Shriphani Palakodety

NASA’s jetliner flying over Australia captured Hayabusa re-entering the atmosphere. Here’s a link to the original:HayabusaRentryVideo.avi

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I found this video on facebook. It is about a banker in the state of Tamilnadu in India who changed the lives of a lot of people in his state. It is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. Banking On Change (12 min version) from Pilgrim Films on Vimeo.

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The patent on the breast cancer gene is ruled invalid. A big day for research. I only hope this ensures that any such patents in the future don’t stand in the path of research. http://www.aclu.org/free-speech-womens-rights/patents-breast-cancer-genes-ruled-invalid-aclupubpat-case

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Well, this year, I did a lot of cool stuff. You can’t believe the stuff I did this year. First, I managed to blow up a stat course and get a B – right in the second semester in one of the easiest courses (supposedly). Well, the next sem went well. And that is all [...]

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  So, I decided to go ahead and my computing experience a bit richer. I of course had an apple LED cinema display in mind but at $900 for 24” and $1800 for 30”, I could have as well purchased a new macbook. So, I decided to buy an Acer monitor on tigerdirect.com and after [...]

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I have been observing the lifestyle of the 4th grader who is spending a fortnight at our place and positively, I hate it. Poor kid is sort of pushed around everyday. Why? To impart to him the knowledge of English Grammar. He recites the parts of speech (I know them too, just in case you [...]

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So, I’ve managed a measly 94 % overall in the Intermediate Public Examinations and life’s good. Well, I guess that in my life there was math, code and more math. I have realized that I get this excellent feeling when beautifully written Python code ( ever saw Python code in Komodo ? With the indentation, [...]

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I recently featured in the comments of Ms. Sramana Mitra’s blog. Sramana as you all know is an entrepreneur who did cool stuff after college. She went to Smith College for a B.S. and to MIT ( !!!! ) for an M.S. in EECS ( !!!! ). I will be there in 4 years don’t [...]

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Impress a bunch of liberal arts majors. Failed to prove to a bunch of liberal arts majors that I along with a million others will save the planet from imminent doom. Failed to make a liberal arts guy laugh. I can make most laugh at someone else. Failed to get them equal opportunity guys to [...]

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Let me bustle in with some code, I have had enough of pondering about MIT and lost opportunities and I want to continue doing what I always loved, coding. I am back to solving sums on Project Euler. Well, I am going to get back to web development now. I have stayed away from my [...]

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