! But, I've had no contact with such ideas apart from Penrose. Tell me more.
Yesterday, we were standing a little distance from an ad which was supposed to read "Thanda Matlab C... ...." Shamashis got very confused as the "Thanda" had been eroded off....
About the MATLAB cocacaola, I can sponsor coca cola if you can teach me the stuff, I prefer shingara and kochuri, though, beguni even better, deemer devil way better.
Try soft drinks at Paramount opposite Colege Sq. sometime, I dont know whether you like the hard varieties.
Will tell you more..on the "new mind" science...detail e...more about opportunities...but I am on the move, very limited internet access.What interests you about the Penrose book...also what interests you about consciousness in general, if it does, and why so?
Lately lots of jhamela on the net....blogwars..khistee khasta...but used IIT KGP tech support to crack ip addresses...I guess you can do that kind of thing too....I had two derogatory blogs created to my name...ei ar ki..mallar babur shaathe contact ache? niomito?
I dont usually have Coca Cola. But, Paramount's Choco Malai is hot, errr... I mean cool.
Do have a look at this.
After reading The Emperor's new mind, I had become obsessed with making a program pass the Turing test. I had fed almost the complete works of Shakespeare, Marx, Freud etc into a program, which then talked very educated sounding rubbish.
Last Mallar Sir ke dekhechilum BCLe. Ekdin SPHS visit korbo bhabchhi. Shunlum Sir naki abar majhe majhe class nen. Partha Sir er shongeo dekha korte hobe.
Have you tried Dab sharbot?
I have Coke when its free,,,somehow doctors get fe da lot of free drinks of all kinds...shey onno kothha.
Turing er goppo shune besh laglo..great...neuroscience e toe tore moto lokederee chai....
Tutorial te dekhlam....amar complex laglo..jemon dhor ami matrix bujhee na...petom line ei ulte gelam.Frued poreesh? parle ar poreesh na, for reasons we can discuss.Marx- no comments.Kintu RAJSHEKHAR BOSE k ki keu topkabe?
Wonder, ota feed korle hi hobe.
Terenecy Sejnowsky and Patty Churchland er "The computational brain" dekhte pareesh.To have a more fiction flavour, the making of memory by Steven Rose, BCLe pabee...bhalo lagbe karonn mone hochye ektu lefty leanings aache tore..tai ki?
Dab Shorbot to khai ni! Khe janabo.
Ekbar free Coke, ami ar amar ek cousin, competion kore khe, bomi korechilum. She onek chhotobelar kotha.
Matlab means "Matrix Laboratory", so it expresses almost everything as matrices. Actually, matrices, are very convenient for doing any kind of maths. So, its never too late to learn Matrices and maybe a bit of Tensors. I would suggest, Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering by Riley, Hobson & Bence for a quick intro. Its light on the pocket too.
For a few other points of view, you can have a look at this and this. But trust me, you cant use it to its full capacity without Matrices.
Freud ar pori na, chinta koro na. Leanings nie publicly kichhu boli na.
Ekbar TIFR visit korte jaoar shomoy ke jeno, The Quantum Brain by Jeffrey Satinover, er onekta part gochhie diechhilo. Thik bhalo kore pora hoe ni. Ki bolo, pore dekhi?
TIFR e ki VSRP program e gechhilee?
NCBS bole ekta jayegaye ami kaj korttam aage..seta bangalore ey.
tore mail id ta amay de...ekta paper er pdf debo..bhalo laagte paare
quantum brain porbee kina boltte parchii na...ashole its like a viewpoint rather than an account of things...fole introductory boi hisebe viewpoint porle onek shomoy biased hot loke..ami doscourage korchee na..kintu jehetu you are not aware of the facts he may quote, you have no choice but to take it as face value...eta amar kache problematic...
inclinations publicly boleesh na...privately bola jabe :-)
ami sheyta avoid koree..in fact majhe majhe ekdom amar opposite stance theke lokeder viciously attack kroe....pratcice ta bhalo laage....opposer er strength of convictions bojha jaaye...eta schoole r madhusudan sanyal er kachh theke peyechhilam..chinteesh naki toder shomoi retire korechhilo?
amar political ideology...aae in flux chhilo...ekhun thheetoo hoyeche kichuuta...ki bola shokto...tenara shob dekchen...tai na?
Amar gmail.com email id holo sayan1984. Jora tali die nio. peacefulaction.org eo pathate paro, shekhane amar id holo sayanchak. Shorol bhabe likhle, spambots ra email id jhere die jata kore, tai eibhabe likhi.
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