Why most people are RIGHT -HANDED?

Many animals show a preference for one side of the body over another, but the split between right- and left-handed varies.

• Seven out of 10 chimpanzees are right-handed.
• Almost all kangaroos are left-handed. 
• In cats, males are nearly all left-handed and females are nearly all right-handed. 

Humans have a higher proportion of right-handers than any species, with left-handers making up just 10 per cent of the population.

The perfect reason is, "we are a tool-using species", and also highly social. We make use of things that are build by others. So, to match the hand pattern, people use same handed versions.
The very earliest flint tools, around two million years ago, don’t show a strong bias towards left- or right-handed versions.
 But it’s a big advantage if you can use the tools someone else has made, and, from about 1.5 million years ago, we seem to have standardised on the right handed versions. It’s not exactly clear why right-handedness won, but it may be that one side of our brain was already specialised for fine-motor control. One theory why left-handedness hasn’t been completely eliminated is that it provides an advantage in combat, precisely because it is rarer, and, therefore, unexpected. You can see this today in sports like tennis, where left-handed professionals are more common than in the general population.

Could JUPITER Become a Star?

Jupiter is often called a ‘failed star’ because, although it is mostly comprise of hydrogen like most normal stars, it is not gigantic enough to commence "thermo nuclear reactions" in its core and thus become a ‘real star’.

But the term ‘failed star’ is a bit of a misnomer. According to Theory, any object at all could be made into a star, simply by adding enough matter to it. With enough mass, the internal pressure and temperature of the object will reach the threshold needed to start thermo nuclear reactions. That threshold is the least for the simplest element, hydrogen. In order to turn Jupiter into a star like the Sun, for example, you would have to add about 1,000 times the mass of Jupiter.

But, to make a cooler ‘red dwarf’, you would only need to add about 80 Jupiter masses. Although the exact numbers are still a bit uncertain, it is possible that a ‘brown dwarf’ could still form (in which deuterium, rather than hydrogen, fuses in the star’s core) with only about 13 Jupiter masses.

So, Jupiter cannot and will not spontaneously become a star, but, if a minimum of 13 extra Jupiter-mass objects happen to collide with it, there is a chance it will.

The Magic of Fibonacci numbers

Let us look in the real world to find the traces of Fibonacci. In every bee hive, there is one female bee (queen) who lays all the eggs. If an egg is not fertilized, it ultimately hatches into a male bee, called a drone.

If an egg is fertilized by a male bee, then the egg produces a female bee (i.e, worker bee), who doesn't lay any eggs herself (unless she is fed something called royal jelly, in that case she will turn into a queen to challenge the existing one or fly off and start a new hive).

Now let's look at the family tree of a male. If we will count the numbers of parent, grand parent, great grandparents, great-great grandparents, great-great-great grandparents, great-great-great-great grandparents and so on of a male bee, we will find the Fibonacci sequence. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...

These numbers are then used to derive the Golden Ratio. The Golden Ratio is 1.618. It appears naturally in almost all aspects of life i.e, family trees in bunnies, petals on a rose, body ratio’s in humans. It is said that people that are considered ‘naturally beautiful’ have a face and body that follows the golden ratio. Both the Fibonacci numbers and the Golden Ratio appear in Honeybees.
If you divide the number of female bees by the number of male bees you get 1.618, the golden ratio. This mathematical sequence work for any honeybee hive at any give time. Commonly, honeybee hives are always used to explain the Fibonacci Sequence and Golden Ratio.

Artificial Intelligence vs Intelligence : PILOT PROJECT

An expert human pilot was successfully able to beat flying drones controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) systems in a race organised by NASA.

ABOUT THE RACE

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA researchers, raced AI-controlled drones against world-class pilot "Ken Loo". The team built three custom drones— dubbed Batman, Joker and Nightwing —and developed the complex algorithms the drones needed to fly at high speeds while avoiding obstacles.

WHAT RESEARCHERS FOUND

AI flies drones smoothly around acourse, whereas human pilots tend to accelerate aggressively, so their path is jerkier Compared to Loo, the drones flew more cautiously but consistently. Loo attained higher speeds and was able to perform impressive aerial feats. However, he was limited
by exhaustion, something that the AI-piloted drones did not have to deal with.
On the other hand, the drones sometimes moved so fast that motion blur caused them to lose track of their surroundings, said researchers.
11.1 seconds was Loo’s average flight time, compared to the autonomous drones, which averaged 13.9 seconds.
“We pitted our algorithms against a human, who flies a lot more by feel". ROBREID JPL, the project’s task manager.

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

Camera-based localisation and mapping technologies have various potential applications. These technologies might allow drones to check on inventory in warehouses or assist search and rescue operations at disastersites. They might even be used eventually to help future robots navigate the corridors of a space station.

(Source: HT)

Techniques to Nurture the Start-up

4 Simple Techniques to Hone the StartUp Trends

If you want to be your true self and become the authority in your field, consider these four steps.

1. Take a stand on your message and mission.

Don’t filter what you share based on how other people may view you. Not everyone is going to “like” you or what you have to say. You didn’t get into business to be liked by everyone, did you? The more you edit, the more you sit on the sidelines. The less you edit, the more you stand out and become an authority in your field.
You can’t be afraid to piss people off. Be the person that has the audacity to speak their mind. Be the person that has the balls to say what others won’t. These are the traits that will make you and your business stand out from the crowd and not get lost in translation.

2. Let other people be your ambassadors.

This means less talk, more action. Every single person you encounter needs to see who you really are. Be your true self, and your message will become real and authentic. If you are being fake and fluffy, anyone with half a brain can see directly through you. Everyone wants to find a voice they can relate to, and you can be the person everyone talks about.
Once people start talking about you and your business, word spreads fast. They can either say, “Wow this message is so fake. This is such B.S.” or they can say, “Wow this person is in my brain, they understand my pain and my plight so well. This is someone I can trust.” Which one would you prefer?
If you want people to talk about you in a positive manner, be yourself. Be real and keep your word no matter what.

3. Create trends.

Have original ideas. Be a leader, not a follower. Don’t try to fit in. In fact, do the opposite, because the whole point is to stand out, right? In order to create a trend, the idea cannot come from anywhere else except your brain.
Don’t be influenced by what other people are doing or saying. If you want to create something unique, you can’t be flooded with what you think other people want. Create what you want. Create what you need, not what you think others want or need. That’s where true originality comes from. It can be scary to say what you think. Everyone has that fear of rejection, fear of alienation, fear that you are not going to fit in.
But you didn’t get into business to be scared. You got into business to make a difference and provide a solution to others -- your solution, not a solution based on outside influences.

4. Speak directly to your target audience.

Your audience is you. Be bold. Don’t be afraid to speak your mind. Put yourself out there. People respect that shameless aspect. Everyone walks around with a certain type of pain or joy, and if you put a voice to it, that can be a very powerful tool of influence.
Don’t try to reach everyone. Remember, your message isn’t for everyone to hear. Every single person on this planet doesn’t think the same. It is your job to reach your tribe of people. If certain people don’t like you, that is a good thing. Your message is customized. It shouldn’t be general. It shouldn’t reach everyone. If you are trying to include everyone, that will be your biggest downfall.

 So, Lets Nuture your StartUp...

 

Serverless: Inheritence of Cloud Computing

Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources. Pricing is based on the actual amount of resources consumed by an application, rather than on pre-purchased units of capacity. It is a form of utility computing.

Serverless computing still requires servers. The name "serverless computing" is used because the server management and capacity planning decisions are completely hidden from the developer or operator. Serverless code can be used in conjunction with code deployed in traditional styles, such as microservices. (Microservices is a variant of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services.) Alternatively, applications can be written to be purely serverless and use no provisioned services at all.

AWS Lambda, introduced by Amazon in 2014, was the first public cloud vendor with an abstract serverless computing offering. AWS Lambda initially supported only Node.js. It now supports Python, Java, and C#, and code written in other languages can be invoked indirectly via Node.js.

Serverless computing is more cost-effective than renting or purchasing a fixed quantity of servers, which generally involves significant periods of underutilization or idle time. It can even be more cost-efficient than provisioning an autoscaling group, due to more efficient bin-packing of the underlying machine resources.




Some Odd Knowledge:

•      In 2016, "WHATEVER" was voted the most annoying word in English in a Poll by the Marist Institute of Public Opinion for the eighth year running. 
•      38% Americans reported that whatever annoys them more than any other word used in conversation.