Saint Rantic

June 27, 2005

The Passion

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 2:10 pm

I was good in math. I still am good in math.

‘Good’ for most people might be a concept in which u compare urself with another and say that i am better. But the ‘good’ that i use here is an objective good, and is not subjective to anybodies faculty in mathematics. There is only one person whom I can be better than in math, and it is the only person i care to compare myself with. That person is me.

I dont feel great when I say that I topped in my school math courses and nor do i sulk and shiver when i compare my faculty with Einstien and the likes. Infact I just like to enjoy the concept in math, and it is for this reason that i say i am good at math. I love that freshness when u get when u understand something new and radical. I love the challenge that one feels when one approaches new paradoxes and thought experiments.

That happiness for me is kind of orgasmic, and ofcourse unlimited ;-) .

This is my philosophy and it is the only path that I am concerned in my life, and for me that is the place where u get eternal happiness,this process is my temple, the path my religion and math is my god.

The Passion

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 2:10 pm

I was good in math. I still am good in math.

‘Good’ for most people might be a concept in which u compare urself with another and say that i am better. But the ‘good’ that i use here is an objective good, and is not subjective to anybodies faculty in mathematics. There is only one person whom I can be better than in math, and it is the only person i care to compare myself with. That person is me.

I dont feel great when I say that I topped in my school math courses and nor do i sulk and shiver when i compare my faculty with Einstien and the likes. Infact I just like to enjoy the concept in math, and it is for this reason that i say i am good at math. I love that freshness when u get when u understand something new and radical. I love the challenge that one feels when one approaches new paradoxes and thought experiments.

That happiness for me is kind of orgasmic, and ofcourse unlimited ;-) .

This is my philosophy and it is the only path that I am concerned in my life, and for me that is the place where u get eternal happiness,this process is my temple, the path my religion and math is my god.

June 25, 2005

Space time perturbations????

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 9:24 pm

Is energy space time perturbation? If so then the plack length and plank time and plack mass makes sense. Maybe, Maybe not.. anyway i guess it would be understanding the mathematical basis of both the theories and also their assumption points

Space time perturbations????

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 9:24 pm

Is energy space time perturbation? If so then the plack length and plank time and plack mass makes sense. Maybe, Maybe not.. anyway i guess it would be understanding the mathematical basis of both the theories and also their assumption points

Living with time dilation

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 1:14 pm

This is a great day for me….. I always wanted to brag about understanding relativity. I understood it once i came to know about the simplest proof on time dilation.

Understanding the proof is simple…. but Living with what it says is something that demands some depth in thinking, which i think would make one into a good scientist.

 

Living with time dilation

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 1:14 pm

This is a great day for me….. I always wanted to brag about understanding relativity. I understood it once i came to know about the simplest proof on time dilation.

Understanding the proof is simple…. but Living with what it says is something that demands some depth in thinking, which i think would make one into a good scientist.

 

June 24, 2005

Software Industry in India:- The realist review. INTRO

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 11:37 am

Where is software Industry going?
EMBEDDED!!!! would be the answer of any software engineer and also an aspiring software engineer.

the above is true according to the Nasscom survey.

I would have loved to hear the word INNOVATION as an answer to that question.
And if INNOVATION is not the answer of the question we should see ourselves going down the drain in comparison to the chineese.

More on this lack of innovation and its effect at a later post.

Software Industry in India:- The realist review. INTRO

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 11:37 am

Where is software Industry going?
EMBEDDED!!!! would be the answer of any software engineer and also an aspiring software engineer.

the above is true according to the Nasscom survey.

I would have loved to hear the word INNOVATION as an answer to that question.
And if INNOVATION is not the answer of the question we should see ourselves going down the drain in comparison to the chineese.

More on this lack of innovation and its effect at a later post.

June 23, 2005

The end of Calculus as I knew it to be

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 9:17 am

The day before I stumbled upon the precise problem that I was searching for. I thought I knew calculus, but somehow it was not satisfying and complete. I learn by mapping my imagination with the math and then linking the to the facts that result. I could not simply get this mapping for calculus. I got the ‘gound-breaker’ the day before. If I find an answer to the problem then the Imagination, math and result linking would be done for calculus.

Let me get to the problem.

Consider a function

g(x) = |1 when x = 0; |0 elsewhere;|

find a function f(x) such that

∫ f(x)dx = g(x)

I have not found the answer till now. What puzzles me is this.

Can there be a zero area output from an Integration Operation?

Till now I have found two ways in which this problem can be approached.

1) By reaching g(x) by making rect(E,-E) where E tends to 0;
2) By making a triangular signal peaking at x = 0 with value one, and making the width of it 0.

I am not able to differenciate these signals and then inegrate them in the limit. It simply requires the tools that I am not aware of. Or it requires some more imagination and gettting down to the basics.

This incident take me back to 2 to 3 years when i was struck with the same kind of an ‘end’.

It was the end of Signal Processing as I knew it to be. One of my idiot friends(who is in IISc now…. but other than that he does not qualify for a human being) quizzed my understanding about the meaning of an Impulse, or a Dirac Delta Function.

I used to assume that the value of an impulse is ‘very very’ high at the point of incidence of the impulse. Then my friend, who had a deeper understanding of ‘calculus’, gave me an explanation that an impulse is meaningful only under integration.

This was the trigger that I needed. I spent days and nights toiling with books in signal processing. That was the end of Signal Processing as i knew it to be. I unlearned everything that I learned. I learned that an impulse was defined in a limit and it was not defined at a ‘point’. I learned the definition of an impulse as a limit.

From then on understanding Fourier Transforms and other signal processing tools was just my imagination and its mapping with mathematics. I really learned a lot in the next two months at a pace that just envy right now. The remaining time in college was a ‘bliss’ or ’salvation’. I used to attack and gobble up every signal processing problem I could lay my hands on.

I wish I get the same ‘bliss’ by finding an answer to this problem.

The end of Calculus as I knew it to be

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 9:17 am

The day before I stumbled upon the precise problem that I was searching for. I thought I knew calculus, but somehow it was not satisfying and complete. I learn by mapping my imagination with the math and then linking the to the facts that result. I could not simply get this mapping for calculus. I got the ‘gound-breaker’ the day before. If I find an answer to the problem then the Imagination, math and result linking would be done for calculus.

Let me get to the problem.

Consider a function

g(x) = |1 when x = 0; |0 elsewhere;|

find a function f(x) such that

∫ f(x)dx = g(x)

I have not found the answer till now. What puzzles me is this.

Can there be a zero area output from an Integration Operation?

Till now I have found two ways in which this problem can be approached.

1) By reaching g(x) by making rect(E,-E) where E tends to 0;
2) By making a triangular signal peaking at x = 0 with value one, and making the width of it 0.

I am not able to differenciate these signals and then inegrate them in the limit. It simply requires the tools that I am not aware of. Or it requires some more imagination and gettting down to the basics.

This incident take me back to 2 to 3 years when i was struck with the same kind of an ‘end’.

It was the end of Signal Processing as I knew it to be. One of my idiot friends(who is in IISc now…. but other than that he does not qualify for a human being) quizzed my understanding about the meaning of an Impulse, or a Dirac Delta Function.

I used to assume that the value of an impulse is ‘very very’ high at the point of incidence of the impulse. Then my friend, who had a deeper understanding of ‘calculus’, gave me an explanation that an impulse is meaningful only under integration.

This was the trigger that I needed. I spent days and nights toiling with books in signal processing. That was the end of Signal Processing as i knew it to be. I unlearned everything that I learned. I learned that an impulse was defined in a limit and it was not defined at a ‘point’. I learned the definition of an impulse as a limit.

From then on understanding Fourier Transforms and other signal processing tools was just my imagination and its mapping with mathematics. I really learned a lot in the next two months at a pace that just envy right now. The remaining time in college was a ‘bliss’ or ’salvation’. I used to attack and gobble up every signal processing problem I could lay my hands on.

I wish I get the same ‘bliss’ by finding an answer to this problem.

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