It seems like the developers of Civilization V once decided to store aggresiveness index of leaders in a unsigned int. And Gandhi, as the most pacifist leader that he was, was assigned lowest number 1. Also, in the game play if a society adopted democracy, the aggresiveness score was reduced by 2.

So, when Gandhi adopted democracy, his aggresiveness score became 1 - 2 = -1, and as it was unsigned int, and it gained a very high value.

#include<stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    unsigned int i;
    i = -1;
    printf("%x\n", i);
}

$ clang unsigned.c
$ ./a.out
4294967295

And thus Gandhi was ready to nuke whenever there is a conflict.

Looks like Google celebrated Subramanya Chandrasekhar's 107'th birthday with a doodle. I had missed it, so I got excited to go check it out again.

The doodle is amazing! It illustrates the concept of a star when it gains 1.4 times the mass of sun will turn into white-dwarf and eventually into a black-hole!

Chandrasekhar discovered this, and it is known as Chandrasekhar's limit.

This seems like a typical my-thing. I've fallen into this trap many times. It looks people in my profession fall prey to this too.

That’s one reason I don’t miss IT, because programmers are very unlikable people… In aviation, for example, people who greatly overestimate their level of skill are all dead.

• Philip Greenspun, co-founder of ArsDigita, excerpted from Founders at Work.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of A Farewell to Arms at least fifty times. - Ernest Hemmingway

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Farewell_to_Arms
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway

https://anders.com/blockchain/ is the simplest, and the intuitive explaination of blockchain that I come across until now. In the very short youtube video, author leads us starting from a hashing function, a block, the concept of signature in the block, then a blockchain, a distributed blockchain, the concept of immutablity in the blockchain and the distributed blockchain, recording transactions in the blockchain, and verifying transactions in the blockchain.

The Collapsing Universe: The Story of Black Holes by Isaac Asimov
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The Good Doctor once again explains Cosmology in lucid terms. He starts off with simple premises, known facts, composes and slowly leads up to higher concepts, ultimately leading to the concept of "Black Hole". The book had a "trill" factor to it, as we discover the nature of black holes and what constitutes a black hole and how the universe might have formed.

I was "wow"ed by this book.

Some exciting learning here with this book. I learnt about the following:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_X-1
• https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/cygnusx1.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_X-ray_Observatory
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_radius
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Schwarzschild

Bill Gates just gave a bed net to a family in need on my behalf. Learn about the progress we’ve made in the fight against malaria-spreading mosquitos, and you can give a bed net, too:

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Mosquito-Wars?WT.mc_id=00_00_00_share_em

This is an inspiring short video. This is very relevant to me because in many projects, especially the big ones, I feel like the things are not designed well. The situation is chaotic, it's burning all the time. Most of us are like those big resourceful animals in this story. Instead, if we be the hummingbird, the experience is well worth it.