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Uncertainty and Fear.

I lost my keys and I have been locked out(it has happened more than once), so I am sitting in the so called ‘old town coffee house’ sipping chocolate and doing what I love to do. Life has never been this good. Really!
I take breaks from my intense product development to do some other stuff, [...]

Mathemagic Solution.

Let us say you think up a 5 digit number , say, X=15683.
Add up the digits: Y=1+5+6+8+3=23
Subtract this from the original number : Z=X-Y=15683-23=15660.
Let us say, from Z we take out the number 5. So we have 1660.
The Problem is to find the missing number.
Now look carefully, here is the trick for finding it out. [...]

Why I won’t read Cinderella to my daughter(or Sleeping Beauty, for that matter).

The beautiful Cinderella patiently sweeps the floor, her face black with soot and cinder.She is the archetypal no-initiative girl. Her whole life story consists of silently enduring her step mother and by a stroke of luck she gets noticed by a prince and is saved. With absolutely no initiative on her part except for looking [...]

Talk on Application of Higher Mathematics on WWW.

Here I gave a talk on application of higher mathematics on world wide web :
http://tinyurl.com/2×8prl
or : http://tinyurl.com/3ptezb
Tell me how you like it

Patents: Some nuanced thoughts.

I wrote something about IPP(Intellectual Property Patents), a while ago(cf:Why patents suck).This post can be taken as a continuation of that post or can be taken independently.
After mulling over the general undesirability of IPP , it is time to ask what are the various reasons why people/companies patent at all. Some of the reasons are [...]

Ideas are not land grab or why patents suck.

A chain of thoughts ensued when I read the following article about Microsoft patenting the machine classification technique(ref : http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=942).I am sure that if Microsoft(MS) was there in stone age, it would have patented wheels and you would have to pay MS some big ass royalty each time you drive to work. And if MS [...]

Book Advantage

Over the years I have learnt the importance of “really good” technical books. Just as it is very hard to write an entire blog on this nugget of wisdom which might run in just one line–”though shalt realize the importance of really good technical books”, it is very difficult to write a “really good” technical [...]

Many lives as a technologist.

**WARNING**- this one is about feelings.
I wish I was a a technologist with multiple lives. Each lifetime I would devote to the following:
1. Robotics. And do things like these, which this guy Hirose does.
2. Develope open source systems, and build scores of products like mozilla.
3. Simulating life through chaos theory and other mathematical concepts, [...]

Tim Berners Lee and Web Science.

Have you heard of Tim Berners-Lee? In the past few months he has been almost ubiquitous. He is seen everywhere ,talking about Web. To begin with I thought he is just another jumping-the-wagon guy who is just capitalising on the www phenomena. You can’t blame me, otherwise why would someone hold a conference on “what [...]