I, V, M. No, it's a random question for you. Emojis, good or bad? Well, considering that few episodes back, we spoke about Facebook reaction.
I'd say, hey, Emojis, I too much choice. I mean, it's not that the human beings, we human beings, we don't have languages, right? We have enough languages. And there's enough to ways to express ourselves.
And you still have to invent little characters to say things you can't say in the world. But yeah, I mean, people love them. And I suspect it's because it saves them from typing really complicated words like, ah, or sad. Lotta.
I mean, you have an emoji, which is a simplification of the word, Lola. Okay, actually it's interesting because a lot of people who aren't very comfortable typing have actually used emojis, lots of like, if for example, have my uncles and great uncles and people like that, actually using emojis, much more than I do. Actually the younger generation, so I have two sons, and they express themselves on emojis very eloquently. I must say, eloquently.
And my wife too, so she has the angry face if I haven't coined that. So if there are three angry faces, you'll meet. I remember seeing this fantastic thing on Twitter, once where a person breaks down an entire movie using only emojis. I think it was a Titanic or something, we wrote the entire script using these emojis.
This is one fascinating thing actually about, so I'm spanning a couple of generations here. So I've seen the transition from very, very stilted, long hand, written letters. I didn't, respectively, scientifically, I remain obediently. And how communication has completely transformed, it has become, brevity has become more important, and it's become a lot more efficient, it's been in short bursts, more frequent.
I think looking at all that emojis was something that we're waiting for. Waiting to have it. It's always interesting because it's almost like we have gone back to the first type of writing, which was say, a telegraph or something, which was again, had to be very short, and then from there, we have to expose ourselves. It's a full circle, mostly mochi itself.
So, well, I just thought I was coming, getting ready to come here. Somebody sent me one really, really meaningless profound things that are bound nowadays on the internet. So I'm basically considering that we should start a new segment called Profundity of the Day. Oh.
Every week. Every week. Profundity of the day. Nice.
I have to tell you my profundity, the one which I'm getting. I'm just going to stop me, but I'm thinking, you're the source for this is WhatsApp forward. Actually, the public will lynch us with WhatsApp forward. It's already there.
WhatsApp forward is like, I don't know. They're like those viruses and science fiction movies, all of a sudden they're everywhere. So I typically get one WhatsApp message in about 27 different versions of different sources. We should have the speed of 4G.
Yeah, we should have the speed of 4G. It's insane. OK, here's my profundity. A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction, and at such a speed, if it feels an impulsion.
This is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all the clouds. And you will know too, when you lift yourself high enough to see behind beyond the horizons. Did you like that yourself?
Actually, I wish I had a wish. I looked at it all day. Thank goodness. I got you like secretly Deepak Chopra's alter ego.
And just for that, you will have to answer this. What do you call a man who is outstanding in his field? Outstanding in his field. I don't know.
I give up what? Farmer. Oh, man. Your profundity has been revengeed.
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See you folks. Dharin, I'm guessing by now you know that I have a massive man crush on a certain someone. Oh, I'm speechless. Jha, who would have thought.
But I'm happily married. Don't flat it yourself. I'm talking about the man of course who sounds more like a deodorant than a multibillionaire. Elon Musk.
As far as men crushes go, quite container actually. Except of course that if his parents had been a little more thoughtful and added another M to his name, he would have been an anagram for Musk Melon. But he had pre-continued. Now this man went from being considered some sort of mad scientist in his suit to one of the most respected entrepreneurs of the stage.
Probably the most important thing, what I like about him most is that he's not just building companies but he's actually looking to solve problems, human problems. Electric cars for one. Yeah. Space missions.
Yeah. And solar energy as well. And he's looking to solve some of mankind's biggest problems and sadly the music of your honey sing is not one of them. But the 44 year old prescient Pretorian has fingers in yet another pie.
Something called the Hyperloop. Now I didn't even know what that was but it just sounded so very cool. You said prescient Pretorian. So he's from South Africa.
Yeah, he's so he is a South African born Canadian American. Oh wow. He's like one of those chess pieces in the bishop to C4 and then it goes from... It's going back to the Hyperloop.
Yeah. So now you remember before the advent of email and stuff where people use this thing called pneumatic tubing in office to shoot off memos and stuff. Yeah, I don't see it but yeah. You saw stupid in the...
Yeah, that's a good concern. I remember seeing somebody even put cats inside. And so basically it's a very large interconnected series of pipes you put in a document one and it gets sucked to his receiver. And that's basically it's an nifty piece of technology and I've seen even a garage project for delivering beer made out of it.
Wow. That... So cool for us to use that really like... So anyway, imagine this shooting letter stuff around tubing.
That's not a... That's not a fix, sorry. But on a much larger scale but instead of shooting letters it shoots people and instead of an office you have a much much much larger geography. So a sort of a vacuumated transport system.
Pretty much. And that's basically the Hyperloop. They call it the Hyperloop because it travels in a loop. The entire circle is like...
If you look at it from space it looks like the perimeter of a giant stadium. And it travels at hypersonic speeds which is more than the speed of sound. To prevent any sort of friction from happening. What happens is so the Hyperloop consists of an outer tube and inside you have a pod where people sit.
So like the chairs of... Like a capsule. Like a capsule. So it's like a train of sorts.
They have different characters with people sitting inside. And this called a pod. Now this pod is actually magnetically levitated or it'll be either magnetically levitated or on a cushion of air. So because the friction is reduced you can actually reach speeds up to 750 meters per hour.
It's like that air hockey thing. Yeah. Exactly like air hockey. Yeah exactly like air hockey.
750 miles per hour which is... That's pretty insane. That's pretty insane. And just to tell you now how fast that is.
When I actually went to translate 750 mph into metric because only Google contains the world actually use bloody imperial system. So when I went to translate 750 mph to Google auto suggest. Google auto film thing. The first thing it suggested was not kmph.
It actually suggested mark. That's what it's supposed to do. So the speed of sound is 760. So yes.
The technology is very expensive. Almost near the speed of sound. And I would suppose they would want to go a little below the sound. Yeah.
So all that. Just to give a comparison. Steam engines go around 60 miles per hour. Bullet trains go about 180.
And the fastest train on record right now. Of course it's in Japan. It's obviously in Japan. It goes around 330.
So yeah. It's more than double and it's even faster than many planes. You remember this big who had that happen with Japanese companies said it was going to make a bullet train between... On the other hand.
Maybe this little thing is all much smarter idea. There are some gazillion dollars which they were going to make. Yeah. Yeah.
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So Elon Musk is actually not building the Hyperloop. As many people think, you know, Elon Musk is building the Hyperloop. Because that sounds natural. Right.
He's solving one problem after the other. So actually he's not building it. He has his hands pretty much full. He provided the concept for this.
In 2013 he released a white paper outline of the technology and the concept. He was saying that the Los Angeles to Bay Area Commute could become 35 minutes, which is five and a half hours right now. It's about six hours. Yeah.
Five and a half. Six hours back. It would of course cost a pretty penny. It's supposedly cost six billion if it's passenger only and seven point five billion dollars with vehicles.
But still that is cheaper than the cost of the proposed high speed railway system in California, which is why Elon Musk was like why should there be so much money for such an outdated technology. That's probably how it started as well. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. And there are a few other advantages including the fact that is going to be built on pylons. It's not going to be actually on the ground. It's actually going to be in the air.
So a very small footprint. Yeah. Very small physical footprint in that sense. But that all this being said is still a very, very, very long while away and the airlines themselves might as well get into the act over here.
And it's definitely not going and it might actually be suited more for shorter distance, relatively shorter distance like the LA to Bay Area Commute and maybe not say too much interstate travel. But yeah, it's a long, long way away. And it's not just for business men and stuff. He's even envisaging the hyperloop, helping them get freight off the road.
Right. And I, and to me, I think that's actually more useful because you have all this truss and stuff like that, that are clogging up the road. You get them into the hyperloop from wherever LA to Nevada Los Angeles, sorry, Las Vegas or what he was saying. So actually that might work better.
I'm very curious, just an idle thought, whether this is going to change. Like for example, when, you know, when, when I was growing up, a lot of money was invested in, you know, in laying telephone cables and mobile came along and all that is pretty much outdated and observed. And it owned by the government. So, you know, that's what somebody, some poor Joe's, you're in my money, gone on the track.
But it's, it would be a, you know, colossal waste of money to have built that and then founded. So a lot of airlines, I forget which one, I think it was integral or something. They bought some 200 planes or something like that to be delivered over a period of 20 years. And what if when 20 years are up and all their planes are here, everyone's standing around on hyperloop.
Yeah, it's quite unlikely that it's going to happen though. Yeah. And so it is open source. So anyone can do it.
You and I can do it. We can pretty much form a check and write in hyperloop. Yeah, absolutely. If you want to do that, we could simplify it.
It takes us. Is there, is there a, is there any sort of, you know, participation with the university? So yeah, actually, so there are quite a few competitors. The two biggest companies, there's HTT, which is hyperloop transportation technologies, which, okay, this is interesting.
It's actually like a crowd source enterprise, not a company as much as sort of like a, you know, people out of the world contributing their ideas towards this with nothing more than the promise of getting some equity in return as an end things become reality. And the second major player, which has an annoyingly similar name to HTT is just called hyperloop technology. So it's HTT. Yeah.
The only difference is good tea, like a Marlowe defending owner would say. So HTT is a scrappy little underdog while HT is the, you know, sort of like the corporate. So HT, the second company, the founders of Millionaire with many investments is very close to Elon Musk. And one of his other co-founders was a key figure at SpaceX.
So I mean, if you were to put your money, you would think that it's going to be with hyperloop technologies and not hyperloop transportation technologies. But what a badass it would be to have Elon Musk as his evangelist. Yeah, yeah man. It's like, you know, there's a joke about, one day the Pope is going somewhere and he gets driven around and it is open structure and Pope says, boss, I, you know, I've always gone to drive up.
So we'll tell the show for you, said brand, let me drive. So show for said school and driving and Pope obviously he doesn't drive up. And so he's not driving very well, the cop pulls them over. And he has one look at who's driving and he says, job by job.
So the cops, supervisor says, why didn't you stop him? He was driving badly. He says, one of some severe VIP. This is what VIP is.
I don't know who it was. But he's driving very much. So this is right. And to answer your question about colleges, this is actually interesting.
So he's actually held this contest where university students can submit their designs for the pods. And recently MIT won. Oh, I'm not, I'm not, is it, is it my MIT? Sorry.
No, sorry. No, sorry. The branch office and messages. The branch office, the other branch office.
We have branches only in one place. So it's the other one. So teams are going to build and I guess eventually sell them to one of the bigger companies, which our companies get first. The amount is going to cost a few billions and could take years to break even 2016 and 2017 is when companies say that they'll have a working loop.
Musk calls Hyperloop the fifth mode of transport. There's road, rail, ship, rocket, apparently, and now Hyperloop. Some European routes are there as well. One company is considering to do a considering an Amsterdam to Paris stretch and there's another one that's working within Poland.
So interesting, all in all, just getting a little bit in the science behind the Hyperloop. We are supposed to simplify things. Traditional trains get more drag when they go faster. Typical friction stuff.
But the Hyperloop operates at just about one millibar of pressure, hence reducing friction massively. There are other advantages, unlike Kingfisher's stock price, a pod cannot crash. Musk has said that there will be solar power being utilized for this. So it won't use energy.
In fact, because of the energy that's created while it's going to end up creating energy. So imagine that it's not just transport or end up generating. One component of the energy supply to the system would be in supplying the air, which is going to push everything. So that can be done by the solar power.
That's very clever. Very future thinking. Now, the technology is not without its critics. Some say that the cost is extremely high.
It's an untested technology that could give people a new form of motion sickness because of the high speed. But I'm pretty sure they'll find a way. One of the things that happened with the airline industry. When planes were invented and they just started taking off, they had really spectacular accidents.
Someone came up with the idea of what they call them, the decibels. And there was this infamous decibel called Hindenburg, which was tremendous. It didn't cost a tenth of what it cost due to transport by plane and 5 star and everything like that. It just exploded and killed every one of them.
You don't know what disasters lie in store for a new technology. So a while before it's validated and interesting. We could use it just for free to transport. That's the first thing.
See, that also takes care of people. If people have a problem with the Gs, it takes care of that problem as well. What about, do you think in our lifetime, my lifetime, the next 25 years, we'll be able to see that? Do you think?
I think we should become some sort of reality or we should be able to find some answers in the next. Like 2016 is when they're hoping to roll out something. That's the first thing. So I'm sure we'll at least see it in our lifetime.
To what extent? I think we'll have to wait and see. Just a few other things, some of the criticism is that some people feel that building on the ground might actually be cheaper than building on pylons. One estimate actually puts it at 100 billion, which shows a little bit up from that first 6 billion.
A little bit more. But all in all exciting times the community is quite energized about this and I mean the entire hyperloop tech community. Well, any progress is good progress, I suppose. I've already fascinated, however, with teleportation.
Ever since seeing cartoons and of course in Harry Potter. We may have got it. I believe that's one technology, if it were ever to happen, that's going to change things. Just imagine you could just teleport from home to office instead of being stuck on Western Huyway or sapping your soul in that wretched local rain.
That would be phenomenal. But basically that would be sort of deconstructing all the atoms that we can reconstruct. So this fascinating, theoretically how it works is you actually disintegrated one point. All your atoms are collected, sent to another point by however, and reconstructed at that point.
So this is really fascinating. Just the information. So what atoms you have and what are you doing? Yeah, that's the thing.
So one instance of you, those of you who know programming. One instance of you dies here and another instance of you bit by bit is reconstructed somewhere else. There are PhDs who give very, very long answers as to why it won't be possible from a physics point of view. There was too much science for me to understand very, so I'm sorry, I can't speak about all that.
So basically what happens is like I said you're disintegrating one point and your data is sent to another area and reintegrated. So yeah, you die a little, but that's okay if you travel by mobile local data. Logically, if they can sort of map you to my atom and recreate you somewhere, they don't need to destroy you. So they have a perfectly identical another chuck, which is actually more definitely one chuck of one more than the world can do.
But yeah, it's scary. So yeah, you technically do die a little, but hey, that's okay. Because if you're going to travel by mobile local data, you die a little. Yeah.
And also here's another interesting thing. So let's assume that it was physically possible. There's whole reconstruction thing and all that. There's a brilliant thread on Kora that most fantastic of websites and there's a few good answers.
One of the things that the data that's actually required to answer one human being, one human being, would be 10 raised to 24 MD. Okay. It's so big that they don't even have a term for it like beta by text or by turn, all that. There's no term for this.
There's more than all the data that's stored on Earth currently. Let me remind you, this is just one human being, one average sized human being. Now, even if you somehow managed to get enough storage to store, suppose you got really, really large SSD, hard disk drive or something, the problem is transporting it. The fastest internet speed right now is 1.5 terabits per second.
If you work the math out, it'll take 226 trillion years to finish the transportation. You might have a little trouble entering that estimated time of arriving on your Google calendar. Again, all this is a fantastic thread that I write about this. So that being said, scientists have been able to theoretically transport atoms, so you never know it.
It could happen, but it's quite unlikely that even I would be around when that happens. So, which time is the next time I've ever built in? Unfortunately, so, yep. So that's about the hyperloop and a little gleaming into the future of transportation.
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That is unique. Like they say, a man who can not pass through the turnstiles sideways need to go to Thailand or something. No, but I know that you're going with your wife. I know that you're into diving.
We should do one episode of time. I'm really interested in knowing a lot more about diving. That's not what I'm saying. We'll get somebody who actually knows the theory behind diving.
Actually, I'm supposed to know the theory behind diving. That's not what I'm saying. That's not what I'm saying. The word Thailand, the common explanation is that high means free.
Free people. Some people say that it just means human being because some groups use Thai to address people instead of KONK, HON, which is Thai word for people. One of the ethnic groups is called the Thai. It's called the origin.
Thailand used to be called CM. It's a long time back. And Saimi's cats. I wonder why they changed from Saim to Saim.
I've been people growing up. I've been growing up because of Saimi. So that's a place for the day. And now the word for the day.
Bia. A favorite. Of which we had a lot of love to hear. Bia, many, many origins.
From Old English, it's B-O-E-R, which means strong drink. Other from German, Contribution was a thing or two about Bia. It was called B-R or B-I-E-R. In Old Latin, B-I-B-E-E-R-E.
Sounds unnecessarily close to Bia, actually. So there's many, many, many origins. Perhaps it's just best to choose and have a drink. Yes, be right back with the article out of the way.
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I know I'm going to cheat on this little over here, so I didn't read anything this week. So there's actually a video that I saw over the course of the week. Okay, nothing. Question for you.
What does your wife do when she wants your attention? Well, except for the time when she wants me to accompany her to one of the many types of functions that she keeps getting invited to, in which case she will cool like a tashet dao, gooey into another tashet dao from whom it's hoping to borrow money. It's a curtain. She doesn't listen to us.
Sorry. She listens to the work. I'm sure I won't talk. What do you tell her when you have to go for these recordings?
I tell her that I'm doing a voice over. Okay, what do you do when you want your voice attention? Mostly every time she laughs. Like a company by the usual differential posture.
Okay, so what if I told you cats actually cats meow? Cats don't meow to each other. Wow, I didn't know that. Yeah, so they actually make a variety of other sounds when they have to address each other.
But not specifically meow. Yeah, so they do a lot of other things. They do it all for each other. Sometimes if they're confrontational they make a very sort of something.
They actually never meow to each other. The meow is specifically exclusively for human beings. They actually do this to get attention. So when they're little kittens they mayow in order to get their mom's attention because you only sound that they know how to make.
So gradually cats tend to get independent. So they stop meowing. They also realize that the mom doesn't care to who's about them after they're old enough. So the mom just generally goes away.
They don't have familial bonds. No sunscary nonsense in the cat world. Anti-national cats. So hence they stop meowing.
However, when you domesticate a cat they realize that when you meow, if the human beings come to them and we are there sort of standing for the mom and we are the guys to supply food and stuff like that. So basically now we have to get attention. They quickly learn that if they meow they get attention and then they keep doing that. And they keep doing it clever enough to know that only humans will pay them attention.
Other cats are going to give them the feeling. They keep doing it. Yeah. It's fascinating and slightly cute.
Until of course they keep waking up and night and you have to throw them out. And you know each cat's meow is unique. Wow that's awesome. And what's really cool.
Humans have a tendency of talking to cats. If you see anyone with a cat they'll do something. They'll be very upwards from there. But they have to be able to talk to people who know everything regardless of whether that thing or that person understands like me just client.
You're talking to person marketing. It totally hit the fields. So cats realize that they have to meow back to keep the conversation going. So when you say maybe they'll be there actually.
I remember not to respect cats actually but respect dogs. A good friend of ours called Abhishek Madan. He has this big dog with him. And so he married into a Bengali family.
And his mom in law had come over once and was doing all sorts of maybe talk to the dog. And he made this absolutely brilliant. He was like all this, maybe talk anyway sounds Bengali. Okay so fascinating cats are generally seen as aloof creatures.
But they actually show love in various ways. They come and sit in the same room as you or at your feet. Very often. They're not as expressive as dogs.
So you often think dogs are the guys who love you more and ask. They're very kind. They're very kind. They're clicking on the cats have different ways of expressing love.
They love you as much. But they're very excellently, even if they just come in sit in the same room as you, that's good. That is expression. One of the ways my cats show affection infuriating me.
That's a stomp all over my keyboard. They're trying to distract me from my tablet when I'm reading. They're very individual. They're very individual.
They're very individual. Reminded of something that appeared in a Washington post article. This is what the court is. At group L, stop in overseas six first-rate programmers.
A managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats. So now that we know that herding cats is comparable to overseeing programmers. We know that this is the most well-known muscle. Indeed, they are way smarter than dogs.
You can never manage for instance to get eight cats to pull us red. Yeah, it would be totally bad. You know what the difference between cats and dogs is? Dogs come when they are called, cats take a message and get back to you.
Yeah, very true. I think I might not. We should end. Have a great week.
Have a great week. Better be cat-certified. Yeah, better be cat-certified. And if you figure out anything about the hyperloop, if Mr.
Musk, if you are listening, please do send us a season ticket. Yeah, I'm on. So I'm all about it. Musk, I'm going on to the other one season ticket, please.
All right, bye-bye folks. Bye.