jimgardener | 11 years ago | on: Indian Mars Orbiter Engine Test-fire Successful
short update here http://www.isro.org/mars/updates.aspx
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jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: Baidu Hires Andrew Ng
Reinforcement Learning?
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: Learn Sanskrit Online
Long time back I was interested in Indian Tantric stuff and found that most English translations (except those by Arthur Avalon) contained too many interpretations by the translator -some of them skewed :).So I got some original Sanskrit texts and tried to translate word by word .I couldn't progress much becoz you cannot understand the meaning of a sentence by just adding up the words- you need to learn the grammer.At that time I wished I had learned the language
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: Why are there so many crazy bums on San Francisco streets?
3 decades back ,in the state of Kerala in India,the govt built houses for the poor, under a scheme called Laksham Veedu(hundred thousand houses).Now, most of these houses are in a pathetic state due to lack of repair.Here is what the govt agency website says http://www.kshb.kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&v...
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: Soy's Negative Effects (2009)
The nytimes blog entry is at http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/ask-well-is-it-safe...
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: Avoiding Heart Disease
my mom(who was a primary school teacher) had been a diabetic for about 10 years.The doctors who treated her told her to eat more wheat based meals instead of rice based ones and told her to increase the dosage of tablets when sugar level crossed 200 .No doctor ever told her about carb counting which IMO, was the first thing she should have been told.I came upon carb counting from some articles on the internet.She is trying this for the last couple of years and now her ppbs is 107.
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: 12-year-old boy admits to hacking police and government sites for Anonymous
The 17 year old youth who raped and murdered a girl in Delhi bus got off with three years in a correctional home.He was the one who drove an iron rod in the victims private parts and raped/tortured her for an hour before throwing her out of the running bus..he was just six months away from his 18th birthday..Juveniles always get free passes
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)
>>http://www.esva.net/~thom/philkatz.html
what a cheap piece of shit
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: Stephen King’s Family Business
That crow was cawing Flagg, Flagg, Flagg..
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: Have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
Not all people in India have premarital sex.In cities it may be different.But in rural areas very few does.This is not something people discuss with a journalist.I know many young men belonging to Christian communities who consider sex outside of marriage as a bad thing.
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: Physics: What We Do and Don’t Know
why does he say this >> "early universe must have been very hot, or else all the hydrogen in the universe would have combined into heavier elements"?.Hydrogen is still present and it is not so hot nowadays
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: Sleep Flushes Toxins from the Brain
It would be nice if my computer did all scan/cleanup defrag ops after I shut it down and go to sleep
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: Nobel Peace Prize 2013 : OPCW
peace prize always had political connotations,unlike the other nobel prize categories.Remember it was given to Obama just after he became the president
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: SICP translated to JavaScript
>>why, God, why?
I really loved that response :)
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: How to Advertise on a Porn Website
>>Everyone on the internet watches porn
kids watch/read porn.. grownups do the real stuff :)
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: Isaac Asimov's predictions for what the world will be like in 2014
why do I keep getting a 'server not found' error ? you guys seem to be able to access this url.. however I had to google this heading and read the article @ http://www.mydogear.com/articles/521d762aa97dca07b21805ea
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: Calibre version 1.0 released
I feel that a physical book is like a lover.By the time you read the last page you either establish a bond with it or throw it away..I never felt that kind of bond with the contents of my eReader(which feels more like a one night stand :)
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: Algorithms, Part I: Kevin Wayne and Robert Sedgewick
for me it was the other way around :) I felt Roughgarden was skimming through the lessons..Sedgewick ,in my opnion is the better teacher
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: Forebruary, an endless wall calendar
or use just the left hand and tap twice on knuckle of forefinger for july and August :)
jimgardener | 12 years ago | on: Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S.
Five years back,my father got both his eyes operated upon for cataract removal at Coimbatore,India as part of some free Eye camp program.This year, my mom had cataract in both eyes surgically corrected in a private hospital in North Kerala.They charged only Rs.9500/- per eye,and the treatment was quite good.Now my Mom has 6/6 vision in both eyes.
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