Q: How do you carve an elephant?
A: Take a large stone and remove from it all that doesn’t look like an elephant
- Ancient Indian proverb, as told to us by Prof C Pandu Rangan during the Design of Algorithms course
As I had explained in a post a long time ago, this whole business of louvvu [...]
For some reason, today I happened to look back at some of my old IIT textbooks, and happened to see this book by Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest on algorithms. I was reminded of the algorithms course at IITM. The prof had just finished his term as HoD and much relieved as he was, he put [...]
Left-wing economics is idealistic, and the basic assumption is that everyone is a good guy, and he will work in the best interests of the system.
On the other hand, the basic assumption behind right-wing economics is that everyone is inherently a bad guy, and will work only for his own benefit. Hence, systems have to [...]
It was only when
udupendra
pointed out last week that I realized that “Theory Lab” sounds somewhat self-contradictory.
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