Just popping in..

Had one major exam today.. I didn't intend to blog before the finals get over, but the relief after this test is tremendous. Had a project to submit today too, and of all the ways that Murphy's laws can manifest itself, it had to do so by messing up my simulation outputs. I was working both at home and the computing centre and I unintentionally copied an older version of a file over a newer one at home and then I just couldn't get back to my original results. Pretty maddening if you've been up all night doing something else confident about the fact that the simulation will run properly the next day and you find yourself in such a sticky situation. Thankfully things worked out find and the exam was pretty decent too, so I'm just plain relieved.

Do check out this AI game (login as anonymous) where the program tries to guess what you are thinking off by using a series of general questions. The nice thing is that the system uses your responses to update it's own pool of knowledge so that as more people play the game, it gets more intelligent. Try it out, it's an interesting exercise in AI.

An interesting email I received today was about an ad that takes the concept of subtlety to a new degree. I stared at the pic for a good 15 minutes before my roomie Anoop saw it and exclaimed.. okay, I'm not ruining the fun for you.. check it out here and try to find it yourself. In case you find it interesting, you might also like to check out the Fig Leaf Awards for the not-so-subtle ads.