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Where Does Intelligence Begin?

Humans are proud of a lot of things, from particle accelerators to poetry to Pokemon. All of them were made possible because of something humans value extremely highly:  Intelligence. We think of intelligence as a trait like height or strength,  but when we try to define it, things get fuzzy. In a nutshell, intelligence is a mechanism to solve problems.  Especially the problem of staying alive, which involves finding food and shelter,  fighting sexual competitors, or fleeing from predators.  Intelligence is not a single thing;  it includes the ability to gather knowledge, to learn, be creative, form strategies, or engage in critical thinking.  It manifests itself in a huge variety of behaviors.  From hardwired or instinct-like reactions to different degrees of learning to some sort of awareness.  But not all scientists agree where it begins or what even should count as intelligence.  To make this even more complicated,  intelligence...

Random is not actually indeterministic, its hard to calculate.

Homeopathic remedy  also called astragalus, you take it for  viral infections but you could  substitute that for anything you might  take for diabetes or insomnia or indeed  it could be a healing crystal or  anything that represents an alternative  therapy of your choice, but you might  have a viral infection you might take  astragalus you might then feel better  and decide therefore it must be an  effective cure. The point is it works for  you what more proof could you need the  trouble is that when these things are  tested properly over thousands of people  they are shown to really have no effect  whatsoever. The trap that people fall  into is to think all the evidence I need  is what I know in my head and I feel in  my heart and what I just know to be true  but that doesn't really evidence for it being  true that's just a statement about  how much you believe it and also how...

Cons

Life has become so easy with the advancement of modern technology that we can send parcels miles away in a blink of an eye. A message on the other half of the universe in a milli-second, make a round trip of the earth in days has become possible. All these advancements have brought a lot of easy lifestyles and entertainments, however, we can not neglect the dark side. Technological advancement is seemed unstoppable at least for this century; I'm not sure about too far because if we keep the pace we currently have, for sure, we will destroy our mother nature soon. Bit by bit we are destroying and planning to escape the earth.  Thousands of habitats were extincted and millions are on the way to hell. Humans are dominating the planet earth like the legacy of their father. We share this planet with all the creatures, we do not own and we should behave others as our own family. I'm not blaming any individual or an organization for all the ramifications. In fact, we all are unknowing...

The tail end

Wrapping your mind around your life is pretty hard because you are up to your neck in it. It's like trying to understand the ocean while learning how to swim. On most days you are busy just keeping your head above water. So it is not easy to figure out what to do with your life and how to spend your time. There are a million distractions. Your family, friends, and romantic partners, boring work, and exciting projects. Video games to play and books to read. And then there is your couch that somebody needs to lie on. It’s easy to get lost. So let us take a step back and take a look at your life from the outside. The average readers of this blog are around 25 years old. Which is a pretty good time in the life of most people: The insecurities of the teenage years have begun to recede. Maybe you find yourself in a job or a long-term relationship. Maybe you’ve started a family, or are working on an advanced degree. Maybe you are not doing any of that and still want to enjoy life, whateve...

Fly

As always, I have come up with another strange story. A tragic moment triggers a really bad feeling today. One of our close relatives passed away, it was a very unnatural death. Let's not talk about how it happened, anymore. The thing I wanna share is my feeling about "consciousness in the body and disparity."  I saw the fully intact body, the only missing part was his consciousness. The body was fully intact apart from the postmortem marks. It seemed like if we push him, he's gonna wake right away... But after all, he couldn't wake, cause he was dead. Most often, when we heard about the incident like; car accident, flood, fire, bus accident, and got killed so many lives, we just count them as a number. But if we look closely, somebody lost their most precious thing in the world, which matters a lot to someone. Someone lost daddy, someone lost son, daughter, husband, wife... Those who lost their relatives only can feel the pain. It would be the most tragic moment ...

Existence Game

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Context: A few months ago, in a function, renowned personality "Elon Musk" said: our existence could be a projection from a super-computer. He said: it is possible to simulate the whole earth from a future computer and everything we have seen, is just a piece of code. Like we have seen, a few decades ago, games used to be just a simple triangle with a dot bouncing ball. But now, it is already indistinguishable from the reality; I'm quoting again, it happened only in 4 decades. As compared to the current rate, even in the worst-case scenario, if we presume the rate of advancement in the technology is 1% per year; by the next 100 years, it would be impossible to differentiate the reality and computer simulation. Furthermore, he said, it is definitely possible because it not necessarily required to render the whole earth at the same time; only the required frame would have been processing and the rest is behind the reality. The wall behind you is not necessarily to be render...

Time

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A timer makes sense in small pieces. But when you look at huge stretches of time, it's almost impossible to wrap your head around things. So let's start small-- with minutes, hours, and days. You probably spent the last 24 hours mostly sleeping, and working, and you probably wasted a good chunk of yesterday on the internet. Days become weeks, weeks become months, and then we have a year. Let's look at 2020. T he nastiest coronavirus had appeared. Paycheque nuclear power plant held a bikini contest to pick their new intern, and people on the internet made a challenge out of eating bleach. You know, the usual stuff. Let's go back further… A kid born in the first year of the 21st century is 21 years old now. But the century is still young, even if you're not. It was largely shaped by the attacks on 9/11, which led to the war in Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq. In March 2011, the Syrian civil war began and is still ongoing after ten years. Most of us were born in t...

Automatic raining alert project with Python

Introduction:  This simple python project alerts you if it will rain in the next defined hour. All you have to do is sign up openweather API and Twilio messaging service and replace your API key below.  CODE: import requests as w import datetime import os from twilio.rest import Client END_POINT = "https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/onecall" api_key = "enter_your_weather_api_key_here" long = "83.995590" lat = "28.237988" account_sid = "your_twilio_account_sid" auth_token = "your_twilio_auth_token" twilo_ph = "twilo_phone_no" client = Client(account_sid, auth_token) api_param = { "lat" : lat, "lon" : long, "appid" : api_key } response = w.get(END_POINT, params=api_param, ).json() weather = response[ "hourly" ][:13] is_raining = False for weather_data in weather: condition_code = weather_data[ "weather" ][0][ "id" ] if condition_code ...

The story of life.

If you believe me, I bet, you won't hate anyone else ever again. This is the story of all of me and me. Me as He: You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable. But fatal, nonetheless. It was a painless death. The medics tried their best to save you... but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered, you were better off. Trust me. And that's when you met me. Me: What happened? Where am I? He: You died. I said a matter of factly. No point in mincing words. Me: There was... there was a truck. And it was skidding. He: Yes. Me: I... I died? He: Yes. But don't feel bad about it. Everyone dies. Me: I looked around. There was.. nothingness. Just he, and I. What is this place? Is this, the afterlife? He: More or less. Me: Are you... God? He: Yes. I'm God. Me: My dad... My mom... What about them? Will they be alright? "That's what I like to see," I said. He: You just died, and your main concern is for your famil...