Bajaj Pulsar - "Definitely Male" ad. Oh God Why ?

Bajaj came up with the tagline (With the help of an Ad Agency) for its newly introduced bike Pulsar in 2001. The tagline was targeted at the youth in India and may be help them feel related to the feeling "Ladke nahi rohte"

This year Jan 2018, I saw the new ad of Bajaj Pulsar with the same tagline, the best part was that I saw it on the same day when the BSF female warriors were doing motorcycle stunts as part of the republic day parade.

If you have a minute and enough Data watch the new Ad by Bajaj Pulsar below.
                                    

Seriously how doesn't anyone see the problem here ? Why isn't the PR division of Bajaj having a nightmare over this ad ? Is it still 1918 ? where men and women are divided by social rules and perceptions ? Or is it that the Ad's motive is so subtle that we do not see it in the grey area of the argument but the white ? Why try so hard to associate it with one gender ?

Here are few more new ads by pulsar on similar lines

If you have watched the movie Dhangal (A true story), you would see the life of a Wrestler who wants his Son to be a world class wrestler. Fate gives him no sons but daughters, he is disappointed at first but later decides to train his girls which later becomes success story as the girls do extremely well and make an entire nation proud. There is an abundance of success success stories of Women everyday, my point here is how many more is required for the thick skull-ed to understand that Men, Women, Trans are equals? Will people ever stop associating certain characters to certain genders ?

Watch this video, you will get what I am trying to say here.

While most organizations around the world are trying their best to highlight how their workplace or designs or products do not discriminate between genders, tagging a bike and essentially, the rider like in the above ads as "definitely male" or "ingredients of a male" isn't this called sexism ???. Even more so when it is not uncommon to see women riding not just bikes, but also premium sports bikes.
It has been 17 years since the tag line came out first and you are telling me 17 years wasn't enough for them to understand or get a hint that it is wrong and misogynistic ?

For the development and progress of the human species we need all the help we can get from all people. Having such divisions or such perceptions or planting such subtle ideas in the masses will be always a hindrance for the greater good of humanity.

Brexit - A small blip

Pic: I recently watched Meet the Fockers and came across this concept of circle of trust.

Brexit
Why it won't be the beginning of the end (of EU)?

The European countries are much dependent on each other (More than they know off)
The moment something like the EU falls or breaks, alternative versions of the original EU
will pop up.

If another rich or poor nation leaves the EU in the next couple of years , it might trigger an economic panic across all the nations.

To prevent such economic shocks, the nations would immediately propose the creation of the
original EU. Creation of an alternative EU would probably take lesser time than which Brexit is going to take.

There is a scenario where there may be two or more alternatives of the EU along with the original EU.
Sort of like the phase Christianity religion underwent in the 12th century.
What does an organization try to do when it's employees are walking out the door?
Policy changes ?

Anyways the point of this article is that, all this is just a minor setback.
The idea of having United Nations, G5, G8, G20 etc is to mutually benefit of each others strengths and at times weaknesses. This concept is not of this century, in fact it has been around since the pyramids ?
Time and again this concept gives birth to such unions, the force and the need for unity is greater often driven by necessity. There will always be the nay-sayers or nay-nations, it is disappointing when we take a step back. But sometime like they say, we need to take a step behind to see the entire picture.

There will be many unions and many fallouts and rejoins but in the end we should hope to see the real united nations. Just like in school when you first heard the words "United Nations" what comes to your mind? All nations of the world, correct ? may be you got that thought because you were just a child and not familiar with the workings of the real world. Well atleast in our lifetime we were lucky to see the "Paris Climate Accord" which saw all the nations of the world come together on an agreement to try and save the planet for the first time. That does count for something even though a couple of countries did not sign it. May be people will learn from their mistakes and make the world a better place for the generations to come.

Professor Hound

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Kung Fu Panda 3 - The Alternative Meaning

After watching Ku Fu Panda 3 (KFP-3) many times. It reminded me of one other movie, which made me think of an alternative meaning to the movie.

Spoiler Alert-
In the movie KFP-3 Po goes back to his secret village where his father and the rest of the Panda population have survived. Po feels strange adapting to their life style and finally learns to roll with it. He then teaches his fellow citizens of the village who are fun-loving and clumsy, the art of  Kung Fu with basic daily activities(kind off) in order to defend their village from enemies. In the end when Po is in the spirit realm , the village relearns their ancient art of Chi (It is sort of energy, that makes the flower bloom and gives extra super powers) and helps Po secure victory over Kai (the enemy).

Interpretation:
Well for me I felt that Po was the lost soul who found purpose in life, which is - to help and protect others by teaching them. If you have watched KFP-3 you will notice that his fellow village brethren are distraught and have less or no basic skills . So Po helps the  pandas learn Kung Fu through daily activities.
Consider this, the village as an rehabilitation center and Po helped the "inmates" Pandas learn basic skills to make their life a little bit bright and easy. In the end they end up helping each other.

Other Movie:
Patch Adams - The true story of the Doctor.
The movie opens up where Patch Adams is in a rehabilitation center. As the movie progresses he helps the inmates a little, part by part. Later on does amazing things with his humor and dedication. Again to make their life a little better. Plus there are many other similarities at a higher abstract level which you can find out if you have watched both the movies.

may be the below picture will convince you of my interpretation.

Are you not entertained?

A reference from the movie "Gladiator"

How does an AI perceive an image ?

I was sitting outside the church due to lack of space, I gazed upon a billboard
it was about an conference regarding some social issue. It had one picture of a chief guest
and rest was info about the time and place and the name of the person on the picture.

The person in the picture resembled a person I knew. I started thinking about that person
and how long it was since I last saw that person and recalled few fond memories with that person.
I even made some rough plans to meet up the persons in my mind over the coming few weeks.

Now how will AI perceive this billboard or a poster?

will it be able to identify the person in the picture and map the name below it to the person?
May be.



Will the AI be able to find some similarity of the person ?
Yes it can be trained to do so . i.e to find the persons similar to that picture.

Will it be able to make plans ?
I am not sure? unless may be you explicitly tell it to do so.

But what if I dint think of the person in that picture and thought about the color on which it
was portrayed?

It was on a red poster, I could have slipped into thinking about the communist parties in the country.
and may be few persons who lead them.


After making plans, I even began wondering how will AI perceive what I had just done by just looking at the poster
and started to think about writing this article.

This was just one strand of thought in the ocean of infinite possibilities that I happened to hit upon.
As you know the possibilities are endless here.

Coming back to the questioned poised to myself. How will an AI generate such possibilities?
Will it come close to such human thinking ??
I shall continue to ponder on the same.

Modi and Obama at G20 summit

Earth like planet ? Really ???

DAVIDE DE MARTIN / MAHDI ZAMANI / AFP PHOTO / EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY

An image of the bright star Alpha Centauri AB also shows the much fainter red dwarf star, Proxima Centauri, the closest star system to our own and the home of an ‘earth-like’ planet. Travel Time: 4 light years

When they find out another earth like planet

Is it the space agencies or the media or your creepy neighbor with a telescope whoever Is coming out with such claims need to take some time off. We get it there is the Goldilocks zone where you happen to find a speck of rock/ gas ball revolving under Some star - xxx-999 something. Indeed a great discovery but we really need to draw a line. On calling every other planet as an "earth like" planet. Our closest earth - like planet or twin. Is about four light years away which we will not be able to visit with the technology that we have today. That does not mean you can claim all planets as earth like based on a few features you speculate that it would possess. It gets tiring after some time reading through the articles every couple of days. I used to find it in the News few times a month, now it is every other day! Please Stop, earlier people used to be interested now the Interest is dropping. Since the tag earth like planet is not a rarity anymore. One of the collateral problems is that this might trigger is the embedment of this thought that the abundance of earth like planets into our minds.

The next time you want to get up and go for an earth run or participate in earth hour or a march for climate change: That embedded thought of yours comes to its natural play without your knowing even. (It would be saying to you if you We’re listening to it that there are plenty of earth like planets why bother?) Do you know what people like me/general public tend to think when you say earth like?

We think there are going to be life there and animals and trees and habitat and what not! If we happen to go by your claims I really think we would have not less of any different Experience than the brave 8 /7 had in interstellar. So what point I am trying to put across here Is that please be patient with our claims, you are pushing the general public interest out of Space.

struggles of a Dev

This vid is about the struggles of a developer with a multi country/ multi lingual application development in a Service based company. 

Terminologies for others:
DM - Delivery Manager
TL - Team Lead
PM - Proj Manager
ML - Lead

R-Team - Migration Team
CM - Change Management team
L2 - SUpport Team

Jeb Bush be feeling like

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When Namo met Cameroon

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