Shriphani ‘PSP’ Palakodety

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The One PITA

November 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Daily life, PITA, python

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) [...]

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Experiments With Interior Design

September 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Daily life

Well, yesterday I mentioned the battle of tarkington, an elaborate arrangement of action figures to illustrate a story. Well here is the second part:
Snake Eyes, struggles to aim at our heroes due to the high velocity winds. He decides to end it the cool way, by cutting the cord used by Data Center and Beach [...]

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Experiments With Interior Design

September 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Daily life

So, I was trying to get my room to look like the best place on earth and I stumbled upon the idea to use my Action Figures to spice things up. Everyday, the action figures will be arranged to show a new scene. Well this is how it looks so far:
Baroness tries to kill anyone [...]

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Addiction Theory

August 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Daily life, Psychology

School starts next week. I am now a sophomore and will work in a lab for the first time (yay!). Anyway, I was trying to understand how addiction works and I was not exactly pleased by the absence theories so I decided to give it my own spin. This is of course not researched and [...]

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Tonsillectomy: Biggest PITA in the World

August 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Daily life

Ok, Since it seems to be customary to document one’s suffering post one of the most commonly performed surgeries in the world, I have decided to put my experience online as well.
Ok, post surgery, I spent a day in the hospital. I am sure that in most cases you’re sent back home in a few [...]

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RPN Calculator – Keeping Boredom Away

January 14th, 2009 · 17 Comments · Daily life, Mathematics, python

Alright, those who know me well are bound to ask, 19 credit hours and you are bored? Answer: Yes. It is still the first week and we don’t seem to have gotten beyond the “introduce your loser self to the other non-interested members of the class” and since I have only 1 programming intensive course [...]

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2008, Fall ‘08, Life Update

January 4th, 2009 · No Comments · College, Computer Science, Daily life, photography

Ok, this post is a few days late but since I have made a habit of thinking hard about personal stuff to blog about and coming up with nothing, I am sure this delay will cause no harm….
So, my fall semester worked out pretty good in the end. I managed a 4.0 GPA and now [...]

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Life Update

December 1st, 2008 · No Comments · College, Computer Science, Daily life, python

So, I am now trying to while away time in this totally freaking awesome thanksgiving break when its just too hard to find vegetarian food (I don’t know why people are hell bent on making life difficult for vegetarians, aren’t plants easier to grow than animals?), or people in this dorm. Well, here is a [...]

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Je Suis Excentrique

November 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · College, Daily life

As I sit here sipping my 10th cup of coffee ( a clear indication that my coffee drinking habits border on “poisoning” ), I whip up the last remaining lines of code for a Problem on project euler. I can’t help but wonder that my blogging, project euler problem solving frequency has dipped way too [...]

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Suffix Trees

October 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments · College, Computer Science, Daily life, python

Since I was quite bored this week (thanks to an October break I spent entirely in my room) and a homework assignment that quite seriously sucked balls, I decided to read something about strings and read about Suffix trees and decided to whip up an algorithm that would create a neat suffix tree by walking [...]

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