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You surely mean this ? Calvin: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have color film back then? Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs…

Yeah Mr Kernighan is quite an extreme case of being the opposite of "Bow to me, worms". It felt like he would be more comfortable being invisible. He had his (open) cube diagonally behind mine and I d…

Phone interviews bother me too. I am pretty sure I come through a little dimmer because I often ask the question to be repeated. It never occurred to me to prevent a potential misconception by letting…

Thanks for your suggestion, that should really help. About the second spoken language, it is not that impressive in India. besides the fact that I lost my hearing later, and that too on one side. In I…

I am not deaf but have fairly limited hearing on one side, so much so that if an alarm goes off and I am on my wrong side I wouldnt know. For interacting with people I have come to realize that I inst…

From my experiences as an intern I can say that it has been quite the opposite. You get to mingle with all the unassuming icons of CS and Machine Learning. In fact the problem for me was not that it w…

Ads can be made less annoying by targeting them well. But the major problem is that annoying advertisement and spam works . Even though a bulk of them fall on deaf ears, the benefit, that a small per…

Very true. Those fast matrix and linear algebra libraries: BLAS, LAPACK are fast not because of using different algorithms but because of optimizing for cache reuse. Its the same reason why sometimes …

yielded results that surpass those of the academics and giants of the field That's an impressive pinch :)

Ah good point +1. Did not think about that. Maybe a single pass from /dev/urandom will suffice. But its going to be slow.

To adjust the model for this effect one needs to scale the axis of the multivariate Gaussian noise differently. But does the variation in the two different axis result from "how the dart travels", i.e…

An alternative could be to overwrite the disk with null bytes. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1M Wonder if it is going to be slower than wipe.

Is the upper bound O( <number of words> * <max word length> ^2 ) correct ? It seems to me that the upper bound should be O(<number of words> * <max word length&…

What I found was that it always kept 4 feet planted on the ground. Insects typically have 3 in contact with the ground and the other 3 propelling it. 3 is the minimum required for static stability, so…

I think one of the most well known and egregious example of large scale surveillance outfit is the Stasi. It's reported that there was one informer per every 6 and a half people. Possibly the highest …

Question: when you think of a significant industrial disaster, or say the worst industrial disaster does Bhopal come to your mind ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster Among the many traged…

This reminds me: could anyone tell me about future plans for unpython. It looked really nice, similar to shedskin and rpython. The last time I checked, and its a while ago, it seemed it played nicer w…

To survive natural selection the gene must give the animal some reproductive advantage. I can understand that promoting longevity beyond the reproductive stage of one's life cycle affords no such bene…

Ah! it makes more sense now. Thanks

This is not directly related to the post. But gauging that this topic will attract readers knowledgable about antidepressants, I figured I might get an illuminating response. I often read that a side-…

I still dont see where I made the connection that you ascribe to me. Nevertheless if such a connection is indeed visible in my comments, thats probably my lack of native english skills showing. Suspec…