November 24 04
You see.. the coefficient of the linear.. My friend Virdee‘s blog has these lyrics from the delightful 1977 hindi pfillum ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ where Amitabh Bachchan tries to appear sophisticated by spouting (meaningless) impressive sounding english sentences in the middle of a song. Sample this hilarious piece: “Wait Wait Wait……… You see the whole country [...]
November 23 04
Everyone is special.. so no one is That’s a recurring theme that runs through ‘The Incredibles’. And the American educational system. After being in grad school in the US for two odd years, I’m still surprised to see that there are almost no Americans in engineering grad school. Even in lower division classes, ( I [...]
November 22 04
Cooking for Engineers I swear this is how cooking should be described! Very analytically and with no room for confusion. How can you ever go wrong if you are following an algorithm for cooking! Enjoy cooking for engineers (thanks Supriya!)
November 18 04
“Only the dead have seen the end of the war.” – Plato A death is a death. Even if it is in a faraway land. No amount of political doublespeak can make it otherwise.
November 16 04
From the Annals of Improbable Events.. Did you know that there actually is a World Toilet Organization? Or that Beijing is hosting the 2004 World Toilet Summit this November? Probably not. But toilets are always fascinating and dependable, whether you need a good laugh, or a good photograph. [all links are worksafe]
November 15 04
The God Gene Turns out that God was within us all the time.. or something like that. The God Gene, a book by Dean Hamer claims that the spiritual tendency among humans all over the world is really due to a gene VMAT2.
November 12 04
Fuck this! (oops!) The FCC has taken its big daddy role quite seriously this year by fining radio stations and television networks for airing, what it considers obscenity and profanity. ABC aired ‘Saving Private Ryan’ on Veteran’s day, but around 20 ABC stations decided not to broadcast it since they were afraid of being fined [...]
November 11 04
The good guys at Mathworld (Eric Weisstein & Co.) have published their own solutions to the cryptic Google recruitment ad, and the Google Labs Aptitude Test (GLAT). The solutions almost invariably use Mathematica, but they serve as a great launchboard to other interesting mathematical stuff. Particularly interesting is their choice of favourite mathematical equations. (Also [...]