Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Age does make a difference


I always believed that being the youngest boy in the class I had an advantage over others because I get to learn what my age group learns a year earlier.
But recently I realized it is not always true.
I would have been at an advantage provided I learned with the present set and competed with my age group set.
In general in any class you have a deviation of one year from the mean. This difference can be a lot when you are an outlier in the set.
Since you know this now its time you can decide which set you want to compete with. Winning is about mitigating failure.

Friday, February 27, 2009

OLPC


The One Laptop Per Child Association, Inc. (OLPC) is a U.S. non-profit organization set up to oversee the creation of an affordable educational device for use in the developing world. Its mission is "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."[1] Its current focus is on the development, construction and deployment of the XO-1 laptop.


The goal of the foundation is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves. To that end, OLPC is designing a laptop, educational software, manufacturing base, and distribution system to provide children outside of the first-world with otherwise unavailable technological learning opportunities.


OLPC lists five core principles:


  1. Child ownership

  2. Low ages. Both hardware and software are designed for elementary school children ages 6-12.

  3. Saturation

  4. Connection

  5. Free and open source

Monday, February 16, 2009

Sitting patterns..

At 8:15 on a cold Monday morning....I was waiting for my company bus...finally it turns at around 8:20.There were already about ten people and now we (my friends and me) too get in. Next stop Vashi station, some more get it and occupy some more seats. Sounds simple right....

When you enter a bus do you make a conscious decision of where to sit? I don’t...anyways I was surprised to see a pattern emerge. Everyone took one window seat including me (not consciously though).It went like this first guy A1,second guy B1 and so on.No one bothered to open the window ,people were speaking to each other across seats.Then why did everyone take an independent seat ?

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

"Impossible" is not a fact, it is an opinion.

Digital Signature

A digital signature or digital signature scheme is a type of asymmetric cryptography. For messages sent through an insecure channel, a properly implemented digital signature gives the receiver reason to believe the message was sent by the claimed sender. Digital signatures are equivalent to traditional handwritten signatures in many respects; properly implemented digital signatures are more difficult to forge than the handwritten type. Digital signature schemes in the sense used here are cryptographically based, and must be implemented properly to be effective. Digital signatures can also provide non-repudiation, meaning that the signer cannot successfully claim they did not sign a message, while also claiming their private key remains secret; further, some non-repudiation schemes offer a time stamp for the digital signature, so that even if the private key is exposed, the signature is valid nonetheless. Digitally signed messages may be anything representable as a bitstring: examples include electronic mail, contracts, or a message sent via some other cryptographic protocol.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Self Made Man


Self Made Man, the statue I greatly admire and the principle I strongly believe. "... left to his own devices, man will use his god-given talents to be creative, productive, and prosperous. Using free will, he will better his own situation and that of those around him, thereby influencing in a positive way his own destiny..."

The “Self Made Man” is an original sculpture by Colorado artist, Bobbie Carlyle. Ms. Carlyle has graciously allowed Funding Freedom to adopt the “Self Made Man” as its symbol of self-reliance and the freedom philosophy. The powerful image of the rugged “Self Made Man,” chiseling himself out of a solid block of rock captures the essence of the freedom philosophy – that left to his own devices, man will use his God-given talents to be creative, productive, and prosperous. Using free will, he will better his own situation and that of those around him, thereby influencing in a positive way his own destiny. This captures the philosophy of Funding Freedom and that of our clients.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Domino Effect

The domino effect is a chain reaction that occurs when a small change causes a similar change nearby, which then will cause another similar change, and so on in linear sequence. The term is best known as a mechanical effect, and is used as an analogy to a falling row of dominoes. It typically refers to a linked sequence of events where the time between successive events is relatively small. It can be used literally (an observed series of actual collisions) or metaphorically (complex systems such as global finance, or in politics, where linkage is only a hypothesis).

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeF7yLkEECs

60 Seconds of Random Ideas

As of now I am planning to post all interesting and wierd stuff that I come across.

It can include any of the following:

  • Numbers
  • Ideas
  • People
  • Things
  • Pictures
  • etc etc etc


Random Ideas will be entirely random in nature :)
Posting will also be random.

Resources : Google.com ,Wikipedia.org and a little bit of me