Author Archives: Tarun Rattan

Book Review – Human Edge In The AI Edge by Nitin Seth

Human Edge in the AI Age: Eight Timeless Mantras for Success by Nitin Seth My rating: 3 of 5 stars AI is bringing a seismic shift in our lives. Apart from disrupting industries it is also redefining concepts like work, … Continue reading →

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Mastering The Mind with Shrimad Bhagvad Gita

Shrimad Bhagvad Gita (श्रीमद भगवद गीता) provides a pathway for mastering the citta (चित्त:), mind by its inscrutable analysis of karma (कर्म), action that revolves on the idea of the three gunas (गुण), traits of sattva (सत्त्व:), rajas (राजस:)& tamas (तामसः) and their effects on the mind of kařta (कर्ता), the doer and the final transcendence of these gunas by a self-exceeding … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Creativity Code by Marcus Du Sautoy

The Creativity Code: How AI is learning to write, paint and think by Marcus du Sautoy My rating: 5 of 5 stars A great book that explores the possibility whether Artificial Intelligence will ever breach the citadel of human creativity. … Continue reading →

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Book Review – How Intelligence Happens by John Duncan

  How Intelligence Happens by John Duncan 5 of 5 stars The word “intelligence” comes from Latin terms intelligentia and intellligere meaning “to comprehend” or “to perceive”. In the Middle Ages, the word intellectus was used to translate the Greek … Continue reading →

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Book Review – Age of AI by, Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Daniel Huttenlocher

  The Age of A.I. and Our Human Future by Henry Kissinger5 of 5 stars   I’ve been long searching for a book which could explain the philosophical foundations upon which the edifice of today’s AI frameworks has been built … Continue reading →

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हिन्दू सनातन धर्म – तिलक (Tilak) या तिलक-चिह्न

हिन्दू सनातन धर्म में तिलक (Tilak) या तिलक-चिह्न का विशेष महत्व है। तिलक केवल सजावट नहीं बल्कि यह आध्यात्मिक, धार्मिक और दार्शनिक पहचान भी दर्शाता है। अलग-अलग सम्प्रदाय, परम्पराएँ और देवताओं की उपासना पद्धति के अनुसार तिलक के कई प्रकार … Continue reading →

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Book Review – The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

  The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson5 of 5 stars The book exposes the dangers of climate change and shows how bleak our future looks. Just as we are all subject to some perceptual errors due to … Continue reading →

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Book Review – Snow by Orhan Pamuk

A great story of an elusive love and heartbreak against a political backdrop in modern day Turkey by the great story teller. An exiled poet Ka returns back to his hometown of Kars to investigate the suicide by young girls … Continue reading →

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“She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that’s best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes;Thus mellowed to that tender lightWhich heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one … Continue reading →

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