Shriphani Palakodety

Well, it is thanksgiving break and I was so far having a decent semester, straight As in all exams (a perfect score in economics – not that I should be proud of it or anythin) and then terror strikes. Or well whatever the college version of a cataclysm is. I managed to f’kin ruin (misunderstand) the spec on a project and I am in danger of throwing away a coveted 4.0 GPA which would have been a great reward for the long hours of study I have put in + a retooling of my schedule so I have the multitasking capability of a mule and those $$ my parents spend so their son can enjoy a pain free life in a first world country and try to make them proud. Well, as it happens, I managed to (or at least I think – the scores are not yet out) misunderstand a spec AAAAARRRGGHH! In a datastructures course, I mastered AVL & Red-Black trees, spent hours trying to tweak my implementations, did well on the exam and managed to blow it when it came to reading a text file and filling an array. I just wonder how I even pull this stuff off. With Grad School apps coming in 2 years, what will I have to show – a carelessness in even reading specs seriously that puts doubts on the efficacy of my research methodology, I just hope I don’t cause major problems for myself.

Well, in case this doesn’t make sense, I managed to misunderstand a technique to populate an array with data (the data structs would work with this but oh no, in my interest to take the maximum from this course, I devoted long hours to getting the data structs right). There is a very good chance that the part I screwed up would end up being insignificant but that is not the point. The point is that once again my grade is going to shuttle between the first two letters of the english alphabet.

Anyway, in all this self hatred that I have been building up for myself, I have managed to learn some cool stuff in Dr. Kihara’s lab. The work there is pleasant, I can feel good boasting about it and when I talk to my friends’ parents, I can make them believe I am going to find a solution to poverty in 4 years and find a cure for cancer in my spare time (you can see I am not popular).

However, a weird question I was dealing with was that most of the stuff I have written for my work is in Python and it would be cool if I could call it from Java since there are a bunch of people in the lab who use it. I am not looking for something complicated, just want to call a bunch of methods from a Python module. JPype and Jython seem to the things I should be looking for but with my awesome constraints (Python 2.6 should be supported, It should make coffee etc), I will need to use my Uber-GOOGLE-SKILLZ.

Anyway, this blog has managed to get to pagerank 0 (I will interpret that as the pagerank o loner being relevant ) and I am now a suggestion on Google (yay! my plan for world domination is in full swing!)

And I love this Charlie dude who bites his bro’s finger, as for kanye, well even the prez thinks he’s a jackass: