Paraprosdokians are funny and unexpected. Creativity is the hidden ingredient in the element of surprise. They are delightful to collect as part of the trove of any idea collector, which can be used as inspirational cues and shift paradigm steroids for creative work. In some cases, they contain wisdom and…

Mind The Perils — What Happened To The Little Riding Hood? The Little Riding Hood does face certain risks when her mother sends her through the woods to visit her grandmother, and what is an old lady living alone in the deep woods? The big bad wolf indeed has frightening Endurance. It is a carnivore. Such is encoded in its nature…

The Decision Not To Lie — Animals have evolved a wide range of deceptive behaviors to survive and reproduce in their environments such as to camouflage, feign death, trick their preys and predators, to survive the day. Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water. — Indian Proverb When the snake is in the…

Mirror, Mirror On The Wall … — When we started machine learning, it was called Artificial Neural Network. Later, `Big Data` came in as another terminology for a field. We also build primordial versions of `Doraemon` for the `100 Day Game` around 2012. People truly want to be connected with people with the help of machines, not…

# grep, egrep, cut, sed, sort, uniq, diff, awk — grep Used to search for a specific string or pattern in a file or multiple files. Example: grep "error" log.txt # searches for the string "error" in the file log.txt grep -rnw '/path/to/somewhere/' -e 'pattern' -r or -R is recursive, -n is line number, and -w stands for match the whole word. -l (lower-case L) can…

Notes From A Friend — Life is full of twists and turns, some more dramatic than others. But it is the dramatic twists that truly test our mettle and shape who we are. They can be unexpected and jarring, leaving us feeling lost and unsure of how to move forward. One of the most dramatic…

Notes From My Friends (From 2021 to 2023) — Insights And Advices Collected Along The Way, Part 2 Notes From My Friends (From 2011 to 2020)mikail-eliyah.medium.com 锦囊妙计 (jǐn náng miào jì): Sometimes called "Zhuge’s Break Glass Sachets". It describes an ingenious way or a resourceful person who writes the strategic contigencies against adversaies and adversities on a note and puts them in a `breakglass` kit so that the person concerned can read it in an emergency…

Mind On The Puzzle — The Master Key To Solving Puzzles, Part 1 Mind On The Puzzlemikail-eliyah.medium.com Rationality is hardly in-born. It has to be assiduously cultivated as a lifetime dedication. Perspicacity may be our only salvation. Logos may be our own guiding light to our rationality and sanity. S/he who is not guided by logos will be perdicted to an everlasting, spiraling entrapment. There is always…

The events of this story happen one generation after the original ugly duckling story. — A confused farmer found an egg outside his homestead. He looked around befuddled, and after a wild guess if it belonged to his chickens, ducks or geese, he decided to place it in 1 of the duck’s nests within the barn. Weeks go by, and the egg hatched. This little…