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A Whacky Perfectionism or Imposter Syndrome or not?

 In past, I've hesitated and more often beat myself up to call myself a perfectionist. I can be remarkably messy and have trouble with detail. I call it a day with a 'it is good enough tantrum ' and hand things in. My house is clean! Yet, whenever I take a psych test for perfectionism? OFF THE CHARTS! Truth be told, I hate to fail. Well, who wouldn't?... Let me explain.     My Failure Avoidance System (I call it FAS) leads to a fail safe system called 'Over Work'. I drive myself so hard than any manager ever will, mostly out of fear of failure rather than the love for work. But, they also put me at risk for burn out and exhaustion . I hate this. 'coz I love my work and my FAS supersedes  it. Relating?... Continue reading     Apparently, you can be sloppy AF and a perfectionist at the same time. I find it confusing and chose to categorize it as my FAS.     I concluded that this FAS of mine is not about neatness or punctuality or efficacy....
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Climate change, over population, super germs: One Reason!

For a thought experiment assume you are an Industrialist running a Ice factory who depends on a underground aquifer for water supply which can hold a maximum of 12 Gallons at a go. You share this aquifer with three other such industrialists. Let's consider the aquifer starts at full capacity Ie., there are 12 Gallons of water in the pond initially and the water replenishes every night in a manner that for every two gallons there would be another gallon added each night. So, to maximize this supply how much water can each of you corporate can dig up each day?      Think about it. Assume that water replenishes almost immediately and disregard the other factors like rain.      The answer is one! Yes, each of you industrialist can take exactly one gallon of water for production each day to maintain an adequate water supply. The math here works like this: If each of the four industrialists dig up one gallon each there would be 8 gallons of water left in the aq...

Springiness of Solids or The History of Elasticity

Disclaimer: This article is written keeping general readers in view and hence the usage of mathematical equations was strictly avoided. However, hyperlinks are provided for further reading. Let us twitch with an interrogation “Why any inanimate solid, for that occasion any material is capable of carrying load?”             The answer lies at the root of the whole study of structures and the intelligentsia behind this is quite complex. If there is anyone whom the credit shall be due is Sir Robert Hooke . Sir Robert Hooke Courtesy: Wikipedia             Hooke realized that materials can carry load by only pushing back at it with an equal and opposite force. This is an implicit equivalence of Newton’s Third Law .             To put this up rhetorically, a force just cannot get away. In any ci...

Engineering... as it interests me

 I plan to write this as an professional engineer, I hold reverence to this profession retro stereotyping engineering as a boring passion to pursue, seems a little alien to me. A handful of people in engineering profession (Most probably from UG Universities) can be heard iterating engineering is boring many a times. However strange the phrase may be, yet from experience I can comfortably state that the practicing engineering is quite unlike studying engineering. The downside is a possibility of people being engaged in a monotony in career yet again. Let me get this with a simple explanation from my experience. Pupil in engineering when their curriculum requires a project to be done tend to look on YouTube for DIY ideas. One of the popular choice of such project is an solenoid engine ( For Mechanical Engg.) which seems fairly simple. A magnet, a metal rod a little copper wire, some plastic extravaganza and a whole lot of patience and there you go.. You follow the ...

Artificial Intelligence- As I know it

AI- The artificial Intelligence as we call it, is not a technology which has seen an easy way through the science field. Since its birth in a workshop at Dartmouth College by a group of 5 young scientists, AI made the spectators drop their jaws. It was learning the strategies of checkers and solving most complex problems in lightening speeds. Who knew by just changing 0 and 1 and their positions, we could make almost all the tasks done by computer. The ups and downs of AI has been numerous and it was again a centre for exploration ever since google started using it in its packages from 2015. So, what is the bottom line of AI in its basic sense actually?.. Computer science defines it as a device which perceives its environment and executes tasks that maximizes the successful results it is being employed for. Yeah, in its basic sense or more or less what it does, It is true indeed. Personally,  I use the Artificial Neural Network (the other name of AI) to recognise an stoc...

Law of Conservation of Energy and Symmetries of nature

Conservation laws are among the most fundamental concepts of physics. They enable us to solve mathematical and physics equations which are otherwise painfully difficult or even impossible to solve.   yet, they are wrong. Atleast they're only true upto certian extent. These laws are the consequences of the basic symmetries of the nature or more fundamental principle, Noether Theorem. (Read as NOT-ER) Conservation laws are cheat codes of physics for solving complex and impossible math equations. They emerge from the simple and basic tools of reality. The connection between conservation laws and basic natural symmetries are encapsulated under noether's theorem. The seeming paradox that led to the discovery of this noether's theorem is Einstein's general relativity in 1915. This paper had opened as many questions as it answered.  Courtesy: Wikipedia Einstein's General Relativity Paper published in 1915 Among them was the energy conservation. The ...