Poor man’s view of the world

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Tool for detecting who can be “trusted”

The US Govt. is developing a tool for detecting who can be “trusted” in the presence of stress and/or deception. See: Tools for Recognizing Useful Signals of Trustworthiness (TRUST) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) U.S. Spooks Want a System That Automatically Gauges Who Can Be Trusted

15 March 2010 at 21:04 - Comments

10 Ways We Get the Odds Wrong

Our brains are terrible at assessing modern risks. Here’s how to think straight about dangers in your midst. By: Maia Szalavitz

Is your gym locker room crawling with drug-resistant bacteria? Is the guy with the bulging backpack a suicide bomber? And what about that innocent-looking arugula: Will pesticide residue cause cancer, or do the leaves [...]

4 February 2008 at 12:22 - Comments

Guide to life – the *nix way

The *nix family of operating systems has a very rich syntax. So I figured, why not write a comprehensive guide to life using *nix syntax. As a humble beginning, here is the first page that summarizes the “moral of the story” of the game called life: The English version You are a prisoner of your yesterday, you [...]

29 December 2007 at 12:51 - Comments

Of humans and keys

Why is it that ALL human beings (from the absolutely disorganised to the “Monica” organised) have a love-hate relationship with keys? Do you know anyone who has never misplaced keys? Such an exceptional human being probably does not exist on ToGg’s great green earth. Keeping this unique relationship (of humans and keys) in mind, I am proposing [...]

17 July 2007 at 22:32 - Comments