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Decoding the Universe. The great math Mystery. Please do watch it with searching youtube. Minimum two things are required to describe anything or we need a binary information (e.g. 0,1 in case of computer) . Because one of it is taken the reference to say that this is not the same object as other. This is perhaps the fundamental principle, which we humans are limited by. Why do I say minimum two things? I have written it on article: http://bioinsilico.blogspot.in/2015/03/intelligence-and-in-search-of.html Minimum two different things are required to describe anything. To reach this conclusion, let's find out what we see or know. We know things by knowing their shapes.  But how to know the shape of a particular object. For it, we have to know the distance (the way of arrangement of the object). But again the question arises, how we know the distance. What makes us aware of the distance? Let's take an example of colored board problem. Imagine one red colored board. A...

The feedback mechanism is universal in all life forms. Without feedback mechanism, there wouldn't be evolution, there would be homeostasis, nor there would be human existence. Let me explain how feedback mechanism helps in maintaining homeostasis, how it can be easily applied real life situations. Feedback at molecular level in cell can be divided into following types Reference: Molecular Biology of Cell, Bruce Alberts et al.  Arrows indicate positive control, i.e  A increases productions of more As Lines with bars depicts negative control, i.e.  A decreases the productions of more As. Last two figures in right indicate more complicated versions of feedback. Because of these kinds of feedback, complete homeostasis is maintained. Without feedback, we wouldn't feel hungry, we won't feel the heat, we wouldn't have the life at all. If these feedback mechanism does not work properly, then there would be turmoil in our body without homeostasis. Feedback is not on...

Every citizen of India has Unique Identification Number: Aadhaar. Many websites in health care, railways and almost all sites use your personal details. But the problem is, some times these personal details can be inaccurate. There can be many reasons for it. e.g. Storing the birth data of child in eMunicipality portal: The nurse writes about Mother and Father details in a form. From between writing the form to feeding it into the eMunicipality portal, there are lots of chances of feeding wrong data. Some of the reasons are: 1) Listening error of nurse, so the nurse write the wrong information 2) Laziness and lack of time for nurse to fill all the fields on the paper form 3) Spelling errors of name and address details. 4) Person who is doing data entry in eMunicipality portal unable to recognize the handwriting (as we all know doctors write in horrible handwriting, which an expert can only read) 5) Person who is doing data entry, fills the compulsory field with arbitrary data (such as ...

Share your views on quora:  http://qr.ae/RoAGa0 Today I tried dialing to police with number 100 to report a simple fraud call that my aunt received. The person who called was asking for ATM pin. When my aunt was able to find the call was fraud, the person started speaking in vulgar language. When I said, I will report it to police, he said that "Police kya tumhara uncle lagta hai" (Is police your uncle). See how fearless they are. There is not even a little fear of police. And this case is not new. Its a general issue with most families. When I complained about it to police by dialing 100. They said to come to police station to report the case. I can understand that police might be receiving lots of call that are important. But why there is no helpline numbers to report such problem. If police are hesitant to receive such call, then there should be a whatsapp number to report such cases so that people can text them and later police can review it and take action based upon the...

Please share your views at quora: http://qr.ae/Ro7MnS The popularity of programs is based upon TRP, which is based on the number of views. But the TRP does not work, media make use of human psychology to bring content that is bullshit but can increase the curiosity of people, so that people watch it, even if they are psychologically and morally harmed by watching it. The reason is best described in this article: Deepak Mehta's answer to Why does the Indian media promote pseudo-scientific disciplines like astrology, past life regression, other superstitions and bogus conspiracy theories? If the popularity of programs would be based on feedback, then I think media will be changed drastically. Popularity should not be only directly proportional to no. of likes (i.e. no. of views or TRPs) but also, should be inversely proportional to dislikes. Also, there should be a website where people can give feedback to the programs, such as in youtube. Also, can we provide feedback thro...

You can discuss the topic in quora here:  http://qr.ae/RH66Sd In the era of technology, life can be easier if we start using technology in our health care sector. The computer has gone much smarter to take decisions, thanks to data science. So why shouldn't we rely on machine learning to predict things? We can study a patient in a very personalized way and give them proper treatment. So here are the steps: First, we should build a national website, which contains accounts of all the citizens linked with their Adhaar Card. Every doctor and nurse should be provided with a tablet. In order to make use of a computer to make decisions and predict things, we need digitalizing data. Without digitalized data we can't do anything. So pen and paper should be scrapped as much as possible. I also found that many are hesitant to use technology because they think it's difficult to learn. They say so because they have never tried to learn the technology. A student in Class I knows...

1) MOOCs for Teacher: Every body cares about student education, but no body thinks about teachers. They can only transfer knowledge only if they themselves are well educated with the subjects and knows how to teach scientifically so that the teaching is most productive and knowledge reaches to maximum students. Like students, teachers should also be motivated daily. So there should be 1 hour MOOCs for teachers even, where they can listen the lectures and appear exams. 2) Including courses like Learning How to Learn ( Page on coursera.org ) and Becoming a Resilient Person ( edX ) and many other study techniques in the syllabus itself. So that students knows how he should study productively without rote learning the things and also learn to cope up with the stress. 3) MOOCs for Students: In the first phase for about 6 months we should give MOOCs for teachers, than when they are well versed with all the computer technologies, than time for MOOCs for students. But computer (e.g.  cheap...

For maths at school level, I would suggest “ Speed Mathematics: Secrets Skills for Quick Calculation by Bill Handley ” It is a fantastic book on mathematics, students start to feel and love mathematics like never before. The phobia for math goes away and students become more creative when the techniques of the books are taught to the students. No more learning of table, just by reciting the table (rote learning). For improving reading skills school going students, I would suggest “ Teach your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann, Phyllis Haddox, Elaine Bruner ” Presently I am working on it and looks very promising. I will share my views about it after I taught the exercise completely to my students For memory improvement, I would suggest “ Secrets of Mind Power” by Harry Loryane It is based upon photographic memory, it really helps to the things that are very difficult to memorize (e.g. periodic table) A teacher or student should also read psychology books i...

Quora link for discussion:  http://qr.ae/7QDdsd I feel that CSIR-NET has better question pattern than UGC NET exam. Making no negative marking will allow a person to attempt all the questions whether he/she knows that answer or not. Is it good to attempt the question that a student don't know or no idea on it and still get marks for it? It will also increase the probability that mere destiny can help them to qualify the exam, by randomly attempting the questions.  University Grants Commission - NET

Today I went to a govt. school to discuss about my Idea of Innovate4DigitalIndia. Click Here First let me describe what are the good things I found in the school:--- 1) School uniform: Students specially the higher class students were wearing decent school uniforms and was clean. 2) Food provided to the students: As today was Wednesday, students were given boiled egg and peas -potato curry with rice. I had my lunch there. The food was eatable and nearly nice. Only the peas curry was little watery. 3) Building was a bit good. Not that horrible. It was colored and many thoughts of scientists were written. 4) Teachers were also very co-operative and ready to listen to my ideas heartfully. I had also a discussion with the teachers for about 3 an hour. The discussion was about students and teachers and their problems. Now let me describe what I didn't like in the school, although its many but I will describe some of the fundamental necessities of the school and their solutions. 1) First...

This will help for both people and govt. to communicate properly with each other. Also help MPs and MLAs to campaign properly, by showing their work.  No need of poster or wastage of papers. They can also add the photographs of their work that has been done. It will improve transparency and minimize corruption. I think govt. should initiate this approach, as a result politicians will be encouraged for subscribe To Do list, because people will also want them to subscribe. They may not make it compulsory, but still I think most politician will subscribe it because people and media may ask why they are not subscribing it and not showing their work. Also a good politician will always get a chance to win again. People may also provide feedback and opinions of their work in the website.

Share your views at: http://qr.ae/7hOcoJ These fundamental subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics should be made in chunks, so that subject that is needed is taught, other wise that can be skipped and other specialized subject can be taught in that time. Also I think way to specialization should start from 10th class, not 11th class.

Write your views at: http://qr.ae/7yjTT4 I was looking at the syllabus of CBSE, and its very up to date, but some features are still missing. Biological data has become humongous, whether data for genomics or proteomics etc. For handling such big data, we need bioinformatics. When a biotechnologist produces some data, whether from NGS etc method, who is going to analyse it. In the syllabus of Bioinformatics that is taught in colleges after 10+2, there is no python, no statistical programming such as R etc.  Also no analysis of data produced from latest technology such as RNA-seq data, ChiP-seq etc. Please also look at the Edx courses of Genome Analysis and many other courses that require informatics in biological field. e.g. Case study: Variant Discovery and Genotyping given by HarvardX.  Also look at other case studies. What you people have to say about it?

Share your views at: http://qr.ae/7hbIgQ Now statistics has become a very important field, because of machine learning. Statistics should be introduced in the course with very up to date syllabus and syllabus of it should also contain compulsorily programming languages such as python and R Its better if they make python compulsory, no matter what subjects student opt for. One of the best book I would recommend for fundamental is Elementary Statistics by Mario Triola, 9th Edn. But it does not contain machine learning. Problems of it are really good and should be solved along with programming even

Share your views at: http://qr.ae/7Gi2oR Let me explain the situation of Education System if a student becomes a web developer or a mobile app developer Most Indian parents and society are only worried about child employment. They never think about their children passion.  So first they allow you to choose between Engineering or Medical because there is no other field that an average Indian can think. As medical entrance is highly tough, so an average student is likely to fail in it. So after 10+2 exam, student may go for medical coaching or JEE coaching for students who aspire to join some IITs.  If medical,  one year in coaching has been wasted. Even for JEE coaching one year is wasted because most students will not get a seat in IITs, so they will join some other private college, so coaching becomes unnecessary. So finally after one year, only one option is left that is engineering.  So in engineering students usually choose Computer Science with syllabus that tim...

Share your views at:  http://qr.ae/77YeoE Nowadays, scientists use computers for almost every thing - whether it is a mathematical problem, physics, chemistry or biology. Why not make students learn python in higher secondary schools with its application in science? Why do students have to memorize straight forward equation such as radio activity decay or Nernst equation? Why not solve them through the python programming language? Why not teach them simulations when they start college? I would say that python is a very futuristic language, easy to learn, and human readable. Also there are so many packages available for scientific computation. It is also open source. I would also say that students should start learning Linux in higher secondary schools. I would request Smiriti Irani to include it in syllabus as soon as possible.  Also students can be provided credit card-sized single-board computers such as Raspberrypi, if a student is unable to afford desktops or laptops. What...

Lectures and Materials can be made free all over the country, but we can still raise funds by making tie ups with other foreign universities of developed countries. Also we can make the new lectures available online paid, in different developed countries, till some funds for a particular lecture is raised, after that it can be made free.  

Let me explain how it causes vast lost of information if we don't record especially scientific conferences. I am giving the example of University I was working. It was a scientific conference on Genome Architecture. In this international conference many renowned researchers have presented their work. The schedule was very hectic, with almost no time gap, as there were large number of speakers. As a student let me explain what are the problem that arises when we don't record the lectures. 1) First while listening we can miss many points, and we don't get the chance to listen again. 2) Also because of hectic schedule, it becomes bit boring for us, to listen all the lectures from 9:00 a.m. – 5:30p.m. So we may skip many lectures. 3) Further, but most important point is only students who registered for the Conference get the chance to listen. Imagine, what impact it would have, if it was made available online, may be after a month of conference, so that huge number of students ...

Speak and reward people who speaks right, who do right. Speak and criticize (constructive criticism) people, by saying what you dislike about them, what is the solution, who speaks nuisance and illogical, and people who do wrong (especially applicable to policy makers such as politicians and people who control us. ) Have you ever compared between human and chimpanzee? Why are humans more intelligent than a chimpanzee? You may say we have a better brain than a chimpanzee. But is this a real fact. Chimpanzee can't speak, so they don't pass their information from one generation to another. But we do it. We pass our information from one generation to another. So I request people to share information, share your ideas. It can be through social networks, or through tweeter, quora, blog etc. But before sharing or speaking out publicly we need to be little thoughtful by doing some research. Please hear this ted talk "What happens when our computers get smarter than we are...

Its just a rough sketch about the Idea Update Aug 25th, 2015 Update: Features like plagiarism checker should be used in every schools and colleges so that projects can't be copied. Moreover projects should be computer typed not hand written. Personalized page for every subscriber. Questions creation section, questions must require critical thinking in order to solve Question analysis section: All the exam questions in schools and colleges must be uploaded in the website after examination and then analysis section would be there, where students and teachers all over the country could analyze it. Analysis can be based upon: 1) Whether the question pattern favors critical thinking or rote learning. 2) How difficult or easy is the question pattern? 3) Is there any mistakes in the questions? etc. Syllabus section: Syllabus section for each subject must be made for different universities or schools, where discussion about the syllabus is made. Following discussions can be made such as: W...

Here is the difference between science and pesudoscience: In television, we can find many TV programs that talk about astrology i.e. predict your future etc. based upon the date of birth. Most of us even today, especially our parents and family believe in astrology, whenever marriages are fixed, or whenever you plan to build a house etc. Many of intellectuals will argue that astrology is science. I was reading the article such as http://innovativeastrosolutions.com/ where it says astrology is 50% science and 50% mystic and give some scientific explanation to it. But let me define what science is. Oxford Dictionary defines science as “Knowledge about structure and behavior of the natural and physical world, based on the facts that you can prove, for example by experiments” More detailed explanation would be: http://www.sciencecouncil.org/definition So science first relies on observation or collecting the data, same as astrology is doing.  So what is the data in ast...

Here is an Idea: There should be an Idea sharing forum, and below which we can discuss our thoughts about a particular idea given, such as it is practical or not and what will be its effects on us, if implemented. There can be option for upvotes and downvotes. And repetition of Idea should not be allowed.  Similarly, we can make a another subdomain for problem section i.e. people will share there problem faced which can be solved by government. People or experts can give suggestion or necessary steps to be taken by him. Similar type of framework is qoura/ stackoverflow. Please try to make a framework like that.  Also there are many open source frameworks like askbot which I like. It has also read only api, if we want to launch it on a native android app /or we can launch the website inside the app completely like the present Mygov app does. http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2267/stack-exchange-clones

News Channel and Politicians: Please stop discussion on Religion Here are some of the true facts: We all are evolved from a common ancestor. Nature don't give us tag of any religion or caste. We tag it. When a child is born we say them, that you belong to this religion otherwise, the child will never know what's religion is. The fact is we all are born different from each other. We have all different kind of DNA, which we all know that is used for forensic science to catch the culprit. (Except the Siamese twins, who have the same set of DNA, even they become different after birth because of environmental factors) Don't we learn anything from the Film like PK. Have we lost our thinking power. Are we just a rote learning machine. If not then why such discussions. Please work for the improvement of all. I request news channel and political parties, don't ever raise the name of religion or caste.

Education System in India and How it can be improved in scientific perspective? Even if we have right for education act, in which children have the right to compulsory education, but one of the thing missing is right for quality education. One of the biggest flaws in our country is there is very less quality education available to the students. And the conditions are same for primary as well as higher education. So what is quality education and how the students are taught now in schools and colleges? Some of the flaws in Indian Education System. 1) The education system I am aware of and what I feel is only 1 out of 7 teachers give quality education to their student. 2) In India, students are taught only to secure good marks and that is the only motto of students and teachers. 3) Students are scared of teachers. Students are not free to ask questions to their teachers. Sometimes I feel, student-teacher relationship is like slave and master. Maybe this is a bit harsh stat...

Intelligence and In search of fundamentals Also view:  Why our universe is mathematical? Break, join and duplicate Quora link:  http://qr.ae/7cdYZh Our DNA is made up of just shuffling of just 4 bits of information ATGC and from it, we get the whole DNA and then the whole cell and finally an organism with a brain that has intelligence. It may be analogous to our computer made up of 0's and 1's. Most of the algorithm of today make use of mathematics, that is an addition, subtraction, multiplication or division. But what living organisms do? Can they do mathematics? I don't think so. The small bits of information just duplicate, break and join to produce new information. It may be DNA, mRNA, proteins or microRNAs The same way perhaps our brain works, give some information to the brain, it will join it, break it or duplicate it to produce new information. e.g. Our alphabets: A-Z, from the shuffling of it, we get words and then sentences. A note o...