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So, I was out for the weekend. When I came back I saw my phpMyVisites and found this statistics for the week :

Isn’t it strange?

So, I got to know about this from nareshov‘s blog post. I tried it, all I needed was answering 20 easy and fast question… and here is the result :

Auditory : 60%
Visual : 40%
Left : 68%
Right : 31%

Rohit, you are mildly left-hemisphere dominant while showing a slight preference for auditory processing. This overall combination seems to indicate a well-working blend of logic and judgment and organization, with sufficient intuition, perception and creativity to balance that dominance.

You will at times experience conflict between how you feel and what you think which will generally be resolved in favor of what you think. You will find yourself interested in the practical applications of whatever material you have learned or whatever situation you face and will retain the ability to refine whatever knowledge you possess or aspects of whatever position you are in.

By and large, you will orient yourself toward intellectual activities and structure. Though not rigid, you will schedule yourself, plan, and focus on routine and continuity of operations, rather than on changes and disruptions

When changes or disruptions occur, you are likely to consider first how to ensure that such disruptions do The same balance is reflected in your sensory preference. You will tend to be reflective and measured in your interaction style. For the most part, you will be considered objective without being cold and goal-oriented while retaining the capacity to listen to others.

Preferentially you learn by listening and maintaining significant internal dialogues with yourself. Nevertheless, you have sufficient visualization capabilities to benefit from using graphs, charts, doodles, or even body movement to enhance your comprehension and memory.

To the extent that you are even implicitly aware of your hemispheric dominance and sensory style, you will feel most comfortable in those arenas which emphasize verbal skills and logic. Teaching, law, and science are those that stand out among the professions, along with technical sales and management.

Curious

UPDATE : Is it possible that these things make anysense?

So, finally CS Department of IIT Kanpur has taken a step to decrease faculty-student distance. Every Wednesday students and faculty members meet at 5PM and talk over a cup of tea and samosas. The topics are supposed to be informal. So, it wouldn’t be just about acads. Today was second meet. I couldn’t attend last meeting, but today I was there. I was 20 mins late, so missed tea and samosa. But  it will be compensated next time, we are going to have pizzas and cold drinks in next get-together . Yes baby, CS department is the coolest (at least pretends) department of IITK.

As of now, we are still talking about different serious issues about department, but I am sure if this meeting will keep going, we will have some real informal chat. There were 4 professors. Prof. Manindra Agarwal (HOD), Prof. Sanghi (DUGC), Prof. Jain, Prof. SKA. I appreciate that these professors were there. I think in last meeting Prof. Karnick were there. I hope others will show up as well. Though for one meet, I think 4-5 professors would be enough. But that shouldn’t mean that same professors are there in every meet. Special thanks to Prof. Manin and Prof. Sanghi for taking this initiative.

So, how is this meet helpful? Lets take one example. Prof. Manindra is a real cool personality. He is one of the best professors, IITK has. Though UGs usually do not get to interact with him, because he (usually) teaches only PG courses, and also he is a laconic speaker ( Am I wrong?), though he is very down to earth. There are other such professors. These interactions will remove such distances. These interactions will surely show students that professors are not devil. You can talk to them as frankly as you talk to others ( but you have to be a bit formal). I am sure this interaction will make the department a better family.

And yeah, please keep variety of stuff to eat and drink. I don’t want to miss these meeting. 

So, I pulled all-nighter because I needed to understand 3 research papers and was supposed to compare them and then meet my BTech Project Guide. And to my surprise I couldn’t even complete a single paper. Of course, after all I am daring enough to work under Dr. Ganguly. Of course, I am still hoping that this ‘dare’ will give fruits . It’s interesting to work on something which you know you can not do. Isn’t it?

So, after this night, I had class at 02:30 UTC. To enter Academic Area there are mainly 4 gates. I usually take a gate which is usually not taken by other students. Each gate has a Security Guard. Of course we never notice security guard, and I assumed that security guards never give any attention to students. But today when I was rushing for the class, this security guard at the gate said, “Sir, aapki chaal mast hai”. Which means “Sir, your walking style is good/interesting.” I was shocked. First I didn’t even notice that he was there. Second that he must be observing me for quite sometime. Third that he said something like this. I said “kya?” (“what?”) and he replied “aap chalte hue achche lagte hain.” ( “you look good when you are walking”). wierd!!! I am sure he wan’t hitting on me, but still, its weird.
Then it comes out that there was no class today. And I need to complete an assignment by tonight. And I need to complete some formalities by 06:30 UTC for placements. So, I have no time to sleep in day time as well. On thursday, I have got  2 exams, need to do preparation for that as well. And then BTP work.

By the way, my BTech Project is about “Compressed Sensing”. I will be starting a new blog to talk about it. Stay tuned.

mm, I want my Gentoo back. This is a funny article which says who uses what linux distro.

http://www.askreamaor.com/linux-and-unix/what-your-linux-distro-says-about-you/

So, what does your linux distro say about you?

So, this was going to be last weekend in US. So, me and Conley decided to do something interesting. We were thinking of a 2 day hike, but we couldn’t plan that. So finally we decided to make a video, and Conley came up with ‘Dragon Hunting’. And then, we decided that Conley will be the dragon hunter and I will be the cameraman. We roamed about Blacksburg and Cascades and asked people some dumb questions. No doubt, it was perfect fun for us. Some people gave real funny reactions to our questions. Some people were boring enough to speak any interesting thing. We tried talking to some shop keepers but most of them refused to come on camera. But anyways, it was a great hunt.

You can download the video using one of these torrents :

• .avi (Xvid + mp3) torrent
• .ogg (Theora + Vorbis) torrent

Conley did the editing of video and he did that very well. We have used “Steep”‘s songs which are under Creative Commons license. You can find Steep on jamendo.com. Our video is of course under Creative Commons License.

Enjoy the video :

part 1

part 2

part 3

I usually can see any disgusting movie. And I enjoy them. Ocean 12 was a disappointment for me though I enjoyed it. The movie wasn’t as exciting as Ocean 11. This time in Ocean 13, since Al Pacino was there, I was expecting a good time seeing movie. Though it came out that Al Pacino had a small role, which was disaapointment and then his acting wasn’t upto the mark as well. They mentioned ‘Tes’ in the start of the movie, but never showed ‘Tes’. For those who havn’t seen Ocean 11 and 12, it would have been confusing. Role of the camera they put in Al Pacino’s office wasn’t much clear.
Overall the adventure wasn’t bad. Adventure before show and adventure in the show. I had properly planned for the show, though Alli didn’t show up till 10:30PM. The Show was at 10:40PM. But it came out that the movie was 10:54PM not 10:40PM. I didn’t miss anything.

So, my rating for the movie is : 7/10