Tuesday, January 17, 2017
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Exosolar Planets
Yeah, I am talking about planets of another star. It is one of those complicated things which I have read from the book “Origins” by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith. I would have explained it here but then it would become too technical too soon and I doubt if I would be able to explain in totality.
Think about it the nearest star after Sun is 4.37 light years away from Sun and we are talking about finding out if it has planets or not. The author also shared the methods and techniques used to find if these stars have any planets and I was completely sure that it would all go over my head but to my utmost surprise, I actually got it and it was a really good physics problem (kind of like the ones which we used to solve when we were preparing for IIT)
In those says, I used to lack motivation in solving those difficult questions and always thought how those problems might be helpful in any way other than getting to know which one among us has high IQ. I wish somebody would have told me at that time that if you would do it efficiently one day you would be able to uncover the greatest mysteries of the universe (I mean literally)
Filed under: Daily posts Tagged: anideaaday
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Quasars & Blazars: The Brightest Things in the Universe
I am more than halfway through the book “Origins” by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith. The starting was pretty amazing and pushed me to read further and further. Then after a couple of chapters, it became insanely technical and it seemed that I would not be able to even complete the book. But I kept reading in spite of getting nothing out of it. I have done the same thing with my textbooks in my college days hoping that I would get it eventually.
This time with this book after some chapters things started to become interesting and currently, I am reading planet formations, stories of how nebulas were discovered, how the moons were made etc meaning I am finally enjoying it now.
When I first heard about Quasars and Blazars, the brightest thing in the universe I was on my toes to know more about them. I was extremely excited to start this book after watching this video(link here). And finally, Neil has uncovered their existence in the book. It was awesome, it was beautiful, it felt like I was there.
Filed under: Book learning, Daily posts Tagged: anideaaday, booklearning, vsauce
Monday, January 9, 2017
100 Days of OneNote and Love at First Sight with Google Keep
Coincidently today was the 100th day of Microsoft OneNote on my devices. I switched from EverNote to OneNote on 2nd Oct 2016 because I couldn’t use EverNote on 3 devices at a time (click here to know more about it).
In spite of a bulky interface and thousands of unusable options, heavy battery usage, and other minor bugs I continued to use OneNote thinking that I would get used to it.
But not anymore.
Today I reached my threshold of tolerance when I updated the OneNote just to paste one line from my mailbox and I was not able to do it. I mean seriously.! That’s the one damn thing why it even exists, it’s a tool which people use to store (copy & paste) useful data to use later. If the application can’t even get that thing straight what’s the whole point of using the damn thing?
And Today I have switched it to Google Keep and I am loving it.! It is built keeping the user in mind. In less than first 30 minutes, I got the whole idea. It does not have fancy features but it has what I needed the most. Below are some of the features which may seem trivial but are actually very effective and useful.
- Pinning the notes to front- extremely useful for people who take a lot of notes
- TODO list- again, trivial but it’s simplicity made me love it
- Free all across the devices, and
- Very fast
Filed under: Daily posts, writing Tagged: anideaaday, OneNote
