My experiments with Pick Up Science (Part - 1)

Abstract

This series of paper discusses four experiments on two different strategies of inducing attraction in humans. Incidentally, all the humans involved in this experiment were men and subjects were women, hence this paper presents may mislead the reader to skewed perspective of laws governing attraction among humans. I want to clarify that this paper discusses only 1 of 4 permutations (not combination because attraction is vector having direction) of attraction among normal species of humans.

Experiment 1 on passive disinterest

Experimenter : A, a male with handsomeness = 7/10 and conspicuousness = 3/10.
Subject: P, a female with beauty = 7.5/10 and conspicuousness of 2/10
Environment: Office. A and P are in different departments, no one deals with each other professionally. The probability of random interaction between the two is illustrated by the following equation:
P(x) = (1/number of employees) * (time when they are drunk/time they stay in company)


Procedure

Day 1: A adds P on company chat engine. ( active interest ? )
Day 4: P accepts chat engine request.
Day 7: Conversation begins

P: As stupid it may sound asking you, but as far as I remember we have never talked, met or interacted before. May I know why did I you add me as a friend on the chat engine ?
A: I had some work in HR deptt., so I added you, but now that is resolved. You may not worry about it.
P: I am not in HR deptt., I am in Resource development.
A: Oh! I thought both are the same, anyway "Resource" is common.
P: No, Resource Development deals with developing resource, HR deals with exploiting it.
A: ok, i can't understand a word you are saying.
P: So, how come you know my name ?
A: I was going through HR area, somehow your name stuck with me. I believed anyone who sits in HR area must be an HR.
P: You read my nameplate ?
A: I heard someone calling you ....
P: lolz, strange that you remembered only my name.
A: Sorry for all the trouble that I may have caused, please feel free to delete me.
P: no, no, I didn't mean that

Post this interesting conversation there have been a few friendly and unfriendly exchange between A and P.

Analysis:

In the above mentioned experiment, A violates all the principles laid down the literature so far by pioneers like Mystery, Ross Jeffries . 3-second rule, first demonstrate value rule, active disinterest strategy are only a few of the principles being violated. Still A is not only able to open up P, but also produce a mild attraction towards himself. In spite of the deviation from conventional strategies a few patterns must be observed.

1. Initial, addition on chat engine and inactivity by A for 3 days looks similar to activeness followed by disinterest. Mixed signals.
   
2. It must be noted that A was successfully able to avoid a barrage of questions from P, thus demonstrating his smartness hence value. Such a demonstration of value was sufficient enough to hold the final push "feel free to delete me". Pull-push theory.
   

Conclusion

Although the experiment do not complies with most of the strategies documented in the literature so far, it do contains some identifiable patterns which further strengthen the efficacy of those patterns especially Push-pull pattern. Having said that it must be noted (as it will be demonstrated in next papers) that this pattern is too difficult to repeat and is largely subjective to the subject as well as experimenter.

Another sci-fi (2040)

I just saw a video where Nicholas Negroponte shows his vision in 1984 and many of his predictions have come true today.
So, I just thought, "had I been Nicholas Negroponte, seeding a project so noble and purposeful as OLPC, and having seen my vision coming true in front of my own eyes, I would have lived the life I always wanted to."

Now let me imagine year 2040. Domestic robots have become a reality. They can cook food, drive cars (in case car can't drive itself), clean home, clothes and utensils, shop in from POSIX compatible grocery stores, maintain themselves, get themselves repaired and earn money by renting their services to those who can't yet afford robots.
Challenges to this vision:
1. Voice recognition: Voice recognition is erroneous and unreliable. 95% accuracy in a local area should be enough for commercial viability.
2. Batteries that can hold power to serve a robot for 16 hours. Either batteries need to be more powerful or robots need to be more power efficient.
3. Image recognition: Processing images seems to be quite slow. We need faster computers. If cars can drive themselves based on vision only, then we are ready.
4. Learning: How much self-learning we need to introduce machines to the domestic environment ? May be we can do without self learning. Machines can be pre-programmed to do these kind of stuffs and auto-install from open repositories.

Your relationship with yourself

We all have two selves. Remember the last time you wanted eat high calorie pastry, didn't you split yourself into two selves ? One telling you about the health factors and other telling you about the sensation of hot black chocolate pastry that is about satisfy your dry mouth and taste deprived tongue.

Of the two parts one is logical and the other is emotional. And of the two logical one behaves as senior mature person, while the other one behaves as a child who forces you to do all the crazy things that the logical part thinks bad.

If you are a kind of person that concedes to your "childish" self wishes then you may have found yourself in trouble often. Have you ever thought how your logical self treats you in such situations ?

Do you reprimand yourself for doing such a thing ?
OR
You just calmly tell yourself that you won't do this again ?

Which one of them is better ? Obviously, the second one. Let me know if you feel otherwise via comments.

*How to* stay positive

It has been a long time since I wrote something; my last post was in September. All this time I have been busy or more appropriately-psychologically busy. If you satisfy the following 3 conditions then you are psychologically busy:

1. You have a lot of work to do.
2. You do cancel trips and postpone enjoyable activities (like watching movies, playing cricket, going to Goa) so that you can find time for completing the work pending on you.
3. You do not complete that work, instead end up sleeping the whole weekend or doing some entirely unnecessary piece of work. (like writing a blog)

That's enough of digression from the topic. Friends, this blog is about: how to stay positive!!! Well, it's bit strange that I want to write on this topic. Even though, I have some much more interesting topics to write about--like my encounter with a gay and then with a girl in auto-rickshaw--, yet I chose to write on staying positive. The main reason can be attributed to that fact that I had been feeling quite negative a few days back, and the lesson I learnt has allowed me to feel positive again (so far).

Let's start with a question. When you make a mistake, suppose you missed a deadline because of procrastination, how do you treat yourself; what do you tell yourself ?

1. You missed a deadline, what a horrible looser you are ! you won't get anywhere in life. Anyhow be careful from next time; or
2. You missed a deadline, what is happening to you ? you are not like that ! you are awesome at time management, you should find a solution so that you don't miss other deadlines.

Yes, you are right; I followed 1st approach for a long time, and I recommend using the second approach for staying positive. (It's natural aspect of philosophy, you always know what's the correct way to live, but you forget to apply that when it is most required.) Tell yourself that you are a super star and ask yourself to live up to the reputation; that is a much more effective way of managing your mind.

When you are feeling lazy to press your shirt or to make shave, tell your self how good looking and handsome you are and you will find motivation to press the shirt.

When you are feeling lazy to get out of your bed to do some enjoyable activity, tell yourself that you are the most energetic person in your friend circle and you will find the energy to jump out of the bed.

When you are feeling meek to get a daunting task done tell your self how courageous you are to get the courage to do the task.

In short, positive motivation works for me (and may be for all) better than negative one. Best of luck and stay positive.

3 Firefox add-ons you must consider

I switched to Firefox four years back, when I was using Internet explorer 6. Firefox was incomparably awesome. I have heard that IE 8 is a good competitor for Firefox; but I still think that Firefox rocks because of thousands of add-ons that are available free of cost and add so much utility to Firefox. I don't use add-ons indiscriminately; my home pc has only 6 Firefox add-ons installed. Here are some that I will highly recommend you to consider.

1. Add block plus(ABP): The ultimate add-on that saves you a lot of bandwidth by blocking adds on each site. I just don't understand why don't they ship it with the browser itself.

Cons: It blocks all the auto-loading of all flash files. So you have to do one more click to see your flash animation. Please don't hit me, if ABP breaks one of your favorite site. Just disable ABP, and try reloading the site.

2. Autofill forms: I have just started to use this one, and I am amazed by the time this add-on can save to me. It tries to fill out form fields for me, so that registering on new sites is damn easy. This feature also comes with Google toolbar, but I don't like adding toolbars.

3. Leech Block: If you are like me, then you must be cursing yourself at the end of the day for wasting time on sites like social networking, news sites etc. I can't control myself, but leech block can remind me to do so. Leech block is like a timely parental block to site specific surfing.
For example, if you want to limit your time wasted on Facebook to 30 min, just tell Leech block to do so. Leech block will just block Facebook after 30 min have been spent. You can access it again for 30 min next day.

4. Delicious: Sorry! I promised 3, but here's one more that I can not miss. When I started working accessing internet from both work and home keeping a track of bookmarks was a disaster. Then God gifted me with this add-on. (This bookmarking tool is better than Google bookmarks; and when something is better than Google's solution then it must be a gift from God.) This add-on can synchronize your Firefox bookmarks to your delicious account and then you can access all your bookmarks from any Firefox--that has a delicious add-on installed-- with a single click. And yes, you can always visit delicious website in case your Firefox does not have this add-on installed.

The list can go on, but if you allow me to suggest one more it will be Greasemonkey which allows customizing websites using your own javascript. (Warning: don't try much of this if you do not understand what javascripts can do.)

Happy surfing.