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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

Superman to rescue flood affected people of Chennai

Chennai floods: India anger over Jayalalitha stickers on flood aid

When Namo met Cameroon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggate

After hearing that the new dislike button is on its way to Facebook

New Logo? No problem

http://trashcopy.blogspot.in/2015/09/why-are-companies-flattening-their.html