How to buy a used car : Five golden rules

{This wastyped by Mr.Biju K.K ,thanks a lot to him}
Many people, especially middle class, in countries like India goes for
buying a second had or a used car. But this is not so common in western
world where car is a common vehicle. But I India people used and re-
used things to their maximum longevity. This article discuss five things
to be considered when buying used car. This is no way an exhaustive list
but general guidelines.

A background of the previous owner must be checked

The job ,age , personality and family details of the previous owner of
the car gives clues about his driving habits and hence the condition of
the car. For example of a person uses the car only to drive from home to
near by office , there is a good chance that car is in good condition.

B check the genuineness of the papers

The registration certificate and insurance papers must be checked
carefully. They can tell you lot of if details about the car history if
you have purchasing from a trusted network selling used cars, this can
be avoid up to an extent

C Use the service of the trusted mechanic

many defects acumen are transparent to an ordinary person are easily
visible for the mechanic a good mechanic can tell whether the car has met
with an accident on the part , he can also infer a lot about the
condition of the car. The mechanic must be a person trusted by you,
picking a random mechanic may.

D Test drive the car

The cat should be taken for a test drive to ascertain its road behavior.
The test drive should be drive under various road conditions and care
should be taken to notice any unexpected noise. It is good to have the
mechanic with you on a test drive special car should be taken to check
the working of the gear, light ,breaks etc

E Compare prices

You should compare the prices with those in the market and use this
information for a bargain . in bargaining you should be objective ,
pointing to the defects noticed, but should net try for under profit
,when may have advise effect on your character
typed by Mr.Biju K.K ,thanks a lot to him}

How to utilize criticism: Five silver tips

[ People often fear and dislike criticism bad comments or insults, but
these things can be used by us in a variety of ways . This article gives
five tips of using such adverse comment to work for you ]

When Rekha joined our college she was very sensitive to criticism, she
would cry and get upset when the slightest insult or criticism was
encountered from her teachers or classmates.

Many of us spend a lot of worrying over things told about us by others.
Many relations are broken because of such unwanted comments. But
criticism is like cow dung. Seen from the proper perspective, it can be
highly useful and some times it can be used as a tool. In this short
exposure five such applications are elaborated.

I Criticism help you retrospect

If somebody tells something bad about your behavior, the first thing that
may come to your mind is rise or dislike. But if you set aside this
emotional barrier and look at the facts, you may find that there is some
element of truth in the comment. In some other classes you may discover
that your actions and words are interpreted in the wrong way. This gives
you an opportunity to modify your behavior or adopt your actions for
better life.

II They can be used as a tool for understanding people

Looking at comment from a different angle, one may deduce the real
intention of the commenter. Sometimes he or she may have some hidden goal
for which he makes the comment. Once I had a friend who used to comment
that I was a miser. I would get emotional and spend money on a treat.
Later I recognized that his aim was precisely that he was spending less
and making others spend by this trick.

III They give you resistance

When she left the course, Rekha could with stand almost anything. What
happened? I wondered. Taking to her I gathered that continuous exposure
to comments has slowly made her bold and resistant to them. Similarly if
you live in a world of attacks, you will develop your personality with
the knowledge of hour to take them. That is you becomes tough. This
tough is one of the necessary conditions to victory.

IV They give you inspiration

If somebody says to me "I am sure that you do not have the ability to do
that " the comment is likely to inspire me to do that . Adverse comments
regarding your inability to do something with boost your sprit and help
you achieve things. In the history these are enough examples of this.
V They show that you are doing something useful

Nobody throws a store at a fruitless tree. So if somebody criticize your
deeds , it means that you are doing something useful. Looking through
this perspectives you may like criticism a bad comments or at least rut
hate them

{This was typed by Mr.Biju K.K ,thanks a lot to him}

Artificial intelligence : myths and realties

There has been a lot of myths, and also criticisms about the relatively
new field of computer science called Artificial intelligence(AI). Some
even believed that AI was the way to a rule by machines. Some say AI is
nothing but nonsense cladded in technical terms. In this article I try to
demystify this fascinating field to the common man
AI can be thought of as the quest of methods to make computers that have
intelligence. Since computers are currently nonliving things, we may
better think of it as the search for methods to extract intelligent
responses from machines.

Believe it or not Ai widely uses one of the methods which unsystematic
people like me daily uses in life: Search! Many problems are solved by
using searches. Kasparov was defeated by a machine only because the
machine could search faster and more efficiently, the sequence of
positions that could result from moves of it and the opponent. Search in
AI comes in many flavors like simple unorganized search to organized idea
based heuristic search. AI people use lot of jargon to mystify their
search methods like hill climbing, simulated annealing etc,.

Generally search is made on a network like structure joining the results
of various operations. This structure is called a state space or even
state space graph. differeant search methods crawl through this structure
in different ways for a solution.

Modern Ai programs also use a lot of memorizing. They call it a knowledge
base . But it is basically a set of facts or even rules stored in some
sort of database. Computers do knot have the common sense to know simple
facts like a man born in BC 1100 will not be alive now, or a mango cannot
have 300 ton weight. This is one of the bottlenecks in AI. No
commonsense!!

Also computers cannot do some things we do without intelligence. For
example it will be difficult for a machine to identify a cat in a bush
from the picture ,which even a four year child can do. AI have great
difficulties for routine tasks. What a contradiction!! a computer can beat
a grand master in chess, but cannot recognize a plastic mouse from a real
one.

Despite all its limitations AI is helping us a lot in various fields like
medicine, war, security and a lot others. About those things i will write
later