Thermal Noise

E-Mail forwards stupid as they are, sometimes do make you wonder. I just calculated that I had lived for approximately 2,04,507 hours. That somehow sounds like a shockingly large number. It instantaneously raises obvious questions like - What have I done in all these hours ? How much of it can I recollect ? What percentage of it was spent meaningfully ?

More than these questions what bothers me is - “Why” those questions and Why “why those questions” and the resulting non-converging infinite series of meta questions !

One thing I’ve done more than writing code at Sun is “talking” about OpenSolaris. It reflects the new culture at Sun where everybody is as much keen in evangelizing something they are highly passionate about as much as contributing to it. And doing it at your Alma Mater is always special.

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God’s Debris is an intelligent piece of work by Scott Adams. “If you are 23, yours odds of liking it are very good” - says the preface. I can vouch for that !

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My understanding and experimentation of bases other than the decimal number system is fairly rudimentary. I find it extra-ordinary that my friend Sid can perform arithmetic operations on binary, octal, hexadecimal and even trinary! number systems at an amazing speed inside is head. But it takes a true genius (No offence Sid), to invent something as wacky as a Quater Imaginary Base Number System !
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Last week, I was in a “training” (There couldn’t have been a more inappropriate word to describe it) on Creativity. I’ve been reading up on the Subjects of creativity, human memory, perceptions et al. lately and the session was useful to reinforce most of those ideas and clear up some cow-webs in my thinking pattern. Anyway, the session was extremely interesting, atypical and worthy of the time spent on it. Here are some unorganized notes from the session.

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Another feather to the DTrace cap. DTrace has been ported to MacOS !!!

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Guido van Rossum explains the Philosophy, Process, Features and Timeline for Python 3

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6459339159268485356

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