tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89432002024-03-07T13:32:18.281-08:00ramble-maniaMy life: Born at St. Isabel Hosp., Chennai, INDIA -> AVM Hr. Sec. School, Chennai -> REC, Tiruchi -> STMicroelectronics Ltd., Noida -> Johns Hopkins Univ. -> Google Inc. -> Microsoft Corp.Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-78602913200073475302009-12-03T00:54:00.000-08:002009-12-03T00:55:20.324-08:00Logic and Algorithms.Its no more unrequited love - this winter I plan to start a website dedicated to 'identifying interesting problems on Logic and Algorithms'.<br />
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</div><div>1) NP Completeness.<br />
</div><div>2) Satisfiability.<br />
</div><div>3) Algorithms on strings.<br />
</div><div>4) Programming Languages - Python.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">For motivation I did a random search that had the second hit something like this.</span><br />
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"As the hardware is getting cheaper and faster everyday, if you can get things done than investing time on efficiency of algorithms, you are a winner in the current business world."<br />
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</div>Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-55402791441458158222009-10-02T10:39:00.000-07:002009-10-02T10:41:42.016-07:00munch of the day.<div><br /></div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y1hcc1QvM2Q&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y1hcc1QvM2Q&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div><br /></div><div>Can you feel it? Sure I can :-)</div><div><br /></div>Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-28250275833366246822009-09-14T15:39:00.000-07:002009-09-14T15:44:15.178-07:00I am reminded of those days when everything I do, I do it for a prize.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/o_OqvUbBNA4&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/o_OqvUbBNA4&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-76130687584657065722009-09-05T18:32:00.000-07:002009-09-05T18:42:26.669-07:00Federer look-alike<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.usopen.org/images/pics/large/b_001_federer-.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 333px;" src="http://www.usopen.org/images/pics/large/b_001_federer-.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/photos/2009-09-02/200909021251910118587.html?glryid=top_images_gallery#">Link</a>Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-92007313240246146772007-10-27T11:54:00.000-07:002007-10-27T11:59:48.043-07:00“WTF is wrong with this world!”Summer times - “WTF is wrong with this world!”<br /><br />Well apart from work, there were at least a million activities to do. While some get involved in arcade while others in pool, some pick some drinks and chat with the girlfriends, while others simply go tango-ing. If at all there is one soul who sit right in the middle of all this and thinking “WTF is wrong…” ?<br /><br />And there was this Boat cruise, a beautiful large boat cruising along all the interns and their guests. You cannot expect a better trip on the seas off SFO on the moonlight sipping beers and playing say no-to-girls-when-they-try-to-tease-you games. Well occasionally you might spot a dark figure in the moonlight at the end of the boat, sitting motionless and highly contemplative, amidst all this fantasy gamers, thinking “WTF is wrong…”<br /><br />There was this girl (Ramya – name changed mainly fearing her husband might bash her up after seeing this post, say, after 20 years), good looking and with great assets. No wonder I was totally into only one direction, “her” direction. Every time we meet in the Namaste Café smiling faces crop up and small “Hi”. Once out of excitement I approached her “What about a Coffee?” and that’s it, and could hardly see her for the rest of the days. I could imagine what must have been running all over her mind “Well, he would call me for a coffee, then a date, and will have all the fun in this world and I am ditched”; Perfectly normal. And I would have appreciated if she had told me this straight on face, at least I will be happy to know my reckoning is correct. Well if she later realizes that she was horribly wrong, then again I will still be there sitting in one end thinking “WTF is wrong…”<br /><br />Yeah the summer was great, I did a lot. Yeah a lot! Scootering, skate boarding, and racing, and what not! Well, I wish I could have done more and it all started when I called up home,<br /><br />Amma: “enna?” (what?)<br />Me: “I got an internship at Google”<br />Amma: “enna adhu?” (what is that?)<br />Me: “Gooooooooooooogle”<br />Amma: “enna Goggle-aa?”<br />Me: “No no, Google! amma”<br />Amma: “ennavo po!” (ok that’s something)<br />Me: “No no it’s not something, its Google G-O-O-G-L-E”<br />Amma: “Ok ok ozhunga saapidu” (ok ok eat well)<br /><br />And the phone was cut and so is the story of my Internship.Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-4290097699598623052007-07-15T23:12:00.000-07:002007-07-15T23:26:44.661-07:00Kudos to 2007 batch.<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s7tYNYCKO_U"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s7tYNYCKO_U" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />I remember our batch (2002) lost in semi.<br />This one is on narasimha avatar and batch won the first prize in Saarang 2007.Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-74719003471728435022007-07-06T09:17:00.000-07:002007-07-06T09:29:02.924-07:00Reporter's affair.Ha ha ha, a real funny situation.<br /><br />What if a reporter does news report of LA Mayor's extra-marital affair? What if the girl whom he is having an affair is the reporter herself?<br /><br />Will she still report it as 'Mayor is having an affair with me" (That will awesome, I would love to watch it)?<br /><br />or Will she cover up the news? which is again unethical!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/06/us/06mayor.html?_r=2&ref=us&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/06/us/06mayor.html?_r=2&ref=us&oref=slogin&oref=slogin</a>Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-52000196514689687432007-07-01T15:25:00.000-07:002007-07-01T15:43:26.523-07:00New poll<embed allowScriptAccess="never" saveEmbedTags="true" src="http://www.polldaddy.com/poll.swf" FlashVars="p=63352" quality="high" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="252" height="454" name="beta3" salign="tl" scale="autoscale" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" ></embed>Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-62688336952904914302007-05-20T13:07:00.000-07:002008-11-13T13:30:10.321-08:00Thought for the day.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHbSeRrsfUAAfwaAsUUQrLG26PiXXynivNCvUrjWoj-M-v6z_A2SME2M3EHmXFI3EbjVhPq9eFB7Z_61bigRfDKi7VN6cNcKEsYRC98Ck2Q8iOhwk8cWPkIPA38skCnyQPrBq2kg/s1600-h/sparkjones.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066741324907133778" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHbSeRrsfUAAfwaAsUUQrLG26PiXXynivNCvUrjWoj-M-v6z_A2SME2M3EHmXFI3EbjVhPq9eFB7Z_61bigRfDKi7VN6cNcKEsYRC98Ck2Q8iOhwk8cWPkIPA38skCnyQPrBq2kg/s320/sparkjones.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div></div><div>I certainly think that professionalism is very important...To be a proper professional you need to think about the context and motivation and justifications of what you're doing...You don't need a fundamental philosophical discussion every time you put finger to keyboard, but as computing is spreading so far into people's lives you need to think about these things...I've always felt that once you see how important computing is for life you can't just leave it as a blank box and assume that somebody reasonably competent and relatively benign will do something right with it.</div><br /><div></div><div>-- Karen Sparck Jones</div><br /><br /><div></div></div>Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-79457905077741382092007-04-14T23:04:00.001-07:002007-04-14T23:04:59.416-07:00Quote of the day.When the nervous energy of the brain runs down then the mind switches off logical thinking and functions just in modes of emotion or desire.<br /><br /><br /><em>courtesy - Jaycee</em><br /><em></em>Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-38928812804843919462007-02-13T22:00:00.000-08:002007-02-13T22:02:23.955-08:00News update.<p> <span class="t">STMicroelectronics' Nomadik(TM) Application Processor Selected for LG's New JoY Smartphone</span><br /><span class="tt">Tuesday February 13, 2:00 am ET</span> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="4"><tbody><tr><td height="4"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="t2">LG chooses ST's Nomadik Multimedia Application Processor with pre-integrated S60 platform to power its first S60 smartphone products</span> </p>GENEVA, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=stm&d=t">STM</a> - <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=stm">News</a>) announced today that LG Electronics has selected ST's award-winning* Nomadik(TM) multimedia application processor technology, together with ST's pre-integrated S60 Platform, for LG's first S60 phone, called JoY...<br /><br />http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070213/nytu027.html?.v=89<br /><br />Courtesy - Ashish srivastava (bhaiyya!)Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-60438143301590485362007-02-13T20:54:00.000-08:002007-02-13T20:56:56.056-08:00V-day.To all the cupid's failures...<br />Valentine's day condolences.Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-87232338707429366202007-01-19T11:04:00.000-08:002007-02-05T13:42:58.727-08:00After resigning my job in library, took my laptop and opened orkut as usual and ding *#$%^???<br /><br /><br />Today's fortune:You are next in line for promotion in your firmVijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-89869931873200401012007-01-13T22:59:00.000-08:002008-11-13T13:30:10.560-08:00Happy pongal.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrwQP6QUHmCs7xrXbG9GUbkHS_DhhyphenhyphenWJD0Th4cWuYPD9YLL7u1W0qrQguruiLycjf8YFPo9h11N_EcPuHnD1hDl4MT6jO2-Vsy1ezFTZCaF6PRMuKhDfSz3WraTQzb66zhuqHJ8w/s1600-h/pongal.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5019777675455142850" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrwQP6QUHmCs7xrXbG9GUbkHS_DhhyphenhyphenWJD0Th4cWuYPD9YLL7u1W0qrQguruiLycjf8YFPo9h11N_EcPuHnD1hDl4MT6jO2-Vsy1ezFTZCaF6PRMuKhDfSz3WraTQzb66zhuqHJ8w/s320/pongal.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><div></div><div>Wish you all Happy Pongal.</div><div></div><div>You can check out an interesting site <a href="http://www.pongalfestival.org">pongalfestival.org</a> from kendriya vihar, Noida.</div><div></div>Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-37669370951763463032007-01-03T09:07:00.000-08:002007-01-03T09:13:57.158-08:00Item number.Can not hold laughing in retrospect of good old times.<br /><br />This was a piece from Nayan's marriage in 2005.<br /><br /><embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=2214247981262172504&hl=en" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" scale="noScale" salign="TL" FlashVars="playerMode=embedded"> </embed>Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-68885841445513490552006-12-28T09:59:00.000-08:002006-12-28T10:10:22.383-08:00Wild guess.Guess You-know-who.<br /><br />1) Tom Marvolo Riddle - One of the founders of Hogwarts himself namely, Salazar Slytherin.<br /><br />or<br /><br />2) Voldemort is a split personality of Harry himself (my bet) - Another connection, Prof Snape giving off his life in the end to save Harry, thats the whole point of even Dumbledore to die in the hands of Snape. All the death eaters, malfoys, Blacks, are nothing but doing good in controlling Harry's other side. Sounds crazy huh?Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-24040501413090500492006-12-17T02:01:00.000-08:002006-12-17T03:40:03.249-08:00Wow!<div align="left">This was the description of one of the courses that was offered next semester :) </div><div align="center"><br /><br /><br />COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT<br /><br />550.672 Graph Theory<br /><br />Spring 2007<br /><br /></div><div align="left">Writing in <em>Nature</em> in 1878, J.J. Sylvester (the first professor of mathematics at the newly established Johns Hopkins University) coined the word “graph” to describe mathematical structures consisting of objects called “vertices,” some pairs of which are joined by “edges.” The word “graph” comes from “graphical formula” for an organic molecule. The vertices of a graph are abstractions of the atoms and the edges are abstractions of the bonds between the atoms. Today, graph theory is a vibrant area of research attracting the interests of pure and applied mathematicians as well as computer scientists.<br /><br />In this course we will emphasize graph theory, i.e., our focus will be on developing the mathematical foundations of the subject. Heavy emphasis will be given to proof writing. Our topics include trees, connectivity, Eulerian and Hamiltonian cycles, matching, vertex/edge coloring, Ramsey theory and planar graphs.<br /><br />Prerequisites: 550.171, and 110.201 or 550.291<br /><br />Text: D.B. West, Introduction to Graph Theory, 2nd Edition<br /><br />Time: MTW 10<br />Section 1: F 10:30<br /><br />550.472 and 550.672 meet concurrently<br /><br />Instructor: Edward Scheinerman<br />Whitehead 205<br />410 516-7210<br /><a href="mailto:ers@jhu.edu">ers@jhu.edu</a></div><div align="left"></div>Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-1164213247722305322006-11-22T08:32:00.000-08:002006-11-22T13:37:12.586-08:00Power of expression.I am writing this piece while in library. It was an odd day after long restless days of assignments and tests. When I entered the systems room in the B-level, I already started feeling dizzy which resulted from continuous lack of proper food and sleep.<br /><br />I opened my laptop, hey! I am back to this junk world of Gmails, Orkuts, Myspace and what not. I could see how dormant I was for the past six months, earlier dreaming about new graduate life later dreaming about the past life, has led me to pass no more than very few google hits.<br /><br />Then I got a subscription mail from this JoelOnSoftware thing which lead me the rest of the hours peacefully and not less productively. The JoelOnSoftware.com is one heck of an archive of articles related to software engineering, business, coding, careers, anything and everything I would like to spend time on. Thanks mainly to <a href="http://paramanand.blogspot.com/">Paramanand Singh</a>, for introducing me to this one great site couple of years back.<br /><br />How does a software click? Is it the efficient implementation? Or does it involve breakthrough ideas? Does it have a business appeal? Or more importantly does it convey clearly on what it wants to convey?<br /><br />The answer is weighted mix of all the above with considerable weight given to the last point, that is making it easily understandable. (Like the one found in this <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/msg/2194d253268b0a1b">specification</a> by Linus Trovalds). The difference between a tolerable programmer and a great programmer is that the ability of the later to communicate his ideas better. Another example is Firefox, by Blake Ross & co., though a complex implementation it is growing at rapid rate. Besides much of the innovation like tab browsing and efficient footprint, it is the clarity of the specification given by Blake (as in article of ddj.com) that made the software click.<br /><br />Clear write ups enable the software to be widely followed by the masses, as a result, more and more people view your ideas and you emerge as a winner. Quite simple!Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-1161412589020148592006-10-20T23:13:00.000-07:002006-10-20T23:39:06.506-07:00Happy Deepavali.Things supposed to be done before this deepavali (set last year):<br /><br />1) Did you get a girlfirend? <strong>(hmm... pssst... uuuuuu... no!)</strong><br />2) I know you would fail in step 1, any bright or vague or dim or ray like prospects? <strong>(Darn!!)</strong><br />3) How closer did you get, anything better than the feat that you achieved in 2004 when you asked a girl to get a ticket for movies cos the ladies' line was short? <strong>(I give up!)</strong><br />4) Any other activities, like badminton, violin or juggling? <strong>[Nope, cudnt find time :( ]</strong><br />5) So, you didn't get a girlfriend, you are not even into improvement and you have no other activities, so you must be doing Master's in CS. Are you fully into it. <strong>(Oh shit, I dropped a course today!)</strong><br />6) Any plans to put up a checklist for 2007, better not!<br /><br />Ladies and Gentlemen, let this Deepavali bring lots of joy, so lots that you will start celebrating when its not deepavali, and you celebrate much that you start enjoying deepavali again and the cycle continues... <em>(Now I know why exactly the other side doesnt even bother to turn in your direction)</em>Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-1160568211940902502006-10-11T04:45:00.000-07:002006-10-11T05:11:07.853-07:00Vijay's guide to ParisVijay's guide to Paris:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Metro (M) Stops in Bracket.<br />French (F) Translations are also in brackets.<br />Common Tourist Attractions:<br />1) Eiffel Tower (F - Tour Eiffel, M - Bir Hakeim)<br />2) Louvre Museum (F - Musée de Louvre, M - Palais De Royal Louvre)<br />3) Arc De Triumphe ( M - Charles de gaulle Etoile)<br />4) Notre-Dame Cathedral (M - I dont Remember)<br />5) Sacre - Coeur Basilica / MontMartre<br />6) Chateau De Versailles ( For this you have to take a RER-C )<br />7) Champs Elysees (M - Charles des Gaulle Etoile, dont forget to have a stroll on this street from Arc De Triumphe to Concorde.)<br />8) Disney Land (RER - A)<br />9) Montparnasse (I dont remember)<br />10) Opera (M - Opera)<br />11) Place Vendome (M - Opera)<br /><br />My Personally Marked Places :<br />1) Moulin Rouge (M - Blanche)<br />2) Roland Garros (M - Pont Du Accentueil)<br />3) Stade De France ( French Football Stadium, M - I dont Remember)<br />4) Pont du L'Alma (Tunnel where Princess Diana was killed, M - Alma Marceau)<br />5) Boat trip covering the whole of Paris. (M - Pont Neuf)<br />6) Palais De Elysees. ( M - Champs Elysees Clemenceau)<br />9) Madelin. (M - Concorde)<br />10) Statue of Liberty. ( M - Bir Hakeim)<br /><br />Paris Night Life:<br />1) Moulin Rouge<br />2) Dont ever miss "La Loco" just pay and enter, its cheap and its just touching near to Moulin Rouge. (M - Blanche)<br />2) Place Pigalle (M - Pigalle)<br />3) Le Marais (M - I dont remember)<br /><br />Shopping:<br />1) La Fayette near Opera<br />2) Barbes Rochercheu and shop called Tatti(For cheap Perfumes) (M - Barbes Rochercheu)<br />3) Champs Elysees - Its one of the costliest places in the world, do u have any guts to shop here?<br /><br />English Book Shop:<br />W.H.Smith (outside concorde metro stop) here you get the France Guide Books.<br /><br />Tamil Area:<br />La Chapelle , there you get ananda vikatan, kumudam etc. go to rajah fast food to have idli and dosai. Go to the theatre near by (i dont remember its name) to see a tamil movie (i saw pithamagan out there).<br /><br />Here is the Plan for the Paris If you are planning for 2.5 days( minimum time you require to skim through the paris).<br /><br />1st Day<br />------<br />First find out if Louvre musueum is opened on sunday and monday. If not saturday afternoon visit the Louvre musueum. The metro is Musee de Louvre. See the Monolisa, statue of venus, works of michelangelo and some priceless drawings in this musueum. Hey, on first sunday of every month entry is totally free, if you are going on the first weekend of the month then change your plan accordingly.<br /><br />2nd Day<br />------<br />If Versaille palace is open, go and visit this. This is in the suburbs of Paris. Ask your hotel for help in going to this palace. In French Chateau de Versailles. Visit the Kings or Queens bedrooms, also visit the hall of mirror. Take a Petit Train and have a glimpse of the gardens surrounding it (Petit Trianon, Grand Trianon and Grand Canal). Its a paradise for the photographers. Try to leave as early as possible. Have Lunch.<br />(This should be over by 2PM)<br /><br />Go to Arc e Triomphe. Go and see the Arc. Do not cross the road on this dangerous round about. There is a underground path to reach the arc. You could get good panoramic view of paris and of Avenue Champs Elysee from here. Then walk on the Champs Elysee. Be careful of pick pocktes here. This is supposed to be the most beautiful road in the planet for Parisians. Stop near Lido and take photos. Continue on Elysee road and do window shopping. Try to have a glimpse of the Elysee palace (Palais de Elysee), this is the French Presidential palace. This is midway off Elysee avenue. Continue and you will see Grande Palace and Petit Palace. Then walk upto Concorde. Take photos and see the statues of women which represent French cities. Cross the bridge and you see the French Parliment in front of Concorde, Also you get a view of Eiffel Tower. Walk upto Eiffel from Concorde called Tour Eiffel. Also on the way get a glimpse of Invalides. In Eiffel go upto 3rd floor. After coming down from the Tour cross the road and goto Trocadoro to get the best pictures of the Eiffel.<br /><br />3rd Day.<br />------<br />Goto Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of Paris. Go inside and see the glass work. As monday is a religious day be careful do not make noise, remove the hat. Then walk on the quai of river Seine towards Eiffel Tower. Stop at St-Michel and take photos. Continue, you will see the oldest clock in Paris. Then take a boat trip from Pont Neuf bridge. This will take and show you all the monuments in Paris. After that if<br />you are still fit without eating a good rice and curry for 3 days, goto Sacre Coeur in Montmartre. This is white church on top of a small hill. And comment me how the experience was.<br /><br />Copyright (c) Vijay Venkatasubramani.<br /><br /><br /><em></em><em></em>Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-1157562393434909082006-09-06T09:53:00.000-07:002006-09-06T10:12:02.853-07:00Interesting read.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/14/631/1600/m.0.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/14/631/320/m.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />One day In 1939, George Bernard Dantzig, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, arrived late for a graduate-level statistics class and found two problems written on the board.<br /><br />Not knowing they were examples of "unsolvable" statistics problems, he mistook them for part of a homework assignment, jotted them down, and solved them. (The equations Dantzig tackled are perhaps more accurately described not as unsolvable problems, but as unproved statistical theorems for which he worked out proofs.) Six weeks later, Dantzig's statistic professor notified him that he had prepared one of his two "homework" proofs for publication, and Dantzig was given co-author credit on another paper several years later when another mathematician independently worked out the same solution to the second problem.<br /><br />George Dantzig recounted his feat in a 1986 interview for the College Mathematics Journal:<br /><br />It happened because during my first year at Berkeley I arrived late one day at one of [Jerzy] Neyman's classes. On the blackboard there were two problems that I assumed had been assigned for homework. I copied them down. A few days later I apologized to Neyman for taking so long to do the homework — the problems seemed to be a little harder than usual. I asked him if he still wanted it. He told me to throw it on his desk. I did so reluctantly because his desk was covered with such a heap of papers that I feared my homework would be lost there forever. About six weeks later, one Sunday morning about eight o'clock, [my wife] Anne and I were awakened by someone banging on our front door. It was Neyman. He rushed in with papers in hand, all excited: "I've just written an introduction to one of your papers. Read it so I can send it out right away for publication." For a minute I had no idea what he was talking about. To make a long story short, the problems on the blackboard that I had solved thinking they were homework were in fact two famous unsolved problems in statistics. That was the first inkling I had that there was anything special about them.<br /><br />A year later, when I began to worry about a thesis topic, Neyman just shrugged and told me to wrap the two problems in a binder and he would accept them as my thesis.<br /><br />The second of the two problems, however, was not published until after World War II. It happened this way. Around 1950 I received a letter from Abraham Wald enclosing the final galley proofs of a paper of his about to go to press in the Annals of Mathematical Statistics. Someone had just pointed out to him that the main result in his paper was the same as the second "homework" problem solved in my thesis. I wrote back suggesting we publish jointly. He simply inserted my name as coauthor into the galley proof.<br /><br />Dr. Dantzig also explained how his story passed into the realm of urban legendry:<br /><br />The other day, as I was taking an early morning walk, I was hailed by Don Knuth as he rode by on his bicycle. He is a colleague at Stanford. He stopped and said, "Hey, George — I was visiting in Indiana recently and heard a sermon about you in church. Do you know that you are an influence on Christians of middle America?" I looked at him, amazed. "After the sermon," he went on, "the minister came over and asked me if I knew a George Dantzig at Stanford, because that was the name of the person his sermon was about."<br /><br />The origin of that minister's sermon can be traced to another Lutheran minister, the Reverend Schuler [sic] of the Crystal Cathedral in Los Angeles. He told me his ideas about thinking positively, and I told him my story about the homework problems and my thesis. A few months later I received a letter from him asking permission to include my story in a book he was writing on the power of positive thinking. Schuler's published version was a bit garbled and exaggerated but essentially correct. The moral of his sermon was this: If I had known that the problem were not homework but were in fact two famous unsolved problems in statistics, I probably would not have thought positively, would have become discouraged, and would never have solved them.Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-1153204377476313622006-07-17T23:26:00.000-07:002006-07-17T23:41:46.490-07:00Thought for the day.<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/14/631/1600/krishna-avatar.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/14/631/320/krishna-avatar.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />karmany evadhikaras te<br />ma phalesu kadacana<br />ma karma-phala-hetur bhur<br />ma te sango 'stv akarmani<br /><br />karmani--prescribed duties; eva--certainly; adhikarah--right; te--of you; ma--never; phalesu--in the fruits; kadacana--at any time; ma--never; karma-phala--in the result of the work; hetuh--cause; bhuh--become; ma--never; te--of you; sangah--attachment; astu--be there; akarmani--in not doing.<br /><br />You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.<br /><br />Now check out this cool video:<br /><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5446091014702365336">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5446091014702365336</a><br /><br /><em>source: asitis.com</em><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&amp;q=http://video.google.com/videoplay%3Fdocid%3D5446091014702365336&e=14905&ei=Cn-8RI_RNYnO4QHH_dG5B"></a>Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-1152467236899295972006-07-09T10:42:00.000-07:002006-07-09T10:47:16.910-07:00nair tea kadai.nilaavula orey astronaut koottam!<br />namma nair parthaaru, apparam...<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/14/631/1600/nair%20chai.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/14/631/320/nair%20chai.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />chai chai chai...Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-1151235905092536522006-06-25T04:45:00.000-07:002006-07-04T09:44:50.880-07:00iPod BluesAfter relishing it for the past six months, my iPod video has become an important part of me. I simply feel handicapped without it, especially when I have to necessarily travel by bus to reach Office in the morning and return in evening; I had fun with all the music videos, games, movies and music. Though it is, and remains to be, convenient at a larger part certain flaws are quite apparant and need an immediate attention from the Apple guys.<br /><br />Firstly, Music Videos are horribly costly to be bought from iTunes Store. Each costing about $1.99 you will be shelling out nearly $20+ for an entire album (if at all the entire album is available!). So are the TV shows.<br /><br />Secondly, there are too few to select. I wish that one day I get TV shows of Russell Peters, Friends season 8, Tom& Jerry shows from iTunes store. I thought of having the whole collection of Michael Jackson but ended up with only 7 to 8 music videos of him. And movies - not in the near future as Apple itself is busy negotiating with the English-movie production houses, and getting Tamil movies is something my son or daughter will yearn for.<br /><br />Thirdly, there is no suitable software that can convert other video formats to iPod format. I tried iTunes to convert MPEG files but instead it stripped off the audio leaving only video. I tried some open software available on the net but most of them generate video streams that are either out of sync or of very poor quality.<br /><br />Fourth flaw is my favorite as this one is an authentic bug in iPod. When the software hangs there is no way you can reboot the system, instead you need to wait till the battery getting over and recharge it again so that it works.<br /><br />And the last one, before you go for the latest iPod video make sure you prepare yourself to be careful with the device as its storage is a plain hard disk and not flash, so if you drop it once then don’t bother to pick it at all.<br /><br />Whatever it is, the convenience of the podcasts is a cool luxury. Not less of its elegant design and simplicity. I love my iPod, and I am sure you too will love it.Vijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8943200.post-1148980234663876982006-05-30T02:10:00.000-07:002006-05-30T02:10:34.673-07:00Thought for the day."India must be the only country in the world, where people fight to be called backward" - Narayan MurthyVijayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03736502084381831193noreply@blogger.com1