Lots of stuff happening in the past week. Let me begin with that news which should come as a blow to storage enthusiasts. The HD-DVD format is going forever. Toshiba says it will no longer create HD-DVD players/records. Now, I liked the HD-DVD format for its ECMAScript support. Well thats over. Then the US blew [...]
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Shaun ( of #computers on irc.icq.net ) once mentioned that children are quite clever till people teach them things. I am currently in such a state. I’ve got ignorant people, ignorant about their ignorance, all around me and what’s more, this super-brain society feels that it is up to them to set me on the [...]
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Its over – the practical exams are finished. So here is the update: 4th of Feb: I entered the examination hall trying to figure out possible worst case scenarios ( my experience with the highly inaccurate fractional weights during the physical balance experiment hasn’t been pleasant. ). I was shivering and I got experiment 10 [...]
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I am busy writing dad’s pdf script. The real troubles begin when you parse 1000 pages using trash like pyparsing (yes, I am back to it). Anyway, let me see how it goes. I did another projecteuler.net sum today ( question 8 ). The question is: Find the greatest product of five consecutive digits in [...]
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Today I returned a bit too late from FIITJEE considering that I had to give the evaluation forms to my teachers. After returning home, I picked up a book titled “An Unusual Algebra” by I.M. Yaglom. It is an excellent work that introduces Boolean algebra. I have finished half the book. Here is what I [...]
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So, here we are at this very important juncture in life. Probably three months from now, I shall be clicking “Send” on each of my college applications. But first an update on what I have been doing. I am trying to write clean code and create a backup script. It seems to be coming on [...]
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Have a look at this. I found this question in my neighbour’s CS book. He is a CS student and his college’s introductory CS course is taught in C (Sadly I don’t know C :( ) import nzmath.gcd def crt(xl,ml): k = len(xl) m = ml[0] x = xl[0] for i in range(1,k): u,v,d = [...]
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