Jeremy Rifkin on "the empathic civilization" | Video on TED.com

Jeremy Rifkin on "the empathic civilization" | Video on TED.com

one of my favorite subjects of interest.

Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team | Video on TED.com

Ta Da!

Looks like this is how last time we got it right!

"The marshmallow problem"... prototyping is the "key" and works best when there is an "Executive Admin" in team!!

Taken by the storm - "Lets do amazing"

No longer with ComputationalTeam@Cellworks.

the crazy guy visited me, guess what... I was taken by the storm.. "Lets do amazing."

Nothing endures but change.

In Rite of passage

metamorphosis, transformations, knowledge, passion, respect, love, success...
Face life and rest is on it's way...

State and variable

If I could prove them that I am wrong,
I convince them.
If I am wrong I could survive...
The truth is, I don’t like to prove anything...
And/But I am trying for proof, and not to prove.

Consider 'proof' is mathematical, and 'prove' is sociological.

Laplace's demon

I am the Laplace's demon, but my universe is so small.

Hug a developer today

what is NOT so cool... - "Tech's 10 worst entry-level jobs"

Soon America's most bright-eyed graduates will enter the workforce and make their workaday homes in cubes at Google, MySpace, or Amazon.com. And they will suffer not just the indignity of having to work for a living, but also the dispiriting realization that a job at a cool company isn't always that hot.

-- Why is it so NOT a HOT job at these cool companies ??
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worked as a software engineer of web applications for QBurst Technologies for 7 months.
hobby or a job? or can both go together ??
Now I work as a computational researcher at the only systems biology company in India..
Cellworks Group Inc

Cellworks develops technology solutions which are virtual prototyping systems based on in silico platforms of disease aligned physiology.The platforms are Google maps equivalent and much more. The technology provides GPS equivalent capability by representation of relationships between the biological players using mathematics making the system dynamic.

Challenging... satisfying..
all I need out of a job
being brave to carve ones own niche... my own career!!

Systems Biology
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Software as a Service - A Pattern Language Approach

Here is a unified presentation which brings together many best practices we have evolved in the SOA/SaaS space. Frankly, it has become almost impossible to have a meaningful conversation on many topics in this domain due to 'definition overloading'. This presentation not only attacks that issue, it also brings together into a cohesive pattern...

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Scientists Apply for First Patent on Synthetic Life Form

There's a new wrinkle in the argument over patenting life: can you patent synthetic life?



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Mohammed second most popular boys' name

Mohammed is likely to be the most popular name for baby boys in Britain by the end of the year.



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This I Believe - The Developer Edition

Fantastic list of commandments, guiding principles, a belief system really, for developers to rally around and run a project on.



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I don’t know what I could have known.

The term biont as defined by Illinois Mycological Association.

There are many philosophical problems in biology with the term "individual": what is a bush made from one rose grafted onto another? What is a mycelium that has been split into two parts, each continuing on independently (but if they meet, they will grow back together again)? What is a lichen, an "individual" or a colony? What are the component organisms of a lichen, "individual"s or just components? The term biont is an attempt to solve those problems by the time-honored method of inventing a new term and just saying that it solves the problem. Basically, it means "whatever we used to understand the word 'individual' to mean in a biological sense, back when we were naïve, before anyone started asking us these nasty questions."

We are not fungi. But we dont know what we are are becoming.
What I could have known when I was that little 'noob' struggling to make sense of things, when I made myself an avatar. But now.. 'noob'.
Who isn't a noob anyway ?
Anyone ?

The real 'Noobiont' please stand up !

Listen up, maggots...

You're not your job.
You're not how much money you have in the bank.
You're not the car you drive.
You're not the contents of your wallet.
You're not your f***n' khakis.
You are not special
You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake.
You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
We are all part of the same compost heap...
called CIVILIZATION

People are crazy and times are strange

I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
I used to care, but things have changed

I hurt easy, I just don't show it
You can hurt someone and not even know it
The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity
Gonna get low down, gonna fly high
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie
I'm in love with a woman who don't even appeal to me

- SO WHAT ? 'I' am singing one of my favorite songs, Bob Dylan's song.

The Global Consciousness Project (GCP)

Global Correlations in Random Data ?

The Electro Gaia Gram (EGG) data from a global network of Random Event Generators (REG).

The GCP Basket Observer

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/bsktobsrv/basketobserver.wall.html

A real-time indicator of global consciousness coherence



Blue is anti coherence, with a percentage greater than 90%
Green is no coherence, with a percentage between 40% and 90%
yellow is a little bit of coherence, with a percentage of 10% to 40%
orange is moderate coherence, with a percentage of 5% to 10%
red is strong coherence, with a percentage of less than 5%

The percentages are how likely the data is to be random.
There are subtle variations in color so there can be a mix of green and yellow.

The statistical methods are described in detail on Global Consciousness Project .

Life is no pain with virtual reality

"Life is pain; anyone who says differently is selling something".

and those who say differently might as well sell 'virtual reality' someday.

.. a news story.

Starting a new academic year, with new resolutions.