Archive for April, 2007
MIT Admissions director sacked
In a shocking revelation, the Dean for Undergrad education sent out an email this morning, informing that Admissions Dean Marilee Jones, who seems to be quite well known as a simple Google search will tell you, has resigned. This was after it was found that she had “misrepresented her academic degrees”. I wonder what that [...]
Paper reading times
After reading Keshav’s elegant piece on how to read research papers, my effectiveness in reading papers seems to have increased. So lets do a log of how long its taking me to read papers now and see where the curve goes: Deployment Experience with Differentiated services(6 pages) – 45 mins Inter-provider Q0S(27 pages) – 2.30 [...]
SF Half Marathon
The SF Half Marathon is tempting me. I think I’ll do it. And break my previous timing by at least 20 minutes.
Fixing machines rant
I’m interested in the idea of designing machines that are easier to operate and do not require an expert everytime something goes wrong. Machines that would be designed with the aim of making faults visible. That machine could be a computer, a router, or a really simple user appliance. I wonder if this might mean [...]
