TIL(D): 27 Nov 2011
- Waffle House Index from the article at nytimes
- “Keep moving forward, because you’ll gain new tools that you can use to go back and perfect the fundamentals.” Its important to have the a very sound footing in basics. Kath Sierra. (via a story on hn) Bert Bates (my co-author) is a blackbelt level go player, one of the best amateur players in the state. But when a visiting expert–four belt levels above Bert–showed up at the local go tournament, Bert was surprised to see the guy reading a book on fundamental go problems that Bert had read much earlier in his learning. The expert said, “I must have read this at least a hundred times. My goal each time is to see how much more quickly I can solve all the problems in the book than I did the last time.”
- IntoDNS – check DNS Server health for your server . Example : GeetShabda DNS
- Watched Randall Munroe’s talk about XKCD @ AtGoogleTalks
- He mentioned about ProjectEuler and hence signed up. – Still not clear about what constraint are followed for the problems on the site. – TBD
- LOL’ed at the Richard Stallman Katana incident.
- Learned that the asmarterplanet comics were being done by Randall Munroe (XKCD).
- Read through Alex Rabbit MQ Slides. Browsed the web for article’s comparing IBM’s approach (WMB) vs RabbitMQ – Decided to undertake a extensive study for this with help of team (Sid, Saum).
- Noticed a sudden activity on the GTUG list asking for articles – TBD pages
- Tasted Madera – SulaWines – Not comparable to international brands – can give a pass.
- Started reading ‘Chanakya’s Chant by Ashwin Sanghi’ – shared by Prateek P
- Learned about these products
- producteev - After reading the The Morpheus Post about selection process
- theapplicants -for processing the applications. (via 11(1)) – Gives me meat to think about the interview process shortlisting idea for large conglomerates.
- Lytro - (via a comment on submitted entry about Peter Norvig’s Dance Photography – upvoted the comment by avc ) Certainly a great leap. But not impressed overall – (price point being a main issue).
- Watched BBT Episode 9 Season 5.
- Words I Learnt
- orinthophobia: fear of birds
- psychedellic: denoting drugs that produce hallucinations and apparent expansion of consciousness.
- clairvoyant: who claims to have supernatural ability to perceive events in future /beyond sensory contact.
- Quotes from Chakya’s Chant
- Any Clod would have facts – having opinion was an art. (So very well applies to the gyan I gave Sid, Saum)
- Elephants are needed to catch elephants so does one need wealth to capture more wealth
- Impossible to know when a fish swimming in water drinks some of it
- Politics is war without bloodshed and war is simply politics with bloodshed.
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