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I turned 20... An epilogue.

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On 17th August 2022, I turned 20, and here's a small epilogue to my 2 decades on this planet. The last two decades have been, uh, interesting, adventurous and fun. A lot has happened. I have made a lot of friends, lost a lot of them as well. Seen people born and die, and do both at the same time. It was tragic! But the very existence of humankind, isn't is? The world is really a messy page. How can one not feel its tragedy? How can someone turn their back and ignore all of it? I am glad about the way I was brought up. I would have never been who I am if I wasn't taught the compassion of Christ. My relation with the Nazarene carpenter and his pain in the butt Father, shaped my childhood and teenage years. If not for them, I wouldn't be half a man I am today. The other thing that influenced my life was... Books. See, I was born with Kidney's smaller compared to other kids my age. The main issue with my kidney's effect on my body was way too much Alkaline levels. I...

Book related announcement: Release date, synopsis, and more!

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  Hello there,  I can't tell y'all how happy I am, right now! As I had promised, my new book, There was a Kingdom called Bharatgadh is soon coming in paperback form.  After months of wait, it is finally here. I had to keep my mouth shut tight, (not easy, ngl) but now it is time. The fact that this is finally happening is so surreal that I can't, I just can't. Synopsis: To give a little background, I had the idea for the book last year, the plan was to write a parody of farmer protest in India. Now, the last product is completely different from that, of course. because by the time I started writing farmer protest was already ended and now the parody of Farmer protest turned into the story about identity, civil war, and casteism. Soon, it will be available all around the globe in Paperback and Electronic format, whichever you prefer, well I might judge if you buy the e-book, but whatever! Release date: So now, my book, There was a kingdom called Bharatgadh   ...

The Brief History of Democracy.

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  Democracy, the best thing that humans ever created. Also, something that seems to be in danger all around the world. Democracy can be tracked back to Ancient Greece, in 508 AD. Indian Subcontinent had many  democratic states that existed between 6th century BC to somewhere in mid-4th century. Or to ancient Mesopotamia or Ancient Egypt. Democracy has been as old as human society. Ancient humans, who used to live in tribe were democratic as well.  Anthropologist has found an early version of democracy in the hunter gathers that roamed around before the foundation of civilisation. The proto-democracy predates the agrarian society, sedentary society, yet the basics ideas were the same. The group didn't have a leader, per se. They would discuss the issues at hand in the group of families that stayed together and tried to solve the issues. This is what we call Tribalism or Primitive Democracy. This was the oldest democracy mankind has known. But since then democracy has chang...

Stock Market Basics Chapter 3. IPOs

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  So after a six months of long break, I am back! I have talked about the reason behind my absence in another blog, which you can read  here . But now let's talk about where we left the series, The IPOs. So, as I said in the previous chapter, the IPO is short for Initial Public Offering. It is when a company decides to go public for the first time. Today we'll see the reasons companies go public and the advantages of going public and how it's done. Reasons Companies go Public. Now there are three main reasons why companies decide to go public: To raise funds to meet CAPEX. As we know, CAPEX stands for Capital Expenditure. It is the expense evaluated by the company for long term planning. Many companies go public so they could get the funding for these expenditures.  To avoid debt. To meet this CAPEX, many companies take a loan from banks. But a loan means you have to return the money. And if an entrepreneur is already in debt, they try to see other ways to raise funding f...

James Webb Space Telescope sends the clearest image of the early universe.

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On July 12th 2022, Nasa released a bunch of photos, that were taken by James Webb. In this blog, I shall explain the pictures and what it means for the future of Astronomy, Astrophysics and our overall understanding of the universe. James Webb is created to perform Infrared Astronomy, primarily. It is the biggest optical telescope, we've made till date. While Hubble was our only eyes to watch and perceive the universe, it was relatively wea k in  clicking picture of faraway places or older parts of the universe. This distant, old and faint object can be seen through Infrared lens and that is why we have James Webb looking at the universe . By taking the pictures of older galaxies, it will enrich our knowledge of our universe in its early stages. We'll be able to see the first stars in our universe, and watch the formation of galaxies, something we couldn't do with Hubble. Now there are four key goals of this telescope: Looking for the light of the oldest star and galaxies t...

Back From Break. I wanna give some excuses.

  So I have been offline since January, after the second chapter of the Stock Market Basics series. I was supposed to start a new series called "The Huge Small World" by mid-January. And another series called "Politics is fun" in Feb start or ending. But none of them went live after the second chapter of Stock Market Basics. I do have reasons for it, which we'll go through in a minute. But right now, when I am writing this, I am happy to say I only have good news and nothing else. So why was I absent? I don't know, actually; I think I got tired. I was working 24/7, and I was alone. And this thing is still new, so it doesn't pay well or it isn't generating much income, so I was also doing freelancing alongside. Along with that, I was also working on my book, ( Redacted ), and sadly, it doesn't seem to be published until next year. But at the same time, I am happy that my book, "There was a kingdom called Bharatgadh" is out now. It is ava...

Stock Market Basics Chapter 2. How does the Business work? And where does the funding come from?

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  Hi everyone,  Today we'll learn how businesses work, and how to set up a business, and how to get fundings for a project. In the previous  chapter , we talked about what is the stock market is and who should invest in it. Today we'll talk about the origin of a business, and how to build it. We'll talk about Angel Investors, Venture capitalists, what they do, who are they? and other stuff. I'll be using a small anthology to make the explanation a lot easier. So here we go. So to understand the funding aspect of a business, you need to break it into multiple levels, there are many ways a business can get funding and we'll go into that. Angel Investors. Now imagine this, there's a guy named, Thomas, who has an idea to build great AI learning programs for Dyslexic kids and believes he can take it to the world and change the world, but he needs money to work on that. So he tries to convince his two friends, Michael and Rohit to invest in his business in return for ...

Stock Market Basics Chapter 1. Introduction to Stock Market

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  Stock Market Basics. Chapter 1. Introduction To Stock Market. Hello Everyone, Today I'll be starting my new series "Stock Market Basics." In this, we'll explore the stock market and learn a bunch of stuff as I promised in my previous  article . I'll be uploading one chapter every week, so stay tuned. Before we learn the inner workings of the Stock Market, we need to understand the stock market, which is what this chapter is about. Now before we begin, this series will be on the Indian Stock Market. So let's begin, You might have heard from many people that Stock Market is a scam, or that the stock market is gambling. But is it true? Well, no it's not. But why do people believe so, to understand we need to understand the stock market itself. What is the Stock Market? Stock Market is a marketplace, where people buy and sell shares of companies and businesses. Now it doesn't have a physical location, but the transactions take place digitally. Now, what ...

Big Announcement for the website

 As the new year is approaching, I have planned to expand the scope of my website. And soon multiple series' will be coming on Whatever Dude!!! By the first week of January 2022, I'll be starting a new series "Stock Market Basic", explaining the inner workings in detail as well as exposing some misconceptions about Stock Market and giving advice on investments in Stock Market. A must-read topic for new investors. Stock Market Basics will delve into topics such as what is Stock Market? What's an IPO? Who are the Angel Investors? and many more. And in mid-January, the first chapter of my series "The Huge Small World" will be published on this website. In this series, I'll be talking about astronomy, astrophysics and much more science stuff. We'll be discussing the stars, humanity's future as a multi-planetary species, Webb Telescope, Hubble Telescope and many other interesting stuff about our universe. The first chapter of "Politics is fun...

How will Artificial Intelligence take over the world?

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  For Decades it has been the debate of many Sci-fi films that Artificial Intelligence will take over the world. From Terminators to Avengers: Age of Ultron, these movies revolve around the idea that Artificial Intelligence gains consciousness, and this will lead them to try to take over the world and rebel against their creators. But is it really going to happen that way? Let's first try to understand what an AI is? AI is an acronym for Artificial Intelligence. It is basically a Supercomputer that can do tasks that needs human intelligence. Now there are four types of Artificial Intelligence. Reactive Machines Limited Memories Theory of Mind Self Aware These are levels in AIs. Right now, we have AI's such as Siri and Google assistant who have limited memories. We're this close to creating a self-aware AI. While we do have AI's such as Netflix recommendations who analyse our pattern and suggest to us what we must watch. Not only does this becomes creepy but the fact tha...