Thursday, November 13, 2008

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 ! :-)

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

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 !

Monday, October 27, 2008

The art of sleeping in seminars

The fun quotient depends on how much you are actually able to relate to this :-)

http://physics.illinois.edu/news_events/Sleeping.asp

Thanks to Sriram for this article !

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Dialogues that you should probably use in everday life :-)

Use these dialogues in your day to day life by replacing nouns accordingly :-)
Mail me if you remember any another funny dialogue :-) I am planning to write another list on Koundamani dialogues and Crazy-Kamal combination dialogues. Ur inputs are most welcome :-)

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Vadivelu:

Giri:
"But andha dealing enakku romba pidichirundhadhu"
"Enna nallavan-nu sollittampa !"

Winner:
"Venaam,enakku kovam varaadhu"
"Nalla kelapparainga da beedhiya"
"Opening ellam nalla dhan irukku.. finishing seri illaye pa"
"Varum bodhu annan kuchi mittayum kuruvi rotti-yum vangittu varen"
"Par-ra"
"Ada, thanni vaingappa"
"Dei, nan yogyan da"
"Ingittu vaenam, angittu povom"
"Ipdiye usupethi usupethi udamba ranagala paduthitteengaley da .."

Thalainagaram
"Enna vechu comedy keemedy yedhuvum pannaliye"
"Naanum indha area-la rowdy-a form ayitten ya"
"Building strong, basement weak"
"Jailukku poren,jailukku poren,jailukku poren"
"Visham, visham,visham"
"Gymbody da,gymbody"

Manadhai Thirudi vittai
"Sing in the rain"
"What she is telling ?"
"Hello, dubai - a ?"
"En mummy daddy anga dhana livingstone"
"After all, just twenty crores loss ma"
"Why blood ? Same blood"
"Hey, put chutney"

Misc:
"Mannar and company" / "Ka ka kaakraan makeraan company"
"Number aaru,dubai kurukku sandhu,dubai main road,dubai"
"Sollavey illa!"

"Thambi, tea innum varala"

"Dei oru tea podra" .. " Annanukku oru horlicks podra" .. Vadivelu:" Agagaga"
Later: "Naan paatukku siva-ney nu dhana da poikkuttirundhen " ( Spl dedications to Kasi :-) )

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Vivek

Dhool: "Yeah,its me"
"En swapna budhdhisali.. Avala yaaralayum yemaththa mudiyadhu"
"Naan love-a solla pogum bodhu dhana avalukku cancer irukkaradhu theriya varanum"
"Satta kizhinjirundhaa.. " :-)
"Laddu-ku badhila jilebi kudukkanum-nu chandrababu naidu sattam potrukkaru"

Asaiyil oru kaditham
"Yen da baniyan potta saniyan-gala"
"Kannadiya kazhattina ivanukku kannu theriyadhu ma" " Enakku theriyume" " Idha naan yedhirpakkala"
"Inga kazhattiyachu illa, anga mattira vendiyadhu dhan"
"Ini pinnal dhan"

Minnale
"Iva ile da ava.. ana iva muliyuma than ava"

Misc:

"kutti yevada ?"
"Endra beedi malabar beedi"

The top ten things that math probability says about the real world

A great read:

http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/Top_Ten/talk.html

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Time warping :-)

Imagine as appropriate :-)

Dr1:There will be a quiz on friday morning.
You-know-who: Ok.
Dr2:You need to evaluate the MT and give me back by Tuesday noon. And u need to evaluate HW3 too.
You-know-who:Ok.
Dr3: Read through the material(7 papers+1 thesis). We will discuss on friday.We need to finish this by Tuesday.
You-know-who:Ok.
Mr4: You need to import ^&*^ format and make some meaningful interpretations of the data by Monday.
You-know-who: Ok.
X: Happy diwali
You-know-who: Ok..Hey, you didnt tell when this is due.
X: Huh ?
You-know-who: You dont have a deadline ? Gee,thanks !