tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9923481212484779952024-03-17T11:54:53.537+05:30The Three Dimensional Living WorldKarnika Kapoorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12597183599971956037noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-992348121248477995.post-42317996142976087902021-12-05T18:00:00.002+05:302021-12-05T18:02:55.617+05:30AI & Art<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXJ1jrojL17IOww5fXQDtTFKaAKoQBk8rpuyl-pzCoNbtc0K2nUc6hES1NG3ZSs2bfx_ho30ecfcITMuFshaiwKyy4iy6jHTUK_b0tJYe-12g_X8mNYtCsEiHoi3nERcb40mXivUm9N8qK/s1440/Vintage+Moodboard+Slides.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1440" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXJ1jrojL17IOww5fXQDtTFKaAKoQBk8rpuyl-pzCoNbtc0K2nUc6hES1NG3ZSs2bfx_ho30ecfcITMuFshaiwKyy4iy6jHTUK_b0tJYe-12g_X8mNYtCsEiHoi3nERcb40mXivUm9N8qK/w640-h360/Vintage+Moodboard+Slides.gif" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">When it comes to art, there is no consensus on what qualifies as art. There is a perpetual passionate debate about "What is Art?" amongst the art scholars and critics. So when it comes to calling something "Art", I stick to the basics: If you think it is Art then it is Art. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="read-aloud" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="read-aloud" style="font-family: georgia;">There is an apparent ongoing paradigm shift in the art world with all the craze around NFTs. Renewing school-of-thought that the spirit of art could accommodate the utilitarian as well as aesthetic outlook. As for "the purpose of art", it is integral to the human experience. I digress to steer this blog into the never-ending discussions on what qualifies as Art. This blog is about Artificial Intelligence. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="read-aloud" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="read-aloud" style="font-family: georgia;">Having created a neural network that outputs "art" seems like a paradox to me. What is the epitome of creativity here? The art created or the code that creates a virtual "brain" that creates the artwork. If we try to settle all the questions on that, it will take a lot of time and many assumptions. Thus, I believe, let us leave it to the thinkers as a subjective matter.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="read-aloud" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="read-aloud" style="font-family: georgia;">So after "Releasing" the album in my last blog <a href="https://karnikakapoor.blogspot.com/2021/10/down-uncanny-valley.html" target="_blank">post</a>, I thought now it is time to hand over an easel and brush to another AI model. So I trained AI to create another artform. When it comes to painting I wanted my model to paint what I like to paint the most: Oil painting portraits. Well, we can't actually do it on canvas with real oil paints cos let's face it I have so many limitations on having a real-life robot and training it to do so. So for all the intents and purposes, I will stick to a virtual replica of an oil painting aka Image. </span></div><div style="font-family: "PT Serif", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipUb2hdcs4MNVjFyFaRh2fkO3kqItfI6dRt6XjtaZjuPSlfB5RxrLAp936u0ukmtw6eJ3B44cb_jDoB1o5TBIP4vojMR39Sh9wkAWsuE4ZB6ZpIebh53FvfZRLMpxcomIyjydLXu3VRKhs/s1920/4.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipUb2hdcs4MNVjFyFaRh2fkO3kqItfI6dRt6XjtaZjuPSlfB5RxrLAp936u0ukmtw6eJ3B44cb_jDoB1o5TBIP4vojMR39Sh9wkAWsuE4ZB6ZpIebh53FvfZRLMpxcomIyjydLXu3VRKhs/w640-h360/4.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oil On Canvas Portrait </td></tr></tbody></table></div></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1774587a-7fff-078f-a018-f15355f9b35b" style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="read-aloud" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">To do so, I built a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). Generative modelling is an unsupervised learning task in machine learning that involves automatically discovering and learning the regularities or patterns in input data. GANs work by identifying the patterns, So I trained them on images of portraits. The orientation and poses in the dataset did very vastly which makes it difficult for the model to recognise the patterns. Despite knowing that, I was still willing to give it a try. As I basically love oil painted portraits and thought it would be awesome to see what a machine would process out of it. </span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;">How It works!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b><span><span class="read-aloud" style="font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neural Networks are the basis of deep learning where the algorithms are inspired by the structure of the human brain. The Neural Network takes in data, train itself to understand the patterns in the data and gives out the output in a new set of similar data. Let us learn how a neural network processes data. A Neural Network consists of layers of Perceptrons, the fundamental component of a Neural Network. The network consists of three kinds of layers; An input layer, an output layer and sandwiched between those are one or more hidden layers.</span></span></div><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: PT Serif, serif;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsnv_7E-Mzj7KvCz2q6hJucT1WaMJynZH85Mv0ROA3YpzId8u32ik9kGw8RvRjEJ53FVRK6js4uS9KS-4HYlny5k-UTuKmyfH04O5B8wt6t2lSKPlJs49lXRW8DBYaC6RWcIM0xMBFw6KX/s1440/Untitled+design.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #666666;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1440" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsnv_7E-Mzj7KvCz2q6hJucT1WaMJynZH85Mv0ROA3YpzId8u32ik9kGw8RvRjEJ53FVRK6js4uS9KS-4HYlny5k-UTuKmyfH04O5B8wt6t2lSKPlJs49lXRW8DBYaC6RWcIM0xMBFw6KX/w640-h360/Untitled+design.gif" width="640" /></span></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "PT Serif", serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="read-aloud" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Say we want to build a neural network that can classify images of cats and dogs. The input layer takes in the data in the form of images of cats and dogs, which is encoded as the numeric values of pixels in all three colour channels. The neurons in the input layer are connected to the consequent layer, so on and so forth, via channels. each of these channels is allotted some weights. Weights are a numeric value, which is then multiplied with corresponding input data, that is the pixels value in our example. This multiplied data value is passed on to the corresponding hidden layer. Each neurone in the hidden layer is associated with a value called bias. Which is then added to the input to the neuron from the previous layer and passed on to an activation function. The Activation function outputs the result which decides if the corresponding neuron will be activated or not. I like to think of it as the synapse in the human brain. If the corresponding neuron is activated the data is forwarded to the next layer. This unidirectional flow of data is called forward propagation. This goes on for as many hidden layers </span></span><span class="read-aloud" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">as the said neural network has. At the output, layer ends the neurons with the highest value fire up and this is the determinant of the prediction by the network. This prediction is in the form of probability and the output class getting higher probability is the final classification of the model. For an untrained neural network, this is absolutely arbitrary. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41a77f73-7fff-1d70-8cdf-4e601501009a"><span class="read-aloud" style="font-family: georgia; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When we train a network it iterates the values of weights and biases in such a way that the final values are optimized to predict the right output. This is done by a process of bi-direction information flow that includes backpropagation. To train a neural network along with the training data the network is also fed the actual class of the image. In this way, with each iteration, the network gets to evaluate the errors. This comparison of the calculated values and the true values is indicative that there is a need to change the values of weights and biases. As this information feed propagates backwards through the network the weights are adjusted. This backward flow of information is called backpropagation. During the training, this forward and backward flow of information iterates over with multiple data points a number of times, until the error is significantly low and the predictions are mostly correct.</span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="read-aloud" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">This approach is good for classifying data. To generate images, I will build a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). It is a dexterous way of posing the problem as a supervised learning problem. It comprises two models, a Generator and a Discriminator.</span></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="read-aloud">Two models are trained, simultaneously, by an adversarial process. The generator ("the artist") learns to create images, that look like the dataset. While a discriminator ("the art critic") learns to tell real images apart from fakes. During training, the generator progressively becomes better at creating images that look real. Likewise, the discriminator becomes better at telling them apart. As the process reaches equilibrium, the discriminator can no longer distinguish between real and fake.</span></div></span></span></span></div><div class="read-aloud"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;">Generative modelling is an unsupervised learning task in machine learning. It involves automatically discovering and learning the regularities or patterns in input data. As GANs work by identifying the patterns in the data, I used portraits. However, glancing over the dataset gave me an idea that it was going to be a long shot. The orientation and poses in the dataset vary vastly. Keeping that in mind I was still willing to give it a try. Only because portraits are my jam. I basically love oil painted portraits. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;">The output of the Neural Network picked up some patterns in the portraits. As we can see in the slide below. My model with GAN worked quite well. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqOYRiogTsSpDSzN1Jl_UzHoyzNZOrq7g-xBrMrDg5sT0n_DPFDjPEtgu1jlgxL0iJ0XMBIzSWxwMcK7nkwW8ZB5DazMWGHrqdDOQ2dQnXSRYlrLPuubFeXuPmjBovq6BDohPPMHrViPap/s1920/6.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqOYRiogTsSpDSzN1Jl_UzHoyzNZOrq7g-xBrMrDg5sT0n_DPFDjPEtgu1jlgxL0iJ0XMBIzSWxwMcK7nkwW8ZB5DazMWGHrqdDOQ2dQnXSRYlrLPuubFeXuPmjBovq6BDohPPMHrViPap/w640-h360/6.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GAN Generated Portraits </td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Check out my full project Kaggle notebook for this one. (<a href="https://www.kaggle.com/karnikakapoor/art-by-gan" target="_blank">here</a>) </span></i></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">GANs are notorious for being data-hungry, so I would consider increasing the dataset. There were many inconsistencies in the data which is rather complicated for the GAN to learn. Incustencies in colour pallet and poses orientations. Cleaning the data for the portrait styles would certainly help. Training it longer i.e. for more epochs would also help. Lastly, one can always strive to make a more robust architecture for the Neural Networks.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nonetheless, I am pretty pleased with the way it turned out. It has been a few weeks since I published this notebook. So, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am delighted to tell you that it has a Kaggle's Gold medal now. This being my 15th Gold on Notebooks (and my 15th Notebook) I am now a </span><b style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Kaggle Notebooks Grandmaster</span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"><i><b>Thanks for visiting my Blog; it’s always good to see you here!</b></i></span></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Find me on the following: <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>· </span><a href="https://twitter.com/karnikakapoor">Twitter</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">· <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/17891225-karnika-kapoor">Goodreads</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Links to my RNN Projects:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.kaggle.com/karnikakapoor/lyrics-generator-rnn" target="_blank">Lyrics Generation</a> </span></p><p><a href="https://www.kaggle.com/karnikakapoor/music-generation-lstm" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia;">Music Generation</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Link To My <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/karnikakapoor/code" target="_blank">Notebooks</a></span></p></div></div><p><span style="font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></div>Karnika Kapoorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12597183599971956037noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-992348121248477995.post-72494414864450657002021-10-11T16:38:00.009+05:302021-10-15T10:45:26.742+05:30Down The Uncanny Valley<p></p><div style="text-align: left;">The uncanny valley is the abrupt dip in human affinity to a non-human creature when we see it approaching human-like characteristics. For instance, the spooky feeling when one looks at Sofia the robot or Lil Miquela the Instagram influencer. Really though, Lil Miquela gives me the creeps when I go through her timeline. It is the eeriness of a realistic face with personalized captions with her sense of awareness that she is not a real person that is quite unsettling. </div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYYLyRdwKDbLU0XFy-Klf_uq9f_4LvgyWjMP3wVbvehgZCbBObMuj4dpGuQV3C_9_thQ-6ion01W3sr7PF8i96Vz-bAEx_RcpkQxgH1mA1Xn_toYNTendBsvqHN19le-5N5nKXpjHj1Xdp/s1920/music+4.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYYLyRdwKDbLU0XFy-Klf_uq9f_4LvgyWjMP3wVbvehgZCbBObMuj4dpGuQV3C_9_thQ-6ion01W3sr7PF8i96Vz-bAEx_RcpkQxgH1mA1Xn_toYNTendBsvqHN19le-5N5nKXpjHj1Xdp/w400-h225/music+4.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Album Cover<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Although, Artificial Intelligence amazes me all the time. There is something surreal about it that makes working with it exciting. Of course, we can peel off the layers and see the maths behind them. Get to the matrices and tensor to understand how these neurons work. Even get the values of weights and biases and assure ourselves that this is no sorcery. Still, when I see the result play out it is astonishing. They are mysterious and quite understandable at the same time. Nonetheless, It is the emotional uneasiness associated with it that is difficult to process.<div><br /></div><div><div>When I first decided to build an AI to write song lyrics for me, to my surprise, I was able to get to a working model pretty fast. I will spare you a summary of my personal learning curve and my initial skill set. As that is too resume-ish for the blog's content, some may say. I geek out in my blogs, I mean that's basically what I live for. </div><div><br /></div><div>Long story short, the initial "working" Recurrent Neural Network that did generate some output, only generated gibberish. After a few improvements, I reached a model that had real word generation. Although to my dismay, the network appeared to be obsessed with being "born". That was a sneak into the uncanny valley of AI. Fascinating! </div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_I8IBIVElV37qk6b-nnbD9Sk1vduK6V7cphqDzk5QPlejFkNoDavVWho8j2W8Y4Hc6ud03eX1JwqCaQyy4mB_BY14GvuZKj_07irqg2Yut50e9z3P9_zC2KvBoSj_alYBq14TAqasHZnN/s1920/music6.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_I8IBIVElV37qk6b-nnbD9Sk1vduK6V7cphqDzk5QPlejFkNoDavVWho8j2W8Y4Hc6ud03eX1JwqCaQyy4mB_BY14GvuZKj_07irqg2Yut50e9z3P9_zC2KvBoSj_alYBq14TAqasHZnN/w400-h225/music6.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AI's Obsession On Being Born</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><i>This Probably was my Victor Frankenstein moment. God's complex or God's conundrum.</i></p><p>After that, refining the model was pretty peachy, The AI wrote an extension of my poems. And I think it was quite thoughtful. Okay, at least it was a bunch of fully-formed meaningful sentences... stuck together mostly out of any context. And that was actually what's expected if we look into the way Recurrent Neural Networks work. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirGM6vhSZvn2TqolO-GTe5-paUDZNoZ-kwqjEPRXbpfsu-gh3r-jskWwXiwrvQpVpVpyZZOfKiz-qJrF-bvUr6YMQaOM4UiguXKnwsFDMuSDtNeyA8JwpA9UcJG2L0WmODCs0u2CpeXPgZ/s1920/music5.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirGM6vhSZvn2TqolO-GTe5-paUDZNoZ-kwqjEPRXbpfsu-gh3r-jskWwXiwrvQpVpVpyZZOfKiz-qJrF-bvUr6YMQaOM4UiguXKnwsFDMuSDtNeyA8JwpA9UcJG2L0WmODCs0u2CpeXPgZ/w400-h225/music5.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Poem Extended By AI</td></tr></tbody></table><p>As long as there were words and were arranged together in a manner that would pass as a sentence at first glance; I was proud of my little AI monster. After all, it is just a child in front of the giants, from open AI & hugging face. Those transformer-based models are trained on a ginormous amount of information. The adjective State-of-The-Art is often associated with such models. They have is these delightful websites interfaces where you could just go and type one line to text and In return, they would generate a book for you! I so wish I had that during my academic years. I would have saved so many midnight candles that I burnt on completing the assignments. The assignments that, I still believe, no one ever read.</p><p>Getting unstructured sentences from the model, got me thinking; If only language had a set of rules that were slightly less intricate. Maybe had a certain strick pattern ... a sort of key. Like musical compositions have. Like Mozart's Symphony No 40, one of his most popular, in the key of G minor. the symphony is literary known as the great G minor. </p><p>Sound is created by vibrations in the air. There can be infinite kinds of soundwaves as there are infinite combinations of frequencies and amplitudes. In music, we consider pitch and wavelength. As there are infinite soundwaves there can be infinite musical notes. However, contemporary music uses12 unique notes. The 12 notes have a constant difference in frequency with respect to each other. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht4mV_euW5HzYR3x-B7d5hQotjvP2wrZXuypuH6vngwCdtrJc702aohJwIuulBtJJK_RCjt86O5iWXxBYwC4LzRPxrj7vEWMZLRin_2KYCikJGk0dMqmde1hkqjC9Mm9Cb1dyEDj39pmdU/s1920/music3.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht4mV_euW5HzYR3x-B7d5hQotjvP2wrZXuypuH6vngwCdtrJc702aohJwIuulBtJJK_RCjt86O5iWXxBYwC4LzRPxrj7vEWMZLRin_2KYCikJGk0dMqmde1hkqjC9Mm9Cb1dyEDj39pmdU/w400-h225/music3.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Twelve Notes on Piano</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Though there are far more keys on a piano, all of them are different versions of those 12 notes on musical instruments. Say in the above image the key of A has a frequency of 220 Hz. The next assortment of keys will be set in a different octave and that A will be of frequency 440 Hz. 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This set of selected notes are indicative of the Key. When a song is in the key of C Major or D Minor this is simply telling you which of the 12 notes are used in this song.</p><p>Back to the initial topic, This sets up an easier pattern for a Recurrent Neural Network to learn than to learn a language with a strict syntax <i>and oh so many exceptions.</i> Besides even if it breaks those rules, I would never know. </p><p>I went further down the valley and made my first AI model generate music. I trained it with Frédéric Chopin's compositions. On second thought I think, Beethoven would have been an ideal candidate. Nonetheless, I did skip over my initial plan to work with Mozart's works... Ugh! What the hell I didn't want to work on data scraping there I said it! So I found this big dataset on Kaggle and Chopin’s was the one with the most files. </p><p>The first output was basically "something" ponding on the same key with one finger at a constant interval of time. It was still an art form, in my opinion, Made me think deep and hard about existence and how we should all be just annihilated right on the instinct the next note is played. The longer I played it the more I was convinced of it </p><p>After making a few tweaks in the architecture of the network It worked alright not as good as Frédéric Chopin's. Still, it is nice. 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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-11579864-7fff-7ddf-8ff1-2ac55b920876"><span class="read-aloud" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">It has been a long time since I last wrote to you. I hope you are doing well. It is a very different world now, Moon. We are under a lockdown till the 16th of April due to the ongoing pandemic. 2020 began with the trends of world war three on social media.</span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="read-aloud" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">On the first day of this year, social media was full of memes circulated on the ongoing war-like situation. Things went in a spiral down, but there is no war. It is a pandemic. </span><span class="read-aloud" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We are not even halfway through the godforsaken year, and the whole world is bound to be in isolation. Cancellation of flights and closing of state borders as a precaution.</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> It is to spare us from a further spread of the virus. </span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="read-aloud" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I reckon you don't get the memorandum on what is going on Earth. Nonetheless, I assume you are aware of the current scenarios. Moon, the sky is so clear since the lockdown. I got a glimpse of you during the daytime. I don't remember the last time I saw you during the day. Perhaps, I didn't care to look. Or maybe it was due to the typical Delhi's pollution blocking my view. I may never know. One thing I know of is that that our lives will be changed after this Pandemic. </span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="read-aloud" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 2001, after 9/11, the trajectories of everyone's life was deflected. Either directly or indirectly entire world was affected. The social, political and economic conditions of the world are linked so intricately with our lives. Nonetheless, we often ignore the role the world plays in who we are and where we are heading. At times like this, we come face to face with the fact that how fragile our accomplishments are on their own. </span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="read-aloud" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On the other hand, pandemics are quite rare. One occurs every 100 years or so. In this context, the world is in a new territory. The situation is dire and warlike. People are stuck in different places with no access to essential services. The businesses are shut down. Jobs are lost. The news makes me overwhelmed! I try to avoid it, but keeping tabs on the situation is also necessary. </span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="read-aloud" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An unexpected effect of this lockdown is a toll on people's mental health. Everyone is forced to sit with themselves and ponder over their lives, Moon. The sort of events that one brushes down by keeping busy on the work front resurfaces. I believe I am aware of my childhood and adulthood traumas. So in that context, I am better off than others. Especially when it comes to sitting in peace with oneself. Observing the thoughts come and go. I may not have resolved them but I know what floats my boat and what shakes it. So I am not stuck on contemplating the past and falling through the rabbit hole of unresolved feelings. </span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I hope to keep up our correspondence. Until then Goodbye. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This effect came upfront when in 1963 an MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz was using an old computer to calculate weather patterns. He was working on a simulation of weather patterns and placed the data into the system. At his first attempt, he entered the initial data values up to six decimal places. However, on the second run of the system, he assumed that the significant figure doesn’t hold much of significance (Pun intended) he entered up to the three decimal places. Both the simulations were running on the same data; the only difference was after the three decimal places. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strangely enough, this pandemic and its effects are something none of us experienced before. The other day my mother shared her concerns by asking rhetorically “How long will this go on?”. “I don’t know I have no experience in something like this” I replied. “Nor have I.” she retorted. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My mind often draws a parallel of the current situation to movies like the birdbox, a quiet place, etc. At this current day, life seems like the beginning of a dystopian apocalypse. However, in the movies, the situation accelerates too fast. Perhaps they, in the movies, never get the chance to “flatten the curve”. “Flatten the curve”; Another phase appears a lot on media in light of the pandemic. I shall pardon you the explanation assuming that at this time you will all be broadly aware of the mathematical models of infectious diseases. (if not then perhaps I shall write about it for you some other time)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Much like in the movies, media is flooded with the only thing "apparently" happening in the world right now. I admit having paid my fair share of heed to the apocalypse analogy. India has been on 21-days lockdown since March 24. So, I do spend uncountable hours scrolling through the news. I imagine an extension to the lockdown ... Lockdown lasting up to an indefinite time. A time when crumbling supply-chain and the crashing economy would be scattered on the green landscape of this spring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The spring of 2020, on the other hand, is one of the prettiest spring we have had in Delhi. The clear blue sky filled with puffy bright clouds. Birds are chirping everywhere. A pleasantly cool breeze flows towards the east. My cats purr while basking in the sun as the sunlight flies through their whiskers. It is a beautiful site. The sound of pin-drop silence is my favourite sound on any day of the year. However, at this time this silence is dire. Like we are tip towing in the eye of a hurricane. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or maybe, this abrupt spike in panic is all in my mind. Anxiety makes you anticipate the most unfortunate scenarios. Meh! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The human brain is a clever organ. In a dangerous situation, it takes over the steering wheel to an auto mode. The fight-or-flight response is a natural reaction that occurs in the presence of something that is terrifying. The response is triggered by the release of hormones that prepare our body to either stay and deal with a threat or to run away to safety.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In ancient times when our ancestors lived in caves and had frequent face-offs with bears, tigers or other life-threatening organisms (or situations), they could either fight or escape. We have the same physiological and psychological response hardwired in our brain to prepares the body to react to the danger. In layman's terms, it is like a reflex action, but prolonged. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imagine face off with a hungry lion during one of those relaxing morning walks. Unlikely, I know but work with me here ... You are walking down the usual route and suddenly a lion appears in front of you. You wouldn't think twice but run. Faster than Forest Gump, I know I would. In that instant, our brains sympathetic nervous system (reflex action part of the brain) kicks in and shuts down the prefrontal cortex (thinking and reasoning part of the brain). We are out of reasoning and rationalising part of the brain and our brain's prime objective is to make sure we survive. So we fight or flight. Our body is prepared to fight or run and sometimes to freeze in fright. This brings in a number of physical changes to give the body increased strength. </span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blood pressure, heart rate and blood sugars levels increase in order to supply the body with extra energy. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Increased muscle tension in order to provide the body with extra speed and strength. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The vision is heightened or sometimes it is a tunnel vision. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The onset of shallow breathing</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The blood clotting function of the body speeds up. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adrenaline hormone is released. So it provides energy and makes the person alert to take prompt action.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All the physiological changes help the body to sustain the imminent threat. However, in an anxious mind, like mine, has a constant notion of perceived threat. A small whiff or sound, some distant memory and in most of the times absolutely nothing triggers the fight or flight response. A sheer state of panic and confusion takes over. That situation is called a panic attack. I tend to avoid doing things that I feel are uncomfortable as I know my body would react in the following way and that might freak me out. </span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inability to breathe or swallow </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">A feeling of constraining force around the chest </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mild but concentrated pain in the chest</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pain in shoulders </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feeling of terror</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Having to pee frequently</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feeling claustrophobic</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lights feel too bright </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Confusion</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">In an extreme case, numbness throughout the face </span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is very important to have and maintain a strict routine. It helps in getting our body and our mind accustomed to our everyday life. The routine doesn't let the body get off balance by panic. Having a healthy body is the key to sound and calm mind, and vice versa. Thus to live a hearty life we should follow a wholesome lifestyle. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eating healthy meals is vital for overall well being. Be fastidious to including all required nutrients in the diet. Eating on time is also crucial to routine. Staying hydrated is equally essential.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For me, I start my day with a glass of warm water followed by overnight soaked almonds. I focus on having balanced home-cooked meals. I make sure to include seasonal fruits and veggies. I drink from 3 to 4 litres of water a day.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When it comes to anxiety certain foods can feed it while others can soothe it. If you suffer from anxiety include seasonal fruits and veggies, lots of greens, eggs, yoghurt or buttermilk, walnuts, figs in your meals. Avoid coffee; Coffee activates the adrenaline gland and stimulates fight or fright response. Don't eat junk food or eat out too often. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On a typical night, I brush my teeth and take a shower before going to bed. I put on comfy and clean nightwear. I turn on low-intensity light about 1 hour before bedtime and get away from my phone and other digital devices 30 minutes before going to sleep. I use the vanilla aroma in my room as it helps me calm my nerves. Last but not least I use sleeping meditation to doze off. I recommend the Headspace app they have some really nice guided meditation to sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mindfulness is the ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. A way of practising mindfulness is by paying attention to our surrounding. I practice this by noticing 3 things that I can see, touch and hear and describe them in my mind. This doesn't let the mind roam. Trying to be in present physically as well as mentally instead of being at a place while our mind is wandering around in multiple mental scenarios. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The benefits of meditation are numerous. For anxiety and depression, it trains the brain to be in the moment. It is believed that the human mind thinks an average of 70000 thoughts per day. If not half, some of them are bound to be negative and worrisome thoughts. Such thoughts are the food for anxiety. Meditation helps the mind in gaining control over thoughts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Practising daily meditation for 10 to 15 minutes workes for me. It helps in building focus that is being deteriorated by my mind keeping multiple tabs on thoughts and emotions. By the end of the meditation session, I find my body calmer and my mind fresh. For instance, I have noticed that a part of my fight or flight response is a heightened vision due to which my anxious self makes my eyes feel quite dry, perhaps because of lesser blinking. After meditation, my eyes have just the right amount of moisture.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><br />I have been posting a blog post every day during the month of April. I participated in <a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/" target="_blank">A to Z blogging challenge</a> for the second consecutive year. I have successfully completed the challenge and made myself proud. Yeyy! The bloggers from the challenge site suggested “If you made it through to the end of the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge, give yourself a big pat on the back" So, I obey and pat my back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">During this time I came across wonderful bloggers and learned so much. Reading so many awesome bloggers helped me post my blogs with more diligence. Never once, I found myself thinking "what if I can't pull it off". Last year, I gave much more attention and thoughts to my posts and topics, on the contrary, this year's post came fluently (Which was a blessing). I believe, my inquisitive nature gives me a lot to ponder on. This helps me as I write, with my head full of thoughts and ideas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Thanks to the readers and fellow bloggers who checked my posts and shared their thoughts and opinions. It wouldn't have been such an awesome experience without you all. Your reviews and feedback encouraged me to write! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">I thought about mentioning my favourite posts but they all are dear to me and I can't pick a few. So the following is the list of all my blog post during the month of April 2017. I hope you enjoy reading the posts as much as I enjoyed writing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #666666;">List of Blogs for A-To-Z Challenge 2017</span></b><span style="color: #444444;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Karnika Kapoorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12597183599971956037noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-992348121248477995.post-13668429401410023562017-04-30T09:41:00.001+05:302017-05-01T11:48:56.947+05:30Zodiacs: Just Fun & Games <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Yet some things remained. However, harmless though, Zodiac signs have no logical argument to support its workings. Zodiacs are some personality stereotypes that are based on the location of constellations relative to the sun during the month of a person's birth. It is pretty much saying that location of Sun, Moon and Constellations have the ability to dictate who you are as a person and what happens in your life. Now, how it "works"? Or I should say how you are sorted in your zodiac. I fall under the category of Aries zodiac. Meaning, based on the astrology's zodiac model, during the month of my birth the location of Aries constellation in the sky was tracing the same path as the Sun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Fun fact, we can't see that constellation of the zodiac in the month assigned to it because its location will be eclipsed by the Sun and well we can't see stars during the day. However, you can see it the best when the earth is on the opposite side of its orbit relative to that position. That will not be after six months as earth orbit is elliptical. For instance, Aries is best visible during the month of December. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">When I first got curious about how astrology works, I found the information on it. At that point, being a person of STEM academics, I needed to know the logic. Well, there was none. It is clear that zodiac system, or for that matters Astrology (not Astronomy), is not science. Astrology is not subjected to critique by other scientists, it is not based on evidence and the conclusions are incontestable/not falsifiable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Still, the enthusiasm with zodiacs is almost universal. Why does it seem to work? Why do we identify with the given traits? Well because they are pretty vague. It is one of those one size fits all. This point is best illustrated by James Randy's experiment on zodiacs. Watch it <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dp2Zqk8vHw" target="_blank">here</a>. This experiment is based on Guaquelin’s Horoscope Experiment<b>. </b>In this experiment, they take birth date details of a group of people. After that, they provided them with their personalized personality traits. Each participant has to review the traits they receive. The result was surprisingly accurate, 94% of participants claimed their traits were in accordance with their personality. There was just one catch; the personalized traits given to all the participants were same. This effect is called the Burnum effect. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">The Burnum effect is a psychological phenomenon where people tend to register high accuracy to the personality traits that they suppose is oriented specifically to them. However, in fact, the traits are vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people. The truth is such traits have something to offer to everyone. Read a Psychology Today's article on the Burnum Effect <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sideways-view/201411/weve-got-something-everyone-the-barnum-effect" target="_blank">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">If you think that it somehow still works and your designated sign is working well for you. I have a bad news, the signs that we follow now are outdated. Due to a phenomenon called axial precession, the earth wobbles on its axis, in a 26, 000 years cycle (read <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession" target="_blank">here</a>). This changes the relative position of the sun and constellation. So, technically that makes me Pisces. But the changes were never made in the field of astrology and it worked out alright. Well, it worked vaguely enough ... in light of Burnum effect or it never really worked. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">In the end, it is fun and entertaining to read your zodiac with your friends for a good time. However, I recognize the obsession of zodiacs is all over the world. Each newspaper has a dedicated section for the Zodiac. Why are we still doing this beyond logic, but I wouldn't bet my fortune on that. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #666666;">I yearn for the things that will never be.</span></span></i></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></i></span></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #666666;">To look at my own face, with eyes closed while I sleep.</span></span></i></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #666666;">Feel my back pressed against my chest, as I cuddle myself asleep.</span></span></i></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">To hold my thought in my hands and re-arrange them, maybe.</span></i></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">To see the color of my smile, </span></i></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">We, humans, are the only "intelligent" species on the planet. We do treat other animals unfairly. It seems like we have this monopoly over the planet and its resources that we don't tend to share with our fellow earthlings. Sometimes I like to think about other possible scenarios that could have been. What if it was not like this? What if the Neanderthals had survived? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">We left our native land of Africa around 50000 years ago. Not to mention we spread like wildfire all over the globe. Neanderthals, our closest cousins, had left the native land 230000 years</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">ago. They settled in Europe, Middle </span>East<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"> and central Asia. They survived until, well, we reached there. We were quite same, yet quite different. That pretty much would have been like Bonobos meeting Chimpanzees. Man, the Homo sapiens and homo Neanderthals shared 99.7% of the DNA. We are from the same genus: meaning we are the descendant of same species Hominins (the great ape). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Fun fact: The name Neanderthals was given to them because their bones were first discovered in the caves of Neander valley. We called ourselves Homo (Man) sapiens (wise), the wise man. Not quite humble of us eh? Ernst Haeckel proposed taxonomic name Neanderthal as Homo Stupidus. That name is obsolete now. As the matter of fact, The Neanderthals were not stupid. They had the same brain to body mass ratio as us. They were physically stronger than us. It is now believed that they had pretty refined societies too. To read more about the Neanderthals click <a href="https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjVvNmwg8bTAhUFQ48KHfCPAvAQFggmMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNeanderthal&usg=AFQjCNFbKr9ahW08Lx2v7o-kZOqPwyhigA&sig2=vpZKWcDBww8btVbjl-Twrg">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">So what happened to the Neanderthals? It is a mystery! There are a few theories. Moreover, there is an indication that all of the factors may have had a combined effect in the extinction of Neanderthals.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sapiens invasion: Humans and Neanderthals coexisted for a millennial. There might have been competition for resources amongst Neanderthals bands and sapiens bands. They were bigger and good at hunting and humans were innovative and formed larger bands. One can only imagine how the dynamics of society would have worked in those days. It is believed that the domestication of Dogs was advantageous to human over the Neanderthals. We might have starved them with our better skills on calling dibs on the resources or we may have slaughtered them because it could have been threatening. It is difficult to tell for sure.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">According to recent understanding, the Neanderthal and sapiens often interbred. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Many of the modern humans have 2-4% of shared DNA. You can read more about Sapiens and Neanderthals interbreeding </span><a href="http://www.evoanth.net/2016/06/21/secret-interbreeding-neanderthals/" style="font-family: inherit;">here</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">. Now we can even sequence our DNAs with </span><span style="color: #444444;">services </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">that will tell us about our personal ancestry and likelihood of diseases. I am quite curious to sequence my DNA as I have bright red hair which is very rare in my location. Also, red hair indicates the presence of Neanderthal DNA. Find out other traits that are associated with the presence of Neanderthal DNA </span><a href="http://www.abroadintheyard.com/20-physical-traits-inherited-from-neanderthal/" style="font-family: inherit;">here</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now the interbreeding side of anything related to humans just spirals down and the ugly </span>alley <span style="font-family: inherit;">of eugenics. The Nazi's romanticizing the Aryan race had made this discussion tarnished with genocide. So much so that experts have lost interest in exploring that side. Well, it is all very fresh in human conscious and we cannot walk past it just yet. Maybe someday in future, when the political and emotional wounds of the racial scars will be filled and the world is ready to walk past the petty inclination claiming to be superior in one way or the other ... Until then, we should just heal the old wounds and learn to live in peace with our differences.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">There is something about the German language that makes it stand out amongst the other languages. It has some words that express our feelings and ideas so perfectly; so much so, it seems that there is a lexical gap in the other languages. Some German words just cannot be quite translated by just another word. One such word is Weltschmerz. </span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">The contemporary meaning of Weltschmerz is the psychological distress of realizing that our frailties are the product of social, physical and circumstantial states of the world. The feeling of Weltschmerz may cause depression and may lead to social or mental withdrawal. Weltschmerz is the despair experienced when the world as it is does not line up with the world as we think it should be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">The word Weltschmerz, in my mind, always takes me back to Charles Darwin. I recently read his book, on the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life. That is the full name of the original book; I find it amusingly long and precise. The book is more popularly called Origin of Species. The book was brilliant and the ideas in it were strongly supported by evidence and reasoning. Many of the common questions of creationists in the debate panels with Richard Dawkins, were first handledly answered by Darwin in his book. Moreover, I found Darwin's knowledge of geology was far ahead his times, he more or less explained plate tectonics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">I, as a person living in 2017 with a world view on evolution as a given, cannot fathom the feeling of Weltschmerz that Darwin must have experience. Darwin traveled the globe in his youth. He was a naturalist on the HMS Beagle, a naval exploratory voyage around the world. He studied the geology and nature. He studied plants and animal life and collected fossils during his five-year-long voyage. After his voyage, he studied his finding on the theory of evolution. He didn't share his ideas with the world for twenty-one years. It was that time during which the world-weariness of preconceived idea of creation faced up to Darwin. Darwin was reportedly battling an undiagnosed sickness throughout his life. Nowadays, it is believed that Darwin's sickness was psychosomatic. He was raised a devoted Christian, during this time he was facing up the flaws in the creation idea and being accused of "killing the beloved God". This might have been the source of Darwin’s depression and Weltschmerz.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">I think the life and experience of Darwin, even though he was brilliant and ingenious for the knowledge that he imparted us, was filled with the Weltschmerz. You may read more about Darwin and his Theory of Evolution </span><a href="http://www.pewforum.org/2009/02/04/darwin-and-his-theory-of-evolution/" style="color: #e76d80; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">. The reality of life and the emotional leaning towards the desire of how we wished it should have been ... is heart-breaking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444;">The thing about virtue is that it is not objective. It is a factor of culture and era, per<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>se the year referring to or under consideration. If it was the 1500s the morality would vary from what it is in 2017. Across the globe, the virtues that people believe in changes. However, in the current age of globalism, the virtue of humans is approaching a saturation point. We more or less have the same kind of morals in society, nowadays. It is not quite a lot segregated as people believe it to be, at least for the younger people. The internet age is helping in ideas come together and irate into an optimal moral code. </span><span style="color: #444444;">On a second thought, the current polarity the world makes me think, umm maybe not. Maybe we are more divided than ever. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444;">Growing up I was often told to, respect my elders. So I obliged and paid my "due" regard to people who were older than me. </span><span style="color: #444444;">As a grown up now, I found myself questioning should respect be granted based on age? </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"> Respect: a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements. It is not the same as a courtesy or a good behaviour towards someone. One may say it is the same, but then why should it be limited to elders? Isn't that how we should behave by default? In this post, I am digging into the "Respect your elders" virtue that we teach children. Is it the right approach? Do all the people older than me deserve my respect by default? No!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Politeness is a sign of civility. That should be taught to children irrespective of age. I have been "respectful" towards many people who did not deserve my respect. Now, when I look back to such people from the perspective of an adult, I find it obscure to fathom what I was told to do. From my adult judgment, some of those people were plainly grown up bullies to the younger me. As a matter of fact, I am still in the process of unlearning that my respect is not depending on the fact that someone has spent more years than me on the planet. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">This idea of default respect is a breeding ground to tame people into submission. Children should be taught to behave nicely with everyone, irrespective of age. The underlying idea of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>taming<span class="apple-converted-space"></span> a child to curb the questioning to authority is unhealthy. We should, on the contrary, make them question the authority. Respect/listen/obey the elders are kind of a classical conditioning, which makes docile adults for the authoritative society. Why would we want that for the future generations? It is dormant, even regressive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Respect has to be earned! It shouldn't be a product of relative ages. Everyone has had one of those mean aunt /uncles, a cantankerous old man in the neighbourhood or bully older cousins/siblings. A child should be made aware of the fact that not every older person is to be respected. They should be taught to retaliate and reject the bad authorities. I don't demand the people younger than me to respect me! That would be insanely obnoxious of me. I rather believe in mutual politeness and earned respect. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Do you respect people based on age or do you believe, respect has to be earned? Let me know in the comment section below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Growing up I had a guitar, but I didn't know how to play it. However, I sure posed with it for pictures. I always wanted to learn to play. A few months before, I stumbled on an online search for music theory out of curiosity. One thing leads to another, I found myself learning more and more about Ukulele.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">After a few days, I got myself a Uke. I had done enough research to theoretically know how to play it. However, finding one in my hand made me realize the value of practice. My grandpa always said "Practice makes a man perfect" to make me practice more in maths. I, in my mind, always had an excuse to that. I am not a man! ha! Nevertheless, I got the gist of it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Since I started playing it I notice I was getting better. I am still learning ... I am not as good as Tyler Joseph, but I can strum a bit. I can pretty much play a few songs on it. Here are a few of my covers</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">This train of thoughts is brought to you by my brain, with a little coordination with my fingers. I wrote the prequel to this post, last year, for the post on "T". It is the alphabet that reminds me of the newspapers. If you haven't already, read the last year's post </span><a href="http://karnikakapoor.blogspot.in/2016/04/train-of-thoughts.html" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">. Old passengers to my train of thought must be thinking "So is this a yearly thing now?" NO, it's just a thing! I am not making a yearly commitment. I can't even commit to having a certain breakfast next morning! Basically, it's just the idea of not having a choice and being stuck with oatmeal that scares me. No kidding, even one of my frequent scary dream is all about, my college's mess breakfast making a dramatic entry back in my life! Back in college, I simply skipped the meals to break out of that routine...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">I took a break after writing that one part because typing is exhausting. Especially, if you are an entitled and short-attention-spanned millennial. One message on phone and you lose track of what you were doing! Am I right? Or am I right? Back in my parents' days, they had better; fill in the most baby-bloomer cliché here. Who cares! Time changes and so does the trend. Changing trends can be sometimes difficult to adapt to or get used to. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">For instance beard epidemic. The scruffy hipsters with a beard, you know there was a time when I found beard attractive. Now all the men in my city have beards and well, it is a nightmare! You can't even distinguish your friends from a random stranger because they all look alike. So to avoid any confusion or accidental infidelity I don't date men with beard, in the current times of beard epidemic. Besides its summer of 2017 that means it is the hottest year of our lives, why would anyone want to cover their face with human fur! Moreover, there is another factor; I don't take men to be as self-caring as women. Selfish, sure that is not something dependent on gender. Yet, not shaving and grooming is just lazy! No offense to you, men, but if you want to take it be my guest and take all offense you need. It's free!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">I noticed something on my dressing table. The thing is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Well; a lot of people online and in real also just categorically claim to have OCD. Without even realizing how it is to live with it. The romanticization of mental health issues is a fad. OCD is not just washing your hands it is washing your hand after touching anything that is not you! I do that, I confess. I even bathe three times a day. I have a thing for arranging things in certain fashion. I have a certain order of arrangement of products on my dressing table. That essential oil has to be next to my perfume bottle... why you may ask! Well because that is the right order in my brain. I cannot look at the bottle being next to my body lotion. I will have to fix it or else a section in my brain will be screaming. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">I do the only thing that is wise to do in such condition ignore the screams of my brain. What are those screams? They are just a certain sequence of sparking neurons! I am far above those tiny neural synaptic sequences. Keep screaming I shall not re-arrange my dressing table because it is my dressing table. I shall keep it however I like. <i>Essential oil is not next to perfume bottle.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Okay, I confess, I am out of Ideas to talk about; I woke up tired and sad. I don't know why it happens! I just woke up why I am so tired. Was my body sleep-walking while I was sleeping? Maybe! Everyone say keep a journal for your ideas. I do, the thing is I never open the journal to withdraw any idea. One day when future archaeologists will find my buried city and raid my home they will find my little journal take it the museum and display it. Students from future schools and universities will visit the museum ... Will they still have schools and universities? I think they should be able to upload information with computers linked to their brain. That will be more advantageous and economical. They will do their made up jobs ... I don't know! I don't know what future people will do to spend their times after having everything done by the machines and computers. </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Essential oil is not next to perfume bottle </i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">It is kind of a scary thought, right? What if machines gain consciousness and end up enslaving us. Imagine humans doing the manual labour and machines taking up the white collar jobs or whatever made up positions. The machines masters will lash humans with the future electric whips. That would be right out of a sci-fi book. Then one fine day, a group of humans will try to escape the state lead by machines into the wilderness. If caught they will be thrown into more awful labour camps or even exterminated. It is unlikely because most of us will die in the upcoming global climate catastrophe. Some will survive to take the human genome ahead and re-populate the earth if or when it cools down. After all, humanity is quite persistent to survival, I believe it is innate. <i>Essential oil is not next to the perfume bottle. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Alright, I am about to throw my pride and give in. The universe is at stake, if I don't fix that fucking bottle of essential oil and put it next to my bottle of perfume. It just keeps on pondering in my brain no matter how much I try to distract myself from that. So for my ability to completing this post, let me just fix my dressing table and save this train of thought from being hijacked by the OCD. Sigh! Once again I gave up to the compulsive thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Anyone who has watched The Matrix may have an idea of what is the Matrix in the movie. It is a computer simulation of the reality. So the instantaneous answer to the above question for most of us would be; "Bah humbug! We are not living in a computer simulation”. What if I tell you we might be living in one? In fact, Elon Musk, himself said there are one in billion chances of us <b>not</b> living in a simulation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">In 2003 Nick Bostrom from the Oxford University published papers citing a thought experiment. The experiment has the same advantage as an argument as religion does, it is unfalsifiable. Pretty much like solipsism, I wrote about Solipsism for my A to Z challenge's post last year read it <a href="http://karnikakapoor.blogspot.com/2016/04/solipsism.html" target="_blank">here</a>. In his papers, Bostrom puts forward the three arguments and argues that at least one of them is true. </span><span style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;">You can read Boston's proposition in details </span><a href="http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">We as species may go extinct before further advancement in technology. It could be an asteroid that hit our planet or we end up nuking the whole planet. As a matter of fact, Earth is on the brink of mass extinction in the light of climate issues; we can be one of the species that may get extinct. However, we are in a very safe place compared to other animals, such as polar bears. (Read my post on polar bears <a href="http://karnikakapoor.blogspot.com/2016/04/global-climate-change.html" target="_blank">here</a>). However, the perception of a likelihood of this fallout depends on how much brunt of climate change you are facing at your location. My city, Delhi, is breaking the 'hottest ever' record every given year. Sigh! Still, some of us have more chances of survival and overall chances of human reaching posthuman stage are strong. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Reaching posthuman stage will be marked by the integration of technology in our day to day life. The technological revolution of our era is enjoying an exponential growth. I remember when I had a lousy video game player to play Super Mario. It was amazing to the past me, such good quality! Had someone told me that in a matter of few years this would be ridiculously lame I wouldn't believe. Now the games are better and realistic. Many experts say that it will still get better with time up to a point where the gaming worlds like the Sims will be indistinguishable from the real world. Your player may even experience real distress on that "Game Over" mark. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Now that we know it is possible, in future, how can we be sure it is not already happening? How can we be sure that someone from an advanced civilization didn't want to see what earth was like at this very time? How can we say we are not their simulation? After all, there are no grounds to prove that we are the ground reality. </span>This is the Simulation hypothesis and that leads us to the last point on the Bostrom's list. We are almost certainly living in a simulation. You may check out this Ted talk by the Nobel Prize Winner George Smoot trying to convince you about living in a simulation <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chfoo9NBEow" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">When we look at pole star, it draws awe about the fact that the light from pole star took a span of 433.8 light years to reach us. It seems so ancient. Our lifespans seem quite insignificant compared to the vastness of the universe.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I like to think about what earth was like when the light that I see tonight left its place of origin. For the pole star, It was roughly when Columbus discovered America. It is nice to see things from different perspective. For this post, I have decided to think about the journey of a photon that I see tonight when I look at the pole star. Our earth-bound instinctive thinking may say 433.8 light years that must has been an awful long boring journey. Actually, it was not long for the photon. In fact, it was instantaneous. Because, Drumroll Please, Relativity! Let me explain.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">We often hear the speed of light is always, well! The speed of light! that equals to 3 X10^8 meters per second. At this point, I am holding in my urges to mock America for its choice of units. Now imagine you are riding a bike in space, going with the speed of light. It's a hypothetical space bike and you are wearing a spacesuit ... Blah blah blah, you are safe. Since space is dark, you have the headlight on. So the light leaving your bike is the same speed of your bike. Instinctively it shouldn't leave at all. However, that is not how the universe works. The beam of light leaving your bike will still be traveling away from you at 3 X 10^8 meters per second. No matter what reference frame we are considering the speed of light will always be the same.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Now if light's speed remains constant how does it work! Speed is the distance traveled (length) per unit time. If speed remains constant then the variation lies in length and time. Einstein, in his theory of relativity, explains how the time, mass and length vary with speed. He used Lorentz transformation to work out the relation and find out the relative change in mass, length and time. I would spare you the mathematical side of this, still, if you are interested you may check out the details of Lorentz transformation </span><a href="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Relativ/conrel.html#c1" style="font-size: 13.5pt;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. Now, long story short, when an object approaches the speed of light its mass increases, time dilates and length contracts with respect to the objects at rest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The more the speed approaches equals to the speed of light the time slows down. At the speed of light time stands still. If it were to go beyond the speed of light (hypothetically) the direction of time will flip and move backward. That will break the law of causality. The law that governs that cause should be followed by effect. So the speed of light is the speed of causality<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Another thing that changes with speed approaching the speed of light is mass. We know that inertia increases with speed thus mass also increases. In a way, the mass is the speed restriction; anything having mass cannot reach the speed of light. The closer the speed reaches the speed of light heavier the mass becomes. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">So if you were really aspiring to ride that bike with speed of light, I am sorry to burst your bubble. You would have an infinite mass and will require infinite energy. We don't really have that kind of energy! Actually, we don't know how much energy we have in the universe or if it is finite or not. We don't even know if the universe is finite or not. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In the case of light, photons, it is a massless particle. For the photon, traveling with of light from the pole star to us, time stands still. From the point of view of the photon, that journey would have occurred instantly. It took 433.8 light years from our perspective only. Same is true for the first ray of sunlight that takes eight minutes to reach us from the surface of the Sun. However, for that light ray, it leaves the sun's surface and reaches us in no time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The constants, such as speed of light, in the universe that governs the laws of it are a set of certain values that makes the universe possible. Had there been a slight variation in the value of any of these universal constants I wouldn’t be here writing this post nor you would have been here reading it. We wouldn’t exist. Isn’t it wonderful that light travels with 3 X 10^8 Meters per second and we do exist (Or do <a href="http://karnikakapoor.blogspot.com/2016/04/solipsism.html" target="_blank">we</a>?)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Karnika Kapoorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12597183599971956037noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-992348121248477995.post-66035802604673589072017-04-20T04:58:00.003+05:302017-05-01T11:53:12.236+05:30Quipu: The Alternative Language<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Writing is a method of saving and transferring information in the form of symbols and numbers. When I first started singing my ABC's I had no idea what was the use of it. I knew that it was what the slightly older kids were doing in the school, singing songs and playing. So my eagerness to go to this "cool playing place" made me exhibit my ability to sing along. Sigh! Little did I know!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">When I finally understood the purpose of alphabets, it amazed me that everything we say can be spelled out with those few letters. At first, I was a bit skeptical I decided to find the missing alphabets. Well! At least I tried ... I and my siblings, would sit and made<span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">gibberish noises and then try to spell those sounds. Every attempt was followed by giggles; it was a fun activity for us! Being bilingual, we had to try the same for the script of Hindi. However, I did not try this activity when I learned the script of Punjabi in fifth grade I assumed, as it was quite like Hindi, it will yield the same result.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">As I grew a little bit older and had learned two lingual scripts, Hindi and English, I got obsessed with making my own language. Soon I realized it was a lot of work for a child, I had to put it aside and wait to grow up. Now that I am grown up, I am a bit busy with my project of world domination. Maybe after that, I would get on the pending job of coming up with my own language. So back in childhood, for the time being, for the purpose of having a secret language, I decided to assign numbers to alphabets and alphabets to numbers. In a way, I and my siblings had a coded secret language to leave messages for each other. Back then, we thought it was awesome! Of course, I wouldn't recommend it for some serious work as it was pretty easy to decipher.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Under Inka Empire, the Quipus kept the record of all the data of the empire. It was a pretty sophisticated system. It was so accurate that after the Spanish conquest of Inka Empire the Spaniards kept on using this system. However, Spaniards did not know how to read and record the quipu. They depended on the locals for the record keeping. So for the security of the new empire, they slowly eliminated the quipus and used written language. Thus, eventually the art of quipu died and the recording and deciphering died. Find more information on Quipu<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/Find%20me%20on%20the%20following:%20Social%20Media%20%20YouTube%20%20Twitter%20Instagram%20Goodreads%20Tumblr" target="_blank">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I am an extremely sensitive and emotional person. My emotions can very in a fraction of seconds that may land people into thinking what's up with her! Spoiler alert! If you ask me, "Is it that time of the month?" I would punch you right in the face. Well, stereotypes aside. Recently I read a <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/katangus/stay-in-school-kids?utm_term=.figKj5wqgA#.gcO1yBX0WE" target="_blank">piece</a> about ignorance on the human female body. So I think I should shed some light on a small sect of the same issue. Let us talk about things related to periods and the "perks" of having the ability to make babies in your womb. If you are a woman you would most certainly be interested in knowing what is going on in your body. If you are a man well you probably live in a world you share with women so educate yourself.<br />
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PMS is one of those buzz words that everyone is pretty much aware of. It stands for<b><span style="color: #666666;"> Pre-Menstrual Syndrome</span></b>. It is a big misconception the PMS is during the period, It is <b><span style="color: #666666;">not </span></b>true. As the name suggests, it is the set of symptoms that occur roughly two weeks before a woman starts menstruating and stops at the time of menstruation. (If the symptoms don't stop it may be some other issue). Medically, a condition is categorized as Syndrome when the symptoms vary from person to person. So every woman has her own set of combination and intensity of these symptoms. For some women, the PMS symptoms are very severe it starts to interfere with their normal daily life. This category of PMS is called PMDD (Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder). 75% of women do experience PMS to some extent and 8% get PMDD. Whether you need medical help or not, really depends on your symptoms and the effects it is causing your everyday life. You may find more information <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alaY2fu9Vys" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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When I started my period, during adolescence, I never paid attention to the symptoms. Adolescence was already too much to deal with. The thing that really got on my nerves was the CRAMPS! The detestable evil menstrual cramps. I got this medicine prescribed to me that would assuage the pain and put me to sleep. So no help if I had an exam to write while dealing with cramps. As I grew older I became more familiar with my body and the patterns of my menstrual cycle became more predictable. With Smartphones and menstruation tracking apps, I can now get a notification and can be ready for what may come.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">Emotional Symptoms</span></b>: Extreme mood swings. The most versatile combination of all the emotions that you can think off occur. I find myself more sensitive than usual. People around me may find me fluctuating from happy to irritable and angry. This specifically hits the hardest if you are already dealing with anxiety and depression. It becomes the most vulnerable phase as it adds on to the usual consistent depression.<br />
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So, why is it happening? We don't know exactly what causes it. However, the main reason attributed to PMS is hormonal mainly estrogen and progesterone. The level of hormones starts to crash right before the beginning of the period. This rapid change in the hormonal level leads to instability. Some women are more sensitive to the variation of hormones than others.</div>
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This variation in the hormones also affects the neurotransmitter in brains such as dopamine and serotonin. The level drops low and makes one feel depressed. As these neurotransmitters are related to depression and anxiety. Thus, someone who already struggles with depression may get to experience a heavy brunt of it. </div>
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The good news is, it disappears with the start of the period. If it does not subside it may not be just the PMS. As someone who experiences this and started to notice the pattern, I get the sense of satisfaction when I acknowledge the start of my period. Alas, It feels like the dark clouds have lifted and the storm has passed and I get to see the sun shining! Hallelujah! For I survived it and didn't even kill anyone. The younger me would have never thought I would be anticipating and hoping for the cramps to begin because PMSing sucks! </div>
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If you are a woman, do you experience active PMS or PMDD? If you are a man. you may be experiencing 'passive' PMS from your female friends and family? Also, cut them some slack! Be understanding and bring over a pizza or some chocolates. Feel Free to leave your thoughts in the comment section. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Language is one of the cornerstones of our human civilization. Animals, other than humans, have the ability to communicate via signals and sounds to alert and acknowledge their fellow beings. That kind of communication is sufficed to the survival of the organism. However, we humans don't merely survive. As we tend to have a more innovative set of skills and abilities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Language is one of those skills that somehow evolved extensively in early human. The cognitive evolution of human mind gave early humans the ability to make up stories and tell stories. This was an upper-hand and offered them an opportunity to come together as a species.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With the ability to exchange ideas and stories came along the stories about the creation and the creator. Language helped in forming stories about the origin of humans such stories helped building the society as we know it today. It can be debatable whether, without religion and creation stories, the course of human history would have been the same. The rise of human and his dominating the planet is a benefit of creation stories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Human children have relatively longer nurturing requirements. A human child needs years of parental involvement for food and protection. Under such circumstances, Humans are bound to be emotionally and psychologically attached to their parents. Thus the idea of creation centers a parent figure to humans collectively. The grander parental figures serve as a source of comfort and a </span>sense <span style="font-family: inherit;">of well-being. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This faith in the higher beings enforced a relation amongst human with the advent of culture and a state of law-ness. It transpired the state of authority over human actions. Thus, brings a state of cooperation amongst beings. People believed in the same set of gods had a firm belief that 'someone' is keeping track of their actions and </span>society <span style="font-family: inherit;">turned more trusting towards each other. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The oldest surviving religion, Hinduism, have traversed into a monotheistic origin of various Gods and Goddesses. To me, the ardent survival of it is quite fascinating. The flexibility and ability to reform have been the key to bolstering its own self. Ahem Ahem! * Looking at you the contemporary Hindutva agenda.* </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b><i>like rain water when it hits the ground <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b><i>the vibration of every string<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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When I was a little girl of nine or ten, I was playing on a summer noon on our porch. I clearly remember that afternoon. As that very noon I was a spectator to a tragedy. A little bird crashed into our veranda's fan. It was an instant death. Being present there I felt the agony of death in its last squeak. I couldn't do much for the bird I wanted to save it, of course, but sadly could not bring it back from the "other side". I did the only logical thing one could do. I decided to organize a small funeral and bury it. I selected a spot under the cordial tree and buried it with made-up rituals.<br />
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It was a long evening and by the end, while I was covering it with mud and a thought crossed my mind. 'I must mark this exact spot. I should have wrapped the body in a hanky'. Even when the burial was not complete I was thinking about the exquisite skeleton of a house sparrow. The telly those days had a lot of news of finding the bones of dinosaurs. I, being the nerd that I am, wanted my own skeleton of the future generation of dinosaurs. By the end of finishing the bird's grave, I secretly decided I am going to get my skeleton. I marked the spot with a little stick flag. Over the next few days, I enquired the grown-ups about, how long it takes to get a skeleton from a buried body? (Wonder why no one thought it was weird!). Different people gave different answers. I came to a conclusion that for a bird a month was enough. I lost my patience on the twenty-fifth day.<br />
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I dug the marked grave and found only a skull and few thin rib bones. I think my digging disturbed the tiny bones and I couldn't find the whole set. I decided to keep the skull only. I prepared a cool spot to place my collection in my private museum. A green plastic basket padded with cotton, on my study table. I kept it and was proud of my possession. It made me remember the last squeak of the bird. My desk resembled one of those old paintings of human skulls on a table. Thinking about the classic painting having pretty much same work desk as I did, made me feel sophisticated and nerdy at the same time. Until my Mum spotted it... sigh!<br />
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Those old paintings that inspired me to decorate my workspace, where I use to complete my homework on multiplication assignments from school. Is a specific genre of art called Memento Mori (also vanitas). It depicts the symbolism objects that signify death (namely skull) To remember the infallibility of Death. Such artwork is an artistic expression to remind that death is the objective truth to all and one must spend life wisely.<br />
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If you are a Shakespear's fan you must have read The Tragedy of Prince Hamlet, one of my absolute favorites. Shakespear, being the genius that he was, used the symbolism with a skull in the Hamlet. In the play, Act-5 scene-1, Hamlet holds up the skull of Yorick, King Hamlet's jester, and remember's his childhood memories with Yorick. It is a brilliant scene ... I will spare you by not writing the whole scene, but if you are curious you may read the scene <a href="http://www.william-shakespeare.info/act5-script-text-hamlet.htm" target="_blank">here</a>. I think Shakespeares perfected the notion of Memento Mori in that very scene.<br />
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So where does this term comes from? In the Roman days, when a general would win a battle, there use to be victory parades with the crowd use to cheer and hail the victor. In all that cheering and hailing there was one appointed servant who would whisper a Latin phase in the general's ear<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b><i>("Look behind you, remember that you are
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Its purpose is obvious, to remind the General while he basked in the glory of his victory that his demise is still inevitable. Probably to keep him grounded. Frankly, If I was the General I would be pissed. I mean, let me have my moment of fame and glory. Jeez! what a killjoy!<br />
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I know death is a not a topic anyone wants to talk about happily. Heck! I even wrote about Immortality on my previous <a href="http://karnikakapoor.blogspot.com/2017/04/dilemma-of-death_4.html" target="_blank">post</a>. However, Once in a while, it is wise to stop and think about Death. A reminder of death makes you consider what you want to do with the life you have.<br />
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One of the most obscurely used terms for a certain emotion is love.This post is dealing with the special sect of love. The romantic Love. The movie screen, grand and cliched love. Back in the 90s, most of the movies, in Bollywood, had a central theme of love. The story of the movie was essentially bound around this very emotion. As the trend changed the central theme of movies varied as well. Frankly, that really baffled me as a child because all I had known about movies in India, during my few years on earth, was it had to have a love story. Lacking that would feel like something was missing. #HopelessRomantic from the start.</div>
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The basic theme of love as the center of a story is somehow a product of Shakespeare's work and popularity. His play the Romeo and Juliet is the epitome of the given standard of romantic love. There were, of course, many older texts based on love, but none were so swelled with the passion of Love. Romeo and Juliet placed romantic love on a pedestal of emotions.</div>
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The inception of the idea of love, as such, with a goal of "lived happily ever after" became a part of our society. Marriages were slowly replaced, from the classic economic and social tool to a fulfillment of one's emotional need of a perfectly suitable partner. Love was no longer a reasonable 'dealing' with families involved. Love broke free from the clutches of idealistic orders to a rebellion of following one's heart.</div>
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It was the brilliance of Shakespeare to identify the emotional, psychological and social state of people of that time and bringing it all together in a dynamic manner. During the time of Shakespear people were being diagnosed with the psychological sicknesses. He took that tragedy of the human condition and made something quite profound. Something that is an exhibition of his excel in human behavior.</div>
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The behavior of a person towards love is innate. However, the culture of the expression of that love has environmental influences. Shakespear made love, The love as we know it nowadays. The emotion we see expressed so passionately shown in movies and books. What was express the contemporary romantic love is what we learn from the society and culture around us. In a way, the means of expression is handed over to us. It is a second-hand emotion. The feeling is intrinsic, but its execution is culture driven.</div>
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Here is an idea that I would like to propose, In a way, this romantic love diminished the idea of 'self'. It occurred to me that my regular catching up with my friends often involved questions on my well being followed by inquiries about my relationship status. These casual queries are pretty common for singles. / Cut to: A soft nudge on the elbow in a wedding with a whisper "You Are Next!"/ Ugh! Spare me the cringe.</div>
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It has become a task, a goal to achieve as basic as graduating high school. It also took away the individualistic identity of a human. People start looking for "soulmates" in order to "complete" themselves. As if something vital for their existence is missing. We already are complete and fully functional beings. Romanticism hijacked love and made it a project. Love is no longer just a feeling like other feelings it is a glorified goal.</div>
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Our evolutionary and unconscious goal, as a species, is to carry on the life. Regardless of the romanticization that would have gone on. This idea of romantic love addresses our core question of being. Why are we here? The idea of romantic love also helps us cope with it. We justify it, when we are in love, as the prime source of satisfaction and meaning of life. Our existential crisis of the meaning of life is assuaged by it. This belief gives a grand start to a relationship. </div>
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On the contrary, to make a relationship survive one has to put this idea of love in the backseat. Both parties need to work on the relationship constantly to make it work. It often happens that one person becomes the 'taker' and other becomes the 'giver'. Eventually, such dynamics collapse and the relationship falls apart. For love to last and be truly fulfilling it has to be balanced throughout the duration of its course.</div>
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We often hear that the essence of love is trust and compromise. Nothing is idealistic, both people in one way or other need to be compliant to make the ends meet. The trust in not only that your partner will not turn into a jerk and cheat on you. The trust that when you put altruistic efforts into the relationship they will make sure you don't lose yourself in those attempts. They will make sure that it is fair to you. With that thought, I will end the blog with a quote from a book I recently read.</div>
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<i style="color: #999999;"><b>"Against all the evidence of his senses, </b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During my childhood, while watching an interplanetary Sci-fi movie I asked the adult accompanying me. "So Neil Armstrong was the first man on Moon, but who was the first person on Mars?". The Grown-up nonchalantly replied, "No one, We didn't go to Mars.". On my further questioning, I was told about the sad state of absence of planetary travel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That was probably one of the saddest reveals to the little me. I had spent the rest of that evening sitting on stairs, pondering to come to terms with the level of regression of humanity. After all, I use to watch shows about the galaxy far far away with the older kids in the family and thought that was pretty much the reality of galaxy far far away. That one information made me feel like we were living in stone age. Now, I find it quite amusing that I had taken the Sci-fi portrait by the entertainment media to be the real world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">However, the world changed since my childhood and the technology upgraded exponentially. Alongside I kept tabs on the expansion of technology. I still have the scrapbook I kept for the newspaper articles on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover" target="_blank">Spirit and Opportunity.</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> I gained knowledge on the technology through books and internet. I was very excited for the Curiosity Mars rover. It is one of the most monumental projects on planetary science. It provided us abundant information and the with the internet that information super-accessible.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today we are at a place where we have the technology, to take humans to mars, in its rudimentary form. Nasa estimates to put humans on Mars by 2040s. </span>However, sadly governments are shying away from investing in science. The input of private companies has a very important part to play in the goal of making humans space nomads. One such company (and currently the biggest player in the field of space exploration) is Elon Musk's SpaceX. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Elon Musk, in a presentation last year, pushed in this time constraint to reach Mars. He had put forward his plan to land human on Mars within a decade. Musk's plan not only plans to make a human visit the planet but also to colonize it. If you know anything about Elon Musk you must also be aware of the fact that he is a man of grand visions. When I first heard about Elon's plan reveal I knew it was going to be promising. Unlike, Mars One which was DOA. So much so that the enthusiasm for Mars One basically infuriated the nerd in me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Musk's ambitious plan aims to eventually form a self-sustaining colony on Mars. He aims for Mars to support a population of a million humans. The most important and revolutionary aspect of Musk's plan is the reusability of the space ship. The announcement of the project was an hour long video explaining how SpaceX will execute this design. He plans to provide an affordable travel to Mars for anyone who wants to go. Each mission/space flight will eventually be taking 100 passengers on a reusable interplanetary vehicle that Space X aims to employ for the project. You can watch the video</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Uyfqi_TE8" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In fact, early this year SpaceX successfully tested the launch and landing of Falcon 9, The reusable rocket. This is one of most historic achievement in Aerospace. It can cut down the cost of space travel to a great extent. Following is the video of the test.I find it extremely cheerful to watch, It is one of my favorite videos. The sweet adrenalin rush! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The need for this expansion of our living space is something that is instinctual to human. That is what we human do. The first homo sapiens were limited to Africa, still, over time, we conquered the whole planet. Prehistoric Humans traveled and settled down to the far off locations with a wide range of living conditions. Even Australia and America, despite having ocean restriction, were populated by humans who traveled to those locations from Africa. We have an extraordinary ability to survive in the oddest of the condition and innovative brains to look beyond the horizon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thus Living and existing only on this planet is a myopic point of view. Keeping in mind our history, our desire to take the leap is inevitable. The future human will try to push the limits further. Moreover, eventually, our planet will stop supporting us. Being the only species of homo genus it is our existential calling to make sure that out DNA is passed on. It will evolve into something new as the rule of nature. We are aware of this phenomenon, unlike our cousins, have a special responsibility to deliberately make efforts for the long run. It is not an individual human being, but is about the mysterious thing we call "consciousness". We possess the wonderful ability to register our existence in the universe. The attempts to keep it alive is probably the best thing to do. Though, it would be just a small step on the scale of the vast universe it will be the first one. Talking about interstellar world seem too farfetched for us but it is not so on an evolutionary scale. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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