Diary – Simon + Kayar

In Lov’e’ with Learning – again

On March 7, 2026 By simonkayar In Diary

I was introduced to ‘e’ at school. The quintessential natural logarithm or ln as it was called, was supposed to have a base ‘e’ (whatever that meant). Then I ‘met’ it again in calculus when the formula page for differentiation included Thank God – it is the same. One less thing to remember as we were trying to pile up stuff in memory ‘studying’ for board exams and entrances. I met it again in my M.Tech in AI/ML but I was not curious enough even then – to probe and understand what is was all about, instead trying to finish …

An ardent fan of Dhoni

On May 3, 2025 By simonkayar In Diary

If you have watched the ‘Dark Knight’ by Nolan, there is a beautiful dialogue at the end of the movie “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain“. That is exactly what is happening to Dhoni. The funny thing is that this has been true for the past several years but no one (except Harsha Bhogle sometimes) has pointed out that Dhoni, instead of enhancing the prospects of CSK, is actually hampering them. For rational fans like me, it was tough to validate his overstay. In 2023 when we won the cup, it …

Some Interesting thoughts…

On December 26, 2024 By simonkayar In Diary

It is not like I am an avid follower or anything but this made sense so I had scheduled this post like 5 years back and it auto posted on 26th Dec 2024 🙂 Ravi Shankar suggests this five day programme to understand and improve your attitude towards life Day 1: The first role which I would recommend to you is to be a School Teacher. To teach lessons to children who are not learning, you need a lot of patience. Being a nursery or primary school teacher, even for one day, you will see how you have to increase …