#Twisted Search

Is search engine faster than my brain?

Have you ever looked for something you really need to find—quickly? The classic example is when someone loses a set of keys. This frustrating situation is the perfect example in performing a visual search.  During a visual search, an observer (the person who is searching for the keys, for example) looks for a target (the keys) in the midst of distracters (all the other stuff in a home). By making the target easier to see, such as by putting the keys on a big, bright red key chain, the observer could improve on their visual search and improve its chances of success.

Coming back to the start of the discussion is search engine faster than the brain. When we compare both they both are dedicated to a process of search. But the way we are weighing it is not right. Researchers have given more brownies to search engine, which is half the truth. If broken down into steps the difference in weighing the both will make more sense…

Search Engine

Type Keys with red key chain

The search will give you end number results

The actual search is not over here, you need to still get to your one answer. When we do a search for our answers do we do it for one or uncountable. The weighing of brain & search engine is wrongly done. Till the time you have not reached to your right solution your search cannot be said to be complete. When you are looking for your lost keys you are not looking for all the keys, but for one out of the many.

In fact they both can never be compared as this is dependent not on one parameter but many like situational, placement & your mind focus. When I say situational it means you can be surrounded by many people, which diverts & breaks your link to your search. Making it same the other way too, where a crowded house & solitude-ness can again be a major factor of search on your keys.

When I say placement it’s the sequencing of a thing, sequence we find in a search engine & our brain too. They both scan on a given set of information, when we compare the both one can find an answer in the first step where the other can find it may be in the last step. This pattern is not fixed it can be vice-versa or may be a different thing all together.

When I say mind focus this is your stress, anxiety & excitement comes in play. It’s just a bit of it which I have mentioned, it is more deeper as it gets linked to a persons’ behavioural aspect. How a person with stands stress, urgency of a situation cannot be put as same as will always vary person to person. I can be cool like a cucumber or can be sitting on a rocket of fire while searching it. Which can play towards me or against me. Mental balance is one of the key ingredients in doing any task which has been given always less focus, which if not measured in any research can make it sound completely nullified.

#Twisted Laws

If you get involved with the police - perhaps as a witness or victim of crime or you are detained, arrested and/or taken to a police station. The police may question you about the crime you’re suspected of - this will be recorded. Have we thought about all the victims & suspects in the right light, while making our laws for our flawless system.

The legal system often has difficulty in dealing with people who have disabilities, particularly where those disabilities involve some form of mental impairment. If a person with a mental illness or intellectual disability has been charged with a crime, specific laws and procedures still seem short in valuing them in the right way.

Do we have any different set of rules while making arrest for the handicaps? Did you realize the laws which are made are short in making the end meets in the right way. I have come across several brutal instances all over the world, where without any prior information a deaf or a blind person has not been understood with his weakness to understand or see the called action asked by the police. Which in turn without wait & watch have been proactive in gunning down a suspect. Leading to a never ending gap between the police & public, which seems to be growing with time instead of mending & melting. The police nor the public nobody is wrong, only laws which are made are being followed blindly even when we see flaws in it.

Did you realize if a person has headsets on his ears & dark glasses on his eyes, comes under your radar of suspect with incomplete information you after some loud announcements keeping you proximity far could end up gunning him down. Only to regret later that he was a blind, or blind & deaf or could be a normal person not on the wavelength of your understanding. The laws followed does not only have gaps but wide gaps. Instead of following a protocol with no eyes give it eyes of an eagle. Which can see as far & beneath like the bird. When a person is a suspect & has no ammunition, make changes in your protocol by making thumb impression as a rule, which gives out instant details with in a click of a second. Giving a chance to save lot of face & with lot of grace in the whole situation.

The challenges which we face in our system are many. Some solutions which are visible should be activated at lightning speed, rest will surely come along too.

#Twisted Sale

Anyone who throws acid on someone's face intends to scar them for life…

Acid which rolls down from 1740, which by 1830's could see its use as a weapon, where its high usage in the wrong way was weighed as a stain on the national character of the country.

Throwing acid leaves a person with a disfigured face forever with surgeries costing them even dearer, for their whole lifetime. We have cases of acid throw all over the world. Where women are the victims mostly in all, due to denying advances by male towards them. Some countries have been proactive in placing laws in the right way making it curb down to minimal, where in many it’s still a far cry.

Non-industrial sale of acid should be banned altogether. And even the industrial use needs to be fully accounted for. It is a harmful chemical and there is no reason it should be lying around in people's homes. Vendors should have a license to sell acid. That way the government can start monitoring its sale and purchase.

Acid attack is a cruel and inhumane crime, which calls for immediate medical treatment to the victim, irrespective of court's decisions. But, the present laws do not stand sufficient, as many victims are exhausted with running around courts for years together after having to brave a life-long health complication because of the chemical injuries they sustain. Along with specific laws to deal with acid attack cases, there must be a provision for fast track courts too, where cases are solved within three months or earlier to this.

For, industrial, commercial and all other purposes, it must be sold under licensed dealers and its procurement be made possible against production of suitable identity proof. The physical and psychological trauma following an acid attack makes life very difficult for the victims. The government must take steps to rehabilitate acid attack survivors with counselling and other provisions too.

#Twisted Communication

One of the most frequently quoted statistics on nonverbal communication is that 93% of all daily communication is nonverbal. Popular science magazines, students and media outlets frequently quote this specific number.

So where does the number come from?

When we go to the broader aspect we may end up losing ourselves. Everyone has a different categorization on the whole, but fairly to match to the most they have split it into two…

Verbal

Non-Verbal

Verbal as defined by the name has the usage of our Voice, Written Communication in which our Emails / Social Networking Interactions are all placed.

Non-Verbal gets segregated as Body Language, Sign Language, Emotions, Silence, Violence, Dance, Touch. In short where the voice has no role to play.

The current stats of 93% of Non-Verbal makes me wonder in amazement to its authenticity. Where we have our ever growing cyber world social platforms visibility to be placed as Verbal Communication refuses to show any increase in its stats. Which earlier was 23- 27%...has slided to 7%.

Further search I realized, the bifurcation done of Verbal & Non-Verbal seems to be not done in the right light. Before going deeper in it, One thing at the onset of it was crystal that no way can we compartmentalize the system into Verbal & Non-Verbal as you will always find them overlapping with each other. A speech, a conversation will always be ruled with silence in between where they both are placed in opposites. Emotions can never be part of any category but only a part of human which are in both category. Humans don’t exist without emotions Verbal & Non-Verbal both will see it. Interestingly a serious person also is showing his emotions. A person dancing can be talking & a person who is violent can be also doing the same. A person may be cajoled while talking, blending the voice & touch together. One without other & the other without the prior is incomplete. When the parameters seem to be all shaken, where does the stats authenticity stand.

I strongly feel the way things are routed in Verbal & Non-Verbal has not been done in the right way. Where I feel Non-Verbal should simply be part of our written communication without making it more complex, as the word also rhymes & states the same. Verbal should have things ruled by voice, sight where body language is visible, sign language & dance. As where even voice is not a part through signs also a person is being verbal, which holds same for a dancers postures. Let emotions not be a part of any as while writing also a person is sharing his side, but see it as a balance in both.

#Twisted CyberSecurity

On the web, personal information can be as valuable a currency as cash. Citizen’s attitudes towards the privacy of their personal information are evolving and as a result unwittingly making the challenge greater. Increasingly, the definition of privacy is changing. Where once privacy meant not revealing information unless to a trusted third party, in the social media world information is willingly shared, but privacy concerns relate to how that information is used once shared.

Much cybercrime relies on the fact software is bug-ridden or contains flaws in its design. There is a clear need and opportunity for greater industry cooperation, standardisation and testing of software products to reduce the opportunity for hackers.

We have already seen examples of alleged international cyber-attacks, such as that on Estonia, and UK security services warning businesses of rampant cyber espionage originating in the Far East. We all know that, at some level, everybody is prying and spying on everybody else’s cyber presence. Many experts see a future cyber war to be inevitable – so why don’t we try to prevent it before it happens?

 An agreement of an international cyber peace treaty whereby signatories would agree that their infrastructure would not be used, or allow it to be used, for cyber-attacks. This proposal requires discussion at the highest forums. On the internet a state is not defined by its weapons or politics, but by its laws and regulations. Without a common base level of data protection and computer misuse legislation, there will always be territories that provide a safe haven for cyber criminals and hackers. Involvement in key global trade bodies should be dependent on an acceptance of such regulation.

Organised cyber criminals have realized that it is easier to steal $1 from a million people, than to steal $1m from one person. But in many cases, the response from law enforcement does not reflect the problem. One person complaining to the police about losing $100 through cyber-crime, or the theft of personal identity information, is rarely sufficient to elicit a response. In the UK, for example, police have delegated responsibility for small-scale cyber-crime reporting to the banks. How well are co-ordinated attacks spotted? Are trends and patterns sufficiently analysed? If one person loses $1m, the police response would be broad and well-co-ordinated. If a cyber-crook made a million from a million individuals, would they ever be caught?

Banks and law enforcers need to co-ordinate better, and reporting of crimes by individuals affected needs to be simpler and better policed. Too many individuals don’t bother because they don’t believe they will be helped. Perhaps social media techniques could be used to “crowd source” reports of theft or fraud? But in general, there needs to be a better relationship between individual and law enforcement to ensure adequate protection and detection of organised, widespread but individually low-level cyber-crime.

#Twisted Politics

Whenever I decide to make a list of words, which are not being used in the right way. Politics always tops the list. We can all decide for ourselves, once we are towards the end of this. One is we have a profession line named As “Politics” & where on the other side, we end up using it where we find mean ends fighting its way out. Reflect & Relate don’t we hear often “office politics”, “I don’t like playing politics”. We have always given a negative meaning to this word. But the mockery is the decision makers of our country are all bracketed in the same field. Often heard few politicians also quoting of not playing politics, which can be out of wavelength for many.

We in all this rush & gush of things also like to hear positive words a ‘Yes’ for a ‘No’, a ‘Good Morning’ instead of a ‘Bad Morning’. Makes me think, we often denote politics to be negative is that the reason marking politicians & this field to be grey. We have various professions, options for the youth, but still I have never heard any parent telling me I am going to make my child a politician why? Makes me only wonder….

This field requires Youth & Women both, as that is the only freshness which can change things to be more positive. Being a male dominant we miss out on the other ratio of ours as both sexes are beautifully wired differently.

Before I want to end this hoping to make a change in the thought process, I strongly feel the Profession Politics should be renamed as Public Servants & let the other meaning of Politics take its shape….

#Twisted Hands

Handedness origin in humankind, it's clearly been around a long time. Cave paintings have shown the occasional lefty ancestor clutching a spear. The relative scarcity of left-handedness, has provoked cultural superstition and discrimination. 

«Handedness» is a vague term, and can mean many things to many people. Most people in our society define handedness as the hand you use for writing. Within the scientific community, the vagueness of this term has led to much debate. Researchers define handedness based on different theoretical assumptions. For instance, some define handedness as (a) the hand that performs faster or more precisely on manual tests, while others define it as (b) the hand that one prefers to use, regardless of performance. Some think that there are handedness as: (a) either left or right, or (b) should be three categories to include ambidexterity.

I find the whole concept of handedness fascinating, decided to unleash the theory, research, opinions and fictions, in order to better understand the reality of the phenomenon, and try to separate facts from fiction, research from opinion, and truth from myth.

In the whole process it made me an ambidextrous, where I can use both hands with ease for everything. The reason of sharing is not to flaunt it as a medal, but a learning which made me appreciate things in deeper level. Handedness has its roots in the brain—right-handed people have left-hemisphere-dominant and vice-versa for the left handed people. By bending the unbending was not easy but surely worthwhile. I will never be able to agree to all the myths which surround left & right handed people, making one superior to the other. Successful people are not measured by their left & right hand, but are made by their undying spirits. I agree on the opposite parts of our brain being used more to the other half due to preference of our hand. But the story ends there, if you reflect most of the time we are using both our hands. We are making both sides of our brain function but one gets little more chance than the other. Which can in no way decide your life span or your intelligence. In fact if you make fists of your hands you will realize one of them has more strength than the other which again shows you’re opposite to the hand brain side is stronger. This all again gets linked to being a right or a left handed person.

We are during the day using our complete brain where one is more & the other is less. I decided to make my entire brain more active being a right handed struggled to make left as superior as right. Realizing after my entire project my fists had equal strength. I see no reason for others not making there non active hand more active. The journey ask for endless patience, as writing with your left where you have always done with your right is not a cake walk. But I can guarantee you it’s not impossible.

I want all these research work, which are always trying to make one handed people sound superior to the other to be ignored as they are baseless.

Twisted Alphabets

I had an alphabet wallpaper in the room that I slept in as a little kid, and I was completely fascinated by it. It only had majuscules, the capital letters, and my mother told me that all the words in the English language could be made out of those twenty-six letters. I just didn't believe her and I would lie there at night trying to think of words that couldn't be spelled with those letters. I would put myself to sleep thinking it just isn't possible that the infinity of language could be contained within this set of twenty-six letters.

There are only two writing systems in existence today, Chinese characters and the alphabet. People often say, well what do you mean by that? There’s Arabic letters, there’s Indian scripts, there’s Ethiopic letters, there’s all of these various kinds of letter-forms. Most people don’t understand that the alphabet is actually a synthesis of two early writing systems.

I actually put my interest in the alphabet down to that early history. I also think I was just fascinated by the visual forms. I've always loved the visual shape of the letters. Well, I think there are two histories when we talk about the history of the alphabet.  There’s the history of letter-forms and how they came into being.

The other history is the history of ideas about the way we think about the alphabet, and all of the properties that we project onto these letters, whether for magical or religious or interpretive purposes. So that’s another entire history, and I think that the history of literacy, reading, and of spelling reform and of shorthand notation, and of phonetic systems, and all of these various variants on the alphabet are also a part of that history of ideas. 

There are really two parallel histories. But, more and more the other history, which is the history of ideas about the alphabet got forgotten.

In fact, if you look at it at a micro level, the range of periods of which these writing systems come into being stretches over almost 2000 years back - which is not trivial when you think about it. The inception of writings is traced down from Egypt than evolved slowly by making everybody a part of it, in a way could never fit as one person’s legacy. It started with pictorial writings where they took A to be an ox…if u rotate it you can actually catch an image of an ox with horns, than similarly the B was taken to be a house where if twisted from the right can make you see through. The alphabets always had a deeper reflection than was made to see, creativity has always been a part of us not apart of us.

I reflected to the current 26 Alphabets still could draw the same learning, which we all have forgotten or refuse to realize. Rotate…Twist…See it upright & discover it in the below list…

A...Arms
B...Bridge
C...Crescent Moon
D...Door Handle
E...Emergency
F...Fishing Rod
G...Gun Trigger
H...Hammock
I...Injection
J...Jump
K...Kiss
L...Link
M...Mirror
N...Neck to Neck
O...Orange
P...Pond
Q...Quantify
R...Rays
S...Snake
T...Tree
U...Upside Down Rainbow
V...Vessel
W...Waves
X...Xerox
Y...Yawn
Z...ZigZag 

My thought on the whole thing is telling a child A means Apple which cannot be found in the image is better or A means Arms where the upright view of it makes u see slanting lines as arms stretched of a person. I strongly feel a change is required the way teaching is done, creativity needs to be injected in the right way from the grass root level.