Definition of “Usually”

It is a pain to talk with people suffering from superiority complex. The hard work that is vital for acquiring knowledge often brings a delusion of grandeur to some people. They often think that only they can talk in perfect English. Everyone else’s English is just imprecise and bogus. Many of them also show a demeaning attitude. Whenever you’ll say something, they’ll try to point out how your sentence construction is syntactically wrong or mathematically imprecise. Once I met such a delusional person who had some kind of enmity with the word “usually”. I must concede that I, sometimes, use this word a little too …

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No Rule other than Just Not Hurting Others?

Recently, I was engaged in a long argument in Facebook on what should be the extent of laws in a country. I was defending an argument similar to the one written in the title. I think I came up with some really interesting logic against the proposition. I’m preserving these here. As it was a part of an ongoing conversation, it might sound awkward. The full conversation is available in this Facebook post. Check out the replies of the second comment.

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Teaching Style: Where Many Computer Scientists and Mathematicians Do it Wrong

There is a difference between programming and teaching. I have seen a lot of good programmers to be a horrible teacher. In my opinion, this happens when people become delusional in thinking that teaching is just like writing programs — tell each and every step, in a logically perfect sequence. In reality, teaching is more than that. First of all, humans don’t need everything to be spelled out. In fact, that is detrimental to teaching (I’ll explain why later). Humans just need broad thick strokes here and there. They are good in connecting the strokes and building perfect picture themselves. In my opinion, the most important objective of teaching …

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Digital age or Dark age?

When people used to work with pen and paper, their knowledge used to become a part of the physical world. Once they were deceased, human could still partially access to their thoughts by accessing the papers they scribbled on. Many unpublished articles, personal letters, even drawing and scribbles became part of our history in this way. What is the condition now for digital age? All the writings we are making in the digital form, how will they survive? What will happen if a great scholar dies and no one knows the password of that scholar’s laptop? Or, what if the …

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Instill Pain Endurance?

Should I try to stay in a first world country or should I try to go back to Bangladesh? It is a really difficult question to answer. I’ve been thinking on this sporadically over the last 6 years. There are a lot of selfish reasons for staying in USA, a lot of noble reasons for going back to Bangladesh. But I wanted to find a few solid selfish reasons for going back to Bangladesh. I’ve just found one –> To Instill pain endurance; both for me and my family. Pain endurance is a source of happiness. But to endure pain, one has to …

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Seeing Professor Gilbert Strang

Today (June 26th, 2015) I went to see one of my favorite teachers — Prof. Gilbert Strang. One day in 2009, while I was watching his Linear Algebra video lectures (http://ocw.mit.edu/…/math…/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/) in a quiet corner of my room, I started to realize an extraordinary beauty was slowly unfolding in front of me. I felt a deep gratitude for this person who introduced me to this beauty. That day I promised, someday, I will see him face-to-face and say “Thank You”. That is exactly what I have done today. This was on my Bucket list for quite some time and now it is …

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We haven’t forgotten; we will not forget

As a citizen of Bangladesh, we will not forget the genocide, war-crime, and mass killing of the intellectuals (Teachers, Students, Journalists, Doctors, Engineers, Cultural activists) conducted in Bangladesh by Pakistani Army in the name of the religion — Islam. Starting from Operation Searchlight (Conducted in 25th March 1971 where they massacred the unarmed progressive minds of Dhaka University), Pakistani army killed 3 Million people in just 9 months — one of the greatest atrocities on human after the Holocaust.

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My Research and ..

I want to understand behaviors of human through mathematical analysis. I dream of a unified theory of human behaviors.  It may sound ridiculous to some people. Especially considering the “Interpretivist” movements in the discipline of behavioral science, perhaps, my research is not the right direction to move on. Despite, I am interested in this topic due to the huge number of potential applications I can see. It is my way of staying foolish. I’m an engineer working on Human-Computer Interaction where people are fascinated by both human and technology. Therefore, I want to explain human’s actions using mathematics. It is a difficult task because of …

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Positive Infinity and Negative Infinity

Recently, I watched a BBC documentary named “Horizon: Infinity” that illustrates several concepts of infinity. These are some thoughts that have been perplexing humans for a really long time. The most common facts about infinity are usually expressed using a concept of an infinitely large hotel – which has infinitely many rooms. Even when that hotel is full, it is possible to make room for 1, N or infinitely many new customers. How? If you need N rooms, tell all the existing customers to shift in room number i+N, where i is their current room number. You’ll get N free rooms (1 to N). If you need infinite …

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