Monday, July 19, 2010

Afraid of ur laptop getting stolen ?

Afraid of ur laptop getting stolen ? Why not try Adeona ?

I liked the concept they presented in the article. Although I m not a BIG tech savvy, however I think the concept and ideas are very promising.

Good points

1) Reliable: Adeona uses a community-based remote storage facility, ensuring retrievability of recent location updates.

2) Private: Adeona uses state-of-the-art cryptographic mechanisms to ensure that the owner is the only party that can use the system to reveal the locations visited by a device.

3) Open source and free: Adeona's software is licensed under GPLv2. While your locations are secret, the tracking system's design is not.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Sanskrit - what so special about ti ?

Well i saw this article today on NDTV. Well others might think he must be a Inidan ( or a Hindu) and thats why i am writing this all and it will give a wrong direction to this article but thats not the reason ( i think so )

But just few facts...

Sanskrit follows Context sensitive rule ( please see Noam Chomsky classification - google it who is he ?) and thus its a best language for Computers.

Its considered to be the mother of many languages ... Sorry Karunanidhi :)

Also its a scientific language in the sense the way sounds are made and words are formed from letters and words ... its follows a principle. We all knows sounds do has a effect on the body ( well dont wana go into Yoga or deep stuff)

Hope we ( including me also will learn it in a better way ) . Well i did study it for 4 years but at that time just to get pass :P

Monday, May 24, 2010

Topalov's computer cluster worried Anand Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/news/sports/topalovs-computer-cluster-worried-anand-26750.php?cp

No Copy Right infringements however i copied as i was not sure If NDTV can retain this link for long as sometimes their links do show you break up :)

Orignial Stroy is here.

or i just copy pasted below

The good thing which reminds is that of human computation or the lesson they gave us in many Sci-FI movies about robots like terminator salvation, E Robot ( or something like) ... cant recall others now
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World champion Viswanathan Anand conceded he and his his team of seconds were nervous after challenger Veselin Topalov spent a fortune to secure a super computer with lightning speed ahead of the summit clash in Sophia in which the Indian prevailed.

Topalov obtained the computer cluster which ran the latest Rybka program but that was not enough as Anand successfully defended his title.

Anand's preparation, on the other hand, relied more on what he described as "human cluster" with world number one Magnus Carlsen and former world champions Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik providing generous inputs.

Despite that, Anand conceded he and his team of seconds were nervous after hearing about Topalov's new acquisition.

"We actually started to get a bit worried when we heard about it," Anand said in an interview on Playchess.com.

"So we had to do something in a hurry.... Then the people from Hiarcs (a computer chess program) got in touch...That improved matters quite a bit," Anand said.

According to him, computers are useful but it has its limitations too.

"It must be good for the player to have good hardware. The problem is that it often doesn't tell you what you want. You want it to find an improvement for White, and it may choose to find it for Black instead.

"It is also insidious - it can stop you playing your favourite lines because of some obscure problems somewhere. I would say computers are very useful - especially very powerful hardware - but if working with the computer means you stop taking risks it's of course going to kill you," Anand said.

In that respect, human analysis has an edge, he said.

"With humans it is fantastic, because some of the things they tell you, you can almost relate to. You can almost see how it is something you can apply at the board. In the last few days some of the suggestions came from Vlady (Kramnik), very intelligent suggestions, with his explanation of why you should do this or that.

"Or sometimes Garry (Kasparov) will tell you a story about the player, and it is some insight which at a critical moment it may help you to choose between two moves and that can be decisive. So it is a very, very different kind of help. Of course these are some of the greatest players in chess, so you can't really ask for more," said Anand.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Beyond Science starts the journey of Faith !

Instead of putting my words or just copy pasting its good if you can read from here.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Racism - Why Indians cry ?

As per part of NTU rules, students have to vacate hostel after 1 year. So my time have come and i am looking for room now a days. This strange incident happened with me today. I called one guy Dr. Atanu Kumar Das(doing Postdoc in NTU) who gave a adv about a room, however i was surprise to see the questionaire that happened with me on phone.

Atanu Kumar Das (Dr): Hello
Me : Is it Mr. Atanu Kumar Das ?
Atanu Kumar Das (Dr) : Yes
Me : I saw one adv in public folder about 1 room from you.
Atanu Kumar Das (Dr) : Where are you from ?
Me : I am from India.
Atanu Kumar Das (Dr): Oh i mean which part of India ?
Me : North Indian
Atanu Kumar Das (Dr) : Specifically which part of north India ?
Me : I started feeling irritated and bad what sort of question is this ? I replied Punjab
Atanu Kumar Das (Dr) :Sorry to say but i cant give room to North Indians , actually i have some bad experience....
Me : Ok ..
....

and then i did send a email to this Guy (which i always do... after seeing people's typical weird behavior) .. although he is one research fellow ( PostDoc) in NTU and i understand this kind of racism is not acceptable in Singapore, however now i don't want to complain but i was thinking why people from India are so much state oriented or in other words against a particular state oriented and if they are like that then how come Indians can complain about racism if they experience in other country.
We have Mr. Raj Thackrey, who only see Maharashtra for only Marathi Manus. Compairing to that i was surprise to see when Singapore's prime- minister said we should welcome foreign talent and there is still space for them although i think Singapore has become very conjusted.

Well thats just a example, Dr Das could have really had bad experience otherwise he would not have behaved in a strange way however it reminds me - we Indians yet to learn that people from other state/language are also people and we should welcome all. No country or region or place can grow if they have this ME and MINE kind of mentality. It may look nice or attractive for a while but it has adverse consequences in future !

Anyway just another experience - We Indians should change our regional racism behavior, rather then shouting at foreign countries .... no one is perfect - not me atleast and not you also !

Sunday, October 11, 2009

RSP Elders ...

I joined RSP Elders because of keeping myself busy however it turned out to be a learning experience in itself. With the kind of load and burden you have in NTU, i want to really admire people who come with smiling face ( not at all complaining) to do something for a part of society to which we all are heading ( slowly and gradually).

We all learn from our experience so thus from volunteering, it made me realise that there are people who are more generous, humble, patient then me ... . Most importantly i met wonderful guys ( who have become really good friends).

Sometimes i really felt bad bcos i was not able to get proper excuses to give to Pei Shan that why i am late. There was not a single time i was on time and i always get "okay okay :) no problem yea " message from Pei Shan :).

We did all kind of stuff in 2 months time, from sophisticated walks/rounds of AWWA to compete with professional trash/newspaper collector and then to hip Hop dancers.


Yday it was last day of this Semester, before we meet again :), as every start has ending so that we can start again with full energy :). Please see this video recorded by Cindy (thanks), hope u will enjoy our best efforts ( ok i learned the steps in just 10 mins la ).




Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Run Singapore Marathon

I went for this marathon on 6th of September 2009, with some of my friends (as most of them were not interested). It was flagged off by Singapore's president Mr. Nathan and total distance was 5 Km. The track was the F1 Track to be used later by Speedos like Michael Schumaker, near Padang. Well i ran just to test if track is ok for all Speedos :) . It was fun :)

I have kind of started liking running. I hope one day i will run from J & K (Srinagar/Jammu) to south of India till KanyaKumar (southern point of India) ha ha ... its a dream not sure if i will ever do or not. But there is no tax on thinking atleast!

Although i am very slow in running however as Confucius said - Your speed doesn't matter until u don't stop !