Siddharth's:

Matchstickmen

Remnants of Computer History:

Computer Chronicales TV Series
Net Cafe Series.

The Fascination Education Dump:

> Fascination Edution:

This comes from my personal obsession,

of reverse engineering education.



Perhaps Krishnaraj has also struck my fancy through his lectures:



Fascination Education1: Visual Memory, because programmers need to be spending time doing
Fascination Education1.5: Put a face to the names: Huffman, Dijkstraw -->> Tech Quiz!

programming not mugging! CALL IT MUGGING HACKING!

Fascination Education2: Movies for Education!

FOSS Movies, hacking movies, computer evolution movies.

(movies are meant for a social experience)

Fascination Education3: Modify Existing Curriculum (Web programming --> FaceBook application)

Fascination Education4: Map interests to curriculum.

Lecture hacking: Simple way we recorded lectures! Deploy online!

Fascination Education5: 256 bit AES Encrption key! Uncrackable!

Fascination Education6: Mastering subjects (DM mey tree pruning recursive algorithm ka complexity.. left to the reader)

...These should be assignments?

Fascination Education7: Michael Duell, "Non-software examples of software design patterns", Object Magazine, Jul 97, p54]

Open Time tests?

Cryptography in CN.

Fascination Education6: Improve seeding in India. Sharing files in India, torrent network in India? Quite dead?

Fascination Education7: DataMining on the FaceBook data set: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5722635/Facebook_directory_-_personal_details_for_100_million_users

> Krishnarj's Obsessive way of research and software design:

"Ask questions until there are no questions to be asked"





>Krishnaraj's stimulative way of teaching:



Example the trie data structure, application in T9 cellphones.and I figure its used in "search as you type" in google :D

Von Neumam being the culprit to seperate Processing and Storage, and his grand successful life :D (party guy).

hacker greenBack: Audio lecture lost :X







Kirshnaraj has indexed all his movies,

but data spans across several hard disks?

Solution for that?

This can be part of Fascination Education:

* Students write code to solve their problems (indexing their movies) or whatever.

* Google Desktop, why note code an alternative using B trees and stuff?

Why can't classmates collaboratively develop this shit!

* CMS for collaboration semester wise, seniors leave their footprints, so juniors can learn better,

be taught better!





fascination education:

Education must have a much deeper relation with our lives.

Focus on theory has the benefit of developing sound knowledge and concept in the area,

but it is of absolutely no use if the student cannot perceive it in his own life, explore it,

be fascinated with it.



My Project is to infuse fascination education through Vrglinug, fascination through the

philosphy of hacking, hacking life.



The Technical project however is to study the collaboration models.





Krishnaraj's Mathematical analysis:

He is a math person!

Clues:

(1) When i complained that I was unable to drive people to do a linux boot strap session,

he replied that he was not surprised and that the students of this college are but a subset of

the world :P

(2) In a class he once commented, Usually people think designing web sites is about

css, scripts etc. Its not at all about that, there are mathematical concepts..err?



He needs to give a guest lecture on this!



Krishnaraj's Mugging Skills:

In Information Systems course, he mentioned learning from front and back, lol,

(technique from some Shlok)







So We need Every Playboy Edition, Everything playboy!:

Playboy Magazines:

Monthly Issues:

Countries:





So How do you convert your shoe Obsession into a way of life?

* The Software Guy:

Shoe Collaboration Model, as a marketing strategy?

Shoe SOftware?

Web? India?

Whats the classic problem with Shoes on the Internet?



* Make it about the feet:

Foot care as part of the Shoe Business.

(Innovation will always be copied)



* Shoe Photography.

Pending Movies:

(1) Watchmen, and Bob Dyan's OST
(2) The Aviator
(3) Nine - Fergie/Penelope Cruz

Install 64 bit linux First!

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So I've learnt:

A Project based life is best suited for me, and the obsession needs to carry 24x7 so as not to get distracted. It works wonders, and I do feel the thrill for it.

So If I were to leave everything and work independently, here are the list of my projects.

(1) The Shoe Business Plan.
(2) Programming projects.
      (2a) Code the Btree.
      (2b) Object oriented design club!
(3) Web Projects: design, backend frameworks.
This itself is huge!
      (3a)  http://speckyboy.com/2011/05/03/20-essential-firefox-4-addonsextensions-for-web-developers/
      (3b)  CMSs and Information systems! >> Publish the videos also!
(4) Playboy Collection: A Crawler to collect all data.
(5) Hackers Philosophy

Specific Problems to solve:
Linux:
(1) Steelseries headphone compatibility.
(2) Kernel Programming?
(3) Slow transfer to NTFS drives, slow deletion.

Mobile Phones:
(1) Cyanogen Mod, Read Anindya chat Entries.
(2) Smart phone OS area, critical area for FOSS, the problem of the 80s have emerged, people can't understand the difference between hardware and software.

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As of today thoughts have been creeping up, of not joining my company and pursuing the unknown (lol, since I can't fit into higher education and definitely not a job, where do I go?)

Now obviously most of this is krishnaraj inspired, because of the amount of possibilities and knowledge we have been exposed to, because of him.

Continuing the project philosophy, lets dump all the thoughts that have been coming up:
(1) Work as part of vrglinug and truly doing something, no classes no responsibilities!
(2) Join this 1 month old startup Eudora!
(3) Hard core programming! Enough of claiming to be a programmer, time to get dirty, even in FOSS!

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Jquery >> Analysis of ONJ, WebServices (JSON REST and shit?)
Grep, Sed, Awk
STL
File handling!
Databases, Couchdb?
Python - You need this one!
Java baaaah. Strut that ass xD

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Hack room in vrglinug:
(1) Teach programming
(2) Read Nicolo's book, Donald Knuth
 [ Inspired from here : http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/computer-science/threads/41584]
(3) FOSS library, Read About hackers and FOSS yourself.
(4) Meet people, skillnet? Online collaboration models unexplored, Science of offline collaboration models in MSRIt.

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Oh cmon, you didnt do shit if you didnt learn gdb!
http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150161187941213&set=a.390215886212.178598.679301212&type=1&ref=nf

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All those IIT hackfests? IIT hack simulations?
Abhigna's inspired hack fest.
hackthissite?

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SIS web service? facebook app that compares attendance? Way2sms hack by Adarsh?
Investigate coding histories of Adarsh, Nicolo etc?

Google Search problems, can Rishabs app be a greasemonkey plugin?
Why cant there be plugin developers in India, in college?
Why cant this be a part of mukhti?

Google search problems, Bogus first results on popular topics like "pantyless yana" and "The mentalist season X episode Y megavideo" etc.!

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Movies and Documentaries Project:
Dont you dare forget to take all that data from Saurov before he goes!
FOSS movies, screen them, what about a sharing model? like a place people bring in their stuff and share???

The Echo, identity - The actor with the amazing eyes thingy!

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You were going to investigate how twitter came in to the world??
The Google Story, The Road Ahead? Mark Zuckerberg?
The Stories?

Exploit the twitter model? Hacks?
Explain what could be a feasible business model? Now thats learning?

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A full time fascination education project?

Put up hackers history in IS and CS labs,
put up leaflets of the creators of gdb, g++ and all the other tools that people use in the labs, so they can appreciate stuff!

Design exercises so that students can learn through application, remember the krishnaraj dream? he introduced labs for every subject, the other teachers didn't know what to do in the labs! For god sake this should be a project in itself!

Or maybe a full fledged website, conduct tech quizzes subsequently.

Already prevalent outside, totally neglected here!

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Auto syncing torrents?
The Idea of Indians being leechers?
Be part of the Vuze team??

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If you're looking into hardcore programming, even that itself will take a lot!
GSoC?

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Finally its time to get the mega memory research underway! and publish/write also.
The magician fascination, david blaine exposed blah blah, write up.
That reminds me, just like how your father said, why kill a talent that can be nurtured? what happens in acting? No questions asked if you're successful, or else... ya face it :D

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Ofcourse Now you need to be solving problems everyday to become proficient,
and as far as algorithms is concerned... Diving into Donald Knuth simply sucks :S

MIT videos, introductory books, trace a fascinating journey.
Are Donald Knuth's book worth buying and alternatives.

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Continuing the FOSS research could be fun!
Game Theory? Aww cmon dive in, time to explore and make mistakes, 365 days is a long time! Provided ofcourse you have atleast a minimal goal/plan achieved

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Anda (Egg) wala business plan research!
Already a lot of ideas, now implementation is much easier said than done!

The WebGL Globe Project!

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Collaboration models inside msrit? inside colleges?
Use facebook to assert identity?
Research on this area.

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Code the B-tree, B+-tree, r-b tree in maps? Virtual B tree
Dragon Ball Z Marathon!
Focus on the social network research, it cant be that f*kin bad!

Idea: Just saw a T-mobile ad, had a girl with pretty shoes! Naturally I was attracted to this ad. But an important realization: when it comes to personalized ads, adding elements in the ad (whether or not related to the product, in this case pretty shoes, which I like) can influence the end-user, isn't it?

The ad can have elements that influence in the sub-conscious level, and I have a total theory about subconscious influence of society anyway!

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Zuckerberg's so called social plugin: brilliant, identity of a person is asserted through facebook, that could make an amazing social collaboration model.

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Death of Socrates, the "publicist" story in playboy and also krishnarajpm's article in his old blog. Also the original writings of Plato (which shocked pmk)

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why internet as a medium for sharing movies and stuff?
So much offline content...
why not index it geographically?
like search for a movie, it will tell u the geographically closest guy that can give u that!
Requires collaboration and participation.

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Question for krishnaraj: Now we all know he has quite the fancy for "engineering design", however he considers the 1980 NATO conference put a burden over all of us (the Software Engineering Community), by forcing the word "engineering" over software.

Elaborate!

Indians are just leechers! Never heard of 1 soul contributing a single line to Wikipedia!

Here are the problems I've encountered in my Wikipedia Journey:
(1) Yana Gupta's page is minimal.
(2) Indian Rupee page does not have images of 5, 10, 20, 25 paise. etc.

What about Regional wiki?

An Idea that will pass:

(1) Feeling happy (It's a phase), just thought of understanding what the college thinks about FOSS, questionairre perhaps.
(2) Shoes: I'm so tempted to convert all those PB issues to English through an OCR.

Seems my obsessions have a future and purpose?

Here is a passionate txt I wrote and left in my hard disk, and recovered today thanks to Google Desktop, that indexes all content. Ironically this should be coded, because Sir taught us File Structures.

When I said I would like to councel the students [Referring to a proposition I made], I just wanted to bridge the gap between students and teachers starting from you. Let me elaborate:
Autonomy dawned, and you made a valiant effort to change the system of rot, but now that you've planned to relinquish the same responsibilites, and
soon there will be no hope left.
Your efforts to maintain the sanctity of the teaching proffession and your firm belief in strict discipline are regarded
as "egoistic attitude", "eccentricity", "complete disrespect" by the students.
Students need to look beyond this, and see the real effort you've put in to bring order to this pandemonium of a system.
Also, for instance, I beleive that you shouldn't have scrutinized the choice of bussiness plans by the students much,
instead you should have just told them, develop a bussiness plan, completely based on their passion, no matter what.
This would automatically give them a huge incentive to work, and anyway you're mission was to make them see the world of bussiness, especially its failures,
and what better way than to do it under the illusion of their passion.
Regarded as the "head fake" by Randy Pauch, where students are sent to learn, say, "to play cricket", but without knowing,
return learning about "sportmanship, team play, leadership" similarly you could have done that in bussiness.
The even greater problem is that I have seen the other teachers taking the students side and feeling justified
with things such as "feeling lost", "not having a road map" for the subjects you are teaching.
All is lost, even if the teaching staff and administration start taking sides.

Yes it is true you have abstained giving a concrete road map a lot of times, which was supplied to us, since our birth, and we now we seem to deem it as our birthright;
From the very little numericals we did in school (that already had data in them, and we never had to look anywhere to find them),
to the process of even writing exams in engineering.
Perhaps you could have told everyone at the start, that there will be no roadmap (be it filestructures, information systems),
because this is your objective... an inspiring line from your blog: "to raise programming to the level of art,
it is necessary that we encourage learners to solve problems on their own rather than forcing them to apply known solutions."
These bother me a lot, for its killing the only teacher, who opened my eyes into the world for each subject you taught,
and you, taught a rebellious student like me to respect teachers and their proffession.

The Subconscious Influence of the world:

I had thought of this quite long back, and now I stumble on a TED video (David Brook's talk "Social Animal") that touches the fact.

We are constantly absorbing knowledge, at every moment. It doesn't have to be conscious. Every interaction with a person, every movie, every TV show, every internet video, we subconsciously absorb something.

[This is a very important point when it comes to education, these ridiculous never-ending lectures and solving sums on the black board are not the only way of learning (in fact it is pathetic), experiencing, thinking, being stimulated in so many ways could enable us to learn and appreciate subjects so much more. A far fetched dream in a vicious sadist system of course]

Anyway, back to what we were discussing.
These subconsciously learnt traits effect us in many ways.

A simple example to elaborate. I have been watching a lot of crime/murder related TV Shows  and movies (Fascinating story lines and the love for thrillers and psychological thrillers). If I were kidnapped, and held at gunpoint and forced to blurt out an ingenious way to kill someone, my mind would automatically use the TV Shows as "experience" and probably come up with a way to do that (I'm already thinking of Ricin poisoning, takes hours to come in effect (Enough time to escape/cover tracks), difficult to trace).

At the end of the day this sub-conscience (very similar to "feelings") matters, because we use to reason/take decisions and lead life as driven by them. We aren't thinking of an optimal mathematical equation when taking decisions in life, we are trusting our so called "instincts" "gut feelings".

My teacher, Krishnaraj PM condemns the ideas of "gut feeling" in Engineering.
His famous quotes are:
"One solution is no solution", - means there have to be choices, and each of them must be carefully/mathematically weighed (some procedures were elaborated in his Information System classes)
"Ask questions until no further questions can be asked" - This is his obsessive design technique, he considers possibilities, permutations and combinations to deliver a software which are compliant with all the funky jargons in the true sense [Fault tolerant, Robust etc.]

I love these quotes, because if I apply them, I feel the gratification of having designed a well engineered solution - It's an art.

And my favorite quote that follows this is:
"to raise programming to the level of art, 
it is necessary that we encourage learners to solve problems on their own rather than forcing them to apply known solutions"

So learners should solve problems on their own, be creative - in a sense move with their sub-conscience.  

Dexter Dump, Searching in Sneha's Profile:

In Mumbai with my parents.

• Ankan Zerob well i need to explain my obsession for dexter in-depth which makes me "biased" and hardly criticize it, which i cannot do from this irritating mobile device. Eg. i like relating to his dark passenger, i abstain myself from watching the interviews of the cast so that in my mind i don't spoil the "characters"

  January 15 at 12:29am via Facebook Mobile ·
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  Ankan Zerob season4 ending spoiler alert!............! no i'm not a fan of julia stiles, i dont know she exists, but the death of rita(sneha has already watched it) was in a way killing dexter's precious human connection, but given his sinister nature in season5 i deemed it was right she died, dexter could peacefully pursue his passion.

  January 15 at 12:34am via Facebook Mobile ·
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  Ankan Zerob at the most, i'm surely we all do, we imagine ourselves to be the protagonist, i am dexter, i have a dark passion, i channel and decorate it in my own way to live in this world normally, but on way i even sacrifice the slightest thirst of my passion, i tend to them as much as needed and even more.

  January 15 at 12:38am via Facebook Mobile ·
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  Ankan Zerob proof of the part that he doesnt hesitate at all to quench his passion - 1) he counts the number of hours and seconds, until his first kill after his brother's murder. 2) even after rita is dead, and he assumes the huge responsibility of his son, a blood stain at the back of his moving truck distracts him... And he sparys luminol and investigates the scene in front of his son.

  January 15 at 12:42am via Facebook Mobile ·
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  Ankan Zerob i like seeing myself as dexter, having passions that drive me to perfection, that push my limits, that quench my thirst, but sometimes so much that i forget my loved ones, and my responsibilities.

  January 15 at 12:44am via Facebook Mobile ·
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  Ankan Zerob oh god lol, i completely let go of writing in your comment thread! Sorry :-)

  January 15 at 12:45am via Facebook Mobile ·
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  Ankan Zerob its not "on way" its "no way i even sacrifice the slightest thirst of my passion....

  January 15 at 12:49am via Facebook Mobile ·
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  Ankan Zerob dexter has this unique fascination for all people around him (normal people mostly, and a few killers like trinity), he takes a lot of effort to understand them, so that he can learn, if not learn then mimic! Harry's code is his only answer, but this complex life has questions that cannot be answered by his code, so he frantically searches for these answers elsewhere.

  January 15 at 1:04am via Facebook Mobile ·
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  Ankan Zerob

  proof of the above statement: (1) the old woman (forgot her name) asks for the best quelime pie from dexter, because she is diagnosed of a terminal lung disease... But she wishes for even more, she cannot bear the suffering, she wants dexter to end her suffering, perform a coup-de-grace even! Dexter is torn with this thought, she does not meet harry's code, but he wants to end her suffering. Dexter is troubled, in a dilemma and finally finds the answer in miguel's words "sometimes for a friend, you have to do the right thing, even if its really hard"... Finally dexter decides to end her suffering, i cannot forget that episode, it brought tears to my eyes, as she said "finally dexter, you brought me the world's best quelime pie."

  January 15 at 1:11am via Facebook Mobile ·
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  Ankan Zerob ‎(2) the thoughts of the dark passenger are inspired by a coffee conversation with laila (the got british girl, who even i can't forget lol)

  January 15 at 1:13am via Facebook Mobile ·
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  Ankan Zerob ‎(3) the trinity fascination: we all know this very well, dexter tried to understand how could a serial killer have a family? Where did he keep his trophies (in plain sight) and his unique way of being invisible(only lundy's talent found this "ghost") even though he left his bodies behind. This cost him dearly...Rita.

  January 15 at 1:18am via Facebook Mobile ·
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  Ankan Zerob ‎(4) he listened to all of jordan chase's insight (revealed in the end), which i'm not elaborating until i have proof that sneha has finished season 5.

  January 15 at 1:21am via Facebook Mobile ·