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Oh the donutity!

Ankit — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:53:22 +0000

The other day Himanshu said, ‘a donut and a bagel were sitting side by side.’ And I doubled up laughing! The possibilities are limitless.

Tim Burton’s Doodlings

Ankit — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:24:53 +0000

I came across this article from Wired and got fascinated by Tim Burton’s sketches/drawings. I have included here the ones that I liked the most. If you want backgrounds on the images, better just go to the Wired article. But it’s a hassle moving across pages to view all the images,

…and now that the gallery functionality seems to work, off to writing the wretched tome which seems to extend like the wings of the Gaussian distribution along its fringes!

Linear Least Squares Fit

Ankit — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:41:23 +0000

…it’s the stuff Ph.D. dissertations are made of, as I am in the process of realizing . How little our world would have made sense if Least Squares fit wasn’t around? It’s philosopher’s stone, panacea, and elixir, all ground into one Euripidean ‘deus ex machina’ incarnate for grad students.

Division by zero

Ankit — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:42:38 +0000

…and it would be a crazy happy world. Truth would only be a matter of one’s imagination. Fallacies would be the only consistencies and no professor would be smug. People would be generally confused and disoriented and no one would bat an eyelid when sold 5 oranges after paying for 6. It would be a chaotic world with its unsure zombie like citizens walking around on crazy Mobius strip shaped roads. The principle of mutually assured destruction would cease to exist because no one would be sure if 10,000 is greater than 1. Hence countries would stage preemptive nuclear strikes and finish off this stumbling, hobbling world and the rest of the universe wouldn’t give a damn.

But there would be advantages, definitely. If somebody asks you what would you do if you had a million dollars, you can simply say that you don’t even need a million dollars. And yes, quantum electrodynamics would probably have a believable premise.

Snail’s Law

Ankit — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:55:46 +0000

Self Reference

Ankit — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:56:37 +0000

Oh my darling Clementine

Ankit — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:11:01 +0000

‘Oh my darling, Clementine’ is an American folk song from the Gold Rush times. It’s about a miner’s daughter named Clementine who dies in a drowning accident while her lover couldn’t save her. Hindi song ‘Ae dil hai mushkil’ was ‘inspired’ from it:

Gravity of the situation

Ankit — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:42:53 +0000