Archive for July, 2005
The Top 3 irritants on the road
3) People who abruptly halt in the middle of the road in front of temples or other places of worship. Worse, you are expected to understand that as the cause is a noble one, one of a higher spiritual order, unremarkably quotidian affairs like a traffic snarl ought not to be considered. After all, what’s […]
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The magic of an apology
Having been at both the ends of one in the space of a few days, it’s not surprising I find myself writing this piece. The first incident happened on a rainy night on the road when a twosome in a bike ahead of me decided suddenly to take a left turn and so braked hard. […]
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It’s true and it’s pleasing, this talk of computers being made more intelligent. Computers that learn from experience, computers that don’t repeat mistakes, computers that evolve progressively aren’t in the realms of science fiction anymore. But just how intelligent can they be made? Can they be made competent enough to match a human in anything […]
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The Straight Bat 