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Apping 2012

Shriphani — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:01:51 +0000

Current Situation :
Admitted : CMU LTI
Waiting to hear from : UWash, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Princeton,

TIL for 6th Feb 2012

Shriphani — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:55:53 +0000

The human ear is nearly insensitive to phase : (try out the applet on this page).

Co-Routines Gist

Shriphani — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:32:50 +0000

ICIP 2012

Shriphani — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:43:42 +0000

I did something I have wanted to do for a long time. I submitted a paper to ICIP 2012 as first author. I’ll post a description + explanation of our idea once I hear back from the ICIP folks.

Hopefully the idea was solid :)

TIL For January 16

Shriphani — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:12:16 +0000

The Messier Catalog: Charles Messier was interested in cataloging comets. Frustrated with his hunt, the compiled a large list of non-comet objects that he saw in the sky. This became one of the top referenced list of astronomical objects. These objects are given Messier numbers (M1, M2, M3…). So a list entirely of objects that the author had no interest in ended up being one of the top referenced lists ever.
It is possible to create a human being that is not aware of the concept of vision. See the book “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales” by Oliver Sacks.

Proprioception: This is our awareness of our limbs’ positions. A few case studies caused by the loss of proprioception are mentioned in the book above by Oliver Sacks.

The Copyright Nonsense

Shriphani — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:24:48 +0000

I spend a good 1 – 2 months in Singapore every year (family lives there). I got a Kindle for my dad and it is a joke that even Project Gutenberg stuff is not available on AMZN’s Singapore site. This is the 21st century and we are talking about a developed country with a very sound PPP. How can the only developed country in the region not merit enough attention for a well-furnished online-bookstore?

CRA

Shriphani — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:30:35 +0000

I didn’t get anything (which is ok since I never expected to get anything :D ).

Also, here’s a post I wrote on online-learning for my final ML project. It is about an SVM-ish Online Learning algorithm : http://shriphani.posterous.com/online-learning

Apping is hard, but it really helps you evaluate some stuff very well.

More updates on life coming soon.

TIL – November 23, 2011

Shriphani — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:19:08 +0000

Here is a document from 1904 (!) suggesting that the metric system is superior to the british units: http://bit.ly/MetricSuperior

Surprisingly I didn’t learn much the last 2 – 3 days…

TIL for November 20, 2011

Shriphani — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:53:16 +0000

Emil Post actually invented a deterministic computation model. In this model, the machine operated using a FIFO queue.

You would read the first symbol in the queue.
Delete the appropriate number of symbols from the head
Append a string corresponding to the symbol looked up in step #1.This machine has only 1 state. It is a valid model of computation and it is extremely simple to represent things like the collatz-sequence.
For more info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_system

What is it like to perform the first dissection:
http://www.quora.com/Medical-School/What-is-it-like-for-a-medical-student-to-cut-open-a-body-for-the-first-time
Training the pose-estimation classifier in the Kinect took 24 hours on a 1000 core cluster : http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/145347/BodyPartRecognition.pdf

TIL – November 19th 2011

Shriphani — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:12:03 +0000

Pope Gregory XIII – Responsible for the Gregorian Calendar : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_XIII
Where does ABC come from : http://ilovetypography.com/2010/08/07/where-does-the-alphabet-come-from/

Boustrophedon : Alternate lines are written in opposite directions. Characters may be reversed or mirrored.