Saturday, November 5, 2011

(SA) turday

iNever thought iWould work this hard ever in my life. But iIsc has always been known to change one's view of life(and death actually). iFor one, never thought iWould care about submitting assignments on time. Of course if you observe my schedule for the past few days/weeks you wouldn't believe me. But the interesting thing is iAm reading up a lot of stuff unrelated to what doing the assignment requires.
iCompletely love the library here- awesome collection of books and the environment extremely conducive to studies(iDo watch movies in there once every few days though-- the earphones were a brilliant invention,weren't they??).
Recently we got to know how google's search algorithm works. yeah yeah, we all knew it uses pagerank and stuff like that-- but we got to now how it REALLY works(equations and all).

iHave learnt one thing here(actually many things, but one thing really major). We used the same books when we were at Dayalbagh, the internet wasn't too different either(okay, the connection speed was slower by ORDERS of magnitude)-- but we all learn to apply. and that is brilliant! once you see some algorithm, some technique or any such theory at work the feeling is really awesome. Am planning to apply something akin to, but much simpler than, pagerank for one of my minor projects.
Hoping it works.

Meanwhile you could enjoy this awesome advice to young people by donald knuth.(Yes he is my hero and idol and no, iStill don't get half the stuff in his books)

iThink he is cool! and iDo mind if you don't pronounce it right.(Ka-nooth)

This is where you click.<--- Knuth stuff

This is where you don't.


so long, human!

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