| Monday, September 10th, 2007 |
| 2:59 pm |
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| Thursday, September 6th, 2007 |
| 2:35 pm |
NExt BIg THIng
Started a new blog on blogspot. Thought I should not lose out on all the ideas I get and have to collect them all in one place. As I had stated earlier, people are pretty conservative about their ideas. I thought of changing this (starting from myself ). So publishing my ideas to the public. If I dont make use of them the hope is atleast someone will (and hopefully credit me). Idea by itself is worthless. I want implementations. I want to test my ideas and see how successful they become or do they get dropped soon. The blog is named " nebithi " which is the short for NExt BIg THIng. Lets hope in this endeavour an idea for the next big thing comes up. Do visit the blog. I will hopefully update that blog pretty often. more often than this atleast ;) You could also contribute to that blog. If you wish to just drop me a comment. Go check out . |
| Monday, August 27th, 2007 |
| 4:38 pm |
My interest in biomimics seems to be growing by the day.. Its damn rare. By biomimics I mean writing software which somehow emulate the real world.. some animal behaviour..some behaviour in the biosphere brought into the cyber world.. that is what interests me.. If someone has some really good info / can refer me to a book which deals with this subject I would be glad.. even google somehow fails at producing good results.. I want to know more about what is being done.. what ppl are doing about this field and almost nothing of relevance turns up? imagine being let down by google!!! hmmmm, im angry .. |
| Thursday, August 9th, 2007 |
| 11:40 am |
education ruins us..
To innovate one has to find his own way to solve a problem ; To see the past solutions is to corrupt oneself. To find a new and revolutionary path people have to be allowed to find their own solutions to existing problems.. because if we are allowed the luxury of existing solutions we tend to follow it... This is the law of nature.. like electricity or charges tend to follow the path of least resistance.. we too tend to follow the path of least resistance.. So by learning more and more about a subject hampers my ability in a way to solve a problem in a more radical way.. The whole idea is like fixing bugs in a particular software.. No matter what bugs you fix.. new ones will arise.. and the solution (software) will only be as good as it was earlier + the one bug fixed.. To do something radically different.. to enable it to do something better.. the whole design has to be changed and it has to be thought of from the start.. My guess is the current problems that exist in the field of artificial intelligence are not going to be solved by someone who is a proffessor of AI in some esteemed university.. but rather will be solved by a geeky hacker who has never read a text book on AI or even better, by a biologist / neurologist.. Allow not your mind to be corrupted by education... apply what you know.. who knows .. you might be wanting to end up with a beautiful wife, a luxurious home and a leisurely time.. a nobel prize on the shelf wont hurt much.. .. aint it? :) |
| Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 |
| 10:58 am |
crap post.. dont have to read
I found recently that sarcasm is not my cup or tea or coffee or juice... Well, comedy isnt either!! While I am on a constant quest in life to find out what I am truly interested in and where my passion and zest and zeal lies... I sit thinking.. I know people take millions of years ( over many reincarnations if you can assume) to find their true love or passion and to my own misfortune or fortune I have set upon myself this particular life as the deadline to find mine.. Most times in life I do happen to write some gibberish in my blog and more the readers the more you get influenced and start thinking should I be writing this? would this be appropriate? Would this be acceptable? Well.. heck with that thought.. I will write what I want to write and never think twice... ;) So what is it that I wanted to write? Did I want to write something at all? was there any particular topic in my mind to write upon? I dont know. Dint think I had one before starting and writing the words " I found recently...." and even after 300 seconds of typing I still dont. My brain is weird. I wish I could go reprogram it to do certain things at certain times in life.. Like say for a started I want it to be reprogrammed to hang back my clothes on the hanger back every time in the evening I go back home..I used to throw them over the bed.. and after 2 continuous session over the past weeks of folding them all and keeping them back properly I resolved to keep my clothes back properly.. I dont know what induced that.. But seemingly it is good.. atleast its happening over this week.. so far so good.. dont know when I will go back to my old habits.. If I have to think of something else regarding which I have to reprogram my brain to do I cant think of something now like the previous one.. So I shall just continue with the flow of thought. Over the past one year life has changed to such an extent I sometimes think back and wonder if it is the same me who had been through all this.. I was so naive and stupid earlier... ( more naive and more stupid now probably... But I guess I can intelligently hide my stupidity behind my glasses but then that is again besides the point isnt it? I believe everybody around us is stupid at some point of time or the other.. the point of time being always.. Why cant we all be just stupid and with lumps of dung in our rusted brains is what I wonder sometimes? isnt that soo peaceful? isnt that soo good to be happy? not that I am not happy now... I am.. but wont that be better? without intelligence there is no origin for question.. without a question there is no quest.. without a quest there is no search.. without a search you are stationary.. if you are stationary and if the desire is to be stationary... what else ? arent u happy? bliss.. I apologise to everyone who has managed to read this post till this point.. but dude.. dont blame me.. I wrote and obviously dint force u to read.. reading was ur choice... writing was mine.. and I am supposed to be responsible if it was all some serious crap u dint want to have in ur life at this particular point of time.. but I guess if you do read hitchhikers and get inspired u do tend to let out a lot of crap from u.. after all for any system if the input is crap the output is expected to be.. aint it? Current Mood:  crappy |
| Thursday, May 31st, 2007 |
| 4:13 pm |
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| Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 |
| 10:20 am |
Whats coming up?
The most important ingredient for progress is competition.. The reason we are here in this computing.. information world is because there was competition which made this whole rapid progress happen... The competition was called as cold war.. in historic terminologies..but basically it was "competition" and that has led to us making such rapid progress in the fields of information and technology for the past few years... The reason we are surviving in this competition so far... is because of the low cost of the rupee... But with such increase in the rupee what would happen to the indian economy. How would it affect us Indian Software professionals? That is one question that everyone should be thinking about.. Right from the CEO's of the major IT firms to the last "bench" candidates.. I wont be betting anytime in the future that the Indian rupee will become equivalent to the US $ but. just for kicks let us assume so.. In those conditions what would be the side effects on the common people? How would it affect us as an economy? Well the first people to be affected by this steep increase in the value of rupee are the exporters. The exporters can be in any field doing exports of any kind. He/She is bound to be affected because his/her profit margin will start decreasing with the value of indian rupee going up. When we consider it this way all our software outsourcing companies would be considered as exporters..isnt it? The rupee valuation is already affecting their profitability and we have seen that in the 4th quarterly results of many big guns in india like TCS, Satyam etc.. (Infy though somehow escaped it..) If these global IT giants are not making profits for sometime in a row either they will have to reduce the operational costs or increase their pricing. But increasing their pricing would affect their reputation as a low cost service provider and would affect their standings in winning tender calls in various deals.. which ofcouse is not a really enticing option for them. So probably an increase in valuation of rupee would mean reduction in operational profits.. If we continue to see this surge in the valuation of the indian rupee expect the recession time (atleast for the exployees) again to creep in, in india. Remember 2001? Well.. we are back. If this continues I expect Infy and TCS to either take projects and route them to their still-more-lower-cost sites like probably china and phillipines etc... or put more burden on the currently hired employees. When I was just a kid I always wanted the indian rupee to surge above the value of a dollar.. Now seemingly after knowing the consequences I hope and wish otherwise ... With a really booming economy on hand I hope some of our intellectual giants find a work around for this ensuing problem.. I am just a normal software engineer with just my job at stake when the value is rising.. But the guys sitting at the top have huge stakes on hand.. They need to survive.. and a popular adage says. " one who runs for his life.. runs faster " . Since these guys are running for their lives.. and life earnings. I would expect them to find a novel and really intelligent solution to this.. Would be interesting to sit and watch what is going to happen.. How "INDIA" is going to take on the world? How "we" are going to strategize our next moves? Interestingly, chess was invented in India!! So we should be master strategists.. India...unfolds.. |
| Thursday, April 26th, 2007 |
| 2:27 pm |
prices and me...
I dont know if it is only with me or does everyone does it... whenever i invest in stocks... the prices go down right the next moment.. y cant they just go up? or do i time the things that badly? |
| Monday, April 16th, 2007 |
| 4:04 pm |
marriages!
Seemingly it is a marriage season!! I have been to marriages before.. there are few which are "not missable" ofcourse... and I do attend only those.. But this year paricularly I have so many that I felt it does need a mention in my blog.. Well, first of all, I am through with 1 marriage on April 2nd... which was my cousin sister's. Done.. I have 2 scheduled for May ..10th and 14th.. again my cousins.. Another cousin is getting married on June 24th. So how is the count doing now!! ok we are at 4... Hmmm... My old shuttle partner.. Abhinandan is getting married ...April 26th... and 27th we have Harish ofcourse!! Ahh... My team mates ... 2 of them are getting married this year.. I mean they have found their guys probably .. So afaik its all about the date getting fixed... So another 2!! hmmm totally 8!! God...its raining marriages!! :) I wish I have a few leaves left after all these.... I am sure... not ever in my life have I attended 8 marriages in one particular year... So far.. probably I have attended 2 at max 3 in a year.. But this year I believe is the peak in the bell curve.. atleast I hope so :) |
| Friday, March 30th, 2007 |
| 1:56 pm |
egomaniac
Egomaniac Meme ! The rules of this meme are: 1. Leave me a comment saying, "I too am an egomaniac." 2. I respond by asking you five questions. You will answer them, because you like talking about yourself. 3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions. 4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post. 5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. So now I get to answer questions from sdeepthi and talk about myself :) 1) How do you want life to be, pre-planned and all under your control or with lots of uncertainties and mysteries? I would like life to be uncertain and full of mysteries...yes.. But I would like to be able to predict what is coming also..If im not making sense.. Let me explain.. I want to see both the paths.. when I have a choice... I should be able to see what are the paths... But I should not know for sure which one I would be pushed into.. 2) What other profession would you love to do, if not engineering? I would have loved to be stock analyst / librarian / some profession that requires travelling the whole world/ professional gamer ;) 3) What do you think are the essential things in the other person for you to befriend them? Any particular turn offs? I like people who are honest.. atleast to a degree.. guile and cunningness is a strong turn off.. I dont like people who project two different personalities at two different places.. 4) Any unforgettable or funny dream you had recently? yeah... I was standing in a raised diaz.. with a podium in front of me.. there are tens of thousands of people waiting to listen to my talk, waiting for me to release the next dividend or bonus shares..I have streaks of grey hair near my sidelocks.. ;) 5) Given a chance to direct a bollywood movie, what sort of movie would that be? It would be a total masala movie..the villain kidnaps the guy...the girl goes in a search for him... meets some stupid guy in between.. girl turns out to be a super karate champion or something.. floors the audience with her looks and the villian with her chops ;) gets the guy out.. but in between falls in love with this stupid guy and so on....meanwhile the rescued guy has fallen in love with the villian's mona.. ;) everyone lives happily everafter :) ha ha.. |
| Thursday, March 29th, 2007 |
| 3:04 pm |
food
The food provided in our office is seriously crap.. sometimes you feel they are just taking advantage of us not having another option.. We are in the middle of nowhere..So we will have to go to buy this same stupid thing for Rs. 30 or Rs.35 a day.. This is addressed to everyone who reads my blog.. How many of you feel the food / cafeteria is crap in your office? which company do you work for? Current Mood:  blah |
| Friday, February 23rd, 2007 |
| 9:09 am |
lazy
too lazy to write the second part.. :( but I will...sometime... |
| Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 |
| 4:55 pm |
Are you comfortable! (part 1)
I was travelling in the bus just like regular days. Nothing was new, it was just routine.. The green trees whizzed past and the ocassional stink of the burnt tyres grazed the senses.. I still had another 45 minutes to reach my destination.. The final stop of the bus.. I was looking out the window at the occasional milestones wishing I had a time winding device and could forward it 45 minnutes so that I dont have to feel the boredom of travelling alone in the bus. Ahhhhhh.... It was terrible. Suddenly I felt the seat next to me being taken and normally I do not even look at who is sitting but this once the fragrance in the air forced me to turn my head. I could not literally believe my eyes. A rather well structured, fair damsel was sitting next to me. I did not do much other than stare at her for around 2 seconds and then realizing the stupidity that I was doing turned back to the window. My brain and my heart were in a conflict. While my brain asked me to look out the window my heart asked me to turn the other side. It was a battle ... a terrible one at that... In the route that I regularly travel in, there is one stupendous attribute of every bus in the route, that I feel is worth mentioning. The route as such is laid with roads that have jagged edges eaten off by the monsoon and harsh weather. Apart from that the local bus drivers seem to have evolved a system of driving in which the brakes have become vestigial. Well, due to the same reason the bus was rocking pretty hard and was moving like a rectangular box which had been thrown with a great force. She seemed to be a novice wrt travelling in these busses and her obvious inconvenience (either truly or because of my internal urge to start a conversation ) made me to talk. "Are you comfortable?" She turned, stared. There was suddenly a silence and I wished a thousand times that I had not picked a conversation. Atleast I would have had the pleasure of sitting next to her for the next 45 minutes. Now probably I should again have to get back to staring out of the window. Oh My God... Why? It seemed she would get up and go but.... She smiled. "Yeah, Im ok ". The smile in her face blew out each and every fuse in me. It was a mystical beauty that I could not bear with my mortal eyes. I felt I would faint any time but somehow the sense in me persisted and won the battle. I smiled back and turned again towards the window. A huge battle was being fought internally by the urge to continue the conversation based on the support mustered by her smile and the fear of getting slapped generated by the stare. Atlast the urge won. " So are you from Manipal? Student?". This time luckily I dint get the stare. " Yes, I study in the medical college. How about you? " Now that was smooth. I smiled. "Oh, Im from Bangalore, working for NOKIA as a Software Engineer". "Cool, Software Engineer... Hmmm. You should be making big bucks", she joked, and smiled. "Ah, No, The companies these days have become stingy and dont pay us that well. So by the way my name is Ravi, what is your good name?" "Gayathri Joshi" "Nice to meet you". I smiled and turned back towards the window. The bus kept marching with the same speed, though I wished now more strongly I had that time machine. I wanted to stop it. (part 2 to continue with due permissions ;) ) |
| Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 |
| 4:58 pm |
words and usage
Some days back I read a write up by chethan bhagat about the usage of words and "logic" by we engineers. It was a great write up because it reflected reality and showed circumstances where the issue arised in a pretty funny manner. On the same lines, I was talking to one of my friends in office and since she was busy at the moment I asked her to "ping me back" when she got free. While walking back to my place I was wondering about how this word ping had become so common in our (engineers...esp software) life. "Dude, ping me once you get home". " I will ping you once I get free! " such statements have become so common that I was thinking if ever I would tell my parents ( who are not computer educated) someday that I would ping them back since I was currently in a meeting or something.... Chethan Bhagat also noted certain jargon such as logic, probability etc which were being used more frequently in our day to day lives. Apart from this.... memory has been metaphorized to a computer memory always.. the brain is the processor.. |
| Monday, February 5th, 2007 |
| 10:50 am |
IISc first classes
Last Saturday had been to the first class on "Artificial Intelligence and Programming" in IISc. We are being taught by a madam who goes by the name Dr. Anasuya Devi. It was the first class and since as she told us herself she hadnt come prepared with the mental setup to take classes today... Anyway during the scheduled class timings she did start off with her own introduction and made each of the students to introduce themselves.. That was ok and acceptable... But what we noticed during her talks were that she was seriously eccentric... true nature of a researcher is an institution like that... Since we were discussing AI and this domain flows a bit into the Philosophical aspects of life.... she constantly used to drift into the philosophy of life and related teachings ...which would to an untrained mind in the segment would look highly inappropriate to the proceedings at hand... It is no wonder even if ppl thing that way since she was capable of drifting from AI to brain drains to choosing life partners... So we did truly cover a lot of areas in the true literal sense ;) But probably that is the way she teaches... She drifts I agree but as I had read somewhere true learning happens when the stability in a particular understanding is destabilized so that new learnings have to be made to bring things back to stability... She seemed to be a person who did exactly that... Anyway these are the first impressions... We still need to know more about her and her teaching styles :) Life becomes interesting... To study the machine and its intelligence we first need to understand humans.. since it is them that the machine is emulating :) Current Mood:  amused |
| Thursday, January 25th, 2007 |
| 4:42 pm |
trip
Embarking on a long trip this weekend. We (me, adarsh, shashi, thejasvi and sahana) are going to adarsh's place i.e kumta. That bugger has been avoiding his birthday party from the past 4 years. His birthday falls on the 28th of Jan and since 26th is a holiday he makes it a point to go home at this time for basically 2 reasons as we know ;) 1) He can avoid treating us. 2) He can be with his parents etc etc.. though we think its more so because of the stingy bugger that he is ;) anyway this time we decided to follow him down to his own house and get a treat out of him... and hence the story began... Apart from this thing another interesting thing is that we are going in an express bus (we dint find reservations in any rajahamsa or private :) ).. So another great experience... long time it has been since I travelled in one and the icing on the cake being the journey takes more than 10 hrs :) All in all we are scheduled for one big adventure this weekend.. what with all the sceneries and beaches we are going to visit in and around kumta.. Probably the adventure will start right from the point where I will leave home because there will be a lot of people who would be interested in reaching majestic today and there is going to be one hell of a traffic jam... anticipatedly... hmm..noDoNa. puna bandmele idara bagge visthaaravagi barithini... enaru interesting vishaya adre mathra :) Current Mood:  anxious |
| Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 |
| 4:07 pm |
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| 10:46 am |
Killer Thought!!!!
I dint know there were some meeting groups and activities for mobile as a platform as well... I came to know of its existence only when I visited Barcamp 2.0 this year..... What happened was during the Barcamp event we met up with two people from the MobileMonday (which is something like Linux Users Group but is for mobiles) and kiruba did a podcast there with all of us.. This thing proceeded further and yesterday NOKIA hosted a Mobile Monday in our premises here... The topic of the talk was "One Killer Thought, Two Killer Apps, Three Killer Trends" by some big shot from Sasken... Sorry I am bad with remembering names :) The thought he tried to portray was something like "We currently have the same processing power, same everything including memory etc etc on the handsets as we did or regular PC's in 1995..... In the developed countries since most people are accustomed to the internet, we would need to find ways to present the same material to them with this new interface and this is a challenge.... But consider countries like India where the handset penetration is so huge that one in every 2 person (according to stats) has access to a mobile compared to 1 in every 25 has access to PC..... and the greatest advantage here is that people are not at all exposed to the internet... and we have the base of the pyramid here since most people are poor.... So what can we cater to them through the mobile phones... There will be something they need... something they want desperately and are seeking it silently... what is this thing? We the next generation enterpreneurs have to think and come up with solutions to people... The two example applications that he wishes to enunciate are mobile tv and mobile banking.... These are currently not deployed expansively because of constraints of a proper channel of distribution and a proper business model... When someone comes up with ways to solve this issue... We have a multi million dollar industry per say... Mobile Banking is yet another thought which when deployed makes life easier... We can do a lot of things using our mobiles... there are still more thoughts and avenues to be exposed and brought to the public domain... Seemingly the only constraint for this not to happen is the huge diversity which exists in the whole technology... There is no one single standard handset/hardware like in the PC market where Windows/Intel combine command a market share of 85%. Apart from that there is the other problem that the underlying network and the traffic is owned by the operators and service providers ( AirTel, Hutch, BSNL) while this underlying network is completely free and not owned by anyone in the case of PCs (Internet).... These problems make it difficult to use the same business models that exist already... Hence new business models need to be generated if a product has to make a profit... The inherent diversity and no standardization in the market makes it difficult to cater to the needs of the people as software products deployed on the individual handsets... The best way then to deploy the answer to some need is by giving it as a service (like in the web 2.0).... But again to deploy it as a service we need to depend on Service Providers who would influence a lot of issues like pricing and the business model etc.... So the problem we are facing is not an easy one.... Just need to see who will bell this cat with a good business model and we will see so many different things coming to the mobiles in another 3-4 years that.... It will change the way we do things.. Arent we seeing the Next Big Thing in the making? Current Mood: anxious |
| Monday, January 22nd, 2007 |
| 12:03 pm |
Singing and pronunciation
The perfectionist... that is what I would like to call him.... Stupendous and absolutely great.... Listen to this. Sonu nigam singing a kannada song... I dont know how much kannada he knows but his pronunciations are so flawless that I was not even sure if it was sonu nigam singing though the song had all the signs of it being him... When finally I checked that it was him... I was amazed ... Hats off to this perfectionist :) Current Mood:  enthralled |
| Friday, January 19th, 2007 |
| 8:49 am |
hmm...change
I sometimes am amazed at the turn of events... yes only sometimes.. When people see different things standing at different corners then obviously it means they see things differently. It is bound to happen.. If you stand in your place and think that how come I who am standing here thought about it differently then seriously you should know the basics of your life... What matters to people, what their priorities are also changes at different instance s in time... It keeps changing... That is why the popular saying that change is the only thing that is constant in life.... Current Mood:  contemplative |
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