Recently I have been hacking away at a bot. Here’s the blog to document its progress : http://shriphani.tumblr.com/
Code Porn For March 2012
This entire page is full of win (and beautiful Haskell code). I found it when I was trying to cheat on a SPOJ problem.
Grad Schools and Stuffs
I spent a couple of days @ CMU LTI open house. I am fairly certain I will go there. I am waiting for the last set of admits to roll in (although they probably won’t change anything a lot), it would still be interesting to see how things go.
Some things I am happy I did this admit season:
- Not get addicted to thegradcafe. I visited a few times to organize meets with other CMU admits at the open house but I am so happy I didn’t do any of the “scoping” bs which is frankly just public masturbation. I think this is vital to apping since it makes you focus on your app and not worry about the competition.
- Focused on checking if the dept. culture is a good fit. I think CMU has a go-getter approach to things which I like (not that I am some expert at this but whatever).
Actually that is all. Anyway, enjoy.
Probability Trolls
In the not-too-distant past, I had the misfortune of being around probability trolls. Those who would exploit the bugs in the definition of probability to produce ridiculous answers to fermi-type problems.
Q. What is the probability that there is life on Uranus?
A. 0.5 – either there is life or there isn’t.
Q. What is the probability that the earth will be destroyed because of the LHC?
A. 0.5 – either it will be destroyed or it won’t.
And so on.
The source of this trolling is contained in the naive definition of probability :
P(A) = |E(A)|/|S|
And it pisses me off. But I guess that means that the troll’s mission has been accomplished.
Real Engineers…
don’t get their panties in a twist over a set of system calls.
Links for 15-Feb-2012
- Dicking around with the Local Database on WP7 : http://wp7explorer.codeplex.com/documentation
- IR-Book - http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/
Book Plug
I just finished reading this masterpiece :
After 400 years, I still find it incredibly relevant.
TIL for 13th Feb 2012
- There’s something called the Orion Correlation Theory. The hypothesis is that the Pyramids of giza are lined up in alignment with the stars in Orion’s belt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_correlation_theory
Apping 2012
Current Situation :
Admitted : CMU LTI
Waiting to hear from : UWash, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Princeton,
TIL for 6th Feb 2012
- The human ear is nearly insensitive to phase : (try out the applet on this page).