Archive for April, 2006
15 Park Avenue
Last night I saw 15 Park Avenue with Farzein and Ray. Superb acting. I especially love the parts by Rahul Bose towards the end. I think I was more like: ‘oh what hit me?’ when I saw Mr and Mrs Iyer about 2 years back. I found that movie powerful, though 15 Park Avenue has [...]
Hifi
My friend had this interesting exchange of mails with a girl he added on facebook(in his own words): me: hi she: bye next day me: *sigh* next day she: why? fir kal me: r u shy? she: dont try! me: bheja fry!!! she: please don’t cry haay haay!
A teacher’s attitude
My former teachers should read this quote from Philip Greenspun: Most of my time as a graduate student was spent among the remarkably creative individuals assembled on the 4th floor by Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman. Now that I’m supervising students of my own, I realize that the most valuable lesson I can learn from [...]
Insanely great!
I have always experienced within myself a strange restlessness, to do something really ..umm its a little hard to describe. At ISM, Himanshu and I would often say: “yaar kuch fundu karna padega” [dude, we gotta do something insanely great]. OK, now I realize the words I was missing were ‘insanely great’. Interestingly, I was [...]
Tagged
OK, speaking of the previous post, I just realised I had done it long back, on 31 May 2004. Here’s what I did then, persuaded by Divya: 1. YOUR LEGAL FULL NAME Durga Prasad Pandey 2. WHAT COLOUR PANTS ARE YOU WEARING? Black 3. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? The humming of ac, [...]
Tag
1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn on page 18 and find line 4 ..we introduce two related concepts, relative entropy and mutual information.. From Elements of Information Theory by Thomas and Cover. 2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. Done. Phone just at that distance, so calling someone now [...]
