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Competitions?The Olympics are one. What is your sport?The World Series is another, as I know baseball players who attend college in the off season.Stanley Cup is another.World Cup would be a great story.

I think it’s likely that the first human weapons were rocks, maybe weighing about 5 ounces, maybe heavier, used to hunt squirrels and small lizards.I came to the key part of this idea when I was 11 years old, and my dad and I were playing a game of catch. Throwing the ball was a skill I had picked up recently and remarkably easily. My dad would stand 100 feet away, and I would throw him the ball, and I lost prestige if he had to move his feet to catch it.I was astonished how accurately I could throw the ball. I was using my full arm, put pivoting not only at the shoulder and the elbow but also at the wrist. My left arm was also important; I couldn’t throw as far or as accurately if I kept my left arm at my side. It balanced the throwing arm. The arm has a pretty complicated design. Was it designed (through evolution) to be able to do this.When I was in college I played a lot of handball (initially on the streets of NYC and later in the campus 4-wall courts). I realized I was at a severe disadvantage from the fact that I had a strong arm (my right) and a weak arm (my left). So I started doing some exercises with my left arm.At first I found these amusing. With my left arm I threw “like a girl”. I wasn’t sexist, but the term really referred to someone who had not thrown hundreds of balls, and whose technique had not been refined by trial and error.Within a few days I found I was doing much better. I could pick up the handball and throw in accurately and hard with my left had. (I’m sure girls can do that too, with a little bit of practice!) The motion in handball is similar to that in throwing, and my goal was to have my opponent not be able to figure out if I was a righty or a lefty.It worked. My high point was when I was a professor and I accepted challenges from the UC football team to place racquetball. At the time, this team was ranked in the top ten; they were superb athletes. And I beat them handily. I still treasure what one team member said, “Professor Muller, you kicked my butt.”I became intrigued by the early development of weapons by humans. And then it struck me: our throwing ability has an incredibly useful application. These days the best baseball pitchers can deliver the ball at 100 mph into a small region above the plate. If you can only throw a ball at 80 mph, you don’t qualify for the major leagues. But, based on my early experience, I guess that most young strong males could throw an accurate 80 mph rock. Maybe one weighing 5 oz (like a baseball), maybe heavier.This would be enormously useful. Early man was a hunter gatherer, but hunting big animals is not only difficult but dangerous. Suppose his main game consisted of squirrels and other small mammals. Then expertise in rock throwing would bring in a lot of meat for his family. Forget the wildebeest and the buffalo; go after the small things.Once we developed spears, then the large prey was more easily killed. And it would last longer. And the throwing ability of humans would gradually atrophy. Perhaps it had. Perhaps in the early days, every young male could deliver 100 mph fastballs within the area of a squirrel.This idea gives added explanation for why we stand up instead of walking on all fours. In this theory, our lower limbs become specialized for walking, but our upper two arms are specialized for throwing rocks.Then in 2003 I met a famous anthropologist who had been working on ancient human weapons. I explained by idea to her. She was vehement. As best I can construct her words, she said the following to me:“You arrogant physicists should stick to your physics and stop butting in on other fields. You men are so hung up with baseball that you see it everywhere.”That was about it. As for the baseball remark, the only games I had watched in the last 30 years had been the 7th game of the World Series; unless you know all the players, baseball is pretty boring.What had I said that so offended her? I could only imagine that she had run into other physicists who made her tired of hearing their theories. Physicists sometimes back their contention with numbers and calculations that aren’t really germane but aren’t easily countered outside of the narrow range of mathematicians and physicists.Maybe men had stood in the way of her career, and being a male physicist was worse than just being a physicist.If I were to approach her today (and if she didn’t remember me) I would do it in a different way, one that I learned from my daughter Elizabeth Muller. I would begin by asking her about early weapons, what the field of anthropology knew about them. I’d ask if there is any physical evidence for the sling? Does she think it was used prior to the spear? Did it give rise to the spear thrower? Only after I had spent a lot of time listening would I ask about rock throwing.I still like my theory but never again did I come across someone so expert in the field as her.

I made a hack for mobile multiplayer game named Quizup, I have started playing Quizup way back in college, the game will show few questions in series and asks you to choose an option for each questions, the points are based on how quick you choose the answer, game play looks something like below.One day I thought being a programmer I should show some difference in the way I play with opponents and wrote an Android hack application that will show me the answers instantly on the screen and started winning the matches even with the most highest level players across the world, below is the demo videoBelow are the Technical details how I have achieved it:Android 5.0 have introduced screen cast API that is used to cast the screen frames as video, I have used it to get the stream of screen shots in a background service.Now I cropped the upper half of the screen shot where the questions exists and gave it to an OCR engine named Tesseract embedded inside the application which returns me a string representing the text in the imageNow I have the mathematical expression in form of string which I can convert to postfix and calculate the value of expression.It took me 2 days to do this and did this on a weekendEDIT:Since lot are requesting me for the apk, I have uploaded it to play store under different name, find the link here ScreenOCR - Android Apps on Google Play, it works for 60% of the cases, I am trying to make it 100%Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/murali-krishna-kurapati-3407798b/Edit 2:Since I do not have time to improve the accuracy of the model, I have made the project as open source, please feel free to contribute to itmurali129/ScreenOCR