essays

was reading a few essays by Alan Turing. The usual about what constitues a machine which can think. He also draws parallels between the turing test, and the viva voce conducted during exams. So have we learnt something, or is it just by rote.

Begun listening to Natalie Imbruglia. 'One more addiction' ; the voice !
My agre preparation is okay... will be taking the sample ets test this week.

updates

status check:

Academics:
Getting screwed in Linear Programming/Algebra.
Lagging behind in my Web-Search seminar. Will be really badly screwed for this. Maybe my worst procrastinating session ever.
Haven't understood basic probability and am supposed to know all about distributions. No clue on this.
Have to decide on my formal verifications term paper, haven't even searched the net for it yet. Imagine.
Am lagging behing badly in my web-search results clustering. Have 3 days to wind up the project, submit report, demonstrate it in front of a dis-interested class/sadistic TAs.
Procrastinating, lazing, lack of energy, sleep, lack of focus....all happening at the same time.....

Good stuff: I am finding formal verifications really interesting...... I am considering changing my primary focus here from Data Mining to Verifications. Dont know for sure. But its on the cards.....depends on how my verifications term paper goes vs. my data mining seminar. Am having a good time reading up on Linear Algebra, Algorithms, and some other basic stuff.

Other stuff:

Bad: Am wearing my last clean shirt. Don't have any shirt for tomorrow; Might go out and buy some clothes. The hostel washing machine is under repair, and my room is full of dirty clothes, and its getting worse. I have tons of mouth ulcers and my toe-thumbs, both of them are screwed with "ugur-suttus"s.

Good: I am feeling great........ain't that great? Done with some crappy Communications Skills exam today. Just one more month of first semester left. One way or the other, it will get over. Discovered a great new coffee place inside the campus. My Rs 700/- electric kettle is now being wasted here on my lab desk ;-)))....laff all you want..........
Still reading Lolita, and savoring every sentence, and am figuring out slowly that there is some other plot going on that is beyond me. Have to buy the "Annotated Lolita" which has notes for each page for the fan, and for the clueless; both of which I am right now.....

What else..... Nothing much.....keep posting.......

i am

feeling better now....
the depression is gone....

Thanks to Da Vinci Code.


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Draconian Devil!!
Oh Lame Saint!!!
PS:- Find Robert Langdon


I finished the book and I found it to be really good....
Wow!Brilliantly engineered plot.

If anybody hasnt read that, just grab the book.
History is a fable agreed upon.
Fabulous.

Note "fable" and "fabulous" have the same root (i.e. dhaatu in sanskrit)

So assuming one of us here becomes a godman like Sri Sri Ravi ,
after 3000 years this blog will be called as THE HOLY BLOG
and it will be in one floppy in somebody's tomb.
Frightening.

I am wikipedia-ing away to glory.
Vedas-Indra-Vritra-Saraswati
Incidentally, my granfather told me that
in the vedas, there is no mention of vishnu.
Only Bramha or Indra are there.
So Bramha is the most ancient god.
And we are ofcourse pagans.
Polytheists.....right?

Ofcourse, No Rama, Krishna etc. in the Vedas.

wikipedia is a great site as far as history is concerned.


And gentlemen(in bangalore), we have a looong weekend lined up.
Kannada Rajyotsava is a holiday here.

Let us make it eventful.....
Wakaaaw!

how services industry work ..

money making phases ..

SRS, DCS, HDS, DDS, UPT, STP ,ITP ...

Build - client will help out .. and projects get completed .. :))

no risk ..full profits.. ;-)

teja .. sanna aagokke aagolla anta realise aagira beku ningu kooda alva ?
iro size maintain aadare saaku mama . ;-) innu dappa aagodu beda andi kollona :))

one good new ..my salary is back to 5k.

Kumar????

That was such an unlikely post by Kumaranna. I sense that those walks with Sumanth are not doing any good to our own Raajkumar.....

(Yawn)

Me too; looking forward to the SLV katte. Bored of North Indian food, and desperately looking forward to Vidyarthi, SLV, BCB, UD-coffee, Ashoka-Pillar, Anand-Juice, Dwarka and of course, Benne Gulkhan :P

Sudeepan room miss aagatte....Need Kathe, on some KaTTe.....

Seeyu
-Dadiya

traffic jams ..

Guys you are scaring me . This might change my plans of returning.

You know the std US returned asshole comments...

Traffic sucks, oh my gawddd .. ( naa wrong exlamation ) FISH !!its so polluted,
its so crowded .. and all that jazz on similar lines ..

imagine me carrying a bisleri bottle :))

Sudeep will kill me ..and refuse to go out with me .. ;-) ...
7 'o clock deadline jote idondu hosa reason sigotte sudeepange ..

looking fwd for SLV katte ..:-)

the reason behind traffic jams..

this is what happens in peak hour traffic..
scene1:
a traffic cop sees the smooth flowing traffic and his hands starts itching..cos he hasnt signalled anybody to stop since morn..
so he switches off the traffic signal lights and does his best to ensure that everybody gets struck in the signal for 10 min atleast..
now we have a long queue of vehcles waiting for the signal ..a cyclist at the end of this long queue sees a 6 inch gap between the
cars in front of him..the gap is exactly 6 inches..if it was even 1 mm more than that the car in front would have squeezed thru that...
anyways..coming back to the cyclist...he feels that he can take his cycle thru the gap ..and he manages to do so with gr8 ease..
he is followed by a tvs champ ..and even a bike!!!an autodirver in the next lane cant help but notice this two wheeler movement..
now how can any autodriver remain stationary when there is some flow of traffic in his next lane??u can not blame him for trying to squeeze thru
and blocking that lane as well...

scene2:
same as scene1 till manual signalling ensures long wait for all vehicles...a smart guy in smart bike crosses yellow line and overtakes everybody
and reaches the signal junction..another bike follows him..and one more..and an auto..and a car!!!and more cars!!!!till the road turns into an oneway..
and the person coming in the opposite dir has no option but to fly..

my solns...
1)stop using ur own vehicle and use public transport..hmmm..not feasible..we know that the public transport is not that efficient in blore..
2)kill all autodrivers...excellent idea!!!
3)make a rule that everybody should travel in 2 wheeler..i mean it is such a waste of fuel (and space)..if one person is travelling
in a car..imagine how free the roads would be without those bulky fuel guzzeling monsters...
think abt this guys..help urself and help the nation also..use car only when u have compelling reasons..

iT'S BEEN proved beyond doubt

that WHATEVER vehicles you ban on Hosur Road ,
the road ends up as a mess...

And people on the roads are doing their favorite
activity .......

-JAMMING....Traffic Jamming to be precise.
-BUMPER BANGING
-SHOUTING.
-RADIO CITY ADs BURSTING OUT TO YOUR EARS asking
you to buy Huzaifa Decor Furniture for just 3000 Rs.
If you are lucky you can win a trip to Thailand!

So most the "workers" have a pattern like this.
(I will abandon the term Software Engineers...I will use the term workers instead.
While cribbing "workers" adds a communistic touch,
and it sounds even more effective for expressing your woes.)

->Leave the home before the early bird catches the worm.
->Start on a long perilious voyage like Christopher Columbus.
->Just like somebody on a Columbus's ship shouts "we discovered america",
we shout to ourselves, we discovered our office building!
->Reach the office.
->Drink coffee from a PATHETIC coffee machine.
->Discuss your weekend exploits.Or discuss about the forgettable movie you watched the other day.
->IMMEDIATELY start back on your long journey back home....It's 6:30 already.

Oh it is time to go back home.....

BYE BYE

Granite business

Finally I know what "Granite Business" means. Had been to an all night canteen here, and its run by some Manohar dude from Tumkur and he used to be in this business before. I heard stories of Puneet Raaj. The Dr Raaj-Veerappan episode, some illegal money laundering, Karnataka politicians and their "keeps," and had a good session of verbal Hi Bangalore.....

In Bombay, Hi Bangalore seems to be a good thing.....

I am trying to read up on Infinite Automata, and there seems to be a wealth of theory on it, written in the same vein as U&H. If I make some progress, will put up some more stuff here, its really cooL.....that ends my technical escapades of sometime now....

Listening to some good ol' Kannada songs.......

speaking of songs, try Coolie #1's Husn Hai Suhana for some extreme filmi dingchak ......and Company's Pyar Pyar Pyar Mein for some superb Bollywood music parody by Sandeep Chowta...... :)))))

whos profile has been updated???

papanna are we missing something ..

its really amazing how richie gets amused by new TECh stuff all the time ..
or if it is an EFFORT its just amazing ...

Need to pick a page/two from everyones book .

Damn !!!! One of my friends got here from India . He was all josh for GMAT .
Wanna decide on a date asap

The photos look cool

man....
Nostalgia ....
Nice website dude....

I think why you are orkutting more....
Somebody special's profile seems to be updated ;-)

Orkut

I have been spending more time on Orkut than all other sites combinted these days....whats happening????..........

Btw, take a look at my updated website now, I have put up some more stuff.....www.it.iitb.ac.in/~tejaswi.

Yay!

The corportate biggies have forced the lorries and the other humongous vehicles out of hosur
road in the peak hours from 8 to 10 in the morning and 7 to 9 in the night.

As a result, the two wheelers and car drivers have become extra careless with their new
found freedom.
(Yeah I have to remind myself to be careful).

Other than that, it has ben a predictably lousy weekend.
So much time wasted doing nothing.
Ofcourse, i did add a new VCD to my existing collection.
"Goodfellas" by Martin Scorsese.
I didnt get the time to open the cover itself :-)

Saturday, I just passed-by near the Urvashi Theatre before going to my weekend lalbagh walk.
For the first time in history, they were showing a kannada movie called Mourya.
I had suspected nobody will be there to watch the movie.
To my surprise, i saw a big crowd.

But there was a significant change in the crowd.
The Jain College and other early teen girls dressed like bollywood stars
were gone.
They were replaced by predominantly auto drivers , florists who sell jasmine on the roads,
and ofcourse the shaawantige garland on the abominable Puneet Rajkumar...
You know, like a Majestic theatre like Santosh or Tribhuvan.
Reminded me of the 80s kannada theatres...
Is this moratorium move actually turning out to be good ?
I dont think so...


Forget that....Let's get back to our lives....
I gotta take inspiration from richie_jag who is always upto something technical.
He was delving into parallel processing algos the last time i met him.
and he has become an xml freak.
Kummi man! wassup ? Seem to be busy...
For heavens sake pick up the phone instead of cutting it :-)

fun and its manifestations

Guys .. 25 is not OLD. Yavvana
I still enjoy addas, cricket, tennis and whatever I play.
Well, no idea about college fests, but I can say had a remorseful feeling about dandiya.

Become a movie maniac, I have visisted Universal studios twice, enjoyed the shows ( I have seen them before ), enjoy rollercoasters. Is this a testimony ??

NO IDEA what so ever.

Am not able to recoup for high school mathematics. Need Josh.

fun ......

I dunno abt fun but I sure know that we are old hags....
"Old" is the word.
But "old is gold" antha haapy aagi irona. :-)

We are 25 years old,(ok nearing 25 years) and thats a pretty long time
to be on this planet.

Gd i think you will be here in Jan.
Maybe we can have a blast when you are here.
Witnessed one of the biggest traffic jams today...
okay i am in a hurry ...work 2 B done bye

sunnnday

pretty eventful .. :-) .. missed it :-(
so did I miss so many events in this year ..

sudeepa my folks cudnt come , I spoked to them about it, naa blore bandaga karkondu bartini.

then sudeepa .. mane super ..photos are good ..

hey guys need your cell phone numbers ..
will catcha sometime around ..

tumba mails aytu .. rather blogs ....

so what else ..lifes dragging ..

growing old....

An interesting thought......

I don't seem to be having fun anymore. Fun as in, like how it used to be in college, frolic, mirth, abandon, having fun drinking juice, hanging out at Sudeep's place discussing management and porn. The hanging-out type fun seems to be a distant memory.....These days fun seems to be very restricted to certain aspects of life.....a very good book or movie, a very interesting person you've just met, a very beautiful girl you have just seen......or something of this sort......has our concept of fun changed? or have we changed?

or is this too person-to-person dependent type?

I was just wondering about how I have changed over the last so many years.....

:-)

I have sent the photos to your email ids....

kummi, i have sent it to your sarvagnaani id.
jag to his yahoo id.
teju, i sent to your woolee id.
Gd i have sent to your dhl id.

Yeah man it was cooL....Food was good.
Banana leaf food.
I think the menu is pretty obvious :-)))) for you guys.

Jag was talking abt Binary Compatibility of GCC versioning when i snapped
the photo!

Kummi had just come from IISc to the place and I believe his relative's place is very near
to our Rajeshwari Nagar house.

And I fell for one girl who had come with the cooks to cook!
Believe me , she had the best dressing sense and she knew how to handle stares.
The midriff region was awesome...
And if a girl handles stares very well w/o getting conscious it is the
ultimate thing.She had that proud look on her face and i love miss proudies
very much.

Other than that, I was putting a smile and walking everywhere around the house
as if i were the busiest man in the planet for one day.

And all the mid-30 ladies sang devotional songs while I snapped photos.
Actually, I avoided all the songs of faith and devotion and I was focussing
my eyes and lens on the cook, and she caught me doing that.
She smiled.But now, when she knows what i am upto , it is no fun.
So i gave up.

Then came the guys....KUMMI descended with his Dil Chahta Hain hairstyle.
Then came jag ...then, teju's mom and dad came.........
then my sasken friends and Infy friends.

Anila and Shiva came at the fag end...cos anila had to attend
another function.Shiva has sold his bullet cos he thinks he has replaced
all the spare parts of his bullet and still it didnt start.
So he has brough RX135.

In total, nice fun.
see ya later guys.

Requirements have changed and i may need to burn midnight lamp oil ....
:-(((((

NaLa paaka

food -> sakkre holge, kooTu, saaru, puliyogare.
heard the word mansion atleast ten times :)
met lots of people : deepa and other members of infy... folks from sasken..
so the eat part went off well and so did the eye ..

monday report ..

veerappan na kondi haaki bittru ..
is it a political move ?? or were the police helpless ( I mean cudnt capture him ) ..
or did veerappan decided.. 'madu illve madi ' ( i do not know the tamil equivalent )
i heard lotsa tams are frustrated abt it .. become mad ..

and am seeing so many kannadigas .. hysterical . all the norhties too know him .. due to bangalore band ( rajkumar kidnap case )

makkla ..innen smaachara ..
sudeepan mane oota ashotndu tindra ?? no ones blogging ..