Curious.ly: Recent Episodes
Shobhit Nagpal
I want to know a lot of things(basically everything). This is my digital diary of interesting stuff I get to know added with understanding my thoughts.
In this episode, we find out about Kerckhoffs' Principle about how an algorithm shouldn't be the secret but instead the key should be kept a secret.
Understanding what is steganography and cryptography along with few stories in history of how they were used
A concept you might come across while learning JS. Understanding what really is non-blocking and asynchronicity.
Cohabitation effect is where when couples move in together before marriage, they're more likely to have problems and get divorced after they get married.
Tendency to like (or dislike) everything about a person - including things you don't know about them.
When you tend to value new information at the cost of neglecting the base understanding you have.
Aristotle for some reason thought that earth was the center of the universe itself and more.
The Greeks, including Aristotle, proposed 3 reasons on why the Earth is round back in 340 BC.
Ideomotor effect is an effect based off of priming effect. Make sure to understand priming effect before listening to this one.
An illusion you and many people you know have experienced. Truly understanding what "change is the only constant" means.
ENIAC is the first ever modern computer that was built in 1945. I also talk about what could happen in the future with all the tech advancements happening.
We get to know why was the 7 day a week model adopted over 8 day a week or 10 day a week.
In this we talk about a brief overview of what is heuristics and the types of it. It's a concept in psychology and it's being used in various places on purpose as well as when one is not aware of it.
In this episode, we get to know about one model which is used to describe and understand the behavior of human beings, to really understand why humans behave the way they do.
Just a super random and re-occurring thought on probability being the start of the everything. From our daily lives to the universe itself.
Hey, I talk about something called an Item Response Curve. If you're a student or teacher, this might be pretty interesting to you.