The Explorers

We all have watched those silly movies. And, we all have heard about those silly shock therapy given to mental people. Well, I am almost at the edge of getting one of those. Do you know how shock therapy work? It makes current flow through your brain by connecting the ends(positive and negative terminals) of a DC battery to appropriate position in the brain. I am a good person and I want to enhance your language and mathematical ability, attention span, problem-solving, memory, and coordination. And for this purpose I am going to give a shock therapy with hundred times less current than a regular one. This is called tDCS - Transcranial direct current stimulation. What happens when you attach several electrodes to your forehead, connect them via wires to a 'nine-volt battery' and 'resistor', ramp up the current and send an electrical charge directly into your brain? “IT’S like coffee times ten,” raves one enthusiast. “I use it a couple of times a week and problem...

So you created your  very first game, but it didn't work as well as you wanted it to be. Or you are all set to create a good game, but do not know where to start from. Well, this post might solve your problem.               Creating a good game might be difficult. You never know which element is liked by the players, and which element worsens the game experience for your players. But there are some basic things that a player wishes to see in a game; so here, I am going to walk through those elements, and that too in a practical game. Take a look at these images- Dragon Slayer Interstellar These games are a part of my efforts as a part of an assignment on Coursera; and they have received full 100% grades in the process.                    After having a close look at the games, let us discuss about the main elements that are a part of it. Interstellar:  Balance: One o...

Very recently a friend of mine complained to me of his incapacity of understanding and comprehending English passages. He could easily solve questions that required direct interpretation of the passage, but he failed when it came to inference of the thoughts of the author. I thus developed some techniques to increase the inference power. Tips for increasing your inference power     Inference power can be increased only with practise. But there are certain techniques which you can successfully employ in your normal reading practices everywhere and which can yield you better results. Go Slow               When you get a passage to read, I would advise to go slow through it. Especially when you have a tough passage to read, you must always go very slowly  through it.  The reason for this is that when you read slowly, your mind gets enough time to comprehend the sentences of the passage. A fast reader easily misses out t...

So, you have just finished your supreme-js-learning-pack-for-idiots and coded some nice app and now are on the top of the world. You hail your code as supreme and think that now you have mastered everything. Then you are the right candidate for my quiz, which will test your abilities of dry running the program and knowing the idomatic ES5 (JavaScript) programming paradigms, along with some its usual quirks! :-) (Note: ES6 is not being tested here) JavaScript - easy to learn, hard to master! The quiz is subjective type. You are given a program snippet and are supposed to figure out the output. The program may  have an (intentionally inserted) error, so beware while deciding your answer. Assume that all snippets execute in a browser environment (in the global scope) with "use strict;" mode enabled. Each output has been tested on Chrome mainstream build and made browser independent. If you still feel your browser's console output is different, let me know in the ...

The Hindi language - offshoot of the Devanagari script - has for long been sidelined in India with primary importance being given to the English Language. This decision, had not been taken by our founding fathers, nor by any of our Presidents or Prime Ministers, but by a British historian - Thomas Macaulay  - in the past days of 1835. The point he proposed was that Indian languages had "neither literary nor scientific information" and were "so poor and rude that, until they are ( were ) enriched from some other quarter, it will not be easy to translate any valuable work into them." Since I know neither Sanskrit nor Arabic (the two options he rejected), I am not a person who can comment upon the validity of his statement, but having a mother-tongue knowledge of Hindi, I feel that if the Indian education system reverts to making Hindi as the primary language and English as secondary, I feel the Indians will be done greater good and will produce more advanced works o...

So, you want to make a robot? No doubt that it is one of the fantasies of every child. But, they think that it's tough and they will do such thing when they grow up( I mean go to college or so). Actually, it's very easy.  Anyone, who has a basic understanding of English and maths(grade 5 maths), can easily make a robot of his or her imagination. The most beautiful part of making a robot is that it opens doors to a completely new world, which is full of mind-blowing stuff. It does change your life. Watch this amazing video that list the things, which is centered around a simple device, made by different people. The simple device is called Arduino. If you don't understand most of the things, then you are on right path. By the way, you are going to be a superstar after you understand all this stuff. The Arduino could be an automatic plant-watering control system.It can be a web server. It could even be a quadcopter autopilot. It could be a remote control car. It could ...

    You may have read about the famous Pavlov's Experiment on conditioned reflexes ( Read about Pavlov's Experiment ). In it, Pavlov, by conditioning and practicing, induced a response in a dog on the sound of an ordinary bell and the dog began to salivate. Now an interesting question arises - what shall happen if the amplitude or the pitch of the bell is changed; which means a new and different quality bell is used in the same experiment. Will the dog still salivate? Will the differences in responses to stimuli to stimulus occur here.     The dog's brain is stimulated to the sound of that very bell. The brain is pretty good in distinguishing between different sounds of varying amplitude or pitch. So if the brain is trained artificially to induce a particular response to a stimulus, then it must not induce the same response if the stimulus is changed and there must be differences in responses to stimuli. Take for example a class in a school, the class rises t...

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   Have you ever been frustrated by the thought that you have no friends who share a common interest as you ? Have you ever felt a desire to find more people with whom you may collaborate and learn new things ? Do you feel a bit sidelined when your colleagues at your school, workplace or elsewhere have no interest in what new thing you have created or discovered ?     If your answer to these is in 'yes', you have found a perfect place to learn, to expand your knowledge and engage yourselves in some cool stuff. In this world where people have almost reduced learning to be a formality for little kids at school, we believe that the process of learning never stops. It has been rightly said, "Tell me and I shall forget, show me and I may remember, but involve me and I shall learn."       We are The Explorers. The purpose of this group is to 'learn in collaboration with one another.' We take keen interest on any subject of the world. We perceive, s...