An Idea Log
We recently had a paper appear as a preprint on SSRN. This is about human development and economic growth. Please peruse! The Impact of Human Development on Economic Growth: A Panel Data Approach Date Written:
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The really basic thing about calculus that we are not taught in Pakistan is that differentiation is tantamount to computing point by point differences and integration is exactly equivalent to accumulating point by point sums
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I think such lies are being taught in Pakistan that Muslims took over India and the Hindus were really benign and peaceful. I think this is a flawed world view. The present-day Indians (belonging to
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Hope is taught as a great thing. Especially, when you are confronted with adversity, you can expect to receive this advice to be hopeful from every corner. Even your own consciousness can tell you to
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One thing that has baffled me for the better part of my life is the question that whether good is better or the great? I mean great in the sense of Alexandar the great. I
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A few years back, I developed roaming researchers. For some odd reason, my website has gone offline. In that, I wrote about how to write a cover letter. I am pasting the content of that
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Recently, we have been involved in developing a capacity for evolving artificial neural networks using Grammatical Evolution (GE). Our target was MIMO networks, as they can be used in various control systems that require simultaneous
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One should not grow up to have ideological differences with power brokers. This kind of mindset has consequences on the human personality. For one thing, you can end up developing a mentality that easily finds
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The human mind can be tricky. It can tend to do things that it should not be doing in a particular circumstance. There was a presentation in our group today. My mind tended to look
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We have been working on some of Sam Harris’s Ph.D. thesis. The idea is to see how religious beliefs affect consciousness. Here is our research article that recently got published in a nice conference. It
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