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Unbiasing a biased coin
You have a biased coin. How do you use it to get unbiased results? Can you guess an answer? Read this post for interesting details after giving a shot at the answer. -
On higher education
I read The Overselling of Higher Education. How much relevant is this in case of India where we find numerous college graduates unemployed! The article also talks about the perception among the high school students that earning a degree helps them get a good paying job. I know many people - I count myself one among them - who wanted to get into the ( Read more... ) -
Nissim Ezekiel
Man is alone and cannot tell
The simplest thing to any friend.
And yet to speak is good, a man
Is purified through speech alone,
Asserting his identity
In all that people say and do. -
Ustad Bismillah Khan
I sing to Allah in Raag Bhairavi. - Ustad Bismillah Khan
The great Shehnai player expired yesterday morning in Benaras. With him has gone someone who symbolized simplicity and purity of the Indian people as it used to be.
Ustad Bismillah Khan had composed music for a film called Goonj Uthi Shehnai. I haven't seen the movie, but I have cassette of the ( Read more... ) -
A nice puzzle for weekend :-)
Nice puzzle
I write two different numbers, one on each hand. You choose one of my hands at random, I show you the number on that hand. You now guess whether the number you've seen is larger than the number you haven't seen. Find a strategy for guessing such that, no matter what two numbers I write, you have GREATER THAN a 50% chance of being correct -
Nice article
Scientific American: The Expert Mind [ PSYCHOLOGY AND BRAIN SCIENCE ]
Studies of the mental processes of chess grandmasters have revealed clues to how people become experts in other fields as well -
test entry
this is a test entry!
