Shriphani Palakodety

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Fixing Schedule

August 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments · College, Computer Science, Daily life

So, my plan for semester #5 seems to be finalized. I did not do too well in the Physics test out – apparently they cover less in the summer iteration of the course than they test for in the test-out. This mean I will have to take Phys 272 in semester #6 (ah well, a [...]

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Summer and Fall 2010 + SURF 2010

August 26th, 2010 · No Comments · College, Computer Science, Daily life, Mathematics

So, 4 days into this semester I think I have decided my schedule. I am assuming I have a relatively light semester owing to some stupidity I engaged in (screw ups with the coursework). Anyway, here’s my coursework for this semester: CS 352 – Compilers (supposed to be hard) CS 314 – Numerical Methods (this [...]

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Decline of Journalism

June 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Daily life, PITA

A rant on the media and its many shortcomings.

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1:18 Mercedes Roadster 500k

June 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Daily life

Some pictures of my 1:18 die-cast Mercedes Benz Roadster 500k.

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Gandhi – How Modern India Can’t Understand This Man

May 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Daily life

More often than not, those who have hit puberty recently (or are in such a mental state. This of course would include most of the Indian youth), try to convince me that Gandhi was flawed, his ideologies were backward (some have even gone on to call him a racist – I don’t know where you [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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