New learnings from the ongoing fight against

Over the last couple of days, a lot has happened, which has caused many to be worried, sad, anxious, adaptive & cautious as the new strain of virus spreads. But the most important thing which has happened is:

•  It has caused people to come out of their comfort zones and 'think', think on a lot of aspects like - dependencies, supply chains, contingency plans, essentials & most important - how to keep the economy going.

Mankind's enemy is but their own thoughts & the thing that this situation created was 'focus' - to solve one problem - get out of this situation quick and fast - everybody was focussed on that and working together to resolve this issue. The non-essential noise factor went down and people thought & talked sense & came together as one nation, one humanity to solve the problem at hand. 

Innovation sprung out of the minds to get out stuff quickly which works, but coming back to the act of thinking which has been very much absent from a long time. 

A house we built will 

Countries' dependency on other countries, ability to ramp up production during a crises.

Consumer value - ability to make sure you are getting the value of the product you are buying. 

Ability to track 

The science behind social connection...

Had chance to catch a breath between the run & long since I posted so giving it a write.. 

Whenever we talk of social media and social connection, we are presented with this lucid picture of:

• a bunch of posts 
• a bunch of likes
• comments
• followers  

Although when looked at, these are just tools to collect  information in order to create an 'engine' which can help drive a bigger vehicle.

So what's this vehicle we are talking about - let's explore a bit... & I dare forbid myself to use the word - intelligence or anything but what it means once we claim it is still artificial.

Humans for long have loved the idea of being a point of focus .. and the whole picture which is shown to you is the interaction which tries to gauge - 'what people say or think about you or how you present yourself to others or how they present to you' and this is what forms the basis of human to human behaviour. 

Behaviour - is something which gives a prediction of a person or a group of persons approach based on a situation. Analysing behaviour via interaction between different groups of connected people via social media is the basis of understanding how that behaviour functions within a group. 

It's simple math sometimes whereas at other times it's complex. A behaviour pattern can form gradually within a group and might take some time to be consistent but one thing is certain, after subjecting a group or person to a similar situation multiple number of times the behaviour becomes somewhat predictable.

So how does this work? 

Well, for one in the start - a situation is created by the person themselves by expressing a view and later there would be a reaction to the view, the more reaction, the better prediction. In an active group, with a high reaction quotient, it might be fairly easy to predict an outcome of a situation by predicting a series of behaviour driven reactions of people in the group. On another hand, in a relatively inactive group, it might again be fairly easy to predict the behaviour of the group by predicting the outcome of a situation affected by the few active participants. These are basically the easily predictive realms of a group.

Well, what does that mean? It means that in a group which can be easily predicted is good to be eligible for 2nd stage in group dynamics & that's called as situational control - wherein you create a situation to control the group behaviour - this is the reverse of the first phenomena where the probability of accuracy  factor and confidence is high.

Any engine which can do the above math correctly can be used to inject situations to create highly probabilistic outcomes, and thereby in due course of time can go into the 3rd stage which is injecting behaviours.

How does injecting behaviour work?  This in turn starts to give in a situation and feed data with respect to a situation to drive the behaviour not of an individual but of the group as a whole and in turn start creating a ripple affect, it works silently on the subconscious level and before the group is aware - its already reacting in accordance with the injected behaviour.

This kind of behaviour injection coupled with an intelligent engine can be used in a reverse feedback loop to guide the engine to decision based on best statistical and actual data available considering the probability of behavioural outcome confidence for a group.

Well, now it's starts getting interesting - doesn't it? Probably when you realise a machine can start controlling the way a heard or a group reacts and you start to understand the dynamics involved as to why you need to think quickly and try to interject that pattern - voila - here's comes the need of something called as - 'neurallink' & breaking patterns.

What are breaking patterns? Well, talked about patterns of group behaviour which are easily predictable but some groups are dynamic with the individual subjects establishing a random pattern of activity which can cause the probabilistic confidence levels to skew often, that's one breaking pattern. I really find breaking patterns as very interesting because in any intelligent pattern formation breaking patterns can be used both to control as well as to reform the thought pattern of a group. We will explore this probably in my next post. Also, since we didn't go through any examples, we can discuss some examples & how we can throw in security enabling patterns within a group dynamic of social interaction.

Memorial day post ...a new beginning, looking into the future!

Hope everyone's had a great memorial day weekend.

It's been a complete month & bit quiet out here so thought would pen down some points floating on my mind around new research, will try not to talk about the virus as everyone's already talked a lot..

Okay - so research & innovation go hand in hand, we as humans' have been a very focussed race towards innovating & solving complex challenges around flexibility to develop faster & market to consume effectively. Our focus though has shifted time to time on prioritizing for cost to market rather than on innovating for which we all have and would be paying the price in future but for now - let's talk about pure reduction in time to market...

A couple of fascinating projects that are those involving microgravity.

Well, we have a launch which is very much near for a manned mission to ISS using Dragon capsule but more interesting is the series of experiments which are basically involved with it.

So one thing - which we all have experienced during this virus pandemic is that ability for humans to comprehend a pathogen quickly relies on a large number of factors, one being the fact that any attempt to comprehend would be accomplished only within the limitations of the gravity scenario in play for earth.

Now what does that mean? - inspite of having supercomputers and intelligence which can pair up and sequence the RNA strands and create models to mimic the virus behaviour quickly, there is a sequence process towards development of any drug  which can be released into the market with confidence - which undergoes a set of steps - discover & development, pre-clinical research, clinical trials, government review & then on approval - manufacturing. This whole process in itself takes from a couple of months to a couple of years depending on the kind of drug for a disease or for that matter even a vaccine.

But how does space solve this problem?  - well, the answer is not space, it's micro-gravity.

How does microgravity change the flexibility around releasing a drug? - it's believed that micro-gravity - induces the ageing affect on humans, the reason being since our bodies are very much adapted to gravity, the body functions start to deteriorate at a faster rate with micro-gravity environments.

How does that help? - well, scientists have been able to synthesise protein compounds which can mimic our organ functions on nano scale level - like for e.g. - a small kidney or liver which doesn't look like one - but functions like one, it has all the characteristics and deteriorates, reacts and works in close fashion to our actual kidney or liver.

But how will this speed up development of drug? - well, to speed up development of drug - we need to understand fully the effects of the drug over different age groups over a long periods of time, micro-gravity helps to reduce the time factor here only if those people with different age-groups are in space and for that we have something called as  micro-physiological systems or organs on chips or tissue chips which are sent into space in the capsule as experiments which can then be studied for effects of drug and then examined for results. This shortens the time of approval of the drug and also reduces the cost & spending to that research which might not be needed and focusses attention to research which would be critical for usability of the drug.

Space Health Technologies are all about working on micro-gravity environments to get the intended results quicker.

Another useful experiment is the study of how the the deep space missions will impact human health by studying the human tissues and behaviour when subjected to long periods in space.. we will talk about this later.. but for now I just want to highlight how much of innovation is still in progress and there are endless possibilities here.