25 years later, I start blogging

The best way to Predict the Future is to Create it Introduction Newcomb's paradox is a thought experiment created by William Newcomb in 1969. Even 50 years of publishing of the paradox, there is no clear consensus about the solution. After I read this problem was stuck on it for quite a few hours. I read multiple articles and watched several videos to understand it. The Wikipedia article is good but very unintuitive. Please watch this video multiple times if necessary to understand the paradox. The Paradox Statement Imagine that in front of you are two boxes. The first box (Box A) has 1000$ and is visible to you. The second box (Box B) contains either 1,000,000$ or 0$ and you don't know which. The contents of Box B are determined before hand by an intelligent AI with a high degree of accuracy. You have to now choose one of two options , either choose only Box B or choose both boxes . If the intelligent AI thinks that you are going to choose both boxes, th...

For the world you are one person, for your family you are the world About SDM and Getting there A good friend of mine, Sakiv and I decided to attend a Nature Cure Therapy Session conducted by the Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatha (SDM) foundation. We planned to go in December, but I was busy at the time attending interviews so we decided to postpone it. We ended up going between 6th and 14th of March 2020. SDM operates a number of campuses across the state (Karnataka). The most popular campus is the one located in Ujire which needs to booked several weeks in advance. Being traditional engineers, we resorted to last minute booking which got us a place in the Pareeka campus located near Udupi . I left on 5th night (Thursday) in an overnight AC bus. The fares were lower than ever as people had reduced travel all over. Corona is still not a very big deal at this point (at least not in India). The number of buses had reduced significantly, so I had to board at the infamous Silk board ju...

It's easy to quit smoking, I've done it hundreds of times Setup [Jun - Sept] While working at a small startup in HSR layout, a friend/colleague of mine suggested that I install Quickride, as it was a great way to meet new people and possibly someone to date. As destiny would have it, after 5 boring successful rides I met Rushti. Meeting the Jharkhand i seemed to be the best thing that ever happened to me. We started talking soon and the conversions kept flowing endlessly, like a the Indus. She was smart, funny and sexy. After about two weeks of talking, we were both working on one Saturday and we decided to meet and spend the day to see how my first date would go. A few minutes of walking around and I her slipper snapped, so we had to walk for a while until we found a slipper store to get 350 Rupee chappals. This began a tradition of long walks which would last for the duration of the entire relationship. It was a memorable date filled with thrills and laughs. An even...