famous epitaphs

"A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough"
Alexander the Great

"That's all, folks!"
Mel Blanc

"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light."
Isaac Newton

"Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty I'm Free At Last."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Workers of all lands unite. The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."
Karl Marx

"Never born, Never died: visited the planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990."
Osho

Misc:

Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up And no place to go.

Epitaph of an unknown dentist:

Stranger ! Approach this spot with gravity !
John Brown is filling his last cavity.


And my personal favourite


"He lies somewhere here" ~ on Werner Heisenberg's epitaph !

Bobby Mc Ferrin

The context in which I came across this video is a bit technical( or 'researchy' if that sounds more classy), but its amazing nevertheless. Have you ever wondered if humans can produce two different tones at the same time ? Birds routinely do this, but in real life, I dont remember noticing anyone doing this for a significant amount of time. ( You can try doing it actually to get a feel of how difficult it is). It turns out that humans inherently have the physical mechanism to produce two tones, just that we have not trained our muscles enough. Some trained vocalists can actually do this !! Check out this video by Bobby Mc Ferrin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlJvOCG22aU&feature=related

One more :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vNB5d8cU1Y&feature=related

If you are not able to notice it, you can import the file into matlab and view the abrupt jumps in the spectrogram :-)

Wish I could find a er.. 'driver' to activate this incompatible-by-default hardware !! Multi tone-la mokka podalam :-)

Adiye Kolluthey !!

I have been so smitten by this song and literally lost count of how many times I have listened to this in the past 2 days.

I think its one of the best songs in recent times. Rarely in Tamil cinema do we find good Tamil lyrics set to Western tunes ( the last good song I can recollect is yakkai thiri I guess ). The last stanza is especially superb:

"Enakkaghavey vandhai en nizhal polavey nindrai
Unnai thottru nee ennai vendraye !"


Amazing lyrics, superb picturisation ( esp Sameera with her no-nonsense gal character :-) ), Krish, Benny dayal, Shruthi Hassan == Boy, I love this song ! :-)


Adiye Kolluthey azhagho alluthey
Ulagham surunguthe iruvaril adanguthe
Unnodu nadakkum ovvuru nodikkum
Arththangal sernthiduthe
En kaalai neram en maalai vaanam
Nee indri kayinthiduthe


Iravum Paghalum un mugam
Irayai poley Thuraththuvadum yeno
Mudhalum Mudivum Neeyena
Therinthu pinbu thayangu vathum yeno ?
Vaadai kaatrinil oru naal oru vasam vandhathey pon nesam endrathey
Undan kangalil yedho minsaram ulladhey Yen meedu payinthade
mazhai kaalathil sariyum mann tharai polavey manamum
Unnai kandadhum sariya kandeney !

( Adiye Kolluthey ..)

Ooohhhooooooooohhh ohoohhhh

Azhagin sigaram neeyadi
Konjam adhanal thalli nadappeney
Oru sol oru sol solladi
Indha kaname unnai manappeney
Solllaa varthaiyin sugame mayil thogai polavey yen meedhu oorudhey
Yella vaanamum neelam Sila neram maathiram senthooram aghuthey
Enakkaghavey vandhai en nizhal polavey nindrai
Unnai thottru nee ennai vendraye !

( Adiye Kolluthey ..)

How to insult computer scientists

How To Criticize Computer Scientists
( or )
Avoiding Ineffective Deprecation And Making Insults More Pointed

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/essay.criticize.html

:-)

"Research" :-)

How to pick a CS research topic in 10 seconds http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/essay.topic.generator.html

How to generate a paper in 10 seconds
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

Dont forget to include me as a co-author in your paper ! :-)

Here comes another bubble

Amazing video !


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I

i ? :-)

"My life is becoming complex. No, not THAT complex. Just that it has more imaginary components than real."

Loosely inspired by,

"I used to be schizophrenic, but we're OK now!"

Whatever ! :-)

Ambitious Artificial Intelligence

A PROPOSAL FOR THE DARTMOUTH SUMMER RESEARCH PROJECT ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

J. McCarthy, Dartmouth College
M. L. Minsky, Harvard University
N. Rochester, I.B.M. Corporation
C.E. Shannon, Bell Telephone Laboratories


You can read the full proposal at
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmouth.html


See the proposed list of participants. The Dartmouth conference must have been simply amazing !