I, V, M. So, no, no, no, no. Why are you talking about that? See, eventually robots, see my theories, eventually robots are going to take over everything anyway and we are going to be a slave.
So might as well get a head start and suck up to the eventual masters. You've been needing too much, actually. Actually, I've been reading too much of Tekker and Chen Wired actually. So, what's new?
Robots Internet of Things. What do you always do? I don't really... Perignally into Wired and Tekker and Jenny.
So, what is it that you read that shook you up so much? Lots of things. Robotics is taking over. So, I read this very interesting piece around how Japan is very robot friendly.
If you remember Sony a few years back came out with this adorable little dog called the Akibo. A robot dog. And the rest of the world laughed at us as a joke. It's like a stupid robot dog who's ever going to love it.
But the Japanese loved it so much. They even had funerals for the dog when it eventually died or you know, what are the circuit. Like, can you imagine? That's the amount of emotional con...
That it creates and robots have been used for a lot of purposes. So, apparently one of the most beautiful things that it was, it's perfect for introverts because they can finally open up to someone that actually gives them the confidence enough to go and talk to other people. I'm guessing there are examples of where things like the Akibo and other robots that are built for some sort of emotion or human connection to help people to say down syndrome or even lead blind people for instance. I think I mean, and do you know in Japan there is actually a hotel which is entirely staffed by robots.
That's pretty interesting. You're all going to be thrown out of jobs eventually. Robots are going to be cool. So, my tests are talking like this.
Actually, one of the things that's been very transformative in manufacturing in the field that I'm in is how insidiously robots are taking over... Human jobs. And just like in agriculture. So, about a century ago you would need say a hundred people to work for a hectare and now you need about 0.5 people to work.
So, same thing is going to happen in manufacturing and it's going to be sociologically challenging or interesting to find other employment for those. So, one theory I read was people should be Indians or rather the world should not be worried about being thrown out of jobs by these robots. It's just that quality of jobs we do will just become higher. So, we will move into more decision making and analytical and things.
I was in training recently where the guy who was training us had nothing to do with robotics. But he said, he's lying there was very nice. If you want to secure your job for the next five years become a statistician. If you want to secure your job for the next 20 years become a statistician who can actually cull out insights from data.
I think that is beautiful and I think that's something that robots will never be able to do. And hopefully they won't be able to record courses. So, one occupation for us. So, that's actually one article that we spoke about which takes care of our last section really.
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Just like that. Is there such a place? So this is Roadside Dosa store. Okay.
Guys, we make those two people and those. Like with the entire list of things behind it. Like what shall we never heard of before? Like you and I, we have seen the normal stuff, giros and masala, dreefor, other variety.
This guy has like 50, 60. What should we try? And one of these was chess chutney dosa. Chess chutney dosa.
This reminded me of something. I recently read this article where a guy randomly browsing the internet on one of the e-commerce sites. I forget which one either snap me or one of those. Where an iPhone 5 or 5 or 6 or something was listed at 50 rupees.
Obviously anybody. And then the company wrote back saying sorry, obviously that was an error. So here's your money back and obviously becomes your beautiful phone. So he raised a court case saying, hey, it was listed on my purchase legally.
You are legally bound to send me the phone. And then a huge event that happened eventually they had to the government, sorry. The court's ordered the company to send a ship. So I said this is fascinating.
Now this chess dosa guy. Suppose I have to go up to him, blame those between the piece. And he makes a, he makes a cheese chutney dosa. I said, no, this is not what I ordered.
I wanted a chess chutney dosa because that's what I paid for. I can actually have a case like this if he doesn't put like rooks and so on. So I've seen plenty of other spelling mistakes like this. There is something once I, once I sweat, let's see.
I can actually go to it and say, do you want your perspiculation in this last scene now? I guess I'm taking you to court. But the joke will be on your face with drink. But you're legally obliged to drink it.
Yeah, absolutely. We used to have a mivaran college. There used to be the soft drink, et cetera. So when you go to a restaurant and you ask the waiter, can I have a drink?
I think I have a drink. I have a drink. I have a drink. I have a drink.
I have a drink. I know this, this one, but green, dumb, but small BREasting. Yeah, I have a drink. Okay.
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It teaches you to wheel out all the bullshit. Yeah, so today what I'm actually going to talk about is megapixels and pixel density. Two numbers that marketers use to fool people into thinking that they're getting more than what they actually are. They think that just because a number is higher, what they're getting is actually more.
It's like your CPC in your off-electropic getaways. Yeah, it's astronomical. Yeah, you think you're getting 20% but actually you're getting this to five percent. So the thing, the thing is that people don't understand technology, right?
So if I were to say, okay, like, call, come, snap, drag, and eat 20 people, like, okay, okay, but what does it actually do? So, and it's okay, I'm not saying everybody should know what each piece of tech country has their lives to lead. So these numbers have become like a shorthand for what the device can do. So you feel that a two gigahertz phone is better than a 1.5 gigahertz phone, or 20 megapixel camera, better than a 10 megapixel camera.
Obviously, you think that way. Now it's easy to think like that and in many cases, it is actually like- I suppose it would be- There would be a grain of truth in that. Yeah, there's a grain of truth in that. And there's more than a grain, a sack full of truth in that actually.
But here's the thing, people spend too much time fussing over these numbers that don't really matter. Like, what if I told you for instance, that an image, like you view, for example, most of your photos probably on a laptop or whatever, a 50 or 20 inch desktop. What have I told you, for a good quality, high quality image, not a compromise, a great quality image from your vacation or whatever, a two megapixel photo is all you need. Indeed.
Yeah, just a two megapixel photo, that's all you actually- So what you're saying is, if there was a two megapixel photo and a four megapixel photograph, the four megapixel won't be twice as- No, we put it back. It would be indistinguishable. It would be indistinguishable. It would be indistinguishable.
Yeah, it's like saying that you don't need four meg It's good to even use the MBA analogy. You have better quality nonsense coming out from a time. Yeah, yeah. So good B-schools learn how to bullshit better.
That's basically it. So back to technology. For instance, along back when the megapixel walls were happening, a few years back, and to some extent, they still are happening now. Steve Jobs, the man who you might have heard of, young entrepreneur, he famously said, you need only five megapixels on a phone camera for typical purposes.
And I think he was right. So let me try to clear this up for all of you guys. I'm sure you're confused. There are many terms and technologies I'm going to use.
So I'm going to start with the most basic of the model. What is the one thing common to all digital displays today? A lot of money being spent and angry vibes. Not quite pixels.
Pixels is the answer. Pixels is not the movie. Pixel as in the smallest unit of display. So quite simply put, the more pixels there are, the better quality of display.
A pixel is made up of red, green, and sorry, red, blue, and yellow, the three primary colors. And every image that you see is, every digital image that you see is a combination of many, many pixels, each of which are some combination of red, yellow, and the primary colors, the primary colors. OK, but that's easy, but now a pixel doesn't have a fixed size. It's not like it's one inch or one micron.
It's basically the smallest. It's like loudness and sound, I think. It's relatively. Yeah, something like, yeah, it's the smallest resolvable part of a display.
It's dependent on the display. So when you put all these pixels together, one pixel alone, obviously, you can make it sense. When you put these pixels together, they start to make sense. So one measure of display quality is pixel density.
This is basically in one square inch. How many pixels are there? So obviously, the more pixels that are, the better the resolution. And this is called pixel density.
So just to give you an idea about pixel densities, for example, in various terms, so typical smartphone, these days will have somewhere between 250 to 400 dots per inch. PPI is the unit, if you were, for pixel density. So a few years back, the earliest phones had 120 dots per inch, which was low density. LDPI is called low density pixel, whatever.
Medium density then is 120 to 160. And then it became bigger and bigger. So extra density, HDPI, X, HDPI is 240 to 320. Double X, HDPI is 320 to 480.
Double X, HDPI is 480 to 640. And you know you are totally into phones, so that's the only word that starts with those three letters that excites you. And technology isn't stopping here. If there's going to be a quadruple X, HDPI, which will be like, whatever, 640, 700.
I think over 700, if they haven't been in double X, or quadruple X, HDPI, they should just call it Saki Naka. They should just call it that. Actually, it would be damn cool to have pixel density as a replacement. You know, you have di-s that's what I'm saying.
So higher the pixel density, the better it is, right? Theoretically, yes, it's unlike a Bombay local in that sense, because the more crowded it is, it's not better. It's not better. But here's the thing, all right?
Now imagine an HD TV. So I told you most phones, like your phone, for instance, would have a DPI of pixel density of around 300. Okay, I'd say around 400. Now that's, you have a frame of reference.
That seems pretty high. A TV on your hand, and you have a pretty nice TV at home, which is like what, 40 inches or something like that. And obviously, you've paid a lot of money for it. But that has a pixel density of just about 70.
Oh. Yeah, that's it. And here's the thing, it doesn't need to be more than 70. Have you ever felt that any point that a TV was compromised?
No, actually the HD is really good. Yeah, so here's the thing, all right. Okay, now imagine a billboard. Okay, when you're traveling, the billboard looks like great, nice, stunning photography.
But you're in your car, you know, high, probably about half a kilometer away from the billboard. Now if you were to take the billboard and actually put it in front of your face at the same distance that you put off mobile phone, you'll see that it's all pixelated, actually. It's not actually that high resolution in nature. And that really is it.
If you go near your TV screen, you'll see that it's actually, I wouldn't say pixelating, but not as sharp as you would like. Yeah, yeah. But then you don't watch TV from that close, right? And you shouldn't.
And I'm like, oh, yeah, 10 feet, 10, 15 feet away. So your mobile phone, for instance, if you move it close enough to your face, you will see it pixelate. Yeah, but nobody puts their phone right next to their face, right? I'm just calling, of course.
But at around one and a half feet or something is what the typical length of distance from your face, the phone is. And at that distance, something like 300 to 400 DPI is just right. So theoretically, theoretically, I mean, I've read lots of arguments, lots of arguments on the internet around whether we need more pixel density out of Steve Jobs, of course, was a guy who brought all this debate to the forefront when he came out to this thing called Retina display. Retina display a few years back, which was around, I forget, around 320 or 340 PPI, which was stunning, which was stunningly good on a four inch screen.
Now the highest phone is somewhere like 570 PPI. And I think there's, I think the new Sony XB has got to have 800. Yeah, that's insane. So tell me, if your eye cannot tell, is there any point in making me?
Yeah, so here's the thing. The research has shown that the maximum PPI that the eye can actually see is around 720, 720 PPI. So it can't distinguish beyond that. Yeah, it theoretically can't distinguish beyond that.
But then there will be people who, I know I'm an audio file, but there will be people who are OK. Yeah, I mean, beyond a point, a bit rate matters, but about that really nobody can detect it. So there will be people who are like PPI snobs later, who say, oh, I can see 900 row, the nuance in this and all things. I think it might actually be rubbish.
See, for example, there's no point having 4K resolution and I'll get to resolution later. But everyone understands 4K in general, saying there's always a very big fan technology and all that. 4K on a 5 inch phone, which is about 2 and 1 half inches wide, would have a resolution of just 2K. So even though you have 4K last time.
Yeah, 4K is lost on it. 4K is absolutely lost on it. So 720 PPI is all that the human icon detects. So anything above that is actually quite pointless.
So like I said, the Galaxy S7 Edge actually has 577 PPI, which is quite insane. But like I said, Pixel density stops mattering beyond the point of view. So theoretically, while we may still have phones of 720 or 9, so another report says 900 is a maximum. The icon detects whatever it is.
See, the thing is, it's going to stop mattering after point of time because law of diminishing returns will kick in. And let's not forget, it's a huge drain on resources. So to power a display that has 720 dots per inch, pixels per inch is a huge drain on the battery. And here's it, I'm going back to my IIT analogy over here.
It's not just the number of pixels you pack in. There is the quality is determined by a lot of things. It's determined by the quality of the screen that you use, the quality of technology. There's a lot of OLED technology versus this.
So for example, if you have a few episodes of what we spoke about that, the freedom 251 phone. The freedom 251 phone. Now, a similar, I'm guessing the pixel on the DPI on that will be something like 200 or something. You take a 200 DPI phone from Apple, maybe one of the earlier apples.
And I'm betting you that the screen quality of the quality of display on that on the latter will be a lot, lot better. So it's not just to do with the quantity. It's also a lot to do with. There is one thing to be said for this name is that as companies put the front, push the frontiers further, a lot of lower end phones will start getting up.
It's not getting up. So which is not to say that all this resolution, et cetera, doesn't have a role to play. At least with pixel density, don't get blown away by high numbers. Look for yourself.
See for you, look at user reviews. Look at the phone for yourself and see whether it actually makes that much of a difference for you. So that is pixel density. Next, I want to talk.
So what would you say, just some say, doing from that, would you say that a lot of the differentiation that is done based on display is really not worth paying for? At least at this point, yes. I think so. So that's a good point for listeners to consider.
So I mean, you see a phone. Yeah, like I said, I think you need to see it. I don't think you should take these numbers at face by you. I think you need to compare two phones.
It's very likely that say a phone which has just 400 DPI might end up looking better than a phone with 600 DPI because it's not about the numbers. There's a lot of factors that go behind it. So I think that's something definitely that you should consider. And now I want to talk about resolutions.
I know I'm not going to make that stupid new year's joke. So resolution is basically the number of pixels that can fit on a display screen and is always width into height, like for example, 280 into 1,800. That shows that there are 2,880 pixels horizontally and 1,800 pixels vertically. And you multiply this and you get 5 million pixels.
So that's the resolution. Just to give you a few examples of common resolutions. There is something called Microwvision, which is just a measly 16 into 16 pixels. It's like whatever.
The iPod Nano 5G has a resolution of 376 and 240. Which seems a little low, but keep in mind, its screen is a lot smaller. So when the screen is small, you need your resolution only to be that much. The Apple Watch for instance, which has new and trendier technology as it is, has a resolution of just 3, 12 into 3, 90, because that's all that's needed.
There is no point putting anything higher than that on an Apple Watch because it's a screen is so small. There's no point putting millions of pixels into that. So yes, the screen is bigger than that. As you mentioned, it also comes at a cost of power, right?
And you don't need that. Now the iPhone 5 for instance, the Retina Display 1 has 1136 into 640. So that's the resolution of that. Like 4K, for instance, we are going to the other end of scale.
4K is 4096 into 2304. So that's what you get when you... So you get 4K because it exceeds 4000. Yeah, it exceeds 4000.
So there is regular, then there is... So there's actually, then there is 2K, which is twice. So then there's 4K and obviously there is 8K, right? So 4K is 4 times as dense as dense as dense as dense.
That many number of pixels. 8K is 819 to 4608, which is 37 million pixels. So these numbers are becoming so huge. I mean, it's...
But to quantify this, coming to practical application of these huge as numbers. Like I said, 4K on your phone is absolutely ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous. You don't need it.
4K, the benefit of it, comes only if you have a TV, which is around 50 to 60 inches in size. Below that, it doesn't make any sense. It goes back to... It is as good as 2K, for instance.
You won't be able to make... I won't be able to tell. You won't be able to make a difference. Like, I see, for instance, a few years back, last year, I think, they had unveiled an 80-inch or 90-inch curved screen or something.
Now, for that, it makes sense. So if you have the money to offer it, it's a huge amount. So now, which makes 8K even more ridiculous? You'll need something almost a size of a living room wall to see the benefit of 4K.
I think it's amazing how merely the fact that somebody comes up with 4K, next to Kcheeper, just reminds me of this sorority girl who, you know, she was really, really drunk. And she went off in bed with an elephant. So wakes up in the morning and, you know, she finds the elephant smoking the cigarette and she's like, on nude and she says, Oh my God, did I really get in bed with you? She says, elephant smoking the cigarette.
Yes. And did we do it? And the elephant says, yes. Good Lord, I must have been tight.
And she's not after all. So, you have to do 4K and then 2K is not tight. So, like I said, 4K on the phone, ridiculous, absolutely marketing nonsense. But that's not to say that 4K and 8K don't have.
So basically, if you're going to go out and buy a TV, by all means go and buy 4K enabled screen if you have the money. Because eventually technology will catch up. There will be content which will be needed. There will be content, but then again, your TV screen, I mean, if you're going to just have a laptop, you really don't need a 4K screen in my opinion.
8K, okay, so where are these things that are actually useful? It's for people who are creating the content. Not so much people are consuming the content. So, for example, a lot of GoPro's come with 4K.
Now, this makes sense because a lot of this content can then be cropped, but that's the thing, because you shoot an image and then you can zoom into that image later. So, the same fund I'll explain in the technology in the megapixels, same thing. So, for filmmaking, et cetera, it's actually useful to have a much higher resolution because then you can choose to crop in and they won't be zoom in and they won't be any loss in quality. So, now we have to expand pixel density and resolution.
There's a lot more about this, obviously, online. And I would urge people to read up if they're really interested. The last thing that we're going to do is probably the most controversial of the lot, megapixels. Two more megapixels mean that my image quality is better.
And that's how we're conditioned to think of that. I mean, again, it's not a wrong way of thinking because typically more megapixels should mean that my image quality is better. But again, like I said, you need only two megapixels to view an image on a typical laptop. If you want to print them out, however, then you will need a little more, not too much more.
Eight megapixels, and most cameras today, most phones today come with anything over eight megapixels. Yeah, mine has some 13 and 13. 13, 12, 12, 12. Yeah, exactly.
But when is more megapixel useful? Again, like in the resolution, cropping. So, sometimes when you zoom into an image. So, you can choose, if you have a higher resolution image, you can just take a peak of it, and then literally you can zoom in without any loss in quality.
So again, now I'm making, oh great. I can then buy a 50 megapixel camera, and I can zoom into whatever you want. Theoretically, yes, but how many times are you actually going to do that? And keep in mind that a 50 megapixel photo is going to occupy a lot of space on your camera.
And most people don't want that. Most people will never do that. Yeah, 50 megapixels by itself sounds amazing, but you are practically never going to use it unless you are a professional. So, for example, eight megapixels should be enough for a pretty big print.
And 50 megapixels are going to be used only if you're planning to blow it up into a really huge billboard. A billboard or something like that. Just to give you an example, I have a DSLR, an Econ D90. And that has 12.9 megapixels, just 12.9 megapixels.
It's a couple of generations of. Yeah, it's actually fairly old. My one plus one, my phone has 13 megapixels. But if you compare a photo of the same scene with both, obviously there's going to be a gulf of difference.
And that's, again, technology. Okay, maybe comparing DSLRs and regular phone cameras are not going to be the right thing. But for example, if the Apple 5, or 5, I forget which model it is, actually the one that had five megapixels, it absolutely kicks butt of phones that have like eight, nine, 10 megapixels. It's not just about the number of megapixels.
It's a lot of other things. It's the quality of a sensor. It's a software that you use to make that. Yeah, in fact, here's the funny thing.
Sony supplies the sensor to Apple. But the quality of photos on Apple are better than the quality of photos on Sony's own phones because their software is better at interpreting this. So it's a lot of things. So megapixels to my mind is a crap metric after a point.
You really don't need to worry about it. And today, most cameras are equipped with enough megapixels for you to print out photo. What you should be worried about is actual image quality at the end of that. So take a photo.
See if you're okay with it. You need to really test it, transfer it to a laptop or a computer where you're actually going to see stuff. And of course, we used to start running out megapixels really only if you're going to be a professional. In which case, none of this applies to you because you already know all this stuff.
So I think that's how I would end this. Just be careful about the numbers. And this applies to a lot of other things actually. The processor speed, RAM.
I mean, yeah, it sounds like O3GB of RAM versus 2G3. But yeah, I mean, think of a practical purpose as if you were going to use it. Look at user reviews and things like that. See, just because it's got three, because it doesn't mean it's actually going to, it's the LTS, but it's practically not going to perform.
So a lot of homework is going to pay off. Yeah, a lot of homework is actually going to pay off. So yeah, that's a pretty long techie section. And we're going to pay, we're going to pay much needed to be back.
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So check one of your works for today. So as you know, the name of the podcast is simplified and that is a tip of hat, if I mean, to the fact that I'm Malu. I got to pick the name because I'm the brains behind this podcast, which makes nothing the beauty behind the vodka. Both hopefully not working.
So what we do in etymologies if you're new to this is we look, each of us looks at one word and one place every day. Every podcast. So my place is Kerala. And so there are lots of theories and I'm going to tell you my favorite.
The most simple explanation which I think is the one is kara means coconut palm tree and alam means land. So kara alam. So that's one explanation. The other is cera alam, the land of the cera.
So these are two theories that are there behind the word Kerala. And the other word that I want to use is the word camera since we talked about megaphas or about camera. Now camera is actually derived from kamara. So not the Hindi.
So kamara means room or variation of room in many languages. In India, I mean, in Hindi, it probably came from Persian. Yeah, Persian is the same in Greek as well. So it basically means vaulted room because I'm guessing the origin of the camera was as a black box where a lens would project images.
So I remember this is Arab physicist even something something back in the 10, 10, 10, the 1000 AD or something. He created a pinhole camera to the first camera in that sense. And it was called camera obscura, which meant dark room. You know, basically that's where the origin of the word camera came in.
So that's, that's my word. So they're not in off to you. Well, a little bit pros I because I've had to use a cab today because my car wasn't working. Oh dear.
And I was thinking what the word cap come from. And it turns out that the word cap has a reasonably interesting origin. Really? So it means.
It's not Greek. It's not Greek for uber. That would be so cool. It's a light, hostile and carriage, a shortening of cabriole from the French word cabriole, which is a diminutive of cabriole or which means to leap.
And that comes from the Italian cabriole, which means jump in the air, which comes from cabriole, which means the jump of a kid, like a goat. Right. And that's also caps and go. So it's so turns out, most cab driver was a goat.
But I saw a connection there. But so that was my my word for this week. And the place thing, OK, this is an interesting story I read recently. It's about Aurangabad.
OK, so Aurangabad is named after the Mughal emperor, Aurangsep. So there's a little bit of history. So apparently, Aurangsep's grandfather, Jahangir, was hassled no end by this guy named Malik Ambar. Malik Ambar was the general of Pichapur.
So he was a regent because the king died and then his son sat in. So Malik Ambar used to call all the shots. And Malik Ambar was basically the Sonia Khandi of the time. He was actually an Ethiopian.
So he was a slave. He was Italian. So OK. And Ethiopia, incidentally, has never been ruled colonnally, except for a little time during the Second World War when it was ruled by Italy.
It was a lot of guy, interesting. So Malik Ambar was an Ethiopian slave who was brought, who was sold to a merchant of Baghdad. And that merchant of Baghdad came to India and he sold him to the Pichapur. He was extremely capable.
And since he grew up in Ethiopia in the Rift Valley, and he was expert at scaling up and down hills. And when he joined the employment of the Pichapur army, the Pichapur king, he found that the terrain was a lot like what it was back home in Ethiopia. So he trained his battalion to scale up and down the hills. And they became experts at it.
And they developed a guerrilla warfare. So he, and incidentally, Shivaji's famous guerrilla warfare owe itself to Malik Ambar because Malik Ambar, one of his trusted lieutenants, was a man named Malochi Bosley, whose son was Shahji, whose son was Shiva. So what Jangir did was he came to stomp out Bijapur, and he came face to face with Malik Ambar's army. And so 200,000 mokal troops would come, and they were like 20,000 Bijapur troops.
And Jangir said, OK, if you have to kick this ass. And when they approached, they suddenly found that the entire army had vanished. They had no clue where it had gone. And then they would find that their supplies, while they were trying to look for the enemy, the enemy has gone and destroyed all their supply chains.
So they did, they lost many campaigns all that. And Jangir was so pissed that he actually had a painting commission showing Malik Ambar's decapitated body with this Shahji, with Jangir stabbing it with arrows. How quaint he just asked him to hold. And he went to a place with a painting.
Anyway, Malik Ambar died of old age. And when he died, Aurang Ambar was called Karki. And Malik Ambar had one useless son called Fateh Khan, or Fateh, something. So he named it Fateh Puraf, himself.
So by that time, Aurang Zayab had taken the throne. So Shahjhan came, Shahjhan went, and Aurang Zayab came, and Aurang Zayab wanted to, you know, arrange his grandfather's agnomenies. And he came and stomped all over Fateh Pur, with Karki, which had become Fateh Pur, and then it became Aurang Ambar. So that's the story Aurang Ambar.
I don't know how much of this is true or false. It's still a great story. It's a great story. All right, so we're going to take a break, and we're going to come back with, and we're going to talk about a little article recently, right?
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Come join us on Sennified. Go back and then take it away. Well, I've been reading a couple of interesting articles, and the one I read this week was on an emerging field called Neurogasonomy. Something to do with food I'm guessing.
Yes, yes, what neurogasonomy says is that you have a taste, so there are five tastes. Yeah, there is sweet, there is sour, there is bitter, there is salty, and a fifth taste is a Japanese taste called Umami. Umami is a, you know, it's the meaty, it's a taste of aginomotobesic. Okay.
And spicy is not a taste, actually. It's supposed to be a pain, it's burning. Oh, okay. Yeah, so that would be hotly contested here in Andhra Pradesh.
But hotly contested here, unintended. So tastes are just those, they're the mightiest. But when you talk about flavors, there are literally thousands more. So it's very new and the combinations of flavors, the combination.
And if you speak to a wine exporter of whiskey lower than it takes, it's more than a three days. And it's made from grapes and they see nuances of toes. I mean, you know, it's very small. It's so banana with caramel.
So the poor wine has never been close to a caramel. So the thing is that they're not bluffing. It's really true. And neuro-gaestronomy is an interesting field which applies the principles of psychology.
So what the basic thesis is that flavor is, you know, as much a function of who you are and what you're thinking and what you hear and what you smell as it is of the five days. So different people could taste something in different ways. Is what you're saying. An analogy to music is there is no such thing as pitch.
Right. So pitch is very relative. So, you know, if everyone was singing Happy Birthday, you would sing in the same pitch as the guy who'd start cutting singing it. And then next week, there's somebody else's birthday and somebody else started saying, it's a completely different pitch.
Yeah. But none of us really sense it because we're still singing the same song. So that's kind of a distant analogy. One and the second thing, an analogy from the sound field again is loudness is very relative.
So there's no such thing as loud. So what is loud, you know, it's a very, very soft piece of music and something is moderately loud. Right. Right.
So there are various scales of loudness that is soft, there is medium, there's loud, and then there's Gujavati costumes. So this is, you know, the flavor is actually far more nuanced than all this. And since eating is very, very sort of, you know, it's basic to life. Right.
Yeah. So even more than music. So people really live so that they can eat. And a lot of very modern chefs, among them, a famous guy named Heston Blumenthal, have been researching and experimenting with recreating of situations with enhanced flavors.
So simple things like if you were to eat something really hard before you had some ice cream, that ice cream tastes different than if you're eating something really cool and then eating ice cream. So it's like sometimes when I feel masochistic, I have shots of lime juice. I'm not even told. Like I say lime juice, I'm in draw lime juice, no sugar, no water.
I'm like, yeah, absolutely. And then immediately after that, even water tastes sweet. So is that what you're talking about? Yeah, something like that.
So what, and Heston Blumenthal and other chefs of his ear have taken this to an art form. So the article I read was describing a dinner in Heston Blumenthal's restaurant. Where is that? In England.
Yeah. Sounds like it. Yeah. And it's, you know, it comes with smoke and the texture of mushrooms, but with the texture of wood and things of that.
And we only have the reviewers or the, you know, the journalists were to go by, but she was ecstatic. So she was completely beside herself with sort of, you know, oh my God, it's so good. And I have sort of, you know, I'm a little ambivalent about that because Indians, I mean, I, my wife called me with melavataram actually because I mix everything and then, you know, so. Yeah, we don't taste the beer.
We don't treat our taste buds. Yeah, I just saw them. Just following it. So I'm not so much.
There is no nuance in how is maybe basically just, yeah, we model our senses. We are complete, you know, sort of. It's lost on us. Yeah.
It's totally useless. Yeah. Or maybe what these people are talking about is something that's not really, you know, there's a lot of it is a statement of imagination. So I don't know.
I leave it to you. People's judgment and to see how popular this thing actually becomes interesting. It's pretty interesting. Yeah.
And, but gastronomy, I know one thing about gastronomy, gastronomy, restaurant. So there's one nice restaurant and bandaculant, bantaculant, bantaculant, masala, like. Oh, I've heard of this. Yeah.
So it's molecular gastronomy. It's molecular gastronomy. So things, so there's one dish which looks like caviar. It's yellow, you know, it's the same, but it's actually jillipis.
So it's quite nice. OK. So it's interesting. It's expensive.
So now hopefully, technical technology will happen and become sibo. But it's definitely going to add a dimensional tool to your, you know, culinary space. And I strongly do recommend it. Very cool.
Where is article you read? This was in a new republic or something. We'll share the link as always. Yeah.
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