CULTURAL QA 03-2024-05 Allthe below QA are from Quora DIGEST to me on 05-03-2024.
Selected quora answers generallyinteresting including jokes are included Still they need not be 100% correct answers. I am only a compiler. Compiled and posted by R. Gopala Krishnan, 80, on 05-03-2024. Q1 What did youlearn from your best friend? A1 GopalkrishnaVishwanath, Willing responder to survey questions 5y I learned that there are no permanent best friends. Over a period of 69 years I have had so many personswho could have been called ‘best friend’. Many are untraceable. I am totally out of touch withthem. No one became an enemy. Most simply moved away due tocircumstances. Some retained contact for some time and then slowlywe forgot all about each other. There were some instances where, due to the power ofthe internet, I located some long lost “best friends”. It was not of much use. Too much had happened in theintervening years and they were now not the same persons I used to knowearlier. Last year I went to BITS Pilani, for our Golden JubileeAlumnii meet. Allthe 1967 batch graduates planned to meet there. 120 out of the 300 from the 1967 batch gathered therefor a three day bash. I met old ‘best friends’ whom I had not seen for halfa century. Many were unrecognizable. With some I could rekindle the old sparkand with some it was not possible. Reasons were two fold. One was some of them had movedup in life to a totally different economic bracket. They were big, important people and also powerful andrich compared to my modest middle class status. I felt the difference. They were of course polite and cordial but there was a glass wallbetween us and while renewing old contact, I could not breach thatbarrier. I was wary of being snubbed if I tried to take a liberty that I couldfreely take in the past. They too did not encourage me to get more familiar. We of course exchanged phone numbers and email addresses but neithercontacted the other after the meet was over. The secondreason was that with some of them, too much had happened in their lives. Tragedies, deaths,loss of money, health issues, divorces or other family problems had affected themduring these last 50 years and it showed in the lines of worry and weariness ontheir faces and they did not want to discuss them. All they could do was to shake hands with me andtalk formally. These were certainly not my old ‘best friends’. The only best friend who remained my best friend allthese 43 years is my wife. Q2 What are thecharacteristics of an intelligent person? A2 ChauhanBabu Nath,Sun An intelligent person who earns Rs 10000 never keepsa phone worth Rs 20000. An intelligent person does not buy a car or housebike on loan. An intelligent person will not waste time onFacebook, WhatsApp, Netflix. An intelligentperson will not argue with anyone on social media on social and politicalissues. An intelligent person never depends on just onesource of income. An intelligent person does not waste money onexpensive clothes, expensive car, expensive watch and other expensive thingsand invests that money. A wise person does not share the private matters ofhis home with everyone. An intelligent person is very punctual. Intelligent people take care of their health. It isthrough mistakes that a man becomes wise, a wise man never makes the samemistake twice. Q3 Can you tell aViral Story in Nigeria? A3 Rutty,11h A beer company was hiring a taster, Someone to tastethe beers before they are taken for selling. So they placed adverts and oneafternoon, a man walked into the manager's office asking to be employed. The managertried to figure out how he could drive him away but couldn't come up with an idea, so hedecided to give him a trial. He ordered his secretary to give him a glass ofwine 🍷 He took a sip and said, "It's Red wine,Varietal, three years old, grown on rift valley, matured in steelcontainers." "That's correct!" The manager exclaimed,"Well give him another one let's see." So he was given. He took a sip again and said, "It's Guinness, acombination of barley, roast malt extract, and brewers yeast brewed aroundThika road in Nairobi, Kenya 2 years ago" "Incredible!" said the manager. Now the manager went closer to the secretary andwhispered to her saying, "Go get some of your urine in a cup let's see if he will get that." So the man was given the cup of urine. He took a sip,turned to the manager and said, "Female urine, 26 years old, 2 weeks pregnant and if I'm not given this job, Sir I will tell your wifewho is responsible for the pregnancy" Both th manager and the secretary fainted 😁 The man got the job✌ Q4 Who are thecraziest/most awesome Indians ever? A4 AbhishekSingh,Studied at Army Public School, Jammu Cantt.9y Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj · A J Paulraj became the 2nd Indian in the world towin the prestigious MarconiPrize for developing the MIMO techinology. · That Wi-Fi router at your home, office, school, orthe 4G phone that you use? All of those devices utilize the MIMO technology whichwas pioneered by him. · An India-born engineer-scientist AJ ‘Paul’ who wasdisdained by the Indian system despite his yeoman contribution to the country'snaval defence, and whose subsequent work in the United States is at the heartof the current high speed WiFi and 4G mobile systems, has been awarded the 2014Marconi Prize, a Nobel equivalent for technology pioneers. · The Marconi Prize, whose previous winners includeworld wide web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee, Internet legend Vint Cerf, Googlesearch maestro Larry Page, and cell phone inventor Martin Cooper, comes with a $ 100,000 prize, butprestige and recognition worth a lot more for these people who are alreadymillionaires. Uncommonly, the Marconi Prize comes just three years afterPaulraj was honored with the other major Telecom technology award - the IEEEAlexander Graham Bell Medalfor his work on theoretical foundations of MIMO. · The Marconi Prize is an annual award recognizingadvancements in communications awarded by the Marconi Foundation The Prizeincludes a $100,000 honorarium and a work of sculpture, and honorees are calledMarconi Fellows. The Society and Prize are named in honor of Guglielmo Marconi , a Nobel laureate and one of the pioneers of radio. · Also known as A J Paulraj, he is the pioneer of abreakthrough wireless technology known as MIMO (multiple input, multipleoutput) that dramatically increases performance of wireless systems. MIMO is now core technology inlatest WiFi and LTE systems. · Arogyaswami J Paulraj was born in Pollachi near Coimbatore,India. He joined the IndianNavy at age 15 through the National Defence Academy, Kharakvalsa andserved the Navy for 30 years. Paulraj received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering fromthe Naval College of Engineering, Lonavala, India, and his doctorate in electricalengineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the Dept. of Elect.Engineering, Stanford University. · The story goes that in 1970, Stanford Prof. ThomasKailath, a brilliant and influential systems theorist who is himself aPune-native, visited IIT Delhi to lecture on non-linear estimation. Inspired byKailath's lectures, Paul went on to make fundamental advances in the area muchto the Indian Navy's benefit. In 1971, after the war with Pakistan exposedshortcomings of the Navy's (British origin) sonars leading to the loss of aNaval ship, Paul led a successful project to redesign the sonar adding many newsignal processing concepts. Three years later the new technology was widelydeployed in the fleet. · Paulraj wasissued a patent for the MIMO concept in 1994. He faced skepticism from industry and fundingsources and practical application of the technology was not seen until theearly 2000s. Among the obstacles, digital transmission was needed to fully exploitthe potential of MIMO, but the U.S. wireless industry was still predominantlyanalog at the time. · However, Paulraj persisted and held annualworkshops at Stanford on the technology that eventually helped interest in MIMOand spatial multiplexing take hold.Paulraj’s MIMO technology is now crucial to local area and mobilewireless communications. MIMO allows both higher data rates and widercoverage areas. MIMO technology involves using multiple antennas at both thetransmit station and the receive station. Paulraj first developed the idea ofMIMO in 1992 while at Stanford University. Awards and Honours · Visiting / Honorary Professorships · Imperial College, London · Beijing Institute of Post and Telegraph, Beijing · Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi · Paulraj is the author of over 400 research papers,two text books and a co-inventor in 59 US patents. · He is a fellow of seven scientific academiesincluding the US National Academy of Engineering and the Royal Swedish Academyof Engineering Sciences. He is a fellow of IEEE and AAAS. · During his 30 years in the Indian (Navy)(1961-1991), he founded three national level laboratories in India and headedone of India’s most successful military R&D projects – APSOH sonar. Hereceived over a dozen awards (many at the national level) in India includingthe Padma Bhushan, Ati Vishist Seva Medal and the VASVIK Medal. ProfessionalAwards · 2014 Marconi Prize and Fellowship · 2011 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal [ The BellMedal is the highest IEEE honor for achievements in telecommunications sciencesand engineering.] · 2011 Pan-IIT Technology Leadership Award · 2010 Padma Bhushan (Civilian National Award -India) · 2003 IEEE SP Society Technical Achievement Award · 1998 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Instituteof Technology, Delhi 1985 Scientist of the Year (Awarded by Government ofIndia) · 1983 Ati Vishist Seva Medal (National Award,Military - India) · 1982 VASVIK Gold Medal (Industry Innovation -India) · 1974 V.K. Jain Memorial Gold Medal (Navy Award -India) · 1974 Vishist Seva Medal (National Award, Military -India) · 1973 CNS Medal (Navy Award - India) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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