25 years later, I start blogging

Ten years of Experience or One year of Experience ten times? Some of us have great memories of our schooling. Schools shape a lot of our future and help us become better individuals. As a kid, we I went to one of the better schools in Bangalore. I spent a lot of time there. Schools are where we learn a lot of unimportant things. It's the place where we spend the first fifteen years of our lives. A convenient place for "Adults" to drop off their children so they can carry on their lives normally. Schools were introduced as a way to help Industrialists generate skilled labour for their factories. These same roots can be observed even today, with the bells, uniforms and students batched by age rather than calliber. At the age of 13, Saina Nehwal (Indian Badminton Player) was able to consistently beat much older boys (20 year olds). If she had been studying in school like the rest of us, she could never have achieved as much as she did. I...

Plants bend when they bear fruit Introduction This is going to be a disappointing post. Let's go. According to Wikipedia: In endurance sports such as cycling and running, hitting the wall or the bonk is a condition of sudden fatigue and loss of energy which is caused by the depletion of glycogen stores in the liver and muscles. I'm referring to a slightly different kind of a wall, but one that impedes development of a skill because of the way we have developed it or just hitting a skill cap achievable using the technique that you've mastered. I've noticed that I'm currently not improving at several of the things that I've been pursuing. This blogpost will hopefully put some of those concerns on paper so I can work on it. The Expert Beginner As explained by Erik Dietrich in his amazing Blogpost, an expert beginner is someone who gets good at doing things in a certain way and is unwilling spend anytime to learn other techniq...

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...