Surya Prakash Jayanti

Here are some quotes from the great book "The Daily Stoic" - Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman. If you like these quotes, you must pick up the book. Stoicism is a way of life (logics+ethics), our ability to use our reason to choose how we respond and reorient ourselves to external events. It's ultimately framed around The discipline of perception : how we see the world around us The discipline of Action : The decisions and actions we take The discipline of will : How we deal with things we can NOT change. Contrl your perceptions. Direct your actions properly. willingly accept what's outside your control. That's all we need to do. If you want to be steady, if you want clarity, proper judgment is the best way. You've got just one thing to manage: Your choices, your will, your mind. So mind it. Man is pushed by drives but pulled by values. Find what you do out of rote memory or routine. Ask yourself: Is this really the best way to do it? Money only marginally ch...

  Quotes from the book 'When Things Fall Apart' by Pema Chödrön." Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. Am I going to add to the aggression in the world ? Am I Going to practice peace, or am I going to war? This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we are. Bring our minds back home. Meditation is the willingness to die over and over again. Because of mindfulness, we see our desires and our aggression, our jealousy, and our ignorance. We don't act on them; we just see them. Without mindfulness, we don't see them. Mindfulness is the ground; refraining is the path. Four pairs of opposites - pleasure and pain, loss and gain, fame and disgrace, and praise and blame - is what keeps us stuck in the pain of samsara. One can be lonely and not be tossed away by it. We can just be lonely with no alternatives, content to be right here with the mood and texture of what's happening. If you want to find the meani...

This book was recommended by multiple folks, it helps if you are on the journey of meditation and Yoga. If you are on a spiritual journey it will help you more !!! A few quotes that hit me are here: In shallow men, the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds, the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle. He is a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until anchored in the divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now. Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable. What a person imagines he hears. Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don't kick you around. Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others. Hidden in the deep of ...

Quotes from the book "Physics of the future" by Michio Kaku. This is really interesting forward looking book. here are some quotes that I loved from it. Empires of the future will be empires of the mind - winston churchill The future is already here. It's just unevenly distributed. In 1899, Charles H. Duell, commissioner of the US office of patents said "Everything that can be invented has been invented" In 1927, Harr M warner one of the founders of Warner Brothers, remarked during the era of silent movies, "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, said in 1943, "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers". Four fundamental forces in nature that drive the entire univers. Force of Gravity Electromagnetic force 3rd and 4th forces to be understood were the two nuclear forces the weak and strong forces. Our wants, dreams, personalities, and desires have probably not changed much in 100,000 years. Ever...

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment.  Reading this book gives you insights into how to achieve inner peace. Here are some quotes that hit me. Buddha's simple definition of enlightenment is "The end of suffering" It is not so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. Can you be free of your mind whenever you want to? Have you found the "off" button? Compulsive thinking is actually an addiction. The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are in your mind. Emotion: The body's reaction to your mind. Make it a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment? Am I at ease at this moment? is a good question to ask yourself frequently.  There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present...

Five tribes: Domingo divides the field into five contemporary machine-learning paradigms- Evolutionary algorithms, connectionism and neural networks, symbolism, Bayes networks, and analogical reasoning- which he imagines being unified in one future "master algorithm" capable of learning nearly anything. Here are a few quotes that hit me. Computers are useless, they can only give you answers. If what you tell them to do is be creative, you get machine learning. Homo Sapiens is the species that adapts the world to itself instead of adapting itself to the world. Machine learning is the newest chapter in this million-year saga: with it, the world senses what you want and changes accordingly, without you having to lift a finger. Finding correlation is to machine learning no more than bricks are to houses, and people don't live in bricks. If every algorithm suddenly stopped working, it would be the end of the world as we know it. Michelangelo said that all he did was see the st...

In the digital age, algorithms reign supreme, shaping our lives in ways we often fail to comprehend fully. Catherine O'Neil's eye-opening book, "Weapons of Math Destruction," dissects the underbelly of mathematical models, revealing their pervasive influence and unintended consequences on society. Mathematical models were once shrouded in mystery, accessible only to a select few deemed worthy of deciphering their complexities. O'Neil aptly describes them as opaque constructs, where the workings remain invisible to all but the highest priests in their domain. This lack of transparency lays the groundwork for a troubling reality: without feedback, these statistical engines perpetuate faulty and damaging analyses, never learning from their mistakes. Central to the discussion is the concept of model creation, where choices about what factors to include are made. Herein lies the crux of the issue; a model's blind spots reflect the judgments and priorities of its cr...