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guruparan18 | 6 years ago | on: The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold

I used to take cold showers when I was in moderate temperature zone, now I am in US/Canada, and recently started having cold showers (for the last 2 months) almost after 10 years.

I agree to all of the things you said, once you get used to the cold showers, in fact you would want more and more cold water running over you. More cold will get to be fine.

However, one thing I find annoyingly bad, given the time of the year is that I feel by body warmer (and feel that I might run a fever) and had to check temperature couple of times to see it is only normal. Not sure if this is going to be a long term thing or I might get used to it eventually.

guruparan18 | 6 years ago | on: Soundex – a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound

Interestingly, `soundex` is bundled along with the standard functions in most commercial software. In one of my first search function I wrote, I used `soundex` to run against previous search words and suggest a known search word as 'did you mean?' to catch the spelling errors. This is around 2008-2010, and was an easy way out of what Google search was doing at that time. It was quite useful.

guruparan18 | 8 years ago | on: Introduction to logic programming with Prolog

Back in 2006, I studied Prolong in my college as a pre-up course for A.I. From my experience then, Prolog was easy for programming small tasks. I ended up building a card game with some intelligence as a final project. Even then, I spent most of the time designing cards to show up in console than time on actual coding for game play/intelligence.

It could be fun to retry Prolog now.

guruparan18 | 8 years ago | on: How do you find integer solutions to x/(y + z) + y/(x + z) + z/(x + y) = 4?

True. And there could be many more ridiculously simple problems with hard or no applications (at least for now) we may not be able to solve or progress at all. Math as we know and practice might still fall short. I, for one, be happy that simple to state but solved, Godel's Incompleteness theorem, about the imperfection of the tools, had set the things firmly on stone.

Solving them or progress? May be I don't care, but these little problem, simple ones does encourage one to start thinking about solving problems, they make math accessible to masses.

guruparan18 | 9 years ago | on: India's demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes

Interesting no mention about gold, land or other valuables. This hits hard on the middle class who were holding money. Then there are ultra rich, for whom may be they are holding anywhere between 0%~30% of their black money in cash, others in other investments. For them, this is not a big issue.

guruparan18 | 9 years ago | on: Writing more legible SQL

Am I the only one to see or missing obviously. The following is wrong, where clause has table name (baz)?

    SELECT foo,
       bar
    FROM baz
    WHERE foo > 3
      AND baz =  '[email protected]'
Edit: Technically you can have a column name exactly same as table name, however I am finding it hard to find difference between the two queries presented.

guruparan18 | 9 years ago | on: Amex for Developers

And it appears they only accept XML. I am not sure if this is a considerable change with the trend to support JSON file format.

guruparan18 | 9 years ago | on: Google Allo – First Impression

Agreed. But I prefer text interface over voice. Having @Google assistant in group chat is kind of creepy but still interesting. It can share my location to the group, show weather and other search results. I wish Google assistant can setup group reminders(now it does not). It is certainly already replaced my Google search.

guruparan18 | 9 years ago | on: Google Allo – First Impression

You can ask @Google assistant to set a reminder, check your emails, draft and send email to your contacts, share your location(in group). You can summon @Google in your group chats. So far it is certainly an interesting toy.

guruparan18 | 10 years ago | on: If you invested $1 a day, starting when you were born

1983 seems to be a magic year (there is couple of years in 1970s and 1950s). Coincidentally it is my birth year too. It intrigues what is happening with other peoples investments born on that year. Looking at my investments, how much are they worth? Not as much as what the tool says, but I do have 75%. These years (1983,1970 1950), are they special in a way? How are others doing?
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