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Stories – short ones & shorter ones(shortbites)

Creative take on statistics

When happens when you give personalities to statistical terms? Three cute micro stories. Enjoy! #1 It was very mean of statistics to divide the population and create sigma, a deviant from the standard. #2 Sigma took the median path despite mode being very mean to him.  He said “Stay normal, some population are skewed”. #3 Sigma deviated  and crashed into the median when the intelligent autonomous mode turned mean.

Open up

Does a smartphone’s biometric or face recognition have emotion? Here is a creative on this as two micro stories.

#1:
I touched her face
caressing gently
tracing a line.
She opened and
let me in displaying
the Home Screen.

#2:
When I looked at her radiant face
she opened her heart and
displayed her home screen.

My date

I was wooing her. She continued to reject me. After continued persuasion, she agreed to meet. “Only at a public place we shall meet”, she said. Desperate, I agreed. So it was set, my date with her at 1PM yesterday at a crowded public place. Excited, I was there a few minutes before our rendezvous time. As the clock struck one, I eagerly looked for her in a sea of faces . She was not…

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Peace anywhere

People meditate, sing, go to temple, run, cycle to find peace. Well you can find peace anywhere. It is not the environment, it is about you. Here are three stories that illustrate this. Story #1 Near my house, there are lots of construction workers, as the road is being widened. A little baby is sleeping peacefully inside the hammock made out of the saree tied to the tree branch. The gentle wind, warm sunshine caresses…

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