On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 06:14:09AM +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
Crude Oil was $30 a decade ago, $110 now and likely $250 in a decade. India
Won't happen due to demand destruction (assuming you account for
inflation). Which is a bad thing, obviously, given that there are
no alternatives to
On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 12:37 +0530, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
Perhaps I've just met the wrong demographic among those who read
self-help
books, but most of those who have pushed such books at me were fairly
successful - and I wasn't aware of any failure that prompted them to
read
such
On 27 August 2013 19:02, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Why the dichotomy? Are you suggesting that personality/character is not
trainable/malleable?
Trainable - perhaps
Malleable - absolutely
Kiran
On 28 August 2013 18:19, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting observation and here is my explanation
The person/s who pushed such books were fairly successful in your
eyes, but they might feel that they are not successful enough. I have
seen this among several colleagues of mine, who
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 August 2013 19:02, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Why the dichotomy? Are you suggesting that personality/character is not
trainable/malleable?
Trainable - perhaps
Malleable - absolutely
I still
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Isn't improving one's life just a collection of individual life hacks?
Some improvements can be achieved by a sequence of locally optimal smaller
improvements, but not all.
Which is to say, you may not be able to hack your way
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Charles Haynes
charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
Which is to say, you may not be able to hack your way to happiness.
I have personal experience that is very much to the contrary but I'm
just a data point and not a representative sample size.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Isn't improving one's life just a collection of individual life hacks?
Some improvements can be achieved by a sequence of locally optimal smaller
When I say A hill climbing algorithm does not always find a global
maximum and you reply But mine did! I have three replies.
1) That does not refute the original assertion (as I'm sure you know)
2) How do you know? (That you found the global maximum)
3) If the plural of anecdote is not data, then
Well for one reason, you may have the problem that all hill climbing
algorithms are subject to. You may get stuck on a local maximum where
every small change (hack) actually makes things worse.
In which case you either have to completely change where you're starting
from, or you have to use an
Wow. Great photos.
jrs
On Aug 28, 2013, at 2:38 PM, Thaths wrote:
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Charles Haynes hay...@edgeplay.org wrote:
I'm leaving for Myanmar in three days, are there any silklisters in Myanmar
that would like to meet?
I was in Myanmar earlier this year. Photos
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Charles Haynes hay...@edgeplay.org wrote:
Alternatively, are there any silklisters about things to see or do while in
Myanmar? Our basic plan is to land in Yangon, spend a very small amount of
time there, then make our way overland to the Inle Lake area and
Current confirmed attendees:
Rashmi V
Naresh
Andy Deemer
Udhay
Amitha Singh
Vandana Abraham
Meera K
Shoba Narayan
Mark Bergen (+1?)
Julian Philips
Vinay Rao
Samuel Mani
Maybe:
Chandrachoodan G
Venkat Mangudi
Deepak Misra
Lahar Appaiah
Saritha Rai
Sunil Abraham
Kiran Jonnalagadda
Ashwin K
Biju
Tomorrow, Naresh's office, 7? Still a maybe, but will try to come.
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Current confirmed attendees:
Rashmi V
Naresh
Andy Deemer
Udhay
Amitha Singh
Vandana Abraham
Meera K
Shoba Narayan
Mark Bergen (+1?)
Julian Philips
Vinay Rao
Samuel Mani
Maybe:
Chandrachoodan G
Venkat
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