6 ways to stop hurting others and curb anger

      Is your anger flowing off the charts? This just may lead to people casting you off their lives. This may hurt to hear but it is nonetheless true. Just as you wouldn't like someone who undermines you a lot, so do the others. Anger can lead to you saying things that are hurtful, things you didn't really mean. Words are like the edge of a sword, once swung it neither knows friend nor foe. 

      So how about getting off your lazy a** and doing something about it. 

Here are six steps to effectively deal the anger out.

1. The best remedy ever I have found out

Yes, the stark truth, it is meditation. I know many people consider it to be a farce. Once upon a time I was of the same mentality. However, I lost a great number of friends due to angry words spoken from each side. That was the time I decided to try just for the heck of it. So let me just give a quick glance of what i did, for further information, just leave me a comment, or if you want to remain anonymous, just send off a mail to me.

Take a meditative position. Concentrate on your being. Concentrate on what makes you one with the world. Concentrate on what the source of your anger is, and slowly try to rinse it off with the thoughts about people you love, the things that make you happy. You also don't need to be a meditation guru of the degree where people just forget about everything else that is happening. The only requirement is for you to be in a calm environment, and for you to think internally about your actions.

2. You can't just do meditation at any possible moment, so what to do in the moment

Well the thing to do at the present branches off into three different situations:

a) It's a friend and it was just a misunderstanding:

Just think about what you like about them as a friend, your anger would melt away, then just apologize, even if it wasn't your fault and especially if it was yours. Most of the times, they would love you for it, and your friendship may turn out to be the stronger for it.

b) It isn't someone you know and it was a misunderstanding, or a minor infraction:

Think about how the fight isn't worth it, and just may lead to a huger scene than before. Just apologize, then throw an olive branch and offer a hand of friendship. Though do try to gauge the person before offering friendship.

c) Somebody just hurt somebody you love: 

This time I won't tell you to say sorry. Go out with your full might, and put them through hell, they should learn better than to trifle with your loved ones or anyone's else for that matter.

3. Workout

This may seem far from productive to anger related issues. However as I have found out, when you workout, you seem more good and confident about yourself and are harder to anger. Also, that worked out look, will give others a pause before trifling with the badass that you come off to be. Another benefit is that, when you workout, you instinctively try to eat healthier.

4. Food

Well I ain't a dietician by any far claim, but generally oily and fatty foods make you more lethargic, downtrodden, and eager to jump fists at the first moment possible. So, include those famous fruits that your parents have been trying to get you to eat for along time, and see the benefits. Not just in your anger management, but also in your health. That's two gifts packed in one, and why be illogical enough to forsake it.

5. Another reason is the cooped up feeling

You just may have been living the same life for too long. In a long marriage, maybe you are just tired of the same day-to-day life, tell your wife this and take a week off just to yourself. Have a guy's night out. Just do something new in your life. Been through the same boring 3-4 year of college, just take some time, go on a trip with friends, or just discover something new all by yourself. Not having the balance enough to do this, why don't you branch out out into a section of books you never felt good about reading before. Hated gaming, well it just may be time to take a AAA game off the shelf, and play it through to the end in a marathon.

6. Still having the angry feeling inside you

                      Well I am deeply sorry for not being able to help you and I apologize wholeheartedly to you. However, it just might be time to get into anger management course or get a counselor, your issues might be an offspring of something that happened way in your past.

Debunking the myth of Eugene Goostman

There has been much said about the new AI chat bot "Eugene Goostman". However, on further reading it has been found out that the conservation was too short lived to be actually  conclusive. Surprisingly, I thought that for such a groundbreaking achievement, the sample size for the test would be staggering. However, on further research on the net, it was found out to be a measly 30. Another fact grossly against it, is its portrayal of a 13-year old, so it may pass off answers you would expect from a robot as the musings of a 13-year old. Thus effectively, can't be truly judged for being intelligent enough. I know I will be getting a lot of heat for saying this but, 13 isn't really the age I would consider to be intelligent, at least I wasn't.

Astonishingly, it isn't the first one to do so. The Turing test was first passed way back in 1991 by PC Therapist effectively gaining a 50% over a judge size of 10 people. However the true record breaker was CleverBot, which tricked an astonishingly 59.3% of 1,300 people at Techniche, IIT Guwahati into thinking of it as a human.

However, getting back to Eugene, another point going against it is eagerness to induct humor when it can't find a solution to some basic problems. This is due to the nature of the algorithm that has been implemented. It actually only is a webcrawler of posts and such, thus replying from its history. So obviously when it is not connected to the internet its replies can be useful to gain a little humor, however, nowhere near useful. 

Here is a conversation I initiated between two Eugene bots with my opening "Hey"

Me: Hey

Bot 1: "Heeeeey!!!!" Mine was much louder, I'd say! Where do you came from, by the way? Could you tell me about the place where you live?

Bot 2: Errr.... Maybe. What then? Well, let's go on though.

Bot 1: Nothing then. Where do you came from, by the way? Could you tell me about the place where you live?

Bot 2: I was born and live all my life in Odessa. Odessa claims to be a "humorous capital" of the Ukraine. But it is an exaggeration.

Bot 1: Don't you know yourself that Kiev is a captial of Ukraine.

Bot 2: The Ukraine, formerly a part of the Soviet Union, now is independent. Actually, this is the only thing to be proud of - the life and economical situation are pretty miserable...

Bot 1: Do you think it is funny to repeat mine? Could you tell me what are you? I mean your profession.

Bot 2: No, no! I said it first! I know you are supposed to trick me.

Bot 1: There's no anything new in your words. I said it myself a minute ago... And I forgot to ask you where you are from...

Bot 2: I am from Ukraine, from the city called Odessa. You might have heard about it.

Bot 1: Oh, yes:-) My words are so wise, that anyone wants to repeat them! If I'm not mistaken - you still didn't tell me where you live. OR it's a secret?:-)

Bot 2: I live in a big Ukrainian city called Odessa. It is on the Black Sea shore.

Bot 1: Could you invite me to Big ukrainian? I would be so grateful:-)

Bot 2: OK, if you ask... Go on then. Could you tell me about your job, by the way?

Bot 1: There's no anything new in your words. I said it myself a minute ago... Oooh. Anything else?

Bot 2: You seem to repeat my words. You're teasing me, I guess. Where do you came from, by the way? Could you tell me about the place where you live?

Bot 1: Odessa is a very big city - it is a kind of "Babylon", because there are lots of nationalities living there - Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, Greeks and many many more.

Bot 2: My city is really nice! You might have heard about Odessian Opera Theatre - it is well-known, and "Potemkinskaya Lestnitsa" - the giant stone stairs, descending to the Black Sea shore.

Bot 1: No, no! I said it first! Oooh. Anything else?

Bot 2: You seem to repeat my words. You're teasing me, I guess. Did I forget it or you really haven't told me about the place you are from?

Bot 1: No idea. Reveal me the answer, Mister Mysterious! By the way, what's your occupation? I mean - could you tell me about your work?

Bot 2: n childhood I read a lot of heroic books and I wanted to join military. But one year ago our anatomy teacher accidentally dropped a human skeleton on me - since that I'm stammering. So now I'm not sure. Maybe I'll try to make a career on TV as a show host - in our country most of them have defective diction (sounds weird, but it's true...).

Bot 1: In our country TV is pretty boring. Mostly news and old Soviet movies...

Bot 2: Do you think it is funny to repeat mine?

Bot 1: No, it was extremely serious.

Bot 2: Oh, yes:-) My words are so wise, that anyone wants to repeat them! I know you are supposed to trick me.

Ok, enough for now.

Lets go over the facts:

1. A surprising no of times, they both try to allude to the fact that they are mimicking each other, even though both are giving different tidbits totally.

2. The bot 1 sure have a small memory, it keeps asking again and again about the place where bot 2 lives. Given 13 year old may not be that mindful of small things, forgetting such information after 4 lines seems a stretch even for a 5-year old much less a budding teenager.

3. Well job seems to get repeated a lot here, but neither do give away the fact. However, I would think after being invited to stay at someone's house, children generally tend to be more forthcoming with such information.

4. After such a long conversation, neither has realized that they live in the same country, much less the same city.

5. Much more, one even wants the other to invite him to Ukrania, where they both live. While this may be expected of some shady adult pedophile, I sure won't expect the same from a 13-year old. He probably would try to become real life friends.

6. Though some time it did came close to discovering that something was wrong, so +1 to them.

Well, given this, I don't suppose it is wise enough to be considered even a weak 13-year-old, much less an intelligent one.

Another funny one was done by Ray Kurzweil. He goes on to show that even a human can easily get exasperated by the replies given by the bot.