CCMB is almost like a twin of IICT(where I am working) and it seems to be the preferred of the two labs of CSIR. Facilities there are extremely sexy ...it's one of the few labs in the world where stem-cell research is going on ( in India there is one other lab which is involved in this kind of research Relaince life sciences at mumbai). So we ventured inside CCMB. As CCMB and IICT share common library, hostels, health center and even a creche so there is no problem going inside and roaming about...we decided to do more ...we went to the canteen aka mess of the CCMB and whoaa!!! there were around 100 cute looking extremely sexy babes there of which my place is extremely devoid off. So we thought lets take a risk and eat there...and man the food was sexy and ltra cheap ..imagine a plate of rice with daal and a small cup of mango + 4 chappatis and a small cup of chicken curry for Rs. 14...we were all bowled !and the place was like a 3 star hotel;(if not five) with chandeliers and all.. ..and ofcourse cute north indian girl...so one night we have a lot of fun ...we ry over luck again nex afternoon and as they say if all is going too well then there's gota be something very wrong there !:O As we found it that it's not open for IICT people and hey were about to deny us lunch when a lady told us that you can eat here today but from nexct time use your own mess! godness me ..atleast not much embarrassment was there ...had those people told us to keep the plates down and go away:O:O:O ..aleast it would have been very embarassing ...
but as they say every thing is fair in love and war .I won't stop here:D(afterall rules are meant to be broken or bent) ..I 'll ask my prof to get us some permission to eat there. There is one more way ...last night we saw Dr. Bhargava at our library ..he's the founder of CCMB ...yes you got it :P...nething for food and chicks...We'll definitely try and talk to him and tell him how much we admire CCMB :D
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Thursday, May 12, 2005
hmm...
finally coming to terms with this place...found a couple of good places where they serve north indian dishes and not soo costly...seems it's time to concentrate more on my work
my work is related to neural networks and the professor(read scientist) is quite fundu ....he reads only journals and papers and his room is devoid of any books! also he has compelled us to code only in C so finally it's time to get fimilar with the baap of the languages! Actually neural networks are quite fundu things ...though the comparsion with brain, initially seemed fraud as we soon learned that it's nothing more a equation, but soon as we learned how it is applied the analogy with the human brain seemed natural.
It's like this ...when we first learn driving a car we first learn to get adapted to various controls..like how much we need to push the accelerator to race the engine as much as required and stuff...quite similarly
I'll be training a NN(or may be a smarter predessor of an ANN) to learn and control a batch distillation column.
It'll be a similar thing to teaching a person drive a car only difference being ..I'll teach this NN how much to push the "reflux ratio lever" to get an optimum output out of the column.
As I won't be working on a real distillation column, it'll be needed to make a software that mimics a batch distillation column and using the data from it we 'll train the network.
so thats what is my summer training all about and currently all I do is to read a bunch of papers that the scientist has given to us.It's a good learning experience for me and may be someday (though a far stretched dream) I'll see a paper written by me in a journal of chemical engineering.
Thats all for tonite ...
my work is related to neural networks and the professor(read scientist) is quite fundu ....he reads only journals and papers and his room is devoid of any books! also he has compelled us to code only in C so finally it's time to get fimilar with the baap of the languages! Actually neural networks are quite fundu things ...though the comparsion with brain, initially seemed fraud as we soon learned that it's nothing more a equation, but soon as we learned how it is applied the analogy with the human brain seemed natural.
It's like this ...when we first learn driving a car we first learn to get adapted to various controls..like how much we need to push the accelerator to race the engine as much as required and stuff...quite similarly
I'll be training a NN(or may be a smarter predessor of an ANN) to learn and control a batch distillation column.
It'll be a similar thing to teaching a person drive a car only difference being ..I'll teach this NN how much to push the "reflux ratio lever" to get an optimum output out of the column.
As I won't be working on a real distillation column, it'll be needed to make a software that mimics a batch distillation column and using the data from it we 'll train the network.
so thats what is my summer training all about and currently all I do is to read a bunch of papers that the scientist has given to us.It's a good learning experience for me and may be someday (though a far stretched dream) I'll see a paper written by me in a journal of chemical engineering.
Thats all for tonite ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Hyderabad blues :(
Yeah finally when the reality sinks in...far from home(home as in hometown or iitk) and far from my dear dear comp :(( .
Food is really bad, though not unhygenic but surely bad because idli and dosa for a day or two is okay but for two months! you gotta be kidding...but look at the brighter side ...may be I'll lose some weight :)
and may be someday I 'll find a paper in a chemical engineering journal written by me ! ...distant dreams
Food is really bad, though not unhygenic but surely bad because idli and dosa for a day or two is okay but for two months! you gotta be kidding...but look at the brighter side ...may be I'll lose some weight :)
and may be someday I 'll find a paper in a chemical engineering journal written by me ! ...distant dreams
Friday, May 06, 2005
Reporting from the Hi-Tech City
Hyderabad is a city which is actually clean and devoid of any garbage dumps! (first thing that strikes you when you reach here after smelling all that at the city of garbage ...our very own Kanpur.)
Second ...there aren't any cool looking girls here and I do wonder how Sania is cool and hep!
Third...Tata indicom is the coolest service here and I don't have to worry about changing my sim along with the cell.
Fourth ...food is goood at this place and is actually quiet cheap ..which is good.
Bad things are ...no cycle rickshaw...that is actually very bad ...but have a bus service here which seems kinda best in the world (somebody actually mentioned it) so seems it's time for the bus
see ya
Second ...there aren't any cool looking girls here and I do wonder how Sania is cool and hep!
Third...Tata indicom is the coolest service here and I don't have to worry about changing my sim along with the cell.
Fourth ...food is goood at this place and is actually quiet cheap ..which is good.
Bad things are ...no cycle rickshaw...that is actually very bad ...but have a bus service here which seems kinda best in the world (somebody actually mentioned it) so seems it's time for the bus
see ya
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Self hurting!
I was in a bad mood last night and thought that I am hurting myself by not studying. Then as a flash it struck me, is it possible to hurt yourself ??? ...knowingly? I wondered for sometime ...maybe it is. Don't I hurt myself sometimes just to show that I can endure the pain ? Like cycling down 12-13 kms to town and not stopping once. I do not study when I really need to. Then I decided to ask about it from you-know-who, yes the giant himself The Google God! ...And here is what I found. This site is very scary, giving an insight on the darkest of the human pyschology. Is it all really true? how can someone "cut" himself/herself? won't it hurt ? Hurt...some people really don't feel it because
"Some people still don't feel pain because the production of endorphins is too high. Endorphins act as natural opiates, pain killers, and anesthetics. When too many of them are being produced, a person does not feel pain.
Having said all this ... yes, there are people who self-injure who feel pain. Of course there are. To some people, this pain is welcome. They feel like they are bad in some way and that they deserve to hurt. Or they may like the pain because the sharper physical pain blunts out the emotional pain."
Hmm so the hurt funda is now clearer. But but but why would I do it in the first place ???
Reason in my view is the fucking mind! it plays games ..Why do people drink ? dope? just to relieve the pain(?) ...this may be a similar effort towards the same. Creating a pain greater than the emotional pain to dwarf it in front of the physical one.
Wow ! this is something I am gonna search more about. Don't worry I am not going to be a "cutter"... I ve better things to do :)
"Some people still don't feel pain because the production of endorphins is too high. Endorphins act as natural opiates, pain killers, and anesthetics. When too many of them are being produced, a person does not feel pain.
Having said all this ... yes, there are people who self-injure who feel pain. Of course there are. To some people, this pain is welcome. They feel like they are bad in some way and that they deserve to hurt. Or they may like the pain because the sharper physical pain blunts out the emotional pain."
Hmm so the hurt funda is now clearer. But but but why would I do it in the first place ???
Reason in my view is the fucking mind! it plays games ..Why do people drink ? dope? just to relieve the pain(?) ...this may be a similar effort towards the same. Creating a pain greater than the emotional pain to dwarf it in front of the physical one.
Wow ! this is something I am gonna search more about. Don't worry I am not going to be a "cutter"... I ve better things to do :)
Sunday, April 17, 2005
What is Google?
Yeah I know that there exists an article somewhere with the same heading. But in my view thats not the future of google. If google had aspirations to get into O.S. market they would have started doing stuff oriented towads the same. But all google tries to do is to do with browser...they hire guys from mozilla, they get a search utility going which has a browser based interface and what not. All this clearly shows that GooOS may remian a fiction for ever.
From where I see it, the future of google seems to be much more inclined towards web applications than OS. What I see coming from google in coming years is an integration of Gmail, Orkut(which as of now is not google product as such), picassa etc into one complete utility where you once log in you may do usual mail stuff, it remembers your settings and serves news to you as you want it, it shows all your friends and you may do the addictive scrapping stuff, also the normal search thing which may also be customized according to your taste and ofcourse you may blog also from the same utility.
So much for integrated utility. What more google may offer? Google Office or GOffice is the next thing that comes to my mind.Google may start a service creating a killer app where you can create a document like word (imagine writing a project report with that powerful google search, with prefecthing on, on every word, definitions, spell check, conversions, stock quotes, trivia, encyclopedia, exact distance between two places and a satellite map of the same, including video to this document, current news related to the topic, personal views in form of blogs, book search, journal serach, directory search ,image search ... an what not...An office with all the information at your door step...Also this office suite would allow you to save that "word" file or ppt in a briefcase in the gmail account and when you need it just start the presentation from the GOffice itself. Also it may allow you to publish the document on the web by just clicking a button.
You may also get advice from google answers for the document in no time. Possibilities are just limitless!
From where I see it, the future of google seems to be much more inclined towards web applications than OS. What I see coming from google in coming years is an integration of Gmail, Orkut(which as of now is not google product as such), picassa etc into one complete utility where you once log in you may do usual mail stuff, it remembers your settings and serves news to you as you want it, it shows all your friends and you may do the addictive scrapping stuff, also the normal search thing which may also be customized according to your taste and ofcourse you may blog also from the same utility.
So much for integrated utility. What more google may offer? Google Office or GOffice is the next thing that comes to my mind.Google may start a service creating a killer app where you can create a document like word (imagine writing a project report with that powerful google search, with prefecthing on, on every word, definitions, spell check, conversions, stock quotes, trivia, encyclopedia, exact distance between two places and a satellite map of the same, including video to this document, current news related to the topic, personal views in form of blogs, book search, journal serach, directory search ,image search ... an what not...An office with all the information at your door step...Also this office suite would allow you to save that "word" file or ppt in a briefcase in the gmail account and when you need it just start the presentation from the GOffice itself. Also it may allow you to publish the document on the web by just clicking a button.
You may also get advice from google answers for the document in no time. Possibilities are just limitless!
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Is O.S. self destructive?
Offlate a disturbing thought has started bothering me. What would happen after 20 years from now on ? Is open source going to destroy software businesses? Well right at the start let me clarify that I like open source a lot and as much as possible try to use open source software. But is this open source a "destructive technology "?
A few days back I read a Richard Stallman interview where he said people should not develop software for living !
Imagine thousands of families without a source of income all over India if this ever happens.So in a way I feel that what RMS says is utter crap. I'ts okay that he developed FSF and we use a lot of his code today but his view are skewed and he fails to understand what could be implications of Free software. If we make very software free then there won't be any software business and whatever would be left would be just to maintain code. If all the code is open sourced then what would be the motivation to develop a software ...if you cannot sell it?
Imagine a scenario in future when a lot of code is open source and more then 50 % people use open source model . Then a person x needs a specific program and he asks a particular company to develop this code. Having a firm belief in Open Source he asks the company to GPL the software they developed for him or atleast give him the source code. Like him a lot of people need this software and they demand the same from the company. So now a few individuals on this planet have this software and this code . What happens next is anybody's guess!
These people who have the code start selling it (piracy ) steps in. Not only does the comapny which developed the code is not able to sell it anymore ,somebody else is making money on their work !
think about it
and leave comments ..may be I m not able to see things in right perspective..correct me if I m wrong
A few days back I read a Richard Stallman interview where he said people should not develop software for living !
Imagine thousands of families without a source of income all over India if this ever happens.So in a way I feel that what RMS says is utter crap. I'ts okay that he developed FSF and we use a lot of his code today but his view are skewed and he fails to understand what could be implications of Free software. If we make very software free then there won't be any software business and whatever would be left would be just to maintain code. If all the code is open sourced then what would be the motivation to develop a software ...if you cannot sell it?
Imagine a scenario in future when a lot of code is open source and more then 50 % people use open source model . Then a person x needs a specific program and he asks a particular company to develop this code. Having a firm belief in Open Source he asks the company to GPL the software they developed for him or atleast give him the source code. Like him a lot of people need this software and they demand the same from the company. So now a few individuals on this planet have this software and this code . What happens next is anybody's guess!
These people who have the code start selling it (piracy ) steps in. Not only does the comapny which developed the code is not able to sell it anymore ,somebody else is making money on their work !
think about it
and leave comments ..may be I m not able to see things in right perspective..correct me if I m wrong
Friday, March 04, 2005
OS(open source)
We are planning to roll out an IITK specific gentoo based Linux/GNU distro.This distro would enable lesser mortals like us to use gentoo without wasting too much time on tweaking. I ve already tried gentoo once but it could not boot :) . Though I dislike the very idea of tweaking everything myself and like things that are polished. I guess this is where Open Source needs to catch up ...polished products. There are a very few polished and complete products around. Those who are there are very famous like firefox,DC++,fedora etc. What do I mean by polished here ?
A polished product is a complete product with documentation , hardware compatibility and most importantly user friendliness. I guess a lot of products in open source domain lack this.They don't worry much on UI part which in my view is the most important as not everybody is a rocket scientist to figure out things and tweak and optimize. This is the same with gentoo. It's a great product but it lacks UI. Had they concentrated on making the installation process a bit user friendly ,it would have been numero uno in linux distro market. In my view this is the sole reason why companies like M$ and apple have gained so much market, they concentrate a lot on UI.
Time has come for OS to break this shackles of Non User friendly interfaces OR crappy UIs and realize that if OS has to gain more popularity then UI is a must.
A polished product is a complete product with documentation , hardware compatibility and most importantly user friendliness. I guess a lot of products in open source domain lack this.They don't worry much on UI part which in my view is the most important as not everybody is a rocket scientist to figure out things and tweak and optimize. This is the same with gentoo. It's a great product but it lacks UI. Had they concentrated on making the installation process a bit user friendly ,it would have been numero uno in linux distro market. In my view this is the sole reason why companies like M$ and apple have gained so much market, they concentrate a lot on UI.
Time has come for OS to break this shackles of Non User friendly interfaces OR crappy UIs and realize that if OS has to gain more popularity then UI is a must.
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Yippee!
Good things are happening to me
First) I won two competitions at Techkriti (technical festival at IITK) first one was hacking competition ...conducted by Sachin Deodher a huge geek! when he talked we were like "WOW!!!"
he actually runs a comp with 1 ghz overclocking ..can you believe this !!
well the prize money was 5000 and three guys share it ... my teammates were Varun from pune and anirban from jalpaigudi(must admit he was a big pain ) ...though had no idea about the last round as it involved a lot about assembely but did chipped in with my bit in the first two rounds...
second)Was really unexpected ..but I must admit that I dreamt a lot about it :) Dreams sometimes come true ... But surely it was the most unexpected...The open software contest ...a sexy 15k prize money and a geek recognition ..what more I could have asked for ...and whats more we did not even have a presentation ready or a paper to present to judges
But we did it with style ..even though my english was jerky and cheap ..I managed it
we here means nanda and me ...but I m not gonna share any prize money with him :P
hmm ..so much for techkriti
yesterday I got this summer internship at Ankeleshwar in gujrat ..must admit not a very good one ..but neither a bad one ....this one with 2000 bucks and TA and accomodation would see my summer through
and yeah I was working for a company and they gave me 500 bucks
so money is not scarce these days for me
whats more ..yeah a girl proposed to me :D
so I guess my lukha days are over ...but ...are they ?
Nah ...I am better as I am ..free like a ....street dog :P
is there somethign I m forgetting ?
well don't think so
adios
First) I won two competitions at Techkriti (technical festival at IITK) first one was hacking competition ...conducted by Sachin Deodher a huge geek! when he talked we were like "WOW!!!"
he actually runs a comp with 1 ghz overclocking ..can you believe this !!
well the prize money was 5000 and three guys share it ... my teammates were Varun from pune and anirban from jalpaigudi(must admit he was a big pain ) ...though had no idea about the last round as it involved a lot about assembely but did chipped in with my bit in the first two rounds...
second)Was really unexpected ..but I must admit that I dreamt a lot about it :) Dreams sometimes come true ... But surely it was the most unexpected...The open software contest ...a sexy 15k prize money and a geek recognition ..what more I could have asked for ...and whats more we did not even have a presentation ready or a paper to present to judges
But we did it with style ..even though my english was jerky and cheap ..I managed it
we here means nanda and me ...but I m not gonna share any prize money with him :P
hmm ..so much for techkriti
yesterday I got this summer internship at Ankeleshwar in gujrat ..must admit not a very good one ..but neither a bad one ....this one with 2000 bucks and TA and accomodation would see my summer through
and yeah I was working for a company and they gave me 500 bucks
so money is not scarce these days for me
whats more ..yeah a girl proposed to me :D
so I guess my lukha days are over ...but ...are they ?
Nah ...I am better as I am ..free like a ....street dog :P
is there somethign I m forgetting ?
well don't think so
adios
Sunday, January 02, 2005
Politics and other stuff
Politics @ iitk: is cleaner than any other place in india (yes I can safely say that after spending 3 yrs at iitk)...Elections are coming near and I was convincing my ex roomie to have ago at the presi post ...but he's not ready..I don't think I have ever seen a much more composed and maure person than him ...but maturity has some traits ..it takes away the spirit of adventure from you ...
New year: like others before have promise and excitment and I really wish to do some good work in my grade books this year ...infact I ve to do it otherwise ...
New courses this year are really crazy and weird ...one from the deadly skg seems tough right from the word go with a lot of imagination and stuff ...then the bio course has a lot of mugging to do and then there are two courses which haven't yet started !!! Infact one is going to start from 17 th jan after almost 20 days the sem starts ...some profs are really cool :)
Why aren't all of em like him ...I really hope that he takes the course at all :P
then there is this lab course we have to do which is kinda weird and we have to do a 20 min presentation of all the practicals ...weird isn't it ?
My cellphone: I miss you ...You won't ever understand why I ve left you home ...infact even I don't understand why I did that :P ....and my ex roomie told me that you are weird when I told him that I ve left my cell home ...but is there some reason behind this action ...there must be one ....is it becoz I was too pissed off wasting my parents' money ? Or is it because I was not able to control myself and was always hooked to it ? probably it's all of these ...And I don't really repent the decision now I really do have so much time to do other stuff :)
try it once ..you won't need it again
New year: like others before have promise and excitment and I really wish to do some good work in my grade books this year ...infact I ve to do it otherwise ...
New courses this year are really crazy and weird ...one from the deadly skg seems tough right from the word go with a lot of imagination and stuff ...then the bio course has a lot of mugging to do and then there are two courses which haven't yet started !!! Infact one is going to start from 17 th jan after almost 20 days the sem starts ...some profs are really cool :)
Why aren't all of em like him ...I really hope that he takes the course at all :P
then there is this lab course we have to do which is kinda weird and we have to do a 20 min presentation of all the practicals ...weird isn't it ?
My cellphone: I miss you ...You won't ever understand why I ve left you home ...infact even I don't understand why I did that :P ....and my ex roomie told me that you are weird when I told him that I ve left my cell home ...but is there some reason behind this action ...there must be one ....is it becoz I was too pissed off wasting my parents' money ? Or is it because I was not able to control myself and was always hooked to it ? probably it's all of these ...And I don't really repent the decision now I really do have so much time to do other stuff :)
try it once ..you won't need it again
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