Srikanth's scrapbook
Apr 22
Dec 17
Dec 09
“ It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace
Nov 25
“ when making this comparison, the TSA and FDA are calculating that the dose is absorbed throughout the body. According the simulations performed by NIST, the relative absorption of the radiation is ~20-35-fold higher in the skin, breast, testes and thymus than the brain, or 7-12-fold higher than bone marrow. So a total body dose is misleading, because there is differential absorption in some tissues. Of particular concern is radiation exposure to the testes, which could result in infertility or birth defects, and breasts for women who might carry a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation
Nov 24
Nov 22
“ While surveys can be insightful, customer development is not a virtual process. Entrepreneurs need to do whatever they can to develop a three-dimensional understanding of their customers. This means that on top of surveys, they should go out and have meaningful conversations with prospects, shadow them as they work, and interview them about their problems. Taking customer service calls is critical for understanding where your technology is falling short.
Sep 19
This guy is my hero.
Sugata Mitra’s new experiments in self-teaching (via TEDtalksDirector)
Jul 29
”It was difficult to know how this shootout would look like in superslowmo. We did some tests with a gas-flamethrower but the flame was only 2-3 meters and it looked quite bad in slowmo, so the special effects guys had to build a new flamethrower from scratch. They made one with liquid fuel, and that one was much better, firing out 10-15 meter flames. But the first time we saw how the flamethrower and fire extinguisher looked and behaved in slowmo was on the day of the shoot.”
Jul 09
