July 13, 2009 at 10:56 am (ramblings)
I am Homo Logicus. I am not a Homo Sapien. I get satisfied once my quest for understanding things is quenched. Success is not something that I look for. I had this in my mind, but until I found this terminology, I was not clear I was one.
How do I become a Homo Sapien?
May 27, 2009 at 7:10 am (ramblings, systems)
I finally installed Linux on my laptop and I feel like I have more powers now. Given that the office environment is tightly coupled with Windows eco-system, there is some trouble in getting somethings done like – accessing communicator, outlook, editing documents (ppl may yell if edited in ooffice and sent across). Nevertheless, with Linux, I am getting my personal things done. The very availability of command line gives good sense of control.
When I was at the academia, there was only Linux. No support for Windows. Still we adapted to it for our needs. We used ooffice, we used mutt, pine, kmail etc. for our needs. When I came to the corporate world, there was Windows everywhere. For close to 4 years now, I have been using Windows. I am used to it, I am adapted to it and I need it now to get somethings done. Installing Linux on my laptop is a step to focus away from Windows.
One advantage with Windows is that – the same cathedral makes most of the software that we use – to they are all tightly integrated. We can see and feel it when we use those software – outlook, office, communicator etc. That is one positive factor with Windows environments.
June 18, 2007 at 3:57 pm (ramblings, storage)
Tony Asaro says that CAS serve, essentially, two purposes:
Will data be seen as information by indexing/searching? Yes!! It sounds cool and new to me. What other inherent properties of CAS are interesting and finds application?
May 29, 2007 at 2:07 pm (ramblings)
I have recently taken the book Algorithms, a creative approach by Udi Manber up for reading. The very first chapter kinda sets the stage for what is to follow. There Udi says something. He says that the intuitive solution to a problem (i.e. the one that first comes to our mind) may be inefficient, as it gets applied to larger and more complex instances of it.
So, efficient solutions get counter-intuitive and also complex. What does one learn from this simple, yet powerful statement? It kind of properly sets our expectations, once we start to read and understand things. For example, upon encountering a complex algorithm, we may not understand. But the knowledge that algorithms can indeed get counter-intuitive and complex, gives us patience to put more time and energy into it in an attempt to understand it. And once, you understand it, it further increases the confidence levels.
This applies not just to the algorithms, but to all complex phenomena out there. Be it a complex I/O subsystem, a complex planning system for a city etc.
