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John Nousis' personal blog

The reversed social network

A few days ago I posted an update on Twitter, asking if someone knows a tool that would find the most unrelated interests to me. While most of people thought it was very funny to get to know such thing and that I am obviously not interested into many many things, it...

How will technology hack religion

Religion always tries to give answers to questions that can not be answered in any logical manner. With many people believing the same thing about human and world existence it’s easier for most of them to assume that the truth given by religion is the right one....

Lava lamp or aquarium? Your best randomizer

I believe that one of the things that helps human brain to expand and to think more creatively is to observe a random movement. In reality we are not very used to observe these events. Our mind usually expects what’s going to happen in the next few seconds...

Common interests != Good friends

I see on facebook and other networks some apps that show how similar you are with your friends. In the real world as well it is a common belief that people with the same interests are a great match. From my point of view, this is quite boring. It’s good to be...

Casino winning strategy

I like maths a lot but most of all I like anything that has to do with a probability. But what really amazes me is how probability is connected to human perception. People are not robots and they don’t act always in a logical way. What sometimes might seem as...