archimedean property of hard work

let smart_1 > smart_2
there always exists a hard work scaling factor, h so that
smart_1 < h*smart_2

so true !!!

Gandhi (film)

Last week I watched this famous movie Gandhi directed by Richard Attenborough. Though I watched this movie more than a couple of times long ago, it felt like a fresh movie or may be I was admiring the amazing effort in bringing pre-independence India to life.

There is a particular scene I keep recalling a lot(even after a week). Mahatma Gandhi is fasting to request Indians to stop the Civil Disobedience Movement after the chauri chaura incident, where a police station was burnt and 22 policemen killed when a mob clashed with the police which opened fire.So after a few days of fasting there is a scene where Nehru, Sardar vallabhai patel and others surrounding Gandhi tell him that the civil disobedience movement has come to an end and people are have stopped protesting and giving flowers to any policeman they see on the streets. Gandhi smiles and replies "Perhaps, I overdid it"and gives a brilliant smile. :)

let me end this post with the words spoken at the end of the movie(in Gandhiji's voice)

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always."

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my best friend's kitchen disaster

My great friend who's got admission into a wonderful university in US got back home early to learn a bit of cooking (which is a basic necessity from what i heard from him) .... so here goes our hero into the kitchen after many years for sure (ok lets face the facts!!! yea yea he was in the hostel for the past few years) ok where was i..... hmmmm ..... our hero in kitchen ..... yup !!! according to latest info i recieved from reliable sources ( yea ofcourse himself ;) ) he was the victim of his own familiar looking experiments ... familiar yes but displeasing outcome ... Bad health for the past few days :( yea yea all i want you to do is guess the person i m talking about ..... WINNERS TAKE ALL

some tech stuff with funny names !!!!!!!!

No free lunch theoram -

In the "no free lunch" metaphor, each "restaurant" (problem-solving procedure) has a "menu" associating each "lunch plate" (problem) with a "price" (the performance of the procedure in solving the problem). The menus of restaurants are identical except in one regard — the prices are shuffled from one restaurant to the next. For an omnivore who is as likely to order each plate as any other, the average cost of lunch does not depend on the choice of restaurant. But a vegan who goes to lunch regularly with a carnivore who seeks economy pays a high average cost for lunch. To methodically reduce the average cost, one must use advance knowledge of a) what one will order and b) what the order will cost at various restaurants. That is, improvement of performance in problem-solving hinges on using prior information to match procedures to problems.^[2][3]

In formal terms, there is no free lunch when the probability distribution on problem instances is such that all problem solvers have identically distributed results. In the case of search, a problem instance is an objective function, and a result is a sequence of values obtained in evaluation of candidate solutions in the domain of the function. For typical interpretations of results, search is an optimization process. There is no free lunch in search if and only if the distribution on objective functions is invariant under permutation of the space of candidate solutions.^[4][5] This condition does not hold precisely in practice,^[4] but an "(almost) no free lunch" theorem suggests that it holds approximately.^[6]

i shall keep updating the list :)

leave letters !!!!!

This is a collection of leave letters and applications written by people in various places of India ...


1. Infosys, Bangalore : An employee applied for leave as follows:
Since I have to go to my village to sell my land along with my wife, please sanction me one-week leave.


2. This is from Oracle Bangalore:
From an employee who was performing the "mundan" ceremony of his 10 year old son: "as I want to shave my son's head, please leave me for two days.."


3. Another gem from CDAC. Leave-letter from an employee who was performing his daughter's wedding:
"as I am marrying my daughter, please grant a week's leave.."


4. From H.A.L. Administration dept:
"As my mother-in-law has expired and I am only one responsible for it, please grant me 10 days leave."


5. Another employee applied for half day leave as follows:
"Since I've to go to the cremation ground at 10 o-clock and I may not return, please grant me half day casual leave"


6. An incident of a leave letter
"I am suffering from fever, please declare one day holiday."


7. A leave letter to the headmaster:
"As I am studying in this school I am suffering from headache. I request you to leave me today"


8. Another leave letter written to the headmaster:
"As my headache is paining, please grant me leave for the day."


9. Covering note: "I am enclosed herewith..."


10. Another one:
"Dear Sir: with reference to the above, please refer to my below..."

11. Actual letter written for application of leave:
"My wife is suffering from sickness and as I am her only husband at home I may be granted leave".


12. Letter writing: -
"I am in well here and hope you are also in the same well."


13. A candidate's job application:
"This has reference to your advertisement calling for a ' Typist and an Accountant - Male or Female'...As I am both(!! )for the past several years and I can handle both with good experience, I am applying for the post.