Toll and fare problems with OLA / UBER cabs

Drivers from the major cab services like OLA and UBER are charging toll fare twice from the public with no reason. The app does not have an option to say the toll is included, so these drivers mercilessly charge the customers. Since the app is charging as its included and the driver is also charging, so twice, the drivers make up their own rules related to toll.

Secondly, the app shows a lot of variation on the charges  <especially when it rains>. The cab charge from electronic city to airport is twice that of the air fare from Bangalore to Delhi. This customer betrayals has to be stopped and the policy on charges should be fixed and has to be transparent. These cab services should not play with customers situation and apply more charges accordingly, if they do so the motivation behind the OLA founder goes around a deep shit!

As a customers we should appeal to the Karnataka government, to resolve this issue, and this should come under some kind of a punishable cheating act.

Digital NOMAD

What is digital NOMAD?

These people travel from place to place, and use only digital platforms to earn money.



Warning!

Travelling experience makes the whole world an work place, even though it sounds like the dream come true its not easy. You can earn money on YouTube, blogger and other ways online, but its not stable.

Planning required to be a digital NOMAD:

1) Necessary travelling Visa documents: you get only tourist visa.

2) Better cook your own food

3) Book cheap places in the surrounding to stay.

4) Find a motivating work space with wifi

5) If you make any saving find suitable investment plan for your retirement.

6) Keep a track of currency valuation from country to country.


How much an average digital NOMAD earn?

About 500 to 800 Euros a month...

Short Note: Black hole image released on 10/04/2019 (EHT)

Astronomers breakthrough imaging of a black hole via Event Horizon Telescope, with a big collaboration has been successful. 

What is a basic black hole ?

A black hole is basically a huge massive dead star, surrounded by a huge accretion disk of gas and dust, which travels close to speed of light. In the black hole gravity is so large not even light (which has zero mass) can escape from it. The surface of the back hole is called event horizon (point of no return), beyond which you see a burning ring in the picture below, this is called photon sphere (basically a shadow of light), caused by bending of light around the heavy objects in space-time (or gravity being space time curvature -> which is Einstein's General Theory of Relativity). 

picture credits : EHT

The black hole targeted is located in a galaxy called M87, which is billions and billions of kilometer away fro us. The mass of this monster black hole is 6.5 billion times that of our sun. This photograph was taken by a network of 8 telescopes and has proved Einstein's 100 year old general theory of relativity is correct yet again!

Bias related to DEEMED University in India!

Deemed university is a status of autonomy granted to high performing institutes and departments of various universities in India. It is granted by the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India. Karnataka has 15 deemed universities, the major DEEMED universities are IISc, IIITB, Christ, Jain, ...etc.

(For confirmation of these deemed universities -> go to official UGC website and check the list of deemed university in Karnataka).

There is some fake news flying around: "The PhD degree awarded from deemed university is not good enough to get a government job?".

Then the PhD awarded from a world class university like Indian Institute of Science (IISc) should also be considered useless for government jobs as well?

I wanted to clear the doubt's for students studying in deemed universities, not to worry about the fake news spreading by random people, who would not know the head or tail of actual PhD research. If you get a degree from Bangalore University (BU) it takes 7 years or more even if you do good work, and we have to go across lot of corruption before finishing the degree. Some of the professors treat you as slaves, and most people quit because of harassment! Students say the experience of doing PhD at BU is horrible which includes cast-ism. Also we have heard in the media that: writing the god's name on the top of the answer script was the code of information to get passed at BU.

Looking at these above BU reports one would like a peaceful place to do PhD. If anybody challenges the quality of the PhD work done at deemed or private universities (in 3 or 5 years); then you can ask them to check the Scopus index author profile of the research scholar, which is maintained by Elsevier publishers, to understand the quality of work published by the scholar related to his/her PhD list of publications. If the PhD work is published in a Scopus based journal, then the work is of high quality and UGC would have already recognized it, but it is not so easy to publish in Scopus . Keep in mind without hard work  nothing can be done, so smart and hard work could get you published in Scopus.

The major private universities in Karnataka are PES, REVA,...etc. are equally good too, but not deemed universities yet! also beware of some fake universities which are neither private nor Deemed, the details can be found on official UGC website.

Astronomy v/s Astrology

Astro means star, whereas nomos means  "arranging, regulating" and logia means "treating of". Hence astronomy is understanding star arrangement and astrology is treatment of humans based on star arrangement. But astronomy evolved as a branch of science after this Greek etymology description. 

Why astrology is wage ?

a) It blames its own input data interpretation, no twins born under same stars can have same life. No proper conclusive evidence of error propagation for further conclusion is seen on this case study.

b) The description solution is so wide it would cover the asked question to be both true and false.

c) It always says astrology is backed up by ancient mathematics, but back then Geo-centric model was used. But no clear justification is given by the astrologers, what happens to the differed prediction of Geo-centric and Helios-centric models.

d) No proper classification of celestial objects. Astrologers say it covers entire universe, if so what about the multi-verse ? 

Note: Multi verse is still a working theory in science.

Garbage Maintenance = Human civilization ?

Mohenjo-daro is the oldest known advanced civilization located at south Pakistan (previously in northern India). The per-historical context describes the beautiful urban marvel and civil engineering decor as civilization. In a philosophical way to understand the per-historical description: civilization depend up on building monuments and how people can maintain human garbage! Unfortunately it does not describe about the love towards life as we all hope to be. It is a very biased description or it is the truth of human nature. Hence the goal of the city should be to keep it clean, which makes sense to be a part of human life, but it should not be termed as the achievement of civilization. 

If this is true, then we have to re-define civilization; Many science fiction books and movies talk about understanding alien civilization but it is still the definition of human civilization, which needs to be cleared.

Taste of possible future 2050 : Not science fiction

How does the future around 2050 looks like?

Start with Elon's vision: 
All the car driving jobs are going to be replaced by automated Tesla cars, the energy crisis could be solved using ideologies of solar city (example : solar roof tails), space internet for everybody on earth and the biggest plan is to become interplanetary species (colonizing Mars via SpaceX!). Also not to forget Boring company (hyper loops for transportation), as an astrophysicist I believe in Elon's Mars vision, and also the rest of the other visions makes sense.

Rest of the world's vision from my pick:

• What happens to trade?

All the trading companies (like: Amazon, e-commerce companies) might shut down once block chain hits the market, as it will be a single trading platform for all kinds of transactions.

• What happens with collaboration of AI and neuroscience ?

Connectone neural network in the field of artificial intelligence which might go either way for the future. (i.e., the complete brain mapping of neural network could be copied to a computer and then use them for the fullest brain capacity). Present cutting edge research is basically cutting down the actual brain sample and then take a image of them to see the different layers and then map them to a computer.

• What happens in the life science world?

CASPER (Genome editing tool), this tool helps doctors to edit the genes. Actually this might give us an opportunity to control biological needs, example:  how tall you want to grow?, what eye color we want? sounds creepy! On a main scale, CASPER could help us to solve the cancer problem once it for all.

• What happens to agriculture and farmers?

Robotic agricultural farming with laser drones that takes care of the health of land and the crops, later the updates are made available for the farmers in their smart phones, seems more possible in the near future.

• What happens to the research and development field? 

Quantum computing is going to transform this area.

Hence the future dreams seems exciting and filled with uncertainty! Leave long and prosper...