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Paanee ke badley pee kar sharaab - This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted ...

YANSS 348 – What we can learn about perception, priors, and truth itself from the party dress that sparked a global debate over the nature of reality - In this episode we return to The Dress and the psychological lessons offered by one of the most […]

App Spotlight: Clean Contacts Pro for Zoho CRM - App Spotlight brings you hand-picked solutions that enhance your Zoho apps and tools. Visit Zoho Marketplace to explore all of our apps, integrations, and ...

Tabla Solo and the “Zakir Effect” - A few years ago, I had interviewed a couple of senior Tabla professionals as part of my research for a book. They spoke of the “Zakir Effect”. They credite...

We’ve moved! The IBM Research blog has a new home - In an effort better integrate the IBM Research blog with the IBM Research web experience, we have migrated to a new landing page: https://research.ibm.co...

Change is the name of the game for Indian IT services companies - The changing needs of clients, the emergence of new technologies like AI and the millennial workforce lead IT firms to prepare for a new wave of disrupti...

On Providence - This is the second analysis of "On Providence", an essay by Seneca, that I have done. I did the first three years ago. So. This essay is written in the fo...

Richard Rusczyk – Inspired by Math #39 - I never did much math competition in middle school or high school although I did score well on the MAA competition and on the Math SAT and I went to public...

Content Elsewhere - I thought I'd start linking to pieces I write elsewhere. Here's a backlog of recent articles: *Reuters* (with Christopher Papagianis): The growing clout ...

More on Peer Review 2.0 - What follows is an extended comment on the proposal of pre-print peer review by Sabine Hossenfelder. She suggests, inter alia, that the authors pay a submi...

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Building atom-by-atom on insulator at room temperature - If the above picture reminds you of something like it some 27 years ago when physicists announced a nanostructure built atom-by-atom, then it is importan...

New Input Generator Framework in Avogadro 2 - Avogadro 1.x had quite a large number of input generators that came from very humble beginnings. They were designed to be easy to write, and to give a s...