Thursday, May 9, 2013

Where to find it?


“People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...

They don't find it," I answered.

And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."


      ― Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry, The Little Prince

Monday, May 6, 2013


“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

Monday, April 29, 2013


“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”
   ... Voltaire

Friday, April 5, 2013

"I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet."
                         - Ogden Nash 

Monday, March 18, 2013

Bandit Problem

Multi Armed bandit Problem:
Originally considered by Allied scientists in World War II, it proved so intractable that, according to Peter Whittle, it was proposed the problem be dropped over Germany so that German scientists could also waste their time on it.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013


There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-- Douglas Adams in 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'