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	<title>Thermal Noise</title>
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	<description>The Adventures Of A Unix Programmer</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 20:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>IPv6 pr0n</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/ipv6-pr0n/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 20:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Technical Marketing: It doesn&#8217;t get more creative than this  
http://www.ipv6experiment.com/
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		<title>The Science of Consciousness</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/the-science-of-consciousness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 21:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Epistemology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is in mathematics that our thinking processes have their purest form&#8221; - Roger Penrose expounds in &#8220;Shadows of the Mind&#8221;. The book, which is a sequel to his famous &#8220;The Emperor&#8217;s New Mind&#8221; is a fascinating study that seeks to answer one question - &#8220;Can we construct a computational model of the human mind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with the Don</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/interview-with-the-don/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[DEK]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856
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		<title>Tautology</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/tautology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 19:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By the rules of propositional calculus, the following compound statement is always true:
( (Man is God&#8217;s greatest mistake)
(or)
(God is Man&#8217;s greatest mistake) )
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		<title>Scapegoat Tree</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/scapegoat-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Paper by Rivest et al:
http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~morin/teaching/5408/refs/gr93.pdf
And the mandatory sucky applet:
http://people.ksp.sk/~kuko/bak/index.html
Found this out while lifelessly grokking around boost:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/doc/html/intrusive/sg_set_multiset.html
Balanced Trees are better than unbalanced because of bounded worst-case O(log n) search time. And AVL is the simplest balanced tree. Red-Black is better than AVL because worst-case O(1) rebalancing during (Updated) insertions are guaranteed. But Scapegoats are even better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BeleniX 0.7</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/belenix-07/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BeleniX 0.7 has been released just a few seconds ago.
http://www.belenix.org/
This is the most kick-ass version of BeleniX ever. Among the most important features is the ability to install it to the hard disk and use it as a regular desktop OS. Release Notes details the other changes:
http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/?q=ReleaseNotes_0.7
I am just waiting for one more feature - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/notes-from-valentines-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the said notes from Knuth&#8217;s lecture on Valentine&#8217;s Day 2008. There was no specific topic that the Don spoke on. It was more of a Q/A session than a lecture. However there were few short questions and long insightful answers
(A day after the lecture, I did a full transcript which I seem to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astrowatch in Airplanes</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/astrowatch-in-airplanes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/?p=194</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always relied on sky charts to guide me through the heavens. Printed charts suck because they usually calibrate the sky for 40 degree North (or south). So I end up using KStars.
 But recently, I had to climb up 30,000 feet above the planet and somewhere above the Irish sea, the night sky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zeus, thy rage !</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/zeus-thy-rage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wrath and fury unleashed upon the sin city as I clicked away:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ananth.shrinivas/HellHathNoFury


Please excuse the ineptitude and lacking taste, for this is the first time I handle a silicon based device capable of capturing electromagnetic waves in the visible spectrum.

&#8220;It is the greatest houses and the tallest trees that the gods bring low with bolts and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fall of Hyperion</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/the-fall-of-hyperion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Insanity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Beauty is truth and truth beauty
That is all ye know on earth
And all ye need to know&#8221;

John Keats was 24 when he wrote those perspicacious lines. I cannot but wonder at what wisdom nature bestowed upon the child she claimed as her own, barely a year later.

In the spirit of Godel, Escher and Bach, glimpses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rendezvous with the Don !</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/rendezvous-with-the-don/</link>
		<comments>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/rendezvous-with-the-don/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[DEK]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/?p=186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Its 4 a.m in the morning. I haven&#8217;t slept in 24 hours. I am still wondering if this is a dream or a dream within a dream.Without much ado, I have just listened to for more than an hour and spoke a word to Donald Ervine Knuth himself, albeit over the telephone on the wrong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With Love From UCB</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/with-love-from-ucb/</link>
		<comments>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/with-love-from-ucb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
       ]]></description>
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		<title>Adeiu 2007</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/adeiu-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/adeiu-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Warning: Small doses of Martini can induce great amounts of Asinine Vanity


In 2007: Thrice on the WordPress Dashboard. Twice amongst the top on Reddit, Twice amongst the top on DZone. Fastest growing wodpress blog on the last day of 2007. Nice eh ? As I was saying about the Martini &#8230;
Happy New Year Earthlings 
 [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">W00T !</media:title>
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		<title>Exploring Python Bytecode</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/exploring-python-bytecode/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Python]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the past month or so, I&#8217;ve been trying to understand what appears to be a black art mostly because of lacking documentation - Python bytecode generation and peephole optimization. Some notes from the study for the benefit of IRC-mate &#8216;jstatm&#8217; and anyone else living on similar planes of insanity.


Although bytecode applies to objects other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missed Geminids, Bah !</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/12/15/missed-geminids-bah/</link>
		<comments>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/12/15/missed-geminids-bah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bangalore Sucks ! I would gladly leave the city given the slightest chance. While its hard surviving as a pedestrian on the dangerous roads where vehicles Speed Up instead of Slowing Down if they see a human form trying to cross the road, its even harder to survive as an amateur backyard sky-gazer.

 On Friday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is John Galt ?</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/who-is-john-galt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is the point ?
Do we solve problems to understand techniques better ?
or
Do we understand techniques to solve problems better ?
Why should Epiphanies always result in cyclic, stoical and pointless rumination ?
Update: You really don&#8217;t want to miss clicking on the second link  
       ]]></description>
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		<title>Netbeans with GTK Widgets</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/netbeans-with-gtk-widgets/</link>
		<comments>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/netbeans-with-gtk-widgets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Solaris]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Netbeans users on Solaris and Linux, who hate, detest and despise the horrible looking default Java UI, ought to add this line to ~/.bash_profile
alias netbeans=&#8217;/opt/netbeans/bin/netbeans -laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel&#8217;
Update: Netbeans 6.0 users should type &#8220;&#8211;laf&#8221; instead &#8220;-laf&#8221; (Two hyphens before &#8216;laf&#8217; instead of one)

I am no GUI hater. I love good looking GUIs [and girls] But the [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Ananth</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Netbeans - Solaris GTK LAF Screenshot</media:title>
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		<title>Knuth to USPTO</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/knuth-to-uspto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From D.E. Knuth&#8217;s famous letter to the United States Patent and Trademark Office:
&#8220;
I am told that the courts are trying to make a distinction between mathematical algorithms and nonmathematical algorithms.  To a computer scientist, this makes no sense, because every algorithm is as mathematical as anything could be.  An algorithm is an abstract [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visual Call Graph using DTrace</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/visual-call-graph-using-dtrace/</link>
		<comments>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/visual-call-graph-using-dtrace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an example of how incredibly powerful DTrace can be. I had to solve a problem where a nice high-level overview of the code flow in a single threaded userland application would save me some pain the backside. Lo and Behold, Dtrace - The Universal Hammer for every nail.
Here is a simple visual call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eka in Top500</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/eka-in-top500/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[India appears in the Top 10 of the Top500 supercomputers list for the first time: http://top500.org/site/systems/2838
EKA, is a Linux cluster of Clovertown based Intel Xeon systems connected via Infiniband. Congratulations to Tata Sons and HP !
Quite shamefully, Solaris runs on only two of the Top500 supercomputers. Blame it on the pathetic HPC userspace and community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From TMRC to RMS</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/from-tmrc-to-rms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a totally absorbing book by Stephen Levy- &#8220;Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution&#8221; (There is an online copy whose legality is unclear)
You should definitely read the book if you find these kinds of stories fasinating  
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		<title>Duff&#8217;s Device</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/duffs-device/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
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void foo() {
switch(0) {
case 0:     do{
case 1:         printf(&#34;Hello World\n&#34;);
}while(0);
}
}
int main()
{
foo();
return 0;
}

Surprise. Surprise. This program compiles and works due the fall-through definition of C ! Tom Duff discovered this accidentally (about 25 years ago) and said: &#8220;It amazes me that after 10 years of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God is a Ferrari Fan</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/god-is-a-ferrari-fan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananth</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kimi won the world championship. w00t !
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		<title>Beautiful Code</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/10/12/beautiful-code/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last two weeks, I&#8217;ve spent every ounce of my spare time trying to finish &#8220;Beautiful Code&#8221;. There will be two kinds of people: Those who think its a pointless piece of non-sense and Those who find the book a religious experience . Sharing as they did, some of their most intense experiences of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BeleniX Crazy !</title>
		<link>http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/belenix-crazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is going BeleniX crazy ! I setup links to the isoHunt torrents on the BeleniX download page a few weeks back and the isoHunt folks responded most kindly by setting up a special box for seeding (Have you ever heard of that ?) and ran a front page article on BeleniX as a [...]]]></description>
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