Waiting for the lab, I write

Waiting for the lab, I wrote
A novel, story, poem and got
An F in that and many labs

Now waiting for the lab, I write
A post on blogger, and I fight
An urge to log out of this poem

No trolls or hobbits, Orcs or rings
Or mighty eagles, worms, I fear
In eyes, no emo stuff brings tears

But ah, this python haunts my nights
And Java in the days doth stalks
Me, just a lamb in flocks of hawks :(

But seriously people...these two courses are KILLING me! My life (on Facebook, Google and Storywrite) as I knew it, I know no longer. I am still happy and all-excited about these courses...and to tell the truth, Python is not such a heap to search in (OR a hash table to append to). The problem is that I am going way too fast. There in the lecture, professor mentions hash function and I rush to Wikipedia. From there, the story goes like this: 

and I end up in an abyss of Modular Exponentiation, Modular Multiplication, Theory of Multicommodity Flow, Parallelization of Fast Fourier Transformation....and when I wake up, it's already full-past-lab with a big fat F :(

So, now that you know what I am doing these days, here is my latest poem (Technically, my latest poem is the start of this post...but lets leave this for Zeno, shall we? :D )

signing off,
Onomarith

The Romeo-Juliet Love Model

I'm sorry I couldn't write about the function-e-junoon that I talked about. I was, and still am, really busy regarding my academics. But by the end of this semester I will write, because now the Romeo-Juliet Love Model is in the problem set of Mathematical Biology. Here have a look at it. I'll post a solution when I'm done with it by its due to date. No need to make any extracurricular effort.

The first page of my Mathematical Biology Homework 2

Now I rest in peace. And by the way, this function is actually due to Steven Strogatz.

Alden Torres's blog

Alden Torres's blog
Got a chance to read some pages on this blog. Very impressive!
Recommended for geeks and CS majors!

Buzzing about Buzz and Pluto

Google launched Buzz. The rest is (or will be in time) history. Being a "die hard" fan of Google products, I am already loving it (though I do not have it). The idea behind Buzz is to overtake every other social networking site (including Twitter and Facebook) and in the end, to ensure that when Skynet is launched, Google is the platform and the intelligence behind it. But forgetting the (rather lame) joke for the time being, I feel like I am in cloud nine just by hearing about it. Google products are my life (almost all of it and almost all of them). Ispend most of my time online, on PC or on cell and currently I am using:

1. Adsense
2. Alerts
3. App Engine
4. Blogger
5. Book Search (My Library)
6. Calender
7. Docs
8. Gmail
9. Friend Connect
10. Translator Toolkit
11. iGoogle
12. News
13. Notebook
14. Orkut
15. Picasa (online and offline)
16. Reader
17. Sites
18. Subscribed Links
19. Talk 
20. Video
21. Wave
22. Web History
23. YouTube
24. Groups

And out of these, the only service I never liked was Orkut: The Google way of Socializing. But now, with the advent of Buzz, my wishes about adopting (and opting) the Google way of socializing have rejuvenated. I just hope that it is explosively better than Orkut.
Right now, I am sitting in front of my PC, refreshing my gmail page every few seconds with hope that I get it now. (Any Google official reading this post, please help!)

But things are not so thrilling (and hopeful) in the outer solar system, where Pluto has gone red (or scarlet, if anyone gets this joke :).

Scientists are saying that this might be due to the hydrogen atoms being pulled off from the planet's surface by the methane breakdown by the UV rays. And what makes it so mysterious is that during the last two years, Pluto's position w.r.t. sun has not changed enough so that we blame the latter for the former's symptoms. So, in my humble opinion it's just that Pluto might have received the news of (not so) recent cosmic-stereotyping now. And what will you do if your professor labels you a dumbass? Obviously you can't smack him in head (or may be YOU can?!), so you just stand there, all shameful and scarlet :)
But seriously, people...you should revert the decision of labeling Pluto a dwarf-planet before whole sky turns copper-red and blasts (as it is told about Doomsday).

With hopes of getting Buzz soon
and fears of Pluto walking-out of Solar System
and nightmares of Skynet NOT taking over the world,
Onomarith hits PUBLISH POST!

In the beginning, there was an open parenthesis...

(People with a distaste for indentation will find this post incredibly annoying (Or they might develop a taste for it (But in the end, to whom it may concern)))

Listening to: The Keystrokes by Random Dude next-door
Wishing for: A fairy to get here and install iTunes on my 28 hours infant Ubuntu
Mood: Like that of Frodo when he realized that it was Gollum who threw the lembas, not Sam :( FML


Spring semester 10 is already two weeks old. I had not much higher expectations of the courses I am taking this spring, the first two weeks turned out to be very interesting (though I am sleep-deprived (though it has nothing to do with the courses (though I don't care much about them anyways :) (What do you think I am? A Lisp interpreter??? (though I wish I was =] (Okay I am done with indentation )))))). I have enjoyed much in the four courses out of five I am taking. My addiction of indentation has been rejuvenated with the advent of new languages like Python in CS 202, Java in Advanced Programming and Lisp and PHP (though I am not sure if it is a PROPER language (though my definition of proper rotates around NFS Most Wanted and Facebook :) )) just for fun...or to waste the time I am left with after attending three lectures and one four-hour lab. (And I am particularly free now as Heat and Thermodynamics assignment deadline (this is quiet an interesting word to think about (even without any though in parenthesis)) has been extended till Friday (another word to think about) and so, now I have only one assignment due tomorrow (and I'm still halfway through it (noticed an "r" in though? LMAO! )) and a lab tomorrow which I have to prepare for) (You never know which indented subject I am talking about, do you?).

But anyways, the three days' grace is over, I have a new OS to make fun of (though I do not intend to (noticed the revised order of "indent" in "intend"! (though unintentional ))), I am busy with installing utilities on that OS to make myself feel I'M HOME (Hey, is there no way (I wonder) to install VLC offline on Ubuntu?) and I have to update my Facebook status.
Starting of semester was really nice. "EE majors got pawned" (in the words of Anique Rogers Tahir) in the very first lecture of Data Structures. "It is a safe bet" was what they suffered. But in the end, it was fun. Also, Heat and Thermodynamics had a not-so-dynamic start, but now the instructor is picking up pace and course is gaining some momentum and grace. And Advanced programming in Java is really getting access into my private life:

I lay awake, in bed

Am thinking still in Java

My knowledge, that of classes

My mood is that of lava

I had a quiz, I sucked at

But that is nothing new

What sucks is that of Java

I still have not a clue!

But wasting any time more on parenthesis might be catastrophic (for this blog, even). So, here are somethings interesting (to me at least).

A guy at bash.org observed well (maybe about me (though I am not sure)). Here is the link and here is the quote:

You seem (in my (humble) opinion (which doesn't mean much)) to be (or possibly could be) more of a Lisp programmer (but I could be (and probably am) wrong).

Also, reading about Lisp on Wikipedia, I came across (or into (I leave the interpretation for your (not so (though there is always a (little) probability of it happening)) smart mind)) an interesting poem from XKCD. It is a parody of one of Robert Frost's poems. Here is the link and here is the poem:

Some said the world should be in Perl,
Some said in Lisp.
Now, having given both a whirl,
I held with those who favored Perl.
But I fear we passed to men
A disappointing founding myth.
And should we write it all again,
I'd end it with
A close-paren.

 I think I should stop quoting others (and stop indenting (uselessly) unless it makes any sense (which (believe me or not) it does (to me at least :) ))). So, here is the end of this post"."


Onomarith
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P.S. Greek philosopher Zeno would try to make things complicated by arguing that the end of my post is NOT that point which is enclosed in inverted commas, it is actually the last inverted comma, so that last inverted comma should be enclosed in inverted commas. But doing so would demolish Zeno's motive (not mine), as now the end of post is the last of the inverted commas which enclose the inverted commas...and this will continue till infinity. But I know how to handle Zenfinities (baseless, childish, greeky, not-so-freaky infinities which run like hell when they see me). So I will highlight (in red (a purely arbitrary choice)) the end of post. And it is : .

Also, my signature is NOT part of the post (though it sounds like it) and also, I don't want to sign it infinite times.