The Good Read

To some, it is the future; to some, the end. Since its foundation as an academic discipline in 1955, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has always been one of the hottest topics of controversy around the world. Whether you love it or hate it or don’t care about it, artificial intelligence deserves the attention it demands. For a name so popular, AI is often, unsurprisingly though, misunderstood. It is very tough to define AI, because it’s almost impossible to understand Intelligence in the first place. John McCarthy, father of AI discipline said, “Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.” Though we usually assign learning, reasoning to the term intelligence, the underrated processes that we take for granted, such as- commonsense, general intelligence, perception etc, are also some integral parts of intelligence. As we continue to understand the concept of what makes us human, the d...

Mystery, thrill, suspense, drama, action- Inception, Christopher “Dark Knight” Nolan’s masterpiece has it all. Unquestionably one of the greatest films ever made, Inception has stunned us with its uniquely twisted plot, baffled us with its intricacies, confused us with its ending, made us forget about our own surroundings. But don’t worry, I am not here to say what has already been said about it a thousand times before; rather I want to break down to you, as simply as I can, how the whole movie unfurled. (So needless to say, if you haven’t watched it yet, please, for your own sake, go see it now and come back later, if you want to.) The thing about this movie is, no matter how many times you watch it, whenever you start talking or thinking about it, you always have to straighten up some things in your mind first- ‘what does the dreamer do’, ‘what does ‘subject’ mean’, ‘how does the subconscious react in a dream’- things like these. To get you going, the dreamer builds the world ...

An enigma, an artist, a football brand, an everlasting icon. To many, he is the ‘philosophy’, the father figure of modern football. Today, on his 73 rd birthday, let us honor the legacy of history’s most influential footballer, the greatest revolutionary of the most beautiful game: Hendrik Johannes Cruijff. Statistics alone would put him in the list of most successful players: 3 Ballon d’Or, 3 European Cup, 1 Intercontinental Cup, 10 league titles, 7 domestic cup titles. But it was not just his extraordinary dribbling, incredible acceleration, prolific goalscoring ability, exceptional passing (as if those weren’t enough!), it was his truly brilliant mind, stunning improvisation, absolutely unmatched vision, and most importantly, his tactics that truly set him apart. It was as though he was aware of everything that was happening and was about to happen on the pitch, before everyone else. He wasn’t just a player, he was the orchestra conductor; even when he was on the ball, h...