Je Suis Excentrique
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 [...]
Suffix Trees
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 [...]
Huge Anagram List
It is my first time in a large laboratory and I am loving the silence (although I don’t know how silent this place will be next week and I am also quite apprehensive about letting other majors roam about Computer Scientist territory) Ahem, I am in the Lawson CS Building, in an air conditioned Linux [...]
Knuth Arrives at the Palakodetys’
Right, the greatest CS text in the world has graced the our house and our family is sure to churn out computer scientists for the next few generations. If you still haven’t guessed it, I have purchased the first volume of “The Art of Computer Programming” by Donald Knuth, professor emeritus of the art of [...]
College
I was solving sums from something I found on the webpage of the Berkeley Programming Contest (the sum does not belong to the PSets of the Berkeley Contests). I am pretty bored now and I intend to do something different (the only things I can do are code or sleep). My dad thinks cool posts [...]
220, Anna Salai – Hurdle Cleared
Woohoo, I’ve managed to clear the hurdle at 220 Anna Salai. But let me tell you guys, Chennai can drive anyone mad. Here is what I recollect from my trip (I do not have a camera so no pics): We drop in at a 3 star hotel named Dee Cee Manor ( who rates these [...]
Hatred for Media, Other News
I have observed a trend in the way people greet me: “You’ve got brothers or sisters ?” “No. I am the only one.” “Ah, no wonder you’re like this.” Right, wtf is wrong with me? I suppose thats some logic that’s escaped me and no amount of intelligence I use will help me figure out [...]
Tech Shows, Nonsense, Code
I happened to read on the BBC that they’ve managed to do a lot of spooky stuff on facebook with an application ( social networking sites are shit anyway ) which brings me to my current topic: Why do hosts of “Tech Shows” in India look like the channel’s CEO’s friend’s son who needs a [...]
A Book on Algorithms.
My Guru and an individual in whose service, I am ready to spend the rest of my life, Mr./ Uncle / Dr. ( I don’t know what he wants to be called ) Prashanth Mohan recommended that I get this cool book entitled, “Programming Pearls” by “Jon Bentley”. I happen to like the warnings the [...]
New Tablet PC
Right, I am blogging from a brand new HP Tablet PC running Windows Vista – and I will continue to run Vista on it till I get a Ubuntu CD because I have exhausted all my bandwidth and can’t afford to download more ( We’ve got the world’s worst ISPs – they have no idea [...]