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Re: 10 Seconds from Victory

Siva — Sat, 05 May 2012 13:42:12 -0000

Oh man, how I wish I were there. The loss might be disheartening but I think you guys played very well. Let's hope Jam basketball sports steps up from here. Pass on pat on the back, to Kanishka.

C'est la vie. Such is sport and such is life.

Re: Ze Grad School Visit Trip - Part 1

Rakesh Misra — Fri, 04 May 2012 04:26:29 -0000

Didn't you treat us to Mediterranean (Middle-east) food? (hummus and pita bread) ;-) BTW, my surname is "Misra" (not "Mishra")! ;-)

Stanford's waiting to welcome you! :-)

Re: Ze Grad School Visit Trip - Part 1

arunchaganty — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:27:43 -0000

You bet. :-)

Re: Ze Grad School Visit Trip - Part 1

Saad Bhamla — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:26:39 -0000

Yay!! Hope you're ready to run the dish boss :)

Re: Ze Grad School Visit Trip - Part 1

arunchaganty — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:11:17 -0000

Stanford, but shh... I have another month (or so) before I'm scheduled to write about that ;-)

I'll be looking forward to catching up with you come fall.

Re: Ze Grad School Visit Trip - Part 1

Saad Bhamla — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:31:49 -0000

Which school did you finally decide on?

Re: A Run, a Chase and a Promise.

arunchaganty — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 01:53:15 -0000

Thanks Akhil, I hope I can keep posting (semi)-regularly.
@Vikram: Hehe, I wish that logic would work with the DDP panel ;-). I still have got to graduate, and my DDP is no where near being a formality at this point.

Re: A Run, a Chase and a Promise.

Akhil Kulkarni — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:15:48 -0000

Congrats! I agree running gives an awesome feeling... its liberating! I hope to run my first 10K in 2012 ... Looking forward to reading more on your blog.

Re: A Run, a Chase and a Promise.

Vikram Rao — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:28:14 -0000

My theory is that your DDP formalities are almost over and you know that you'll do some great work at grad-school, so you're mind is making you do other things now. After all, one only gets one final-sem (read "free time at IITM") :D.

Re: Breaking Beginnings

Saad Bhamla — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:23:17 -0000

Ah, what a delight to get some more insight into the great Slinky's mind :)

Re: Captain Vs. Champion

Karthrags — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:12:57 -0000

I found that its easy to inspire people - just make things look cool and romantic :)
It worked for me. Making preparing for GATE look romantic was quite a challenge, but got it right eventually. You could also find out what makes a person tick and address that. Try it out - its a fantastic feeling to help someone along towards where he/she wants to get, and later receive a you're-cool sms/mail from them :) (or a blog post mention, as I'm sure Akarsh and co mentioned above would agree :D )

Re: Path of Leaves

Smruthi — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:34:06 -0000

Lovely :) , especially that comparisons bite.

Re: Path of Leaves

Kvs Dileep — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:22:25 -0000

nice poem. reminds me of robert frost.

Re: Path of Leaves

arunchaganty — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:07:59 -0000

Nice continuation; the poem was simply an expression of a melancholic tone - what you see when walking through leaf-strewn paths on campus, and little more.

And somewhat to give substance to the "Beneath me the c(r)ackle with laughter" line.

Re: Path of Leaves

Kirtika — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:38:35 -0000

I walk on a path of leaves,
Beneath me they cackle with laughter.
Long-lost spring memories,
Now questionable; their shades darker.

The autumn sun, a gentle smile,
making itself felt on my way
Soothing rays make me reconcile,
"This too shall pass away".

Re: Passion Flame: A Rant

arunchaganty — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:14:39 -0000

Thanks Vinay :-). I was actually influenced by Rime of The Ancient Mariner (Coleridge) - there's this weird section in between where the focus of the poem totally changes to discussion between two ghosts; that's what had me thinking about a cutscene to the future.

I never ever got Bohemian Rhapsody - to me it was just one big non-sequitur put to tune...

I've fixed the typos - :-/ At some point in time I had spelling of 'tomorrow' so totally wrong...

Re: Passion Flame: A Rant

Vinay Hegde — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:19:30 -0000

@Slink,
Good work! It was a surprisingly smooth read. :P
And some very memorable lines too!

I was reminded of Blake's Tyger, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and Wordsworth's Rainbow in places, as I went through it. :) Oh yeah, and very relate-able too!

[Few typos I could spot: 'You peers..' (I am not sure if this is intentional) instead of 'Your peers..', 'amensia' instead of amnesia, 'devle' instead of 'delve' and a couple of 'Tommorow's instead of 'Tomorrow's. :)]

Re: Thoughts on Technology

tuxnani — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:03:19 -0000

So whats the point finally?

Re: Thoughts on Technology

Piyush — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:53:51 -0000

Umm...
Lets see:
Best patriotic solution:
India is spending hell lot of money on junky airplanes, warships, radar systems.

& guess what ?
>50% of cost in defense systems is software alone !

Though i tried to find, but there are not much options in DRDO which offer a respectable 'starting salary', but many profs at IIT do contribute a lot in defense research (a senior prof in vision got 5 crore funding in 1998 for a defense related project !!, even now 2-3 projects are going on, and two more are being started next semester).
The icing on the cake is: that machine learning (in vision, for automatic detection etc...) is the most important defense need as of today.
The potential of fully automated and ground controlled airplanes is immense !!

Re: Dynamic Shortcut Creation with Bash

arunchaganty — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:48:47 -0000

(To follow up, I think that's what 'z' does: https://github.com/rupa/z

Re: Thoughts on Technology

arunchaganty — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 01:54:16 -0000

Hmm... I too highly doubt _all_ technological advances are actually improving people's lives - but I guess some are and other have the potential to. Regarding watching things evolve, methinks this system is far too chaotic; blink and everything's going to have changed ;-).

Re: Thoughts on Technology

Bhargav Narayanan — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:43:47 -0000

I have faced (and am still facing) the very same question that you raised.
I really can't think of anything other than teaching or making butt loads of money and giving back. Surely there are better ways?

Re: Thoughts on Technology

Ramya — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:11:02 -0000

I don't know if all the technological advances are actually improving people's lives.... but they are surely leading to new and creative ways of doing things. Its like you be the initial condition and watch the system evolve over time :)

Re: Thoughts on Technology

Rajkishan G — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:37:03 -0000

A patriotic venture with money as a side effect is bound to garner popular support from the empowered of today's generation...

Re: Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost... But Some Are

arunchaganty — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:31:26 -0000

Ah, thanks for the correction.