Archive for December 2008
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Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: December 26, 2008
- In: Misc
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My last post on wordpress… Moving on to blogspot.
Electoral Polling
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: December 23, 2008
- In: Maths
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Terence Tao has written about electoral polling in a very interesting article here. A non-technical gem from a genius…..
P.S.:
Try out the assembler game mentioned in the last post . Really interesting.
Added new links : This Week in Evolution which form interesting reading.
Sage – Open Source Mathematics Software
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: December 22, 2008
Sage is an open source mathematics software with a mission of creating an alternative to softwares like Mathematica,Maple,MATLAB,etc.
Sage can be used to study general and advanced, pure and applied mathematics. This includes a huge range of mathematics, including algebra, calculus, elementary to very advanced number theory, cryptography, numerical computation, commutative algebra, group theory, combinatorics, graph [...]
Assembler
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: December 22, 2008
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No, this is not the program and has nothing to do with the language in any way. It is a very interesting game.Check it out.
Assembler is a new physics based wonder where you move some depository equipment to get your precious green crate in position. For what? No matter! Physics work perfect and the feel [...]
Another reason to switch over to Firefox / Chrome …. :)
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: December 16, 2008
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IE sucks ……. I am suprised as to why people still use such a browser .
Download firefox now .
Talk by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar – 6th December 2008 , Napean Sea Road , Mumbai
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: December 10, 2008
It is obvious that when the society is attacked, and we lose our near and dear ones, it causes a lot of sorrow. It also causes fear. But if we keep reeling in this sorrow and fear, and the anger that comes along with, then life moves towards the path to perdition. But suppose we [...]
Fedora 10
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: December 10, 2008
- In: OpenSource| linux
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Fedora 10 was released a few days ago and since Fedora 9 for me was a bit of a dissapointment ,I hoped things would smoothen out in F10 .
The installation was smooth .A nice interface welcomes you at installation . I usually create 3 partitions alloting around 700MB for /boot , 1024MB for swap and [...]
Sem V
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: December 7, 2008
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Finally after 4.5 months of NITT I was in a dire need for a refreshing change from the college atmosphere ….. Sometimes u did love to escape from the place but not from the people there … thats precisely the feeling i went through . We(Neil , Save , Himanshu , Zaveri , Mayur, Khanjan, [...]
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