A lot of my friends and some colleagues have asked me how much my past trips cost. I do not have data from my North-East trip. Back then, I was piggybacking on Nandi and kept passive tab on the expenses. I had computed the cost of my Kerala trip after I had completed it. For … [Read more…]
Last Friday, I came across a bag full of building blocks in my colleague, Rueben’s apartment. It was gifted to his son, Rehaan, by a Japanese lady who used to stay in the same building. There was a worn out instruction manual that made reading the actual name of the product difficult. The company that … [Read more…]
Something unthinkable happened last evening. Someone stole my cycle’s headlamp and cyclocomputer display unit (along with its mount). All this happened while the bike was parked in the Xylem premises (where I work). The thief was not aware of the quick-release mechanisms in the mounts. As a result there were quite a few marks on … [Read more…]
This was the third time that I had ventured towards Chikka Tirupati. The road from my house to Whitefield has improved. However, the road between Whitefield to Chikka Tirupati at present is doomed. There were segments which would put Paris-Roubaix’s cobbled roads to shame. In the wee hours of the morning, when the light was … [Read more…]
The following train of thought wreaked through my brains while I was having a lunch time discussion with my fellow colleagues. Joke as a consequence of classification All jokes appeared to be based on some form of classification. I couldn’t think of a joke that wasn’t rooted in classification. In case of a racial, gender … [Read more…]
Yesterday, I met a strange man. He was one of those poor souls who has been shown the rosy picture of a K-ary hierarchical tree that forms the basis of a Multi Level Marketing system. He had, in a way, tricked me into meeting him. He said that he and a group of friends work … [Read more…]
a) It is not a good idea to cycle (or do exercises) on an absolutely empty stomach. I had acid reflux. Next time I will eat a small amount before starting off. This could be something that applies to my body only. Many sources say that it is fine to do cardio on an empty … [Read more…]
I had built a crude N-Gram parser and resorted to the Sherlock Holmes books on Project Gutenberg as my training data set (training corpus). I was toying around with various phrases and the likelihood of their appearance in the books. One such phrase was “Elementary, my dear Watson”. “Elementary, my dear Watson” is technically a … [Read more…]
The Power Distance Index (PDI) is defined as “the extent to which the less powerful members of organisations and institutions (like the family) accept and expect that power is distributed unequally.” High PDI societies have authority and hierarchy embedded into their social structure while low PDI societies usually have a tendency to question the authorities. … [Read more…]
Ruskin Bond vividly recalls his last outing with his father in the essay, Remember this Day. His father had come for a day to meet him at his boarding school in Shimla. They went around and had fun. Since I had recently visited that place, I tried to picture the places he describes in the … [Read more…]
