07 Jun
This post doesn’t necessarily restrict its scope to romantic relationships, though I will probably use an example like that in order to illustrate the concept. The concept that I’m going to talk about any kind of bilateral relationship, be it romantic or non-romantic, or between any two people or between man and beast or between [...]
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27 Sep
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 [...]
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26 Jul
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 [...]
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13 Jul
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 [...]
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04 Jul
It was only when udupendra pointed out last week that I realized that “Theory Lab” sounds somewhat self-contradictory. //
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