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I’m known to use a lot of long-winded, verbose sentences in my writing, but even I found the response I gave when a friend asked me how I had been doing (or something to that effect) rather odd: Don’t ask! Got back from a MUN yesterday only to get an eye infection today [...] My apologies for the recent hiatus. I’ve had my mid term exams this past week. The exams began in a rather interesting manner. Now during our mid-terms, we are given one hour long 30 mark papers with 3 questions to attempt out of a total of (usually) 4 or (less often) 5, each question being [...] I found these very touching videos through this blog, which in turn I found a couple of hours ago through someone else’s blog. The blog itself is highly recommended reading. It’s not often I ask you to read a blog without having followed it for a while, but the posts there, the first few ones [...] I found this great podcast on iTunes U. This is Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at Google, talking about what she calls the ‘9 Notions of Innovation’. I found a video on Youtube as well: Here is a gist of the main talking points during the presentation: Ideas come from everywhere A fair bit has been said in jest about animals that roam the halls of engineering colleges in Bombay. Here is proof. From my own class. No kidding. This dog strolls in during a lecture and decides to take a bit of a nap. Well, the dog wasn’t alone. These guys didn’t mind taking 40 [...] The latest buzz on the blogosphere is the unmasking of Fake Steve Jobs- the anonymous blogger who, for more than a year now has assumed the self-interpreted persona of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. A very creative interpretation at that. ‘The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs’ is one of my favourite blogs- the kind one looks forward [...] I’m usually pretty good at pointing out the flaws in mathematical puzzles that give contradictory answers… the types that give you results like 1 equals 0, you get the idea. I just found this one that has had me stumped: First we set: x=0.999999999…… (infinitely recurring) Multiplying both sides by 10, we have, 10x=9.999999999….. (infinitely recurring) subtracting the first equation [...] |
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