January 2018 – Dr Ramakanta's Ideas

The Super Chicken Model

In 1990, William M. Muir, Professor of Animal Sciences at Purdue University conducted this experiment. The aim was to improve egg-laying productivity by breeding the most productive chicks. ( Super Chickens). The hens were housed in cages with nine hens per cage. Very simply, the most productive hen from each cage was selected to breedContinue reading “The Super Chicken Model”

The haves and have-nots in the digital future.

Are computers free from bias? Will artificial intelligence be secular and non discriminatory ? Facebook’s facial recognition research project, DeepFace is 97.25% accurate. Humans can perform the same task only with 97.53% accuracy. That’s a pretty big deal. Wow! A lot of automation in future will depend upon facial recognition ie. Cars will open, phonesContinue reading “The haves and have-nots in the digital future.”

Hyper-ventilation

Lucy was a beautiful girl of 11 years. She was studying in a prestigious international school here. She is a bit on the healthier side and quite attractive. She had a bout of hyper-ventilation in the school prayer hall and it being a VIP school, the authority promptly took her to the nearby cardiac centerContinue reading “Hyper-ventilation”

Synthetic Happiness

Can happiness be synthesized ? [ Human beings can actually have experiences in their heads before they can happen to them in real life. They can feel mortal fear and get drenched in sweat even before the cause has materialised. This is a trick that none other animals have. _ Dan Gilbert ] Today, asContinue reading “Synthetic Happiness”

The unpaid care giver.

Behind every successful Rehab program, there’s this sacrifice of an unpaid care giver. Yet, no credit goes to them. Let’s put some care into our health care. When a person suffers from stroke and paralysis, he becomes bed ridden for 6 month at home. He takes food in a tube, passes urine by a tubeContinue reading “The unpaid care giver.”