Bot
Recently I have been hacking away at a bot. Here’s the blog to document its progress : http://shriphani.tumblr.com/
Code Porn For March 2012
This entire page is full of win (and beautiful Haskell code). I found it when I was trying to cheat on a SPOJ problem.
Grad Schools and Stuffs
I spent a couple of days @ CMU LTI open house. I am fairly certain I will go there. I am waiting for the last set of admits to roll in (although they probably won’t change anything a lot), it would still be interesting to see how things go. Some things I am happy I [...]
Probability Trolls
In the not-too-distant past, I had the misfortune of being around probability trolls. Those who would exploit the bugs in the definition of probability to produce ridiculous answers to fermi-type problems. Q. What is the probability that there is life on Uranus? A. 0.5 – either there is life or there isn’t. Q. What is [...]
Real Engineers…
don’t get their panties in a twist over a set of system calls.
Links for 15-Feb-2012
Dicking around with the Local Database on WP7 : http://wp7explorer.codeplex.com/documentation IR-Book - http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/
Book Plug
I just finished reading this masterpiece : After 400 years, I still find it incredibly relevant.
TIL for 13th Feb 2012
There’s something called the Orion Correlation Theory. The hypothesis is that the Pyramids of giza are lined up in alignment with the stars in Orion’s belt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_correlation_theory
Apping 2012
Current Situation : Admitted : CMU LTI Waiting to hear from : UWash, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Princeton,
TIL for 6th Feb 2012
The human ear is nearly insensitive to phase : (try out the applet on this page).