Fooled by Randomness : Book Review

![](images/\Documents and Settings\Radha Krishna\Desktop\FooledByRandomness.jpg)I came across this book while reading Malcolm Gladwell’s seminal piece on behavioral economics. Since then I had always been wanting to read it. My travel , a fortnight ago gave me sometime for myself and hence was able to read this book by Nassim Taleb. This books is all about, as the title suggests, randomness, It’s manifestations in our lives, the way we approach/escape it, and the consequences of the same.

Ruby - Day 1 Learning

Ruby is an object oriented programming language which has grown in popularity mainly because of its association with the rails framework for developing web applications. In this entry, I intend to summarize some of the basic syntactical rules of Ruby. 1. Firstly everything is an object in Ruby 2. Local variables, method names start with small letters and the ones which have more than one word have underscore separating both the variables

Quote for the day

If I don’t practice my Piano for a day, I will know. If I don’t practice my Piano for 2 days, My Critics will know If I don’t practice my piano for 3 days, My audience will know

Zen in the Art of Writing

I stumbled across a very interesting book at Crosswords, the other day . A book by Ray Bradbury, titled " Zen in the art of writing" . It is a 150 page easy to read book which talks about the experiences of an author, story teller who listens to his heart and subconscious mind for writing stories. One of the first things which the author strikes a chord with the audience is that he explains most of the stuff as a result of the sub conscious mind working on his childhood and adolescent experiences.

Quote for the day

If I don’t practice my Piano for a day, I will know. If I don’t practice my Piano for 2 days, My Critics will know If I don’t practice my piano for 3 days, My audience will know