Category: Guest Blog
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Aayitha Ezhuthu titles – an easter egg?
Guest Blog #22- Anand C I’ve heard of programmers dropping little “easter eggs” in their code that only they know of… things like a funny face appearing if the 29th of February falls on a Friday… or a Pixar character’s eyes modeled after an ex-girl friend… But Pradeep told me today (when we were catching…
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The road to Nirvana…
Guest Blog #21 – Anand C It is frustrating when people you like do things you aren’t proud of. Case in point: the suicide note of Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of rock-legend Nirvana and singer/songwriter of Never Mind, one of the most influential rock albums ever produced. The last line of the rather depressing…
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Goodbye, blue skies?
Guest Blog #20 – Anand C It is no doubt a historic moment when the first successful private space flight was launched in Mojave. The achievement ranks up there in grit with Chuck Yeager and the breaking of the sound barrier. It is legalizing every pipe dream ranging from relocation to tourist resorts, that have…
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Mr. India, redux?
Guest Blog #18 – Anand C Researchers at the University of Tokyo have come up with an invisibility cloak. The idea seems simple in its basic form – project the background image onto the masked object, thereby making it seem invisible. The (intended) applications include surgeons whose own hands hamper vision during surgery, or pilots…
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Week in Review – Once upon a time…
Guest Blog #17 – Anand C One of my favorite professors had an interesting ability to combine many things in one story / train of thought – often starting from something fairly random. Left one with the feeling that everything was connected. For instance his compilation of some of the week’s interesting news items might…
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