Monday, February 21, 2011

Blackberry yellow circle indicator!


It is the most stupid icon I have seen!

I searched for the actual reason for this indicator for 15 minutes. Indicators have to be intuitive, But it is not even close.

In the end I found out that it is for WAP push messages by mobile provider [ads basically], which endup in Messages in a separate folder. It can also be browser feeds, BTW.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Print screen in mac

Simple.

Command+Shift+4

Elegant integration of sinx/x from 0 to infinity


I learned two things called Contour integral and Jordan's lemma today.

It helps solve this integral elegantly.

To evaluate this you can use e^iz/z and integrate it over 2 semi circles and 2 line segments and residue theorem to convert this into evaluation of this integral. It is really elegant.
It uses Jordan's lemma along the way to make one of the semi circle integral 0 as its radius R goes to infinity.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Waking Up in the Universe - Growing Up in the Universe - Richard Dawkins



Great lecture! You really feel special and motivated to do something special and useful with your life.
1. Illustration of the power of exponential.
2. How lucky we are to born over other possible sperms and eggs and even over other ancestors.
3. Power of scientific prediction with a heavy ball.
4. Illustration of time scales involved with 500 million etc.
5. Why very eerie occurences are no so special after all, given the number of people.